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Richard McDonough
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March 6, 2025
Slotkin’s unserious reply to Trump’s 2025 joint address to CongressMost viewers described [Trump’s speech] as "presidential, "inspiring" and more "unifying" than "divisive". Democrats who watch[ed] mostly [said] it made them "worried," and for 4 in 10, "a...
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September 16, 2024
The Press Can't Stop Pushing Fake Racial Controversies Targeting Trump“AP Headlines Called Harris Indian American in 2016 [but] Black in 2020? [snip] Verdict: True” -- Snopes Fact Check, July 26, 2024 “President Trump on Thursday signed a bipartisan bill that will permanentl...
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May 16, 2024
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria condescends to 'be honest about reality'I have to admit none of this [election] is playing out as I thought it would. As someone worried about a second Trump term I think it is best to be honest about reality. … I wish [Biden] would do something more extreme [on immigrat...
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April 10, 2024
Smackdown: CNN's Zakaria tries to egg Finland's leader into blasting Trump, gets egg all over his face insteadIn a recent discussion with Alexander Stubb, who is the president of Finland, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria apparently thought it would be a cakewalk to get the newly elected European leader to say something negative and alarming about former President ...
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February 12, 2024
The DNC’s Standard Illegal Immigration Sophistries“Illegal Alien” Is One of Many Correct Legal Terms for “Illegal Immigrant” ...
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February 5, 2024
CNN’s Abby Phillip promotes racist sophistry with Nikki Haley"The national media, once an important force in presidential voting, is collapsing. TV News ratings are in decline, and once mega-newspapers … are finished. Most Americans don't trust the press; many despise it." ...
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January 23, 2024
NBC’s Welker pushes fake 'insurrection' argument on Joni ErnstToday’s Journalists Seek Power, Not Truth --J.B. Shurk, American Thinker, Jan. 15, 2024 Since the Democrat News-media’s main election slogan is that Trump caused an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, NBC’s Kristen Welker saw...
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January 11, 2024
The Comical Democrat-Media January 6 Storyline for Election Year 2024 Carries On[The] FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated ...
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January 5, 2024
Claudine Gay’s Resignation Letter and New York Times Editorial Make the Case for her Firing[Black former law professor and Harvard grad Winkfield] Twyman claimed [Claudine] Gay … disrupted the careers of prominent black male professors … [and] coordinated a “witch hunt” against [black Harvard] economics professor ...
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December 29, 2023
Biden’s Campaign Message 2024President [from 1857-1861] Buchanan would not confront the evil of slavery. … [He] sat in the Executive Mansion doing nothing [leading to the Civil War]. President Biden's mandate is to solve difficult problems like illegal immigration ...
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December 21, 2023
Democrats and Media Deceptively Change Trump’s Word 'Retribution' to 'Revenge'Retribution and revenge are different [in multiple ways] --Harvard Summary of Oxford trained Princeton Philosopher Robert Nozick’s views on retribution The latest misinformation that the Democrat “news”-media colluders (hereaf...
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December 13, 2023
Solving the Education-Destroying Deception of Grade InflationGrade inflation has turned transcripts into Monopoly money. ...
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December 9, 2023
A Pattern of Bias Against Republicans at the BBCThe [BBC] is the state-controlled public mouthpiece of the UK government, best known for its left-wing, anti-Brexit politically correct bias, publication of woke, degenerate propaganda, and foundation in 1922 by fascis...
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August 22, 2023
Weak Solutions for Government CorruptionDan Crenshaw (R-Tx), who is on the House “Intelligence Committee” suggested a solution to the problem of a corrupt FBI targeting of Trump and conservatives When we reauthorise [the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)] too we...
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June 19, 2023
Gavin Newsom’s Identity-Politics Incoherence in the Hannity InterviewIt was very clear in Sean Hannity’s recent interview with Gavin Newsom that Newsom is much smarter than most of the other prominent Democrats, many of whom need either a walker or wheelchair to get around or to be accompanied by a therapist in ...
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June 8, 2023
The View’s Destructive Victimization NarrativeWhen Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican US Senator, went on The View recently to respond to personal attacks on him, Joy Behar, who had made some of those attacks, did not manage to attend to defend her hateful views. That was wise of he...
