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Ted Noel
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August 7, 2025
Birthright Citizen: The Little Conjunction That Explains EverythingWhen it comes to statutory interpretation, every word, including the little three-letter ones, has a profound meaning.
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July 17, 2025
The Moving Autopen Writes, and Having Writ, Moves OnTempting as it is to believe that the Autopen’s escapades may invalidate much of Biden’s presidency, it’s unlikely to make much difference moving forward.
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July 7, 2025
The Census Was Never Intended Just To Be A Body Count, But It Can Be FixedThe census’s history shows that it was intended to apply to those owing allegiance to the U.S. (i.e., citizens), and tools currently exist to reinstate that intention.
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June 25, 2025
President Trump’s Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Sites Did Not And Will Not Start A WarYou can’t “start” something that already exists.
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June 20, 2025
Israel can take out Fordow without bunker bustersSometimes, doing things incrementally is every bit as effective as doing them in a big way, all at once.
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June 12, 2025
An Armed InvasionWith money and bodies, American leftists are backing the Second Mexican American War, the one we thought was settled in 1848.
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May 25, 2025
Why Does the Left Worship Power?Leftists worship the ultimate meaningless God, one that can only be satiated by power.
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May 8, 2025
For the Left, Power Isn’t a Tool, It’s the GoalEvery one of them is desperate to achieve ever higher political office, but they have no desire, once in office, to fulfill promises or make American life better.
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April 8, 2025
Out-of-Control CourtsAcross America, federal district court judges are blatantly ignoring precedent to attack Americans’ core rights and to hamstring the Trump administration.
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April 2, 2025
Make IRS Sauce The Same For Both Citizen Goose and Politician GanderElon Musk is right that some of our wealthy “public servants” need to have their puzzling finances scrutinized.
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March 24, 2025
The Supreme Court Must Recognize That The Executive’s Great Powers Also Mean Smaller PowersTo the extent Trump has significant enumerated powers over the bureaucracy, we all understand that it means he also has a subset of smaller powers, as well.
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March 20, 2025
Trump’s Broad Constitutional PowersProperly understood, the president’s executive powers are sufficiently broad that President Donald “St. George” Trump can slay the Deep State.
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March 10, 2025
Everything You Know About the USAID Case May be WrongOr, Justice Barrett didn’t sell out conservatives. She’s just waiting for the right opportunity to rule on the merits, rather than on a leftist judge’s procedural mess.
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February 28, 2025
DOGE Is in the ConstitutionReally. It’s actually there. At least the most important part of it is.
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February 16, 2025
Color Me Confused By The Left’s Unhinged Reaction To TrumpThe chasm between leftist fears and assertions and the actual facts and law suggest a serious disconnect from reality.
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February 10, 2025
Trump’s Chess Game Is ImprovingDemocrats are howling because they’re caught flat-footed.
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January 28, 2025
When It Comes To Anchor Babies, Get On The Ark! (The Wong Kim Ark, That Is)In a one-two punch of long-standing Supreme Court authority and Trump’s executive orders, birthright citizenship doesn’t stand a chance.
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December 27, 2024
In Congress, It’s Time To Use the Dems Against ThemselvesIf the Democrats want something, they will have to fight for it, and if they win one fight, Republicans have to ensure that it comes at a painful cost.
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November 23, 2024
Quick Fixes For The DOGEBetween common sense and the Constitution, slashing the size of the government to save money and return sanity to D.C. really isn’t that difficult.
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November 18, 2024
How Donald Trump Can Achieve His Second Most Important AccomplishmentIn his first administration, Donald Trump managed to turn around the leftist judiciary. Now, he can use federal money to bring sanity to our children’s lives.
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November 9, 2024
What Now? There Are Things Trump Can Do Both Now And After The InaugurationThe list of things that will immediately make life better in America is long and wonderful.
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November 1, 2024
The Un-American Socialist DreamKamala Harris and other Democrats keep talking about the American Dream, but their conception runs counter to everything those who’ve come here have believed.
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August 6, 2024
To Reach Non-Traditional Republican Voters, We Must Speak In Non-Traditional WaysAs long as we mumble passionlessly in trite political phrases, we will not reach the people who need Trump the most.
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July 22, 2024
Donald Trump And ‘That Moment’ In Time When He Was SavedCoincidence? I, like many others, don’t think so. We were witness to something extraordinary and greater than many understand.
