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May 24, 2025
The Dogs BarkThose on the right grumbling about Trump’s presidency need to take a step back from ingratitude and acknowledge how much he’s accomplished.
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April 27, 2025
A Good Day For The NavyWhile the media and military have been silent, what the Navy did against a Houthi attack is pretty magnificent.
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March 27, 2025
Transgender Armageddon: The Zizian Murder SpreeA would-be transgender messiah goes bad. Very bad.
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February 23, 2025
Trump Must SpeakAs long as he remains silent about DOGE's results, the American people will not understand the scope of corruption and incompetence, nor will they see the possibilities now open to America.
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January 24, 2025
Milley's gameMark Milley's interference in national policy could very well have ended in triggering the very war he claimed to be trying to prevent.
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January 22, 2025
MAGA and the Legacy Media TrapWe’re going to be hearing a lot of wild tales in the months to come. A lot of demented claims, a lot of accusations, a lot of signs and wonderments. It will be best to discount them all.
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January 6, 2025
An award worthy of this countryAny cachet the Presidential Medal of Freedom may have had has now been destroyed.
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January 4, 2025
The Last And The FirstThe Bible tells us that “the last will be first, and the first will be last”—and the events of 2024 have confirmed this truth.
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January 3, 2025
Last of the breedIt's interesting that Carter’s death comes only weeks before his polar opposite takes office.
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December 9, 2024
George Clooney learns about lifePoor George is being scapegoated for his perceived role in the Democrat defeat in the 2024 election.
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November 19, 2024
Beating the 'Committee'Parsing the cabal of elites that seems to be calling the shots on the left is no easy task. But by their works, we know them...
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October 28, 2024
No Cheating... This TimeIn hindsight, the overall conditions in 2020 seem primed for cheating. Today, not so much.
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October 17, 2024
...and good riddanceThe campaign is resulting in the complete collapse of the Democrat political hierarchy of the past three decades.
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October 3, 2024
Little Timmy's failed missionWalz failed in his primary mission: to humanize Mrs. Kamala Harris and seal the deal with America’s voters.
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September 10, 2024
Beating the CheatA single obstacle stands between Trump and victory. That’s electoral cheating.
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August 14, 2024
The Butler Body Cam FootageThere’s a lot that can be learned from police body-cam footage of the response to the Butler assassination attempt.
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August 6, 2024
More fakery from ParisThe latest news concerning the ongoing train derailment operating under the name “2024 Olympics” is that a key element of the opening ceremonies was as bogus as everything else in this misbegotten venture.
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July 14, 2024
The demons speak outThese people can no longer be considered in terms of politics or ideology, but in terms of psychological pathology.
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July 8, 2024
Trump just isn't that meanThe “Trump as bully” meme is simply another sleazy media effort to slime an opposition leader, of the kind we have seen repeated endlessly.
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June 30, 2024
Replacing Biden: More factsThey are headed for the falls, and there’s nothing they can do about it.
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June 25, 2024
Replacing Joe: The factsThe problem with “replacing Joe” is that there exist things called “rules.”
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June 7, 2024
Cancelling the election: The factsThere is no provision in U.S. law for calling off a presidential election.
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January 8, 2024
No More J6sConservatives like to accuse others of being sheep. But many of them say it while baaing.
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January 6, 2024
Bringing the Roof Down on Anti-SemitismA nice story for all the "anti-Semitism depends on context" crowd.
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January 4, 2024
Beating the Anti-SemitesIt’s often said that the Jews are canaries in the coal mine, representing the first warning sign of encroaching tyranny.
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December 11, 2023
Elise Stefanik: smiting the unworthyIt can’t be denied that it has been a real pleasure to see the lady college presidents brought low.
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November 25, 2023
Has the Left Finally Blown It?The cracks in the American Left have finally gotten critical -- and it's their own damn fault.
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September 4, 2023
MAGA vs. the DoJAlong with all its other efforts to hamstring Donald Trump’s legal defense in the D.C. case, the DoJ has dumped 12.8 million documents on Trump’s defense team.
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August 28, 2023
AI and the ElitesThe elites fail because they have no principles, no knowledge, and no understanding. How can we be sure of this? Because elites have always acted this way. It comes with the territory.
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August 24, 2023
Trump and the Tower of LiesWe live in a world in which reality has faded into a kaleidoscope of paranoia, wish-fulfillment daydreams, and hallucinations.
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August 7, 2023
The Copernican Revolution endsCopernicus would never have come up with something now called the 'Copernican principle,' and it's highly likely he would not have approved.
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July 27, 2023
Agreeing with GutfeldHow, exactly, does agreeing with Holocaust survivors turn Greg Gutfeld into an anti-Semite?
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July 24, 2023
The Mandela effect — one error on top of anotherThe “Mandela effect” is one of a number of intellectual constructs and narrative intended to make us look stupid, incapable, clownish, and generally less than what we are.
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July 11, 2023
Artificial Intelligence: The FactsTechnical topics are generally subject to serious distortion by the media. The latest of these is Artificial Intelligence.
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July 6, 2023
Transgenders: The Real NumbersGender Dysphoria, which attacks social cohesion, the family, individual health, both physical and mental, and the very nature of reality itself, is about as perfect a leftist weapon as can be envisioned.
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March 23, 2023
Dodging the ApocalypseWe just dodged a catastrophe that would have made global warming, WW III, or a new ice age look like a picnic -- and nobody realizes it.
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February 2, 2023
Our Blue ProblemPolice have encountered a technological revolution that they don’t understand and for which they are ill-prepared.
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December 6, 2022
Democrat Voter Fraud: A Brief HistoryThis is the second election in a row marked by impossible results. Not “extraordinary,” not “unusual,” but impossible.
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October 5, 2022
Why Trump Must RunThe cemeteries may be full of indispensable men, but Donald Trump is not in a cemetery yet.
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June 1, 2022
Uvalde: The new face of policingAnyone shocked by the behavior of the Uvalde P.D. during last week's mass shooting has to come to terms with the simple fact that this is the face of the new policing in the 21st century.
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March 22, 2022
Why Would Anybody Back Putin?There are numerous people, nominally on the right, who are praising, egging on, and making excuses for Putin in his war of conquest against Ukraine.
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March 3, 2022
Ukraine and the new populismDuring the past half-century, the most consequential leaders in the western world have been a former actor, a storekeeper’s daughter, a real-estate developer, and a standup comic.
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February 2, 2022
Nancy's plan for the SOTUNancy decides to limit attendance at the SOTU address...just in case.
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December 25, 2021
A Very Biden ChristmasThere are times when fiction gets us closer to the truth than simple facts.
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November 13, 2021
The Left's Bungled RevolutionThe two major political elements in play over the past year are closely intertwined.
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October 14, 2021
No, the U.S. is Not on its KneesNo, the U.S. is not “defeated,” “prostrate,” or even “in decline” in any meaningful sense. What we’re seeing is simply another aspect of the failure of leftist policies.
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September 2, 2021
Yes, the Left is that StupidWe don’t need conspiracy theories to explain the Afghanistan debacle.
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July 22, 2021
Leftwing LosersRevolutions demand a particular type of personality – intelligent, heartless, ruthless, and decisive. That's not what the Dems have got.
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June 28, 2021
Conservatives and the Chauvin sentenceChauvin is going away for a long time, and we needn’t waste any more thought on him. But we do need to curb any further influence he might have.
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February 10, 2021
Beating Democrat Electoral CorruptionSimple self-nterest will guarantee the elimination of Democrat electoral fraud.
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January 28, 2021
A New Party: Recipe for FailureThe most telling argument against a new party is that we have perfectly serviceable one that nobody’s using at the moment -- the GOP.
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January 20, 2021
The Glass-Jawed PartyConservatism is the sole political doctrine that features defeatism as a basic element.
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November 6, 2020
What we mean when we say 'Democrat'It's a wonder they didn't mummify her and ship her to Washington.
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November 6, 2020
What you can do to stop the electoral coupDick Morris has hit on a possible game-changer.
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November 2, 2020
Donald Trump and the Mandate of HeavenYou can't shake the feeling that someone or something is watching over Donald Trump.
