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Nicholas J. Kaster
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March 27, 2022
Eric Metaxas makes the case for GodEric Metaxas writes on how science reveals the miracle of Creation and concludes that reports of God’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
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March 2, 2022
How COVID Spending and Green Policies Enabled Putin’s March into UkraineWhy Putin chose to invade on President Biden’s watch and not during Trump’s tenure.
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January 10, 2022
Will the COVID Pandemic Cause a Big Government 'Ratchet Effect'?The COVID pandemic appears to supply yet another pretext for the move towards bigger and more authoritarian government.
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October 5, 2021
Loving their servitudeIt should come as no surprise that the institutions that gave us “safe spaces” have now embraced a form of therapeutic totalitarianism designed to keep students safe from COVID.
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September 18, 2021
Beating Left-wing AuthoritarianismThe authoritarian moment has arrived, the result of a decades-long evisceration of core American institutions.
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April 5, 2021
An 'Informed Patriotism': Lessons from Reagan’s Farewell AddressThe caricatured version of Reagan as a perpetually grinning and genial old man does him a disservice.
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March 19, 2021
Biden to states: Whatever you do, don't cut your taxes!The feds attempt to take over the states' tax policies.
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March 8, 2021
Preventing a Repeat of Disastrous Lockdown PoliciesOnce COVID is in the rear-view mirror conservatives and libertarians -- the pro-freedom forces -- need to seize the narrative from the Left to make certain that policies like these never happen again.
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February 17, 2021
‘Equity’: Reparations by Another Name"Equity” is to “equality” what “social justice” is to “justice.”
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January 29, 2021
The Griggs Decision and Affirmative ActionGriggs v. Duke Power Co. does not have the name recognition of Roe v. Wade or Brown v. Board of Education, but it is nonetheless one of the most consequential decisions ever rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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December 31, 2020
Farewell to a Dreadful YearThree major events intersected in the tumultuous year of 2020: the coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter/Antifa inspired riots, and the vigorous assault on free speech that became known as “cancel culture.”
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December 19, 2020
Darkness at Noon and the Progressive MindsetA book recommended to every progressive, leftist, and wokie... which they'll never read.
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December 7, 2020
Santelli vs. Sorkin: A perfect microcosm of left vs. rightA perfect example of the invocation of science as dogma.
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November 21, 2020
New report shows how the lockdowns have harmed health careThe cure is worse than the disease, Part 324.
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November 13, 2020
Will liberty survive the lockdowns?A new book makes the cogent case that the lockdowns have been a crime against human rights and science.
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October 11, 2020
Sen. Lee reminds us: this is a Republic, not a democracyThe Founders were wary of democracy and constructed an elaborate system designed to constrain it.
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September 21, 2020
The Brave New World of Coronavirus SafetyismThe Brave New World of safetyism reimagines all of society as a vast Safe Space, endeavoring to eliminate pain and suffering through the imposition of therapeutic totalitarianism.
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August 15, 2020
A Valuable Exposé of the #NeverTrump MovementA new book takes down the #NeverTrumpers, the “useful idiots for the Left.”
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July 4, 2020
Coolidge on the 4thCalvin Coolidge's brilliant reflections on the Declaration of Independence make for timeless July 4 reading.
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June 20, 2020
Two New Books Provide an Antidote to the Virus of SocialismThe siren call of socialism -- the economic system that never quite works, but like a vampire, can never quite be killed -- beckons yet again.
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May 29, 2020
Lockdowns deepen America’s class divideThe drastic coronavirus lockdowns pushed hardest by credentialed professionals and government bureaucrats have benefited credentialed professionals and government bureaucrats.
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April 25, 2020
'The Pretense of Knowledge' has Cost America DearlyDespite their air of authority, the experts never had enough knowledge about this virus to make reliable calculations about the future.
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April 1, 2020
Reflecting on Crisis and Leviathan in the age of the pandemicGood public policy requires the consideration of longer-term effects as well as short-term and immediate effects.
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March 19, 2020
Four Supreme Court rulings this term strengthen Trump's hand on immigrationWith federal district and circuit courts seeking to frustrate the Trump administration's immigration policies, it is heartening that the Supreme Court has started to provide some clarity.
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March 2, 2020
The ’64 Civil Rights Act and the Origins of Political CorrectnessThe Civil RIghts Act of 1964 is a textbook example of unintended consequences.
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February 13, 2020
Why we're not likely to see Democrats release a list of judicial nomineesDemocratic picks have been depressingly and consistently progressive.
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January 29, 2020
Diversity by subtractionThe cultural Marxists who dominate academia are not interested in adding to the Western canon.