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May 27, 2023
Friedrich Nietzsche Was Not the Inspiration for the LeftNietzsche, who abhorred the politics of the Left, and who envisaged a new aristocracy, may be said to have invented the atheism of the political right. - Werner Dannhauser[i], “Nietzsche (1844-1900)” August Harriman argued on these...
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May 24, 2023
The Left’s Systematic Slandering of the PoliceAfter the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd, a Black man, in the custody of Minneapolis Police, many Democrats, including Joe Biden, have said the police are systematically racist. San Francisco Democrat Mayor London Breed, Democrat “squ...
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May 22, 2023
CNN and the Art of Smearing Innocent PeopleWhy this is interesting and significant is that President Trump and others are trying to say that … this Steele dossier … has been discredited, which is not entirely true, and that … the Steele dossier and this whole investigat...
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May 19, 2023
The Trump Rape Accusation: A Team EffortIt was an episode, it was an action, it was a fight, it was not a crime. … My word is not the victim-word. I have not been raped. E. Jean Carroll, Vox, June 27, 2019 Naturally, the Democrat News-media Colluders (hereaf...
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May 10, 2023
Ivy League Sophistry about Sex and GenderIn opposition to the traditional view that sex is “binary,” i.e., that humans divide into males and females, Princeton University anthropology professor Agustín Fuentes claims that the traditional way of marking sex distinctions by...
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May 6, 2023
Why I’m Not a RepublicanIt used to be necessary in the early 1950s to declare that one “is not now and have never have been a member of the Communist Party”. That is no longer true. Since Marxists have infiltrated virtually every institution in Ameri...
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April 24, 2023
Seething Rage in former Institutions of Higher Learning"Their [the pro-life visitors at Yale] smug civility was infuriating; their invitations for debate [about foetal personhood and abortion ethics”] inflammatory. I could barely seethe out my opinion about the misogyny of holding such a debat...
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April 23, 2023
Answering Bill Maher’s Question: ‘Why don’t we have an Atheist’s Day’?In late March, Bill Maher remarked that we have all kinds of days for religious believers and asked why we don’t have an Atheist’s Day. Maher suggests that religious believers could use that day to ask “Why (do I believe)?...
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April 10, 2023
Democrats Seek to Remove the only Black Male from the Supreme CourtSquad” stalwart [New York] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [AOC] says she’s willing to file articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for failing to report decades of luxury trips with a billionaire GOP...
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April 8, 2023
Dana Bash’s Logical Incoherence on School ShootingsUpon receiving the news of the horrific killing of six people, including three nine-year old children, by a deranged and troubled shooter in Nashville, the Democrats and their stenographers in what passes as our “news” media immediately b...
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April 5, 2023
Democrat Bloodlust“Shoot him! Shoot him!” -Democrat Steve Schmidt, to “a cheering crowd” on HBO’s Bill Maher show, referring to “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley, The Federalist, March 6, 2023 Jacob Chansley has ju...
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April 1, 2023
The Religious Conviction that America is Systemically RacistSince the Democrats use the accusation that America is systemically racist to divide the country and stay in money and power, philosophy Prof. Boghossian posts a video of a discussion with two university students, a white male (hereafter M) and a whi...
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March 26, 2023
Academia’s ‘Safe Space’ InvalidsF*** you! … You’re not wanted here. … You’re harming people by asking that question. … We’re going to … disrupt you. -- Group of Portland State University (PSU) social workers to Philo...
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March 22, 2023
Philosophy Professor: ‘Don’t go to College! Become an Electrician.’I don’t think you should send your kids to any universities. [I told] my daughter, “Don’t go to college. Become an electrician.” I never would have imagined 10 years ago that I would [say] that. … It...
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March 17, 2023
The Democrat-Media Bipartisanship FallacyWhat currently passes for our “news” media/Democrat party is thrilled when certain occasional Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger smear Trump (sometimes with verified falsehoods). ...
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March 15, 2023
The Democrat-Media Insurrection MythThe breach of the capitol, serious though it was, cannot be described as a “deadly insurrection.” Sadly, though the contrary was what was [widely] reported [by the news media], Officer Sicknick died two days after Jan 6,...
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March 12, 2023
Liberal feminist Naomi Wolf apologizes to conservatives, Republicans, and MAGABecause of lies … in legacy media — lies which I and millions of others believed — half of our nation’s electorate was smeared and delegitimized, and I myself was misled. It damages our nation when legacy media put words in...