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July 8, 2020
The Left and Borglum's LegacyBorglum’s story is American to its core, like that of the men whose likenesses he carved -- all flawed geniuses who accomplished more than what was actually in them.
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July 5, 2020
Walking Lincoln's RoadA stunning set of historical accounts from freed slaves, and a devastating rebuke to those who want to tear down statues of the Great Liberator.
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June 26, 2020
The Left Craps OutAt first glance, this appears to be the left’s moment in the sun, something they’ve looked forward to for many years, if not generations.
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May 23, 2020
Turning nursing homes into extermination sites: the Gretchen factorLeave it to Gretchen Whitmer to combine Andrew Cuomo’s already inhumane dump-the-sick policy with the tactics of the KGB.
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February 13, 2020
Heightening the ContradictionsConservatives have been neglecting an effective weapon in the war with the Left.
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January 9, 2020
Trump UnboundThey hit Trump with an attempt to subvert electors, with the Mueller investigation, with the emoluments clause, with the 25th Amendment, and then with impeachment. And all of it simply bounced off.
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January 3, 2020
2019: The Left Goes Over the Edge2019 was the year that the left plunged into oblivion, howling madly, engines exploding, and fuel tanks ablaze.
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December 31, 2019
The West Freeway Church videoEvery possible weapon must be utilized to halt the attacks on our places of worship.
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November 11, 2019
E. Jean Carroll's second actThere's reasons why you don't tell the same joke twice.
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November 7, 2019
Killer GreensThe death rates inherent in leftist policies aren’t a bug, they’re a feature.
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October 28, 2019
How the Democrats are like mushroomsIt may be dawning on the Dems at last that actions have consequences.
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October 24, 2019
Gaetz vs. Schiff, The SequelWhen the zombie apocalypse comes, I wanna be on Matt Gaetz's fire team.
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October 23, 2019
Dems form lynch mob, the GOP holds the ropeThe Republican Party eagerly shows that it can get triggered, too.
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October 21, 2019
Will war return to the Solomons?Forgotten battlefields begin to stir back to life.
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October 20, 2019
Hillary sounds the alarmHillary holds in her hand a list of twenty-one presidential candidates...
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October 16, 2019
The candidates debate impeachment...kind ofDem candidates do the impeachment hula.
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October 14, 2019
The California blackouts and solar powerWe're learning an awful lot from the California shutdown.
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October 13, 2019
The cold war's Greta ThunbergA forgotten story from the '80s sheds some light on the Thunberg saga.
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October 12, 2019
The incredible shrinking whistleblowerThe Democrats are playing for time and looking for a way down.
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October 11, 2019
There's stupidity, and then there's the DemocratsCocteau had the Dems all figured out.
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October 10, 2019
The new green era dawns in CaliforniaThanks to the greens, electrical power has been cut off in vast areas of California.
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October 10, 2019
Impeachment mania strikes homeA case of cognitive dissonance combined with media overload.
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October 8, 2019
Minneapolis mayor attempts to toy with Trump, gets fingers burnedThe old "security fees" trick.
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October 6, 2019
NPR just wants things to be niceAn NPR accusation against Rep. Jim Banks falls apart.
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October 6, 2019
Nancy gets a wakeup callThey came for the Speaker, but I was not the Speaker, so I did nothing...
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October 5, 2019
Nancy in the swamp of despondNancy Pelosi gets a glimpse of the Democrats' nightmare scenario.
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October 4, 2019
Little Kamala and the cold hard worldOne more reason why Kamala Harris should not hold public office.
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July 31, 2019
Master of the TweetAny weapon is acceptable against the kind of trash that constitutes the modern American left.
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June 10, 2019
Waterloo for the National Popular Vote movement?The Dems' effort to end-run the Electoral College may have hit an unavoidable obstacle -- political self-interest.
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January 25, 2019
Lincoln Memorial and the Pashas of the RightThe most salient characteristic of leftists today is that they don't give a damn. The pashas of conservatism have clearly demonstrated the same thing.
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January 11, 2019
Against AOCIf the name "Ocasio-Cortez" ever achieves immortality, it will probably have a suffix like "syndrome" attached.
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January 9, 2019
The Myth of China as SuperpowerMisconceptions about the USSR kept the Cold War going for decades longer than necessary. We should not repeat this with China.
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January 2, 2019
Mark Felt and the 'Collusion' ConspiracyThe fate of the man who brought down Richard M. Nixon reveals what's in store for Comey, et al.
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October 11, 2018
The Left's Next Big ThingHere it is, folks. Next up in the Democrats' 2018 Follies: Citizen Strong's Amateur Hour!
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October 10, 2018
Lessons Learned: The GOP Weak LinksSince the Robert Bork hearings of 1987, the Democrats have based their strategy on the dependable backstop that a certain small number of Republicans would dither, posture, and pull a Hamlet act.
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October 8, 2018
Grassley VictoriousGrassley had to somehow thread the Charybdis of wrecking the nomination and the Scylla of giving the Democrats a flaming issue going into November.
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July 8, 2018
America's Junk WeaponsLike the tendency to credit the Russians with world-beating superweapons, claims that U.S. weapons are junk are largely based on myth.
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July 6, 2018
The Opportunities of SocialismWhile some may see the Four Horsemen appearing over the horizon, I see opportunity.
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June 6, 2018
Wrapping It UpWhat Collusiongate, this bizarre, grotesque, uncalled for and historically unique episode requires is a validation – for all sorts of reasons.
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May 2, 2018
'Blue China' and the next warIs China pulling a fast one as regards the South China Sea?
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April 18, 2018
Vlad Unveils the Death StarHistory shows us that Putin's claimed super-weapons are merely a shield for the frightened ruler of a collapsing state.
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January 3, 2018
The Left's 1942While certainly not as dramatic as the events of WWII, the political defeat of leftism may well be just as decisive.
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January 2, 2018
Failed before It Began: The Great Sexual Harassment RevolutionThe #MeToo movement leaves women essentially unprotected.
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November 7, 2017
The Revolution Has Been PostponedThe November 4 People's Uprising was a complete washout. So how did we allow ourselves to be suckered by the Left?
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November 3, 2017
The Left's Long GoodbyeThe American left is beginning to look like nothing other than a defeated army in its last weeks in the field.
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October 18, 2017
The Left's Last SpasmA historically unique situation where, for the first time on record, a leftist movement is in complete and accelerating collapse within a democratic polity.
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August 24, 2017
The Left Arms Up: John Brown ClubsThe same impulse of near demented fanaticism that animated their namesake a century and a half ago is putting guns in the hands of leftist dilettantes.
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August 16, 2017
Big Plans on the Hard Left for November 4If all this were aimed only at "White Supremacists," I'd say go to it – that would be a battle in which both sides should lose, and one well worth seeing. But of course, it isn't. It's aimed at anyone who disagrees with the hard left.
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July 21, 2017
Greenland turns against Mother GaiaIf "global warming studies" were in fact a science, data of this type would mean tossing out the entire theory and starting from scratch.
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June 15, 2017
Antifa terrorismThe similarities between ISIS and the American left don't end with Kathy Griffin.
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November 11, 2016
Thanks to Trump, America Dodged the BulletIt may well be true that Donald Trump has made his greatest contribution to the nation before even taking office: the political destruction of Hillary Clinton and her infinitely corrupt machine.
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January 12, 2016
Countering the Contemporary Theory of Violent JihadMustafa Setmariam Nasar is a name Americans need to know. His theory of jihad is guiding those who most threaten us today.
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January 11, 2016
The Federal Failure to Counter JihadWith the incidents of the past two months, ranging from San Bernardino to Merced to Rochester, we now know that we are essentially unprotected from terrorist attacks.
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December 29, 2015
The Left's Retreat to FantasyThe left has at last leaped off the board into the deep end, greeting the new millennium in a burst of pure lunacy with its embrace of transsexualism.
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December 7, 2015
Obama Versus the Separation of PowersObama has discovered that the bloated hypertrophy of the bureaucracy has effectively put him beyond the reach of our system’s constitutional safeguards.