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July 16, 2024
The Left Has Sold Out to EvilNothing more perfectly represents this long leftist trend than the message that Reid Hoffman’s advisor, Dmitri Mehlhorn, sent out after the attempt on Trump’s life.
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June 3, 2024
Essential Information For Understanding Why Trump’s Appeal Will SucceedAt every point in the trial, Judge Merchan violated Trump’s constitutional rights and ignored controlling law.
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April 30, 2024
Living with Climate ChangeClimate is always changing. Man has nothing to do with this simple fact.
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January 30, 2024
Grammar for AttorneysAn egregious legal treatment of the Constitution deserves a patriotic response.
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January 19, 2024
The Final Four Cases Against Donald TrumpThe American people intuitively understand that these cases are bogus, but here are some hard facts and legal principles to support that understanding.
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January 8, 2024
The Twists and Turns of Trump’s Legal JourneyA short briefing on the issues in question in Trump's legal cases.
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December 28, 2023
'Under the United States'...No, the Constitution does not provide the legal grounds for impeaching President Trump. Here are three reasons from the Constitution itself...
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December 18, 2023
A Republican House Can Impose Order On CollegesIt takes minimal effort on the part of the House to rein in the leftist mad houses that our colleges and universities have become, although it requires a Speaker with courage.
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December 16, 2023
Leftists And The ‘Imperial Presidency’Since the New Deal, leftists have consistently expanded government power, especially in the executive branch. Trump threatened all of that and still does.
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October 14, 2023
You Cannot Coexist With EvilThe Bible, history, and common sense all point in the same direction: Israel’s enemies are irredeemably evil, and no sane nation should put up with that.
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August 5, 2023
The Essential ImpeachmentSome say impeaching Joe Biden is pointless, but there are myriad reasons that impeachment is the best thing Republicans can do for America.
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July 1, 2023
Justices Thomas And Jackson Help Us Understand Judicial ActivismClarence Thomas's concurrences and Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent, which offer point and counterpoint in Student for Fair Admissions, provide the yin and yang of judicial activism and its opposite.
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June 27, 2023
Time for an Abortion Reality CheckBy demanding federal abortion laws, which the Supreme Court prohibits, Republican candidates are hurting themselves. There has to be a better way.
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June 19, 2023
The Republican House Must Make The Senate Offers It Can’t RefuseThe House has vast, unique power over the federal government, and it’s currently throwing that power away. Here’s how Kevin McCarthy can change things.
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June 7, 2023
Is Trump The Best Candidate For 2024?This is an important question to ask, one that needs responses based on facts not assumptions and emotions.
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March 15, 2023
The J6 Committee’s Obstruction of JusticeWe can’t punish the J6 Committee members for their lies from the dais, but they did something far worse. They concealed the evidence by refusing to let anyone but their chosen allies see it. They even tried to lock it up for fifty years. There’s a term for this: Obstruction of Justice.
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February 27, 2023
The Puzzle That Is Kevin McCarthyMaybe he’s not a hapless pawn of the Freedom Caucus; maybe he’s more Machiavellian than we realize, except in a good way.
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February 3, 2023
Are the Memphis cops in the Tyre Nichols case really guilty as charged?Applying Tennessee law to the video of Tyre Nichols’ arrest suggests that the prosecutors may have gotten ahead of themselves.
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January 7, 2023
There’s something better than the A-10 aircraft Ukraine wantsWarthogs are great but, right here at home, we’re manufacturing equally great, affordable, and reliable planes that Ukrainian pilots already know how to use.
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December 26, 2022
Kari Lake failed to meet a standard that is impossible to meetWhen it is impossible for a party (any party) to meet the required standard to obtain legal relief, there is no justice under the law.
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December 21, 2022
In Elections, It's Not The Votes That Count, It’s The Ballots That CountThe Dems have figured this out but there are ways Republicans can make sure the system is honest.
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December 19, 2022
Government Should Get Out of the Marriage BusinessDoing so would undercut the left’s sustained attack on religion while keeping the social and economic order that flows from marriage.
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December 9, 2022
Congress Can Make Special Prosecutors Actually Responsible For JusticeStarting in the Obama years, the U.S. Attorney General has too often used special prosecutors for political ends, but there is a way to change this status quo.