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March 11, 2023
The press make fools of themselves over Tucker Carlson's January 6 videosIt is quite possible that someday one might find [buying and selling] so common and vulgar that, along with all party-literature and journalism, one would classify it as "prostitution of the spirit." —Friedrich Nietzsche, Die ...
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March 1, 2023
Peculiar Case of George Santos Exhibits the Media Double-Standard“I am looking for an honest man.” This was the answer of Diogenes the Cynic when asked why he carried a lighted lantern around Athens in broad daylight. George Santos’s embarrassing lies are bare for all to see, and the mainst...
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February 27, 2023
The Georgia Grand Jury Trump Witch Hunt ProjectYou, as foreperson (or member) of the grand jury … shall … keep the deliberations of the grand jury secret unless called upon to give evidence thereof in some court of law in this state. You shall present no one from envy, hatred, or ma...
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February 21, 2023
CNN's Lemon ProblemIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and bl...
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February 9, 2023
The Squad’s Rejection of ObjectivityThere is an idea out there that I … do not have objective decision-making because of who I am, where I come from, and my perspective. But I reject that. We say there is nothing objective about policy-making, we all inject our persp...
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January 26, 2023
Why is Bill Maher still trying to resurrect the Mueller Report?Bill Maher speaks for many who simply cannot let go of the Mueller team of Trump-haters and their efforts to conjure a crime to pin on Donald Trump. Specifically, he cannot let go of Mueller’s statement that “we cannot exone...
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January 12, 2023
Shameless media immediately make excuses for Biden’s mishandled classified documentsScott Pelley: When you saw the photograph of the top -secret documents laid out on the floor at Mar-a-Lago, what did you think to yourself looking at that image? Joe Biden: How could … anyone [Trump] could be that irresponsible?...
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January 4, 2023
Bias at the Beeb: BBC 'Hardtalk' for Republicans, softtalk for Democrats[I]n 2022 the US continued to be afflicted by political dysfunction and polarization, the fallout from the Trump presidency and in particular his refusal to accept the legitimacy of his electoral defeat continues to divide America and Trump, don'...
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December 20, 2022
Shocker: ABC's Martha Raddatz finds a way to blame Republicans for Biden's open borders crisis"What I would do as president is ... make sure that ... all those people are seeking asylum ... immediately surge to the border. ... We're a nation who says, if ... you're fleeing oppression, you should come." —Joe Biden...
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December 3, 2022
The Democrats' Contempt for the American PeopleThe inflation rate is still hovering around 8-9%, in contrast with the 1.4% when Donald Trump left office. A record number of people (853) have died at the U.S. southern border in the past 12 months (and those are only the ones we know about an...
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November 25, 2022
The Democrats’ Plan to Give Illegal Aliens a Path to the Voting BoothIllegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple … People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and … should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally. --Senator Chu...
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November 19, 2022
Coulter Shouted Down at Cornell: What to Make of the Shouters?[F]or intelligent people, “the proper measure of listening to such arguments [about the good and just life for human beings] is a whole life. --Plato, Republic (450b) Recently, writer Ann Coulter (J.D., Michigan) gave a talk on ...
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November 14, 2022
Republican Leadership Worse than WorthlessRepublican Party Staves Off Red Wave, Babylon Bee Headline, Nov. 9, 2022 With people all across the country afraid to walk the streets because of high crime, inflation at a 40-year high due to D.C.’s profligate spending, 13 U.S. service memb...
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November 5, 2022
Michael Beschloss sees the end of the world if the GOP winsWhy does my heart go on beating? Why do these eyes of mine cry? Don't they know it's the end of the world? It ended when you said, "Good-bye." —Skeeter Davis, "The End of the World" (1962) Michael Beschloss ...
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November 2, 2022
Government by Sociology 101We are led by buffoons. —Tucker Carlson, Aug, 17, 2021 When asked in July 2021 by a journalist whether there was any similarity between his decision to leave Afghanistan and the United States' humiliating withdrawal from Vietnam in 19...
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November 2, 2022
The Democrats' 'election denier' sophistryChuck Todd: "Why are you supporting an election denialist [the New Hampshire Republican senate candidate Chris Bolduc] and do you think the inflation issue is enough to [justify supporting an election denier]"? Chris Sununu: "Let me...