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December 4, 2015
The Alpha Male at BayWe live in a culture that has, quite under the table, decided to discard one of the driving wheels of human existence, one in operation since the days of the Serengeti, without considering or planning for what that might mean.
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September 4, 2015
A Brief History of White Privilege“White privilege” is simply another sick fantasy of the academic left, one that’s in the process of being transformed into a social myth.
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August 24, 2015
Hillary's New CrimeThe smartest woman in the world gains her place in the books -- the law books.
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August 13, 2015
Haven't We Seen the Trump Saga Before?This has all happened before, in ’92 with Ross Perot, the bug-eyed billionaire with more money than brains -- the same narrative, beginning to end.
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July 25, 2015
The Marriage Circus Comes to MichiganThat's right, folks -- thirty, count 'em, thirty, ministers of the Gospel!
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June 23, 2015
Guns, responsibility, and madnessThere's another level to responsible handling of firearms.
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June 19, 2015
Colin Flaherty, American WitnessGeorge Orwell once wrote that, 'In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' That being the case, Colin Flaherty is one of the leading revolutionaries of our era.
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June 10, 2015
Conservatives and the Marriage DebateThe marriage debate will not be over even when it’s over. Marriage is an aspect of human nature as it exists, and it won’t be changed simply because some demand it. We saw this with abortion.
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June 8, 2015
Recovering from Obama: Foreign PolicyObama will be out of office in less than two years. The time is approaching for repair, renewal, and retrenchment.
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May 4, 2015
Terror strike against Muhammad exhibit defeatedDon't mess with Texas...or Pamela Geller.
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April 29, 2015
Hillary, the Loser“Hillary” the public figure, the politician people are asked to vote for, is a synthesized creation that does not exist and has never existed.
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April 14, 2015
Missiles for the MullahsPutin splashes gasoline on the fire while Obama yells, "Fore!"
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March 31, 2015
Hillary AgonistesHillary is not going to run for president. Oh, she may put her name up. But run, as in the sense of actually campaigning, that’s another story altogether.
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January 30, 2015
Pedophilia and the American FutureA glance at events of the last few years suggests that pedophilia may be emerging as the characteristic sexual perversion of the American elite.
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January 28, 2015
The Elites bow to MeccaThe aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre has confirmed something widely suspected: this country’s elites have no interest in defeating terrorism.
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January 23, 2015
The President as PestA seriously embittered Obama wants to annoy as many people as possible in his remaining two years.
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January 2, 2015
The Left's Base Motive: VengeanceLeftism has always been about revenge. The works of Marx are filled with fantasies of retribution and judgment. Their tone reeks of resentment and paranoia, with blame cast for even the most trivial.
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December 22, 2014
Gangbangers UnboundActivists, both in government and media, desire to decriminalize black lawlessness. They wish to put black criminals beyond the reach of the law. They seek gangbangers unbound.
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November 14, 2014
Fracking UnboundFracking is a textbook example of how the “doer” class in this country fails to get its side across.
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November 12, 2014
Progressivism's Last CallThe 2014 midterms were more than an average election. Obama was the high tide mark for the progressive movement of the United States. They had a clear shot, and they blew it.
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November 6, 2014
The Ebola PresidencyWe have asked ourselves repeatedly when people would wake up and smell the coffee. It is a terrible thing that it has taken a deadly disease to do it.
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October 21, 2014
Our Hundred Years' WarBarack Obama, the president with the least understanding of military affairs of any on record, is fighting this as a limited war, a war of “containment” with no overall strategy.
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September 23, 2014
The Dhimmis of RotherhamRotherham is a warning sign. Corrupt government and ideology, it seems, possess the power to undermine the most basic instincts, the most deep-set relationships, at least among the weak
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September 19, 2014
The American Left and ISISSince the appearance of ISIS, the usual suspects on the left -- those in politics and media in particular -- have bent over backwards to argue that it has nothing to do with Obama
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July 22, 2014
Spanking the ElitesThe rebuke of Dana Loesch et al is evidence of a healthy skepticism in conservatism.
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June 18, 2014
Obama's Last CardWith the ongoing collapse of Iraq, the endgame for the worst foreign policy in American history has begun.
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May 22, 2014
How Conservatives Can Defeat the MediaOne unavoidable truth that must be faced regarding the media and 2014 is this: the American media has the conservatives’ number. They know exactly where the blind spots are
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May 1, 2014
<em>Roe</em> and Gay MarriageBehold a runaway judiciary that is forcing an unwanted socio-sexual innovation in violation of tradition, religious values, and simple logic on the country at large. Abortion and gay marriage are sisters under the skin.
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April 28, 2014
Why It's Okay to Hate Cliven BundyConservatives still have a right – in fact, a responsibility – to be annoyed with Bundy.
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April 23, 2014
Obama is Bursting the Left's BubblesEarly 2014 will be viewed historically as the period when most of the American left’s bubbles detached themselves completely from reality and wafted off to Unicornland.
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February 24, 2014
Weapons Failure in Afghanistan?A very familiar accusation is heard about the Army's M-4 assault rifle.
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February 12, 2014
Obama's FateIt's no surprise that Barack Obama's authoritarian streak is revealing itself at last. It was always there
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January 1, 2014
The Progressive Agenda Crashes into ComplexityThere's some irony in the fact that ObamaCare is hitting the wall at the precise moment that the incandescent bulb is being yanked off the market by government fiat -- but not as much as you might think.
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December 17, 2013
Obama's Fall from GraceThe spell is now broken, and it's about time. It's been awhile since we've had a clown president.
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November 20, 2013
Obama vs. LiberalismObama's great contribution: acting as modern liberalism's executioner.
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October 23, 2013
The ObamaCare Black HoleObama thinks he will remain immune to the consequences of folly. But this is something not granted to any man. Stupidity twinned with arrogance creates its own nemesis.
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October 22, 2013
Hollywood and the New RacismIf you believe press reports, Twelve Years a Slave is undeniably one of the greatest -- perhaps the greatest -- film of 2013.
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September 26, 2013
Liberalism and Mass ShootingsToo often 2nd Amendment advocates merely defend gun ownership. The best defense is a good offense.
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September 19, 2013
Against RacismAn old ploy of the left is being implemented on the comment threads of this website (and elsewhere) to discredit the honest and open discussion of race relations.
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September 11, 2013
Three-and-a-half More Years of Obama!Obama is less lucky than FDR, less competent than Jimmy Carter, and less flexible than Bill Clinton. With Obama, all the failures of liberalism are coming to a head.
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September 6, 2013
The Ruling Elite Settles InEvents of this past summer indicate that a new political paradigm is settling in -- one in no way friendly toward American life as we now understand it.
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August 30, 2013
Black Leadership and Racial MurderIt's difficult to say whether mishandling racial relations is Obama's greatest failure. But it is certainly his most ignoble.
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August 8, 2013
That Word vs. AmericaAmerican blacks will never be truly free until they abandon hypersensitivity to the six-letter racial epithet that starts with n and ends with r.
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August 7, 2013
Cracking the CzarsNobody is going to tell me that among several dozen handpicked Obama goofs, operating in complete secrecy and under Chicago rules, there is no mischief going on.
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July 10, 2013
Conservatives and SnowdenThe danger now is that scandals that should, by any sane measure, be crippling to the Obama administration will instead take down the conservative movement
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June 17, 2013
A Warped PrismThe NSA guys are the ones with the magnifying glasses and deerstalker hats.
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May 5, 2013
Philip K. Dick and Our PredicamentThe science fiction writer who was a far superior prophet than the colleagues who disdained him, because, unlike many of them, he had a line on human nature, which never changes.
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May 2, 2013
One for the CitizensBefore we get too far away from the Marathon bombing, it needs to be acknowledged: The average American, the man and woman in the street, have once again proven to be the most effective force in the struggle against Jihadi terror.
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March 27, 2013
Freaking the Straights on Gay MarriageAn attempt by the smallest of tails to wag the largest of dogs. The gay movement demands not tolerance, not the friction-filled tumult of American life that everyone else is subject to, but full acceptance of themselves and their lifestyle
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February 19, 2013
How the Left Dupes Conservative VotersAs far as electoral politics in the United States is concerned, the progressive political machine has figured out how to manipulate conservatives in order to get the political results that they desire. They will continue to do so as long as they are allowed to get away with it.