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November 14, 2022
Viewing DeSantis Versus Trump Through The 2022 Election FilterFocusing on the issues and campaigning to which voters responded is a helpful way to assess what will work moving forward.
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November 11, 2022
Tuesday Was Underwhelming But It Doesn’t Have To Be That WayIf the GOP correctly diagnoses the problem, it can change course and, as Ron DeSantis keeps showing, there is a path to victory.
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October 27, 2022
Is Fetterman’s stroke a legitimate issue?Some medical issues do not affect a politician’s ability to function. John Fetterman falls into an entirely different category.
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October 20, 2022
Fentanyl: The Untold Part of the StoryDespite fentanyl’s low production costs, a lot of people are getting very rich—but there is a way to stop the financial incentives for trafficking.
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October 18, 2022
Flood Insurance: A Modest ProposalThat headline is almost as dull as economics, but recognizing the malign influence of federal interference on our economy and environment is important.
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October 4, 2022
The Founders’ wisdom—and their warnings—are undimmed by timeThey tried hard to set up a system that would offset the worst of human nature, which always manifests itself near power.
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September 5, 2022
California Goes Over the EdgeRecent actions by the Democrats in Sacramento lead us to understand that there is no limit to leftist insanity.
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August 19, 2022
Truth Matters And Never More So Than With the Mar-a-Lago RaidUnderstanding the law and the facts is vital when it comes to removing yet another smear the Democrats are trying to make regarding Donald Trump.
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August 12, 2022
Elections Belong to the StatesGovernor DeSantis’s firing of Soros-backed rogue Andrew Warren should have us reexamining election financing.
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August 10, 2022
Donald Trump Must Be The 2024 Republican NomineeAfter what the Democrats have done, only Trump’s return to the White House will clean the Augean Stables and reassure Americans about the system’s integrity.
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July 10, 2022
While SCOTUS is at It, The National Firearms Act is Largely UnconstitutionalThe law is arbitrary and capricious and it gives the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives way too much power over an almost absolute right.
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July 7, 2022
It’s Really Time for SCOTUS to Put Restrictive Gun Laws to BedThe ideas expressed in Bruen must inevitably lead to reversing numerous unconstitutional tests imposed by various Circuit Courts.
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July 6, 2022
With its New Gun Law, New York is Just Begging to Get Slapped DownThe legislature has created a law that not only ignores the letter and spirit of the Bruen case but that also makes it impossible for anyone to have concealed carry.
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June 27, 2022
The Return To Constitutionalism Is Hidden In Plain SightIn its two most recent decisions, the Supreme Court did much more than just rule on the issues at hand.
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June 16, 2022
The Republican Party Is Preparing To Learn The Wrong Lesson This YearDemocrats espouse principles (bad ones) but can’t govern and, sadly, Republicans can govern but always fail to espouse principles.
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June 8, 2022
It’s Time for the Supreme Court to Put Restrictive Gun Laws to BedThe laws and regulations currently in place are arbitrary and capricious and, therefore, have no business hobbling our Second Amendment rights.
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May 28, 2022
Imagining life without any fossil fuelsActually, you don't want to imagine or, worse, live such a life, for it will assuredly be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
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May 28, 2022
A Series Of Critical Failures Led To The Uvalde TragedyLeftists want gun control and Republicans want mental health funding but it’s naïve to point to only one pivotal cause or moment when there were really several.
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May 23, 2022
Drain The SwampWith a simple majority, Republicans can still get rid of the federal bureaucracy oppressing American life.
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April 25, 2022
A Fix For The Regulatory StateTo understand how to fix the bureaucratic behemoth that controls life in America, it helps to understand how it began.
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April 7, 2022
Russian DiscontentLife in modern St. Petersburg helps explain why it matters domestically for Putin that the war is bogged down and causalities rising.
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April 4, 2022
To Save America, Ten (or Eleven) Point Plans Aren’t EnoughWe need a return to America’s core doctrines and Republicans must lead the way (because no one else will).
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April 2, 2022
Democrats Have Painted Themselves into a CornerAs I watch the Hunter Biden saga unfold, I’m reminded of a dog my family had when I was in grade school. It was a beautiful Irish Setter, and it loved to chase the UPS truck… until one day it caught it.
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February 10, 2022
One Way to Fix the Gerrymander ProblemIt would require a bit of creative architecture but it would also return our government to being truly representative.