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October 29, 2022
The Democrats’ Never-Ending 'Apocalypse Now' ArgumentWe have learned that the checks and balances aren't in check. What will happen if you don't [win the Georgia governorship]? ... It's really frightening. ... I’m wishing that the people of Georgia come out and make that a reali...
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October 27, 2022
The Democrat-Media Complex’s 'Save our Democracy' FarceDemocrats Think They Own Black People, Take Them for Granted. --Robert Johnson, Founder of Black Entertainment Television, June 25, 2020 One of the main endlessly repeated storylines the Democrat-media complex has come up wi...
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October 25, 2022
Why Biden Went Far LeftIf [destruction should] ever reach us … we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a Nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. --Abraham Lincoln, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” (T...
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October 21, 2022
A Controlled PeasantrySocrates: Imagine people are kept in an underground cave from childhood, their legs and necks in chains so that they can see only in front of them. There is a fire behind them casting shadows on the back wall of the cave. Between the pris...
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October 15, 2022
Tulsi’s Declaration of IndependenceI can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism. … Unfortunatel...
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October 11, 2022
Kamala’s thoughtless equality-equity confusion[T]here’s a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests [that] everyone should get the same amount. [But] not everybody’s starting out from the same place. So, if we’re all getting the same amount, but you sta...
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October 8, 2022
Censored: Original Black Panther Party founder supports Donald TrumpTrump may not be perfect but he’s a damn sight better than these phony PC ‘Democrats’ & their allies who seek to smash free speech & dialogue. ---Larry Pinkney, one of original founders of the Black Panther Party ...
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October 2, 2022
The View, (from the 9th grade lunch table)Joy Behar: “Isn’t it socialism when the government helps you?” Sunny Hostin: “Yeah, and the fire department’s gotta come, and the police. I mean, socialism!” ...
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September 27, 2022
A Congress full of contempt for the American peopleThere is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. ...
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September 19, 2022
The browning of Martha's VineyardWelcome to the party pal! —John McClain (Bruce Willis), Die Hard Ron DeSantis has exposed the transparent "liberal" hypocrisy of "liberals" by sending only 50 illegal aliens (Venezuelans) to the wealthy overw...
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September 12, 2022
Celebrity Buffoons: Unintentional political comedy"[I]n the theatre the actors are spurred on by the children. To say nothing of their friends, whenever any actor thinks they are applauding seriously[.]" —Plato, Letter IV (321a) The American people have long had to suffer lectu...
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September 3, 2022
The McConnell betrayal: Why Republicans never winSatan: "Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n." —John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I Establishment Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell recently did his best to "sabotage" Republicans' ...
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September 1, 2022
Media smears on Trump and his supporters starting to get juvenileTed Koppel says 'the Establishment press is out to get' Trump. —Howard Kurtz, March 21, 2019 What pass for our "news" media have a strategy to churn out a plethora of articles every day that represent Donald Trump, Repub...
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August 31, 2022
Biden's Student Debt Cancellation FarceThe nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. --Ronald Reagan, Aug. 12, 1986 On Aug. 25, 2022, President Biden announced that “Twenty-seven million people who will ...
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August 27, 2022
Don Lemon declares journalists arbiters of truthCNN's Don Lemon has decided that "journalists" can no longer treat Republicans and Democrats equally and asserts that the "freedom to "state [his] truth" and "stand up for what is right," as a jou...
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August 24, 2022
The Left’s Use of Accusations of Micro-aggressionsSince micro-aggressions … are in a sense ambiguous, so that the recipient is apt to feel vaguely insulted, but since the words look and sound complimentary on the surface (they're most often positive), she ... doesn't know how to respo...
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August 24, 2022
The latest smear on Trump: He can't find a respectable lawyer to defend himIn all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall ... have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense. —Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [T]he Supreme Court has ruled that the right to counsel implies the right to an effect...
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August 23, 2022
Liz Cheney’s AgonyWhen I was an undergraduate in the late 1960s, I underwent a kind of transformative experience during a classroom debate with another student that I believed I was clearly winning when the philosophy professor corrected me. He reminded me ...