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November 28, 2012
Conservatives Must Learn the Dark Arts of Image ManipulationThere are vast resources that remain unused in the image wars. We need to learn how to use them. There comes a certain point where you must take up the weapons of your opponent if you wish to survive.
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November 20, 2012
Elections have Consequences #3 (A Continuing Series)It's possible that the vast wave of medical innovation of the past half-century that has eased so much in the way of human suffering is being brought to an end.
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November 15, 2012
Elections have Consequences: a Continuing SeriesIt's as if something particularly disheartening occurred the Tuesday before last.
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November 9, 2012
Squandered TrustThe American people did look for a way out, once upon a time, and it was the GOP that slammed the door in their face.
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November 6, 2012
Why Obama Must GoBarack Obama has governed not as a president in the way that we understand it -- a chief executive loaned vast powers for a brief period as representative of the people -- but as a caudillo, a charismatic figure, the leader of a movement, a third-world chieftain.
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October 30, 2012
Mitt's Royal SlamRomney treated the campaign the same as he would have treated a new business back in the '80s or '90s. If he brings this off, if he is elected on November 6, Mitt Romney will stand as the most masterly political strategist of his epoch.
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October 17, 2012
The Moment Obama FoldedThe most single telling moment of Tuesday's debate - and possibly of any of the debates - came early, when Obama attempted to interrupt Romney one time too many.
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October 4, 2012
Barack Obama and the Mandate of HeavenA failing Chinese monarch would easily recognize Obama's current situation. Everything has started going wrong at once. Things that used to work work no longer. Libya and Egypt are simply the latest manifestations.
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June 20, 2012
Prince of HandoutsIt becomes apparent what Obama's electoral strategy is going to be. He will hand out goodies to one after another interest group over the next five months -- favors intended to cement customary support or swing the undecided.
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June 7, 2012
Grifters on ParadeObama has failed as a leader, he has failed as a statesman, and he is now failing as a fraud.
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May 16, 2012
Obama InvictusThe myth for today is that of Obama Invictus -- the undefeated champion, the master campaigner, the man who could have taught lessons to Honey Fitz, Dick Daley, and Lyndon B. Johnson himself.
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May 7, 2012
Mitt Romney Will Do Just Fine, Thank-YouA number of things have gone unmentioned about Romney -- by the media because they'll say nothing positive about him, by conservatives because they don't want to face up to it.
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May 4, 2012
Obama Meets His NemesisThe Greeks gave us a complete picture of a very basic human predicament, arising out of the personal flaws and failings of the individual. A portrayal that still speaks to us because its basic elements remain unchanged even with the passage of millennia.
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May 2, 2012
Romney and the '60sLiberals think that attacking Romney as a robotic, "untouched by the '60s" weirdo will repel voters. They understand neither Romney nor the way the 1960s were experienced by most Americans.
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March 6, 2012
Emulating BreitbartWill Breitbart became no more than a matter of nostalgia? A bright moment fading into the mists of the past? Not if we don't want it that way.
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February 12, 2012
Whom the Gods Would DestroyObama has elevated 2012 from an ordinary electoral campaign to the archetypal tale of the foolish, proud mortal taking up arms against eternity. And we all know how that one ends.
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February 9, 2012
Tarnished HalosBehold the halo organization: a left-wing entity whose unassailable reputation masks untold quantities of internal rot. The Komen Foundation could take Planned Parenthood as an example.
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January 19, 2012
Mitt's GameOne factor that's gone unmentioned as regards Mitt Romney's primary campaign is his status as the sole candidate who displays any grasp of electoral strategy.
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January 9, 2012
How low can liberals go?For much of the last week the news has been filled with discussion of the vicious remarks made by liberal commentators Alan Colmes and Eugene Robinson concerning the Santorum family's farewell to their dead child.
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January 3, 2012
The Stratfor ScandalStratfor, the "private intelligence service," has been whacked by Anonymous. The humiliation here is total, and Stratfor will be lucky to survive. But should it?
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December 28, 2011
Throw 'Em All Out...And Good Riddance!Crony capitalism is the most serious current danger to the American community, a threat not simply to government or the economy, but to our very way of life.
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October 25, 2011
OWS: Easy PreyOnce again conservatives are fumbling a sure opportunity to deal the opposition a crippling blow. The Occupy Wall Street movement is an easy target -- a fat, slow dirigible topped up with hydrogen and just waiting for the spark that will set it ablaze.
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October 24, 2011
He Came, He Saw, He Led from the RearThe Libyan intervention is not a model for anything. It is not a feather in Obama's cap, and it will quite rightly do nothing for his dismal reelection chances. Here's why.
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October 17, 2011
Occupy Wall Street and the Chicago '68 RiotsThe 99ers are the Chicago mob with the addition of iPhones and minus the seriousness. The goal is the same -- take down the power structure. And so will be the result -- the destruction of the Democratic Party.
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September 29, 2011
Obama's NumbersNo president in recent decades, and perhaps no president ever, has been in such a miserable position a year before the election.
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September 28, 2011
Cain's big advantageIt's anybody's guess as to whether Herman Cain can go the distance. But here's another item to put on the plus side of the scales.
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September 27, 2011
Predicting ObamaObama is about to learn that the curve of fate has two sides; what goes up the one side must go down the other
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September 26, 2011
Green TwilightThere's something satisfyingly symbolic about the unfolding Solyndra scandal.
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September 20, 2011
Beating the Racism CardThe time is right, the strategy has been tested, and the GOP has the means.
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August 18, 2011
The Era of Confronting Obama at Public EventsSo here we have "former-Bush official Brad Blakeman" being quoted by the media as attacking Tea Party stalwart Ryan Rhodes over Rhodes's confrontation with Obama.
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August 15, 2011
Burying ObamaObama the man is avidly digging himself deeper into his own personal hole and will soon vanish into the depths of the earth. It is Obama the legend that must be buried.
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August 9, 2011
How Stupid is Obama?He easily impresses crowds and onlookers so long as the questions don't get too detailed. But he can't turn any of this into action. Everyhing he touches, without exception, falls to pieces.
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July 28, 2011
Obama Seems To Be Taking His Defeat In The 2012 Election Rather WellLast weekend we saw the utter disintegration of a president. It cannot be overlooked, and it will not be forgotten.
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July 21, 2011
American Blacks Cannot Be Blamed For Barack ObamaThe system that put Obama into office is a system constructed by white liberals for white liberal purposes. Obama merely learned to create the perfect persona to take advantage of it.
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July 14, 2011
Obama's Strategy to Kill the Space ProgramBarack Obama tipped his hand when he said, "We've set a goal to let's ultimately get to Mars. A good pit stop is an asteroid."
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July 12, 2011
The Left Starts to Dump ObamaIt appears that the left is washing its hands of Obama. He has failed, but the ideology must go on.
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July 6, 2011
Democrats Unveil the Weapon of the FutureAn ideological campaign of a magnitude and breadth that we have not seen in quite some time, if ever
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June 23, 2011
China's Espionage ThreatAmerican counterintelligence misunderstands the Chinese intelligence mindset, leading to disaster after disaster in recent decades.
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June 21, 2011
The Democrats' Recall BombIn Wisconsin, Democrats are testing out a new political weapon: the use of recall elections against Republicans, as the GOP establishment slumbers.
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May 12, 2011
Did Obama Delay the Osama Raid for Political Reasons?Did the administration deliberately delay the raid to yield the greatest benefit for Obama?
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May 9, 2011
Obama's Worst EnemyObama's worst enemy is Obama, and his downfall will commence when voters awaken to the fact that many of his current "crises" -- and all the most critical ones -- are self-inflicted.
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May 5, 2011
Why Obama's Polling Bounce is So AnemicIt's not likely to get any better for him, and here's a short checklist as to the reasons why.