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January 19, 2020
Amity Shlaes's Verdict on the Great Society: Not That GreatThe Johnson-era social programs led to more socialism, less prosperity.
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January 4, 2020
The Mob and Social JusticeThe Madness of Crowds is an extended meditation on identity politics and specifically how sexuality and race have intersected with technology to create today's toxic culture.
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December 19, 2019
In the British elections, older meant wiserIt remains to be seen whether in the U.S. and U.K. the natural tendency to grow wiser and thus more conservative with age will be overwhelmed by an educational system determined to indoctrinate students at a young age and keep them leftists for life.
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November 30, 2019
In Favor of NationalismRich Lowry argues that “nationalism” shouldn’t be a dirty word.
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November 23, 2019
President Trump on Medicare for AllA Manhattan Institute study backs Trump's claim that single-payer system would reduce health care access.
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November 4, 2019
Polygamy, Obergefell, and the slippery slopeConservative jurists had better be ready to meet the challenge of polygamy.
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October 10, 2019
Five 'Gutsy Women' Who Didn’t Make it into Hillary Clinton’s BookA few women who didn't make the list because they don't fit Hillary's politically correct narrative.
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September 27, 2019
Middle Eastern migrants 'assimilate' into Germany's social welfare programsLow-skilled immigration into a country offering generous welfare benefits is a poor combination.
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September 10, 2019
Max Boot reaches peak narcissismThe frustrations of being a NeverTrump columnist.
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August 29, 2019
Will SF charity be strong-armed into rescinding award to GOP donor?Democratic tolerance in full bloom.
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August 9, 2019
'Diversity' or truth, pick oneDoes the pursuit of truth require an end to identity politics on campus?
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July 22, 2019
A war on the WestA powerful documentary film exposes the internal and external threats to Western civilization.
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July 13, 2019
Nineteen Eighty-Four at 70: What Orwell Got Right1984 remains prescient in its depiction of two key elements of modern-day political correctness conceived of and promoted by the Progressive Left: the war on language and the war on memory.
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June 15, 2019
Bret Easton Ellis Rebukes the Progressive ElitesA hipster icon eviscerates the TDS-ridden coastal elites.
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May 4, 2019
Justice Kavanaugh is Still Triggering the LeftThe unhinged left loses its mind over a single university course.
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April 23, 2019
Narrow minds try to erase history in Oak Park, IllinoisLike a virus, the plague of political correctness is infecting every nook and cranny in America.
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April 8, 2019
The EU: 'Pinnacle of well being' for bureaucratic elitesUnder cover of American security protection, European nations crafted the bureaucratic welfare states that progressives so admire.
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March 29, 2019
What would Biden replace our 'English jurisprudential culture' with?To cavalierly dismiss a system of law that has given us all the protections we cherish as our birthright amounts to an attack on America itself.
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March 1, 2019
The Secular Theology of the Green New DealToday, among secular leftists, radical environmentalism has attained the status of theology, and their catechism is the Green New Deal.
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February 20, 2019
Kamala Harris: 'Goodbye Columbus' (Day)A nation's collective identity is rooted in a sense of shared history.
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December 13, 2017
Ten Great Conservative Novels and Why They Are Relevant TodayIf we leave fiction to the liberals, we will suffer for it. Pick up one of these books this season, and get one for a friend.
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October 4, 2017
David Brooks wants the GOP to embrace open bordersThe country's most liberal paper's so-called "resident conservative" proves why the Times still employs him.
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November 23, 2016
We need to reform legal immigration, tooOnce border enforcement is implemented, President Trump needs to convince Congress to enact a new immigration law for the 21st century.
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September 3, 2009
Health care: while government dithers, private enterprise deliversWhile Barack Obama schemes to enlarge the government's control over health care, private enterprise has stepped in to provide low cost, quality health care to Americans.
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June 11, 2009
Reverse Gender Gap in UnemploymentData from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals a huge gender imbalance in unemployment, one which the ever-vigilant mainstream press has curiously ignored.
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May 26, 2009
Trouble for cradle of social welfare state policiesGermany, whose welfare state model inspired the "progressive" movement of which Obama and the American Left are so enamored, is in deep economic trouble.
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February 11, 2009
Imitating FailureBefore passing Obama's "new" New Deal, Congress should check out the results of the "old" New Deal.
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June 21, 2008
Will Estonia Liberate the United States?Estonia, liberated from communism in part by music, has embraced supply side economics and economic freedom. This small Baltic nation may have some lessons for America.
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June 19, 2008
Obama's Latest Proposal to Increase Taxes