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August 19, 2022
Facebook's Kafkaesque 'community standards'You're under arrest. I can't ... answer to your questions, but [you'd] better think [about] what's going to happen to you. ... And stop [asserting] your ... innocence. ... [Y]ou're damaging [yourself]. ...
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August 14, 2022
The Marxist ReligionThe criticism of religion ends with the precept that the Supreme Being for man is man. -Karl Marx (1844) Marx is famous for his anti-religious view that “Religion is the opiate of the masses;” the view that religion, specifical...
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August 2, 2022
Our Hollow LeadersSocrates: Where virtue is concerned [a genuine statesman] would be … like a solid reality among shadows ...
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July 25, 2022
The Distinction between Hyperventilation and Actual EvidenceThe January 6th Committee, aided by the ABC television producer helping them put on a good show, and compromised by a plethora of problems in its composition and behavior, is doing the latest reincarnation of the Democrat-media complex’s uninte...
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July 20, 2022
The Marxist Roots of the Feminist ‘Patriarchy’ NarrativeWe need to … dismantle the ideas of patriarchy, misogyny, racism and capitalism, and [decide] what autonomy and self-determination needs to look like for women. Ilhan Omar, Dec. 5, 2017 The evil “patriarchy” that...
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July 9, 2022
Conflating 'Originalist' with 'Conservative' is a Deliberate Act of DeceptionIn the exposition of laws, and even of Constitutions, how many important errors may be produced by mere innovations in the use of words and phrases, if not controlled by a recurrence to the original and authentic meaning attached to them! - Ja...
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July 5, 2022
Bombshell Tonight: The Infamous Jan. 2, 2021, Trump-Raffensperger Phone Call"All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state." --Donald Trump, transcript of Jan. 2 audio of phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Mark Mead...
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June 25, 2022
A Father Makes all the DifferenceThe rise in school shootings correlates with the destruction of the family and the declining number of fathers in the home, with the consequent decline in the moral values of young people. The idea that fathers are essential to the proper moral...
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June 17, 2022
The Democrat Party’s 'Dirty Hands'Abolish the filibuster. Codify Roe. Expand the Supreme Court. Protect abortion rights by any means necessary. We need all the above. This is an emergency. “Squad” House member Cori Bush, Tweet, May 3, 2022...
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May 29, 2022
Carl Cameron Embodies The Leftist Drive To CensorshipIf there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence [censorship]. -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis ...
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May 25, 2022
Joe Biden: All He Has Left is His SpiteI pledge this to you: I will be a President for all Americans. I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did. … We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus...
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May 10, 2022
Does overturning Roe v. Wade take away a constitutional right?What's about to happen in this country isn't just an assault on the vocal minority of women who've been taking to the streets, to state capitals, to the Capitol to demand that our voices are heard, that our [constitutional] ri...
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March 13, 2022
Bill Maher’s contempt for Christianity and ChristiansChristianity is not based on historical truth. … The historical accounts in the Gospels might … be demonstrably false and yet [religious] belief would lose nothing by this … because historical proof … is irrelevant to [r...
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March 2, 2022
Media misleading public on Russia to protect DemocratsThe media were thrilled in late February 2022, when, immediately after Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Trump called Putin a "genius." On Feb. 23, 2022, MSNBC's Ja'Han Jones, attempting to revive the Russia hoax that...
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February 26, 2022
AOC's logical stumbles criticizing capitalismRepresentative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) sees injustices everywhere in the United States. Our capitalist economic system is “irredeemable” with its “absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental, and social cost...
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February 20, 2022
On the Alleged Moral Superiority of IntellectualsFrom my intimacy with [my fellow writers, teachers, etc] I acquired a new vice: abnormally developed pride, and an insane assurance that it was my vocation to teach men, without knowing what. … [Eventually I saw that] almost all of them were...
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January 2, 2022
The Woke Mob’s Destruction of the English LanguageIn our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. George Orwell, Politics and the English Language Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, a member of the progressive “squad,” recently accused...
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December 13, 2021
A curious gap in the Democrat-media critique of Donald TrumpIf you're against the establishment, they will try to destroy you. —Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat House member, Hawaii's 2nd District One of the main strategies of the Democrats and their "news" media allies i...
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November 12, 2021
Why 'Liberals' Could Benefit from an Introduction to Thomas KuhnIt is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it. ...