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April 12, 2011
Embargoing Death by LiberalismIt's not often that a leftist actually admits to tactics as low as embargoing books, but that's the claim made by Frank Rich, New York Times political commentator.
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March 30, 2011
Two Libyan States?We are now facing the possibility of an East and West Libya. Hostilities over the next few weeks are likely to fall into stalemate.
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March 24, 2011
Obama's Big Blunder in LibyaWhy has the Obama thrown one of the basic elements of military success to the four winds?
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March 21, 2011
The Big Obama Defeat the Media IgnoredSometimes the biggest victories are the ones that make the least noise.
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March 17, 2011
The Nuke ScareTo imply that the Fukushima accidents are representative of current developments in nuclear power is similar to claiming that car safety has remained unchanged since the Model A.
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March 14, 2011
Lessons From the Battle of MadisonLong, drawn-out crises can be frustrating in more ways than one.
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February 10, 2011
The CAFE EffectThe liberal elite has been busy purging itself at both ends of the mortal coil -- prior to birth through abortion, and in later years in preventable fatal car crashes.
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January 30, 2011
Outwitting Lethal Government PoliciesWhen government policies become lethal to the citizenry, free men and women must take care of themselves.
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January 28, 2011
Sarah Palin's Way ForwardThe leftist attacks on Governor Palin are in no way new, not even in their viciousness. But Palin has the means to prevail unavailable to previous demonized conservatives.
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January 23, 2011
The Mercury Threat -- AgainFrom Minamata to CFL lightbulbs, the arrogance and indifference of politicians and the bullheadedness of special interests expose innocents to the dangers of mercury.
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January 18, 2011
Death by LiberalismWe have known for years that liberalism is corrupt, wasteful, and futile. Now we know that it is even worse. Liberalism is lethal.
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January 10, 2011
Grieving GiffordsToday, we seem to be seeing politics, and politics of a very strident and hateful variety, beginning to supersede the private rituals of grief.
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December 9, 2010
WikiLeaks, Stuxnet, Cyberwar, and ObamaWar is transforming itself before our eyes, turning into something unfamiliar and strange.
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December 5, 2010
Multiculturalism Hits the WallMulticulturalism is the most recent, and perhaps final, expression of the late 20th-century left-wing ascendancy.
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November 23, 2010
Cargo-Cult KeynesiansHoping the printing of false money will attract the gods of prosperity.
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November 15, 2010
Soros, Beck, and the HolocaustShould the "philanthropist" Soros' activities during the Holocaust be off-limits for discussion?
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November 8, 2010
The War Plan for 2012Not so much a program as some of the qualities and features that a program to preserve and extend conservative influence should have.
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November 4, 2010
Tuesday's Election Was a Vote to Bring the 19th Century to an EndThe 19th century was the nursery for contemporary politics. Every form of modern political activity -- fascism, communism, socialism, liberalism -- has its roots in that epoch.
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October 29, 2010
Soros and the Collapse of the LeftIf Soros is the real-life version of a Bond villain, then why is the left in such desperate straits?
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October 19, 2010
The Democrats Will Steal the Election if We Let ThemIt's not a question of how much the Dems will cheat. It's how much they will be allowed to get away with.
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October 11, 2010
The American Left Slides into PsychosisHistory tells us that organizations, movements, even entire nations can go mad in much the same way an individual does, with the same expression of irrationality, frenzy, and violence.
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October 4, 2010
Good Golly, Miss Molly: You're on Your OwnRecently, a sad little footnote to the War on Terror passed nearly unnoticed: the disappearance of Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris.
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October 1, 2010
No 'Vague Orders' in Obama's War ManagementPresident Obama's management of the war in Afghanistan may be falling into a trap that snagged his Democrat predecessors Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter.
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September 30, 2010
Ready to GovernWe've been hearing quite a bit lately about candidates being "not ready to govern." Here's what that really means.
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September 24, 2010
The Organizational Secret of the Tea PartiesAmerican politics has never seen anything quite like the Tea Parties, though few appreciate the revolutionary organizational principle powering the movement.
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September 23, 2010
Are Conservatives Flubbing Their Lines?Conservatives often have a tendency to misread cues drawn from popular culture.
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September 20, 2010
The Counter-Revolution Has BegunThe Tea Parties are a political phenomenon the like of which we have not seen in our lifetimes, one that occurs once every century or so. It is exhilarating to witness.
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September 19, 2010
The Biggest Target is LiberalismThe 2010 election is not simply a campaign against Obama. It needs to be a campaign against liberalism as a whole.
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September 15, 2010
Islam and the American PublicA common premise of the American elites is that Americans are filled with hair-trigger anti-Muslim feelings that can be controlled only by wise and constant intervention from their betters.
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September 14, 2010
Media's Self-Defeating Attacks on PalinWhat we're seeing is the latest example of the left's habit of creating its own nightmares.
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September 8, 2010
Conservatism's Extreme MakeoverIt will come as news to no one that conservatism has long had a PR problem. The political question of 2010 is this: do America's voters finally "get" conservatism?
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September 2, 2010
Obama's Evolving ImageAn image, as any PR pro can tell you, has a life of its own. This is as true of presidents as anyone else.
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August 30, 2010
Birthright Citizenship and the 14th AmendmentWith the rise of birthright citizenship as an issue, we've witnessed a transformation of media and left-wing gadflies from knee-jerk constitutional relativists to strict textualists.
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August 23, 2010
GOP in Default ModeIt's widely acknowledged that in 2010, the Democrats are on the ropes. But just about the same could be said for the Republicans.
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August 19, 2010
Obama's Point of No ReturnThere comes a moment in a failing presidency where the incumbent, through some single gesture, action, or statement, crosses a certain line from beyond which there is no return.
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August 6, 2010
Ten Reasons to Love the BombSixty-five years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we still have not arrived at a true measure of the atomic weapon.
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August 4, 2010
JournoList and the Leftist MentalityThe publication of JournoList discussions has opened a door into the private world of the left, revealing important insight into how their minds work.
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July 22, 2010
Obama's Failing PresidencyA string of failed programs make no impression on Beltway pundits focused on process.
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July 19, 2010
President HatersObama is on his way to becoming the most hated president of the modern epoch.
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July 8, 2010
What America Lost with McChrystal's ResignationNo army can prevail without it, and to interfere with it is fatal.
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June 22, 2010
Barack and the BureaucracyBureaucracy is liberalism's strong right arm. Liberalism would not exist as it does today without it
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June 15, 2010
Dodging the Anti-Semitism BulletIs the United States in danger of following Europe down the slope of mass, institutionalized anti-Semitism on the 20th-century model?
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June 10, 2010
Rumors of a CoupI've had a little difficulty grasping exactly how such a thing would work, so I've spent the last few days puzzling it out.
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June 7, 2010
Obama Fails the Test of OfficeOver the past few weeks we've been treated to a precise and detailed preview of what the rest of the Obama presidency will be like.
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June 3, 2010
The Rise of the Thug LeftThe American left has begun to crack -- deterioration has set in, and it is beginning the long slide into goonhood.
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May 26, 2010
Illegals and the ElectionThanks in large part to Governor Jan Brewer's bold action in signing SB 1070, immigration is shaping up as the issue of the 2010 election. The left cannot win that match.
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May 23, 2010
The Remarkable Rise of Jan BrewerOne oddity about the Arizona illegals controversy is how little fallout, positive or negative, has touched the politician who set it off: Governor Jan Brewer.
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May 18, 2010
Diverting Kagan QuestionsSo we're facing another Supreme Court confirmation, and perhaps as a sign of the times, a brand new category of question has arisen: What is the nominee's sexual preference?
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May 14, 2010
The Real Reason the Left Loves IllegalsWhat the Democratic Party learned from the Ottoman Empire, and what it means for America.
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April 13, 2010
Death by CAFE StandardsMedia discussions of the administration's new mileage rules have covered about everything except how many people they will kill.
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April 6, 2010
Obama's ListObama is a typical example of a particular type of left-winger, produced by the United States alone among all nations.
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April 2, 2010
In the Company of WolvesHave the beasts of field and forest lost all fear of human beings? Have predators begun developing a taste for petite human females?