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February 2, 2022
Why Donald Trump Should NOT Be the Republican NomineePresident Trump made every effort to keep his promises, but he lacked the killer instinct that would have allowed him to drain the swamp.
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January 21, 2022
On Crime, You Must Ask The Right Questions To Get Good AnswersA New York Times article about rising murder rates epitomizes how leftists start with assumptions and then work backward to reach their inevitable conclusions.
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November 28, 2021
Real bail reform might have saved lives in WaukeshaThere are several relatively easy steps to take to put the focus where it belongs: On protecting the public.
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November 19, 2021
What Kind of Game are We Playing?Until Republicans decide on the goals of this political game and start playing for keeps we’re playing a game we can only lose.
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October 26, 2021
Beating the Mandates in CourtCOVID vaccines do not fit the legal precedent for mandating vaccine usage.
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October 11, 2021
Why Is the COVID Case Count So High?The high number has nothing to do with the number of people actually sick from COVID and more to do with intentional inflation.
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October 9, 2021
Sen. McConnell actually did a good thing with the debt ceilingYes, from the outside looking in it appears that he sold out but he didn’t; instead, he did something clever.
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September 10, 2021
Is Afghanistan impeachable?If we go back to the debates over the Constitution, we find that impeachment of a president was not a controversial issue. It was widely thought to be a good check on a bad chief executive.
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August 7, 2021
Fraud alert!I've recently become the target of two somewhat unusual attempts at fraud in this electronic era. The Feds seem completely uninterested in them.
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May 18, 2021
Donald Trump Should Not be the 2024 Republican CandidateTrump sadly lacked some necessary management skills. There is someone even better in the wings and there are simple steps he can take to destroy the Swamp.
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April 27, 2021
Where to get straight newsThere can be no doubt that the drive-by media are pure propagandists. Where can Americans go instead?
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February 7, 2021
Taking another crack at campaign finance reformHere's an idea for Florida that could work everywhere. (Looking at you, Georgia.)
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January 8, 2021
Time for Trump to start the Great American PartyTrump is probably the only figure large enough to create an organization with the size and sway to elect officials committed to the idea that the people are the rulers of America.
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January 3, 2021
What comes next in these 'interesting times'?Welcome to war games: presidential election edition.
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December 26, 2020
It's for Mike Pence to Judge whether a Presidential Election Was Held at AllAnd he's the president of the Senate. So on January 6, what he says goes.
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December 15, 2020
Essential steps to retrieve GeorgiaBy shining a light on every step of the process, Georgia Republicans can force the election into the light, eliminating a lot of the fraud along the way.
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November 8, 2020
What the Layperson Can Make of Election LawElection law is neither criminal nor civil. It's a strange gray area. Here's an attempt to make sense of it, and what might happen with Trump v. Biden going forward.
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October 27, 2020
Trump: A Flawed ChampionWe have to choose based on performance, not on style. And Donald Trump’s performance has been good.
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September 9, 2020
The Tour de France goes off trackLet me count the ways that the decision to delay the upcoming Tour de France makes absolutely no sense.
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August 22, 2020
No, Joe's Health is NOT Out of BoundsThe United States cannot afford a president whose brain is operating at less than full strength.
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December 21, 2019
Impeachment: Tactics vs. StrategyThe speaker of the House is playing tactics, while the majority leader in the Senate is playing strategy.
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November 19, 2019
Can Dems go back to the future on Trump impeachment?The only tool the Dems have is a left-handed spanner that turns the dial from 2016 to 2020.
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November 17, 2019
Democrats are Serving Word Salad as their Main CourseDemocrats’ failure to demonstrate any connection between their verbal assaults and verifiable fact is telling.
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October 11, 2019
The Great TriggeringSwamp creatures sit in the dark recesses of government, quietly doing whatever they do. But when a tasty morsel floats by, they will snap at it like the ambush predators they are.
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October 5, 2019
A Way for Trump to Drain the SwampThe swamp creatures would really hate this course of action.
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September 4, 2019
The American Dream beats the Socialist Dream every timeCareful, rational presentations, while accurate, are useless against the shouting.
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September 4, 2019
Government should get out of the flood insurance businessPerhaps the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and other environmental organizations could be persuaded to take this up as an environmental issue.