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March 29, 2010
The Supreme Court and FDR's Power-GrabHow great a chance do we have to overthrow ObamaCare in the courts? To answer that question, we need to look into that bleak pit of falsehood and mendacity that America's left would like us to ignore at all costs: the historical record.
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March 24, 2010
Obama's Empty Health Care VictoryOne major fantasy of American liberalism is the illusion that they get the last word.
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March 10, 2010
Drones and TerrorismDrones have compiled an impressive record, taking out a number of high-ranking al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. But the technology will not be an American monopoly forever.
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March 4, 2010
Vanishing American Air SuperiorityEternal air superiority is not guaranteed to the United States as some kind of codicil to Manifest Destiny.
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January 31, 2010
Obama's Terror Non-PolicyWhen the leadership opts out, when no one is in command, things just naturally fall to the level of least effort.
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January 24, 2010
Terror at the Mall?The shopping malls of America will be among the next major terrorist targets. It's not as if the jihadis haven't tried.
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January 21, 2010
The End of the Obama MystiqueBrown didn't just overcome an unworthy, machine-produced opponent, or even provide the crucial vote to prevent the further socialization of the United States. He destroyed a legend -- the legend of Obama the Omnipotent.
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December 27, 2009
Obama's Lost FaceWhy did Chinese premier Wen Jiabao choose to publicly humiliate Barack Obama at Copenhagen?
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December 13, 2009
The Wages of ClimategateClimategate is the worst blow the left has received in quite some time, and all the worse because it was unexpected.
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December 2, 2009
The New Ruling ClassWe seem to be edging into a new form of aristocracy, with the noble egalitarian liberals leading the way.
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November 29, 2009
Global Warming Fraud and the Future of ScienceIf the Western world wishes to continue its magnificent upward journey, then we have to save science from itself.
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November 25, 2009
Climate Fraud and the Environmental AgendaEnvironmentalism is a revolutionary ideology, deriving much of its thinking, rhetoric, and practice from the left. Like other left-wing cults, it is explicitly anti-capitalist.
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November 24, 2009
The KSM Show TrialWe have an interesting conception here: a new twist on the ancient show trial formula, one truly worthy of Daley's Chicago.
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November 18, 2009
The Coming Jihadi Trial DisasterCriminal justice reform was a major pillar of liberal utopianism during the postwar period. That's the paradigm Obama is now applying to jihadi terrorists.
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November 10, 2009
Ignoring InfiltrationThe narrative has been set down: the problem isn't jihadist infiltration of the military and other organizations, but nonexistent mobs running the streets of America, waving ropes and looking for anyone wearing a dishdash.
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November 8, 2009
The Left and TerrorThe terror conflict is a two-front war. The time to open the second front is coming.
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October 25, 2009
The Slander NetworkThe anti-Palin campaign was intended to implant myths so complex, so convoluted, and so widespread that they could never be completely countered.
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October 13, 2009
How to take down a great powerWhen a pathological narcissist who's never heard a word of criticism takes over, consequences follow.
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October 11, 2009
Terror and the theatrical paradigmA sea change has occurred in the conduct of the War on Terror
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October 9, 2009
Kindergarten MarxistsWhy do so many members of the Western elite, governmental and otherwise, insist on backing Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, despite any number of reasons not to.
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October 9, 2009
The Nobel Prize CurseNot a single cause -- from nonproliferation to land mine clearance -- has prospered recently since the major figure involved won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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September 15, 2009
Fearing ObamaOne of the more puzzling aspects of the public reaction to the ascension of Barack Obama is the abject fear, bordering on sheer terror that he arouses in certain conservative circles.
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September 13, 2009
Frum's futile quest for a new conservatismThe Candian-born pundit wishes American conservatives could be more like Canadians.
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September 9, 2009
Barack OzymandiasThe real story this summer, the one that the scholars will be pondering for decades to come, concerns the absolute collapse of the American messiah.
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August 23, 2009
The Varieties of Birther ExperienceThere are literally dozens, if not hundreds of interpretations of Birthism. We can't expect everyone to adapt a single manifestation. Birthers, after all, are notable devotees of free thought and open inquiry
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August 20, 2009
Palin v. ObamaCareOnce again we're presented with evidence that the health-care debate is occurring without adequate attention being paid to the record of established nationalized health-care systems overseas.
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August 13, 2009
Birthers damage conservatismAmerican conservatism has been down this path before, and suffered for it.
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July 30, 2009
Obama FailsThe stimulus shares one major element with every other program this administration has come up with: they have all been tried before, and they have all failed.
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July 6, 2009
Sarah Palin: The Best is Yet to ComeThe response to Sarah Palin's surprise resignation last Friday clearly reveals the limitations of the American political class, right, left, or what have you.
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February 24, 2009
No SurrenderThirty days into the Obamiate, we have seen that the man cannot put together a working cabinet. And yet some conservatives are ready to surrender.
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February 19, 2009
The Democrat Show TrialsIn the past few weeks a number of influential Democrats have expressed an interest in legal prosecution of members of the Bush administration.
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February 17, 2009
Obama and the PantheonWith less than a month in office, the Big O is being compared to not one, but an entire bench of previous A-team presidents.
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February 12, 2009
Back to MercantilismWe'll be hearing a lot about state-business "partnerships" over the months to come.
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February 10, 2009
Obama's Busted BubbleAs put by the noted political philosopher Clint Eastwood: "A man's got to know his limitations." O now has a vague glimmering as to what his limitations are. His followers, as yet, do not.
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January 27, 2009
Signs and Wonders in Week One of the Obama EraThe left are not acting like people basking in the glory of a long-sought victory. In their moment of victory, the American left is no less than desperate.
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January 19, 2009
Bush and the Bush-HatersIt can be stated without fear of serious argument that no previous president has been treated as brutally, viciously, and unfairly as George W. Bush.
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January 6, 2009
The Left's Net Feedback StrategyClever and unscrupulous use of internet sites has given the left an advantage. Time for conservatives to wise up and turn the tables.
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January 4, 2009
Candy-coating the HolocaustThe "Angel at the Fence" story has been proven to be a hoax, and that's a good thing.
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December 10, 2008
The GOP Must Take Out the TrashThe Blagojevich scandal offers a chance for the GOP to redefine itself in voters' minds, but the opportunity comes at the cost of a thorough house-cleaning.
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December 2, 2008
The Obama presidency begins to emergeObama will be an image president because he does not have much choice. Simply put, he cannot provide what he promised during the campaign.
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November 1, 2008
Conservatism's blonde momentIt so happens that virtually all the conservative women who have turned on Palin share one feature. They are one particular type of female: they are blondes.
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October 26, 2008
DemocideOver the past fifty years, something on the order of a half-million Americans have been killed by liberal policies.
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October 15, 2008
The Buckley ApostasyChristopher Buckley, in and of himself, is not important. But the symbolism of his act is.
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October 13, 2008
Obama's Three StrikesThree is a meaningful and potent number, for both good and evil. In this case, three is all that is required to establish a pattern of malignant activity.
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October 2, 2008
Sarah Palin and the Experience FactorWhy is it that liberal misrepresentations are never fully addressed before they become established as received wisdom?
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October 2, 2008
Nancy Pelosi: The worst Speaker in HistoryThe House's failure to pass the first bailout bill was historic in more ways than one.
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September 21, 2008
Sarah Palin and the Archetype of the American FrontierswomanWhen Sarah Palin appeared on the national stage, she was stepping into an archetype that already existed. In personality, looks, and behavior she resembled nothing less than our cultural image of the frontier woman.
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September 18, 2008
Palin, the Base, and the Northeast Corridor ConservativesThe selection of Sarah Palin as Republican vice-presidential candidate has revealed a serious chasm in conservatism, a chasm separating conservative elites from the vast population of center-right Americans they purport to represent.
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September 4, 2008
Palin offers conservatives a moment of truthFor the past five days we have been witness to the most odious media campaign in the history of the Republic.
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September 2, 2008
McCain's Palin StrategyThe most interesting fact about Sarah Palin's candidacy for veep is being generally overlooked in the legacy media: what it says about McCain.
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August 27, 2008
The Life of BarryIn entertainment news, it has been confirmed that the surviving members of Monty Python will reunite to film a remake of their classic religious satire, Life of Brian.
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August 26, 2008
Rollback Russian ExpansionismWe have a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of outlaw behavior. We know what works and what does not.
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August 20, 2008
The odd choices in Barack Obama's careerBarack Obama has a history of making career choices that are impossible to either understand or explain.
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August 13, 2008
The Obama Phenomenon is Not NewA figure appears from nowhere, a secular messiah from the heartland -- unique, appealing, promising solutions that are effective, fast, and easy. He stirs up an immediate and vastly excited following across the country. It's happened before.
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July 28, 2008
The Operative Term is 'Hubris'He has a seat on his campaign aircraft marked "president". He has taken a shot at creating his own presidential seal, complete with Latin motto. He has laid claim to personal control over the world's oceans and seas. Barack Obama embodies hubris in chemically pure form.
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July 17, 2008
Jesse, Barack, and African-American SupportJesse Jackson's infamous "hot mic" remarks have raised to the surface tensions seen earlier within the black community.
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July 15, 2008
Memory and the LeftIt's difficult to avoid exasperation over the left's absolute refusal to acknowledge the new realities of the Iraq war, as if one the most impressive turnabouts in modern military annals never took place.
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July 10, 2008
How the Greens Captured Energy PolicyHow the Greens killed nuclear power and other stories. And why they are going to see their favorite policies reversed.
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June 27, 2008
Obama's Symbolic BlunderWhat kind of campaign picks one of its party's greatest disasters for use as a symbol?
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June 24, 2008
The Obama LeftThe American left can be divided into three distinct strands, each with its own characteristics, identifiers, and methods of operation: the wimp left, the weird left, and the hard left.
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June 16, 2008
Conservatives Must Not Practice the Politics of Despair2008, we're told, is a "transformational" election, a revolutionary moment in which everything that went before will be overturned, and the nation's entire political sphere utterly changed. Not so fast.
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May 21, 2008
Is 2008 to be a Transformational Election?There's one problem with the contention that Democrats are going to have a blow out year: if the American left is in such great shape, why are all their programs collapsing?
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May 2, 2008
The Democrats' Ex-PresidentsWhy is it that so many Democratic leaders find it necessary to continue making spectacles of themselves after they leave office?
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April 29, 2008
The Food CrisisFood riots have occurred in Haiti, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Indonesia, Yemen, and as close to our borders as Mexico, but the problem has its origins in politics.
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April 23, 2008
Politicians Hide from the Real IssuesIt appears that this is going to be yet another campaign with little or nothing in the way of real issues.
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March 31, 2008
Superdelegates are Another Dysfunctional Liberal FixThe most striking thing about the Democrat's superdelegate fiasco is how typical it is of liberalism.
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March 27, 2008
The Disgrace of Liberalism2008 marks the end of liberalism as a governing force in the same way that 1968 marked the end of liberalism as a political doctrine.
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February 12, 2008
Bill UnboundH.L. Mencken said, many times and in many different ways, that nothing beats a democracy for sheer entertainment.
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February 7, 2008
Obama and 'Da Yutes'One unwelcome side effect of Obamamania is the threat of yet another bout of liberalism's youth obsession. This is not a reference to John Kerry's Botox shots or Nancy Pelosi's face lifts, but the liberal tendency to fall on their knees before the nation's youth at the drop of a skateboard.
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February 6, 2008
Obama and the Culture WarsIt's a truism that a presidential candidate acts as a vessel for the dreams and beliefs of his followers. With Obama it appears at least in part to be a matter of strategy.
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January 28, 2008
The Terror Scare?Influential voices are peddling a dangerous fallacy: that the threat of terror is overblown, another example of scare tactics, like the supposedly nonexistent Communist threat in the 1940s and 1950s.
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January 14, 2008
Obama as Liberal MessiahWhen liberals refer to "leaders", they're not talking about the same thing as everybody else.
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January 13, 2008
Bush Wrongly Blames AmericaI take second place to no one in my admiration for George W. Bush. But there are times when he comes out with something so obtuse, so ill thought out, that it simply grates on the brain.
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December 5, 2007
Christopher Hitchens Says, 'Bah, Hannukah'Christopher Hitchens has achieved for himself quite a strong position as the American center-right's favorite Trotskyite. To a large extent this is well-earned.
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November 28, 2007
Eight Years of Liberal HatredIn politics as in personal life, hatred is a dangerous tool.
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November 16, 2007
Hollywood's Red DecadeAs movie-goers, theatre owners and studio shareholders endure yet another wave of anti-American box office duds like Rendition and Lions for Lambs it is worth remembering that left wing propaganda has real roots in Hollywood.
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November 7, 2007
Jihad and the American LeftA few weeks ago a meeting occurred between Iranian mullahs and assorted international left-wing figures in hopes of generating some sort of "revolutionary solidarity". The guests of honor were the children of Che Guevera, Aleida and Camilo.
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November 5, 2007
The 'Torture' Fraud of the Left"Torture" is one of many current topics of significance that have been abandoned to the left. Leftist commentators have been allowed to set the terms, make the definitions, and generally run the argument without much in the way of serious opposition or debate.
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October 23, 2007
The Nobel Prize CurseAl Gore's Nobel may very well turn out to be the beginning of the end for global warming.
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October 16, 2007
Buried VictoriesVictory in Iraq, one of the hardest-fought in recent American history, is being buried before our eyes
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October 14, 2007
The Buried Legacy of Hollywood Anti-CommunismA number of anti-communist films were made in Hollywood during the late 40s through the 50s. Almost none are available today. This is no accident, comrades.
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October 10, 2007
The Problems of VictoryWe're closing in on victory in Iraq. The Jihadis are nearing collapse across the country. With the exception of a few Ba'athist holdouts, the Sunni population is coming over in ever-greater numbers.
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September 26, 2007
As the Surge SucceedsOne of the benefits of Petraeus-Crocker hearings is the way they've cleared up the miasma of defeatism and futility that settled over the topic of Iraq since the beginning of this year.
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September 24, 2007
Defeating the Terror BombersAt last, eight months after the surge began and three months after it went into high gear, we have the first Jihadi response: a bombing.
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September 11, 2007
Six Years LaterIn September, 2001, I was working for a company two blocks off Wall Street, just a five-minute walk from the World Trade Center.
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September 7, 2007
After the SurgeThe surge was not going to work. But the surge has worked. But that doesn't matter anymore. The surge is irrelevant, because there's no "political settlement".
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September 5, 2007
The Withdrawal Crowd is in RetreatOne welcome by-product of the surge is the way it has put all the cries for "withdrawal" into perspective.
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August 7, 2007
Premature 2008 Defeatism"One of the things I learned during the war was never to pick up my pen to transmit my own despair." - Albert Camus
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July 26, 2007
Democide: Democrats and the Awful Truth of GenocideSince the first of the year, I've been working on a project dealing with the connections between liberal policies and mass mortality
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July 24, 2007
The Surge SucceedsIt's now quite clear how the results of the surge will be dealt with by domestic opponents of the Iraq war. They're going to be ignored. They're being ignored now.
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July 18, 2007
Think Twice About Closing GitmoThe closing of Gitmo is one of those debates (like many concerning the War on Terror) that occur without anybody ever bringing up consequences
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July 6, 2007
London CallingThere are many reasons why the U.S. has chosen its current strategy in the fight against terrorism. The most crucial of them were underlined last weekend, thanks to events in the UK.
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June 26, 2007
Casting Terrorists as Defenders of the ConstitutionWith a series of decisions made over the past few weeks, the American legal establishment - both civil and military -- has met and surpassed the lowest expectations of its critics.
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May 25, 2007
Rachel Carson and the Deaths of MillionsAt times it seems that there are more sites honoring Rachel Carson than Josef Stalin at his peak.
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May 22, 2007
Why the Left Hated Jerry Falwell So MuchJerry Falwell's funeral is today, and now that he is being laid to rest, it is appropriate to dissect the vicious treatment he has received at the hands of his enemies since his unexpected demise.