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April 4, 2019
How May I Close the Border? Let Me Count the Ways.Because we have a policy that one foot in the U.S. grants you the right to legal process, it will be necessary to prevent feet from arriving.
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February 10, 2019
Some math to get the point across: The Green New Deal is insaneThis is the sort of stuff seventh-graders can figure out, but not our Democrat reps and senators.
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November 3, 2018
The Democrats' Leadership CrisisTo any thoughtful observer, it is painfully clear that there are two distinct parts of the Democrat plantation: the D.C. swamp and the useful idiots in the streets. The relationship between the two is intuitively obvious but seldom exposed.
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October 6, 2018
How to Prevent Another Kavanaugh CircusThe rules already exist. It's just a matter of following them.
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August 21, 2018
Brennan's security clearance has nothing to do with his free speechJohn Brennan leaked operational information about a spy in the al-Qaeda operation. Those acts alone should have resulted in the immediate revocation of his clearance.
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July 17, 2018
Why Do We Have Courts and Judges?With the Democrats in full scream over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, it's worthwhile to consider just why we have courts and judges.
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July 4, 2018
What is America?There are many things that make America different from the nations in other parts of the world.
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June 28, 2018
The Left's Alternate UniverseMost thinking people realize that the left is in an alternate universe that touches reality only at the point of violence.
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June 25, 2018
The Horowitz IG Report: Lies, Damn Lies, and StatisticsThe Inspector General listed a number of actions taken during the Clinton email investigation. If the investigation had been neutral, you'd expect that roughly half of the decisions would be in her favor and about half would be contrary to her.
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June 8, 2018
What the NBA Can Teach Justice KennedyNo plaintiff who raises a complaint out of a situation he has intentionally created when a viable alternative exists ought to have standing to sue.
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May 26, 2018
A History Lesson for the 'Trump Is Hitler' CrowdYesterday, I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. A new picture was driven home to me in a most forceful manner.
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May 11, 2018
Is Hillary Turning into Quasimodo?America is very fortunate that Hillary Clinton did not win the Presidency -- for many reasons.
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April 6, 2018
Starbucks in the Land of Fruits and NutsCalifornia's bureaucrats aren't up to regulating coffee as supposedly cancerous. But somehow, they've decided that coffee is guilty until proven innocent and are doing it anyway. Here's why they are clueless.
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February 21, 2018
Do We Really Love Our Kids?The concept is called "defense in depth," and it can save our kids' lives just as well as it saves lives in Israel's schools.
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February 9, 2018
Single Payer is Doomed Before It StartsThe Law of Subsidy has killed the NHS. It just doesn't realize that it is dead.
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October 11, 2017
The NFL Doesn't Know Who or What It IsEvery person has an innate need to belong to a greater cause. The same thing happens with devoted football fans.
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September 28, 2017
Educating Colleges: Free Speech Isn't FreeA modest proposal with surprising benefits.
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July 19, 2017
Charlie Gard Is the Face of Single-PayerEvery time someone in the United States proposes single-payer, throw Charlie Gard in his face.
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June 28, 2017
Democrats Insulting the Public with Dire Claims of Deaths from Obamacare RepealThe very idea that having health insurance is what allows you to have health care is simply wrong.
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June 7, 2017
Kathy Griffin reveals how the radical left thinksThe radical left has clearly lost touch with reality when it thinks we will act the way it does.
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April 25, 2017
Asking the Right Questions about Health CarePaul Ryan didn't ask the right questions – but neither has anybody else.
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April 22, 2017
I Was Fake News before Fake News Was CoolEvidently, "fake news" is in the eye of the beholder.
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January 23, 2017
The Filibuster in the Era of TrumpThe filibuster may seem a weapon of obstruction in the hands of Senator Schumer, but the minority leader may find himself in a trap of his own making when he uses it.
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December 15, 2016
Fentanyl is not a problem. Drug laws are the problem.Our drug laws don't materially reduce addiction to alcohol, tobacco, or narcotics. Instead, the risk premium they create leads directly to the perverse effect of more addiction.
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October 16, 2016
What if Trump is Right About the Women?The real fire here is Hillary Clinton. She is abusing a group of mentally unstable women for her own political gain.
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October 10, 2016
Why Hillary's sickness mattersThere is no way to identify when a president with PD became mentally incompetent.