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May 15, 2007
The Coming Great Divide in American Political CultureWe're headed for an even more serious social schism between the heartland and the coastal metropolises.
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May 9, 2007
The Relative Stablity of TurkeyNicolas Sarkozy's triumph was not the only good news for the resurgant West this past weekend. The Islamists also suffered a setback in Turkey
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May 2, 2007
Bureaucratic FailureThree of most widely-covered recent news narratives revolve around the same fundamental issue: the failure of bureaucratic institutions to meet challenges involving their basic missions.
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April 10, 2007
The War on ChildrenIt seems at times that not a week goes by without a child disappearing or being found dead under ghastly circumstances.
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April 3, 2007
The Democrats Go FishingLast week, Democratic strategy for the rest of the Bush presidency was rendered transparent: the Dems intend to impeach George W. Bush by whatever means necessary.
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March 27, 2007
Rebranding the EnemyThe Left has developed no end of tricks to manipulate debates without the trouble of making a case or putting together an argument.
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March 22, 2007
Gun Owners, Child Molesters, and the Free PressThe Roanoke Times is the latest newspaper to discover that just because something can be done does not mean it should be done.
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March 6, 2007
Warming to FailureA certifiable paranoiac would have a high old time tracing out the patterns behind the global warming campaign of the past month.
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February 27, 2007
9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Heads for the Tall GrassReaders who recall last fall's 9/11 debate in American Thinker between Professor James Fetzer, founder of the 9/1 Scholars for Truth, and me will be interested to learn that an actual confrontation was scheduled this Sunday on Irish National Radio .
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February 23, 2007
Postwar Eras and their CrisesPostwar eras tend to be overlooked. It's as if they're intermissions between the interesting parts of the historical continuum.
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February 16, 2007
Who's Afraid of Global Warming?Science works by means of prediction. If the predictions work out, we can regard the hypothesis as proven. If not, we vow to do better next time.
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February 9, 2007
Global Warming's Globalist BackersThe other shoe has dropped concerning global warming. Fasten your seat belts: an "international authortity" to act as enforcer has been demanded.
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February 2, 2007
A Necessary ApocalypseThe apocalyptic vision of global warming serves a deep need of the environmentalist credo, the dominant pseudo-religious tendency of our age in the prosperous West. For good or ill, human beings are constructed to believe, and faith has its demands.
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January 31, 2007
Resisting Global Warming PanicIt may well turn out that George W. Bush's greatest service to the country won't involve terrorism or Iraq at all, but his steadfast refusal to be buffaloed into joining the panicky consensus on global warming.
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January 29, 2007
The Media Have Changed WarThe weekend before last showed us yet another facet of the problem of war and the modern media.
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January 18, 2007
Defending the Media's Right FlankRecent weeks have seen the appearance of editorials by Max Boot and Rich Lowry attempting to make the case that the media (by which they mean the legacy media more or less exclusively) has always been correct about the situation in Iraq
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January 10, 2007
The Fascists are Coming, The Fascists are ComingThe American left never, under any circumstances, engages in anything that can be called McCarthyite tactics. They leave that to the far right, so I guess we'll have to call it something else.
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January 5, 2007
Breaking the Hold of Hegemonist DoctrineHegemonism is the doctrine holding that every American action on the international stage should be examined under suspicion of evil intent. And what does it foresee occurring in Iraq - and the Middle East at large - after the United States pulls out?
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January 3, 2007
On Going RomanMuch in the way of criticism of the United States comes in the form of accusations of imperialism. According to this view, echoed by everyone from Harold Pinter to Noam Chomsky to the Arab press, the U.S. has for decades run roughshod over the globe, in defiance of agreements and civilized norms.
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December 30, 2006
Knowing the EnemyA recent New Yorker article "Knowing the Enemy" has aroused more comment than such pieces usually attract this time of year. It deals with recent efforts by social scientists, anthropologists prominent among them, to assist with the Iraq war and the War on Terror in general.
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December 8, 2006
Seeds of Intellectual DestructionIt's always amazed me how quickly the American left managed to twist the 9/11 attacks into a club with which to beat their own country. I recall watching the smoke from the towers late in the day, exhausted from stress and emotions I could scarcely identify, and thinking, "They'll never be able to defile this."
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November 27, 2006
The War on Terror's Newest CombatantThings are getting positively biblical in the War on Terror's African front. According to Agence France Presse, Ethiopia is about to attack the Somali Islamists single-handed, on their own hook, and with assistance from nobody. On Thursday Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told the Ethiopian parliament that the Islamists represented "a clear threat to Ethiopia" and that the government had "completed the preparations" for full-scale war.
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November 22, 2006
A Dose of Reality for the RealistsThe intentions of the realists, as represented by the Iraq Study Group, appear to be perfectly straightforward: convene a conference of all concerned parties, sit them all down, get everybody talking, carry out some behind-the-scenes diplomatic swashbuckling in the classic mode and emerge in relatively short order with a settlement of the Iraq Question resulting in a "stable" status quo. Provided with this cover, the U.S. can then "honorably" pull out.
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November 13, 2006
The Worst Case -
November 6, 2006
The Iraqi Way of Justice: Lessons for Americans -
November 1, 2006
Has Kim Jong-Il Backed Down? -
October 27, 2006
Air Defense and Terror -
October 19, 2006
The Battle Over Battleships -
October 11, 2006
The Emperor's New Bomb -
October 10, 2006
Kim Jong-il's Note of Hesitation -
September 28, 2006
And Hitler Liked Puppies -
September 15, 2006
Conspiracy Theories and Media Ignorance -
September 13, 2006
Clausewitz On Terror -
September 6, 2006
America's Strong Hand in Dealing with the Mullahs -
August 14, 2006
Another Such Victory -
August 4, 2006
Ballistic Missile Defense and Terror -
July 31, 2006
The Canary Keels Over -
July 25, 2006
No Cry for Jihad: On Religious War, Part 2 -
July 11, 2006
Allah Will Know His Own: On Religious War, Part 1 -
July 4, 2006
The Real Story of "My Country, Right or Wrong" -
June 26, 2006
Vigilantes in Baghdad -
June 15, 2006
Ann Coulter Hurts the Cause -
June 14, 2006
The Jihadi Network's Fatal Flaw -
June 9, 2006
Brother to Dragons -
June 7, 2006
The Haditha Stratagem -
June 6, 2006
Give 'em More Rope -
May 26, 2006
Kharijism and Cultural War -
May 16, 2006
Zarqawi and the Company of Blood -
May 10, 2006
A Break in the Chain -
May 8, 2006
Moussaoui's Gift -
May 2, 2006
The Lesson of Uno de Mayo -
April 26, 2006
The Generals and CDI -
April 25, 2006
The Guns of '88: Lessons of the Forgotten Tanker War -
April 21, 2006
The EMP Threat: ElectroMagnetic Pulse Warfare -
April 17, 2006
Lightweights: The Iranian Nuclear Threat -
April 10, 2006
Parkinson's War -
April 4, 2006
Bogus Massacre Reports in Iraq -
March 29, 2006
Muslims and PC -
March 23, 2006
Prospects of Terror: An Inquiry into Jihadi Alternatives (3) -
March 22, 2006
Prospects of Terror: An Inquiry into Jihadi Alternatives (2) -
March 21, 2006
Prospects of Terror: An Inquiry into Jihadi Alternatives (1) -
March 10, 2006
The Saddam Files: National Security and Enemy Documents -
March 8, 2006
The French Way -
March 4, 2006
Good Night and Good Riddance -
February 23, 2006
David Irving Jailed in Austria for Holocaust Denial -
February 16, 2006
Halabja's Shadow -
February 12, 2006
Stephen Douglas, Bush Supporter -
February 2, 2006
Is there a 'conservative style' for America? -
January 25, 2006
Thinking the Unthinkable About Iran -
January 18, 2006
How Demography Fails -
December 20, 2005
The Legacy of Tet -
December 7, 2005
Zarqawi and People's War -
November 18, 2005
Winning in Iraq - and losing at home -
October 11, 2005
The descent into ideology