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Thomas Buckley
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March 5, 2024
The Left and UkraineWould the progressive world be so rabidly pro-Ukraine if it had not been Putin who invaded?
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February 28, 2024
The Chinese fire drillGovernments the world over had a plan ‘in case of fire’ — and yet when COVID came along, they all just screamed.
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October 7, 2023
The Politics of Third-Party ValidationThird-party validators remove -- or at least distance -- the stink of a terrible or dangerous or illegal proposal or project or plan from the proponent. And they are very convenient things for the media to use when they try to be “fair.”
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October 6, 2023
Even the Bidens' dog is above the lawCommander bites people and gets away with it. Sort of like Hunter...
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June 26, 2023
The right to be paranoidWhy is it bad to think they're watching you when they're watching you?
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June 22, 2023
Dr. Hotez the COVID vaccine promoter chickens out of debate with Joe RoganThe medical doctor who can't stop shilling the COVID vaccines claimed that the free exchange of ideas from debate is not how 'science' is done.
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June 3, 2023
Let's take the whole 'misinformation' con and run with itIf leftists can go nuts with bogus prefixes, why can't we do it, too?
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April 19, 2023
Welcome to the cornfieldBefore politics, before debate, before discussion, even before thought, there is language.
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March 26, 2023
The equitarian churchWe do not, today, live in a society infused with traditional religion.
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March 23, 2023
Why a Flat Tax Will Never Get Off the GroundWhy do ideas like the flat tax die quiet, unceremonious deaths each and every time they come up? Two reasons.
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February 23, 2023
The plague of self-diagnosisMost doctors want to do the best they can by their patients and the community. Some, sadly, do not.
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February 21, 2023
The classics, edited for the sensitive readerThe woke "re-imagining" of Roald Dahl's work invites the discerning reader to decide how best to wreck other classic works.
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February 17, 2023
Science fiction predicted wokeness half a century agoA prescient novel laid out how things are going now...and how much worse it's going to get.
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February 13, 2023
The problem with ranked choice votingRanked choice voting is the answer to a question only a bureaucrat would even think to ask.
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January 8, 2023
Middle management in hellHow could a nation do the horrific things nations have done throughout history? God help us, we may find out soon.
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November 21, 2022
Outsourcing RobespierreWhat can we learn from the blood and terror of the French Revolution?
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November 6, 2022
Vote angry...and do it proudlyAnger can be a force for good, especially when it is targeted appropriately at people and institutions that are causing bedrock damage to the country.
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October 29, 2022
Why did an Arizona TV station say Hobbs won?Shortly after Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake held a news conference excoriating the local press for going heavy with her opponent Katie Hobbs's ludicrous attempt to tie Lake to a break-in at her campaign, the television station Lake used to work for aired a graphic saying Hobbs had won the election with 53% of the vote.
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October 27, 2022
How Fetterman could have avoided Tuesday's debate fiascoThe Fetterman performance was painful, embarrassing, and cruel.
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October 17, 2022
The LA City Council Debacle is not just about RacismThe LA Council scandal is about far more than race, as it has pulled back the curtain and shown the public how LA (and much of government everywhere) actually operates.
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October 14, 2022
The Jan. 6 committee: The gift that will keep on givingI thought this farce would end in September. But now it looks as though it's set to keep going...and going...
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September 20, 2022
The pandemic is dead — long live the pandemicPandemics are extremely convenient ways to impose societal restrictions that would be typically unthinkable.
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September 19, 2022
Dogs Bark, Wolves Howl: The Woke Demand to Be DomesticatedThe domestication process that turned wolves into family pets has served the dog well. It's worked less well for human beings.
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September 15, 2022
Eating Healthy is RacistSome foods take longer to kill you than others and racism and oppression and colonialism have exactly nothing to do with it.
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September 12, 2022
Trump 2020 vs. Trump 2024: The Differences to ExpectIf Donald Trump does run for re(ish)-election in 2024, some of the obstacles will be the same as in 2020. But some will be different.
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September 9, 2022
Maybe This Time, We'll Get Him!The usual suspects are back at it, but this time with even more vitriol and certainty. Surely, the end of Trump is finally, finally upon us!
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August 24, 2022
It's not really 'our democracy' at allWhen leftists use the term "our democracy," they're not talking about anything they want to share with you.
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August 15, 2022
When did being free start being bad?We're on a rapid, dangerous slide from dependency to institutionalization. And there's nowhere else to go.
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August 11, 2022
Enough is enough: Time to dismantle the FBIThe FBI has power because the people who give it money — or are coerced into giving it money — allow it and expect the favor to be returned.
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August 8, 2022
The Jan. 6 September surpriseThe Jan. 6 Commitee report is not going to get the Hunter Biden laptop treatment.
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August 6, 2022
Meet the Democrats Who Could Replace Joe BidenHere are the Democrat benchwarmers itching to itching to wrest that brass ring from Old Joe.
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July 29, 2022
The Transgender DichotomyHas the transexual movement already sown the seeds of its own eventual downfall?
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May 23, 2022
Dealing with adolescent transgenderismProjecting a sense of tactical indifference may be the most appropriate response.
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May 15, 2022
Put these four letters together, and you get a racist termOr the Racism of "anti-racism," part three million thirty-eight thousand and four.
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May 5, 2022
One aspect of the leaked Alito opinion isn't a mystery at allThere's an industry that reliably thrives on this kind of drama.
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May 5, 2022
Tomorrow belongs to NinaNote to Nina Jankowicz: Kafka's The Trial was meant to be a terrifying warning of bureaucratic dystopia, not a career blueprint.
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April 23, 2022
The Equity of the Culture VultureNo matter what you think of modern art, you’ve got to admire the speed and ferocity with which wokism has overtaken the publicly-funded arts world.
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April 17, 2022
The political advantages of nervous exhaustionHumans, being humans, tend not to make to make the best decisions in moments of panic.
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April 7, 2022
The other warning in Eisenhower's farewell addressEisenhower's 1960s warning about the military-industrial complex is more relevant today than ever.
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April 2, 2022
Since when did journalists become such babies?Taylor Lorenz, a person who calls herself a reporter, has – yet again – publicly demanded that people be nice to her.
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April 1, 2022
Breaking cancel cultureIt is the apology that drives cancel culture, because it encourages more acts of electronic subjugation, re-education, and humiliation.
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March 26, 2022
Why there’s so much internet nonsenseWhat does deer hunting have to do with the persistence of internet idiocy?
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March 8, 2022
When Corporate goes MarxistWould you hire a Marxist to help you find your company's next CEO?
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March 6, 2022
A word association game to understand COVID propagandaIf I say "follow the...," how do you respond?
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February 27, 2022
Slow Joe Biden picks the best cucumber he can findA grocery store analogy gets to the heart of Biden's intricate Supreme Court replacement process.
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February 19, 2022
Profiles in Porridge: The Squishy Political Rise of the Beta MaleAcross the Western world, we’re seeing the rise of skinny, over-educated, weak men who are given more power than they can handle.
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February 19, 2022
The new woke war on the very concept of 'freedom'Since freedom is White, and White is bad, freedom is bad.
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January 27, 2022
Will the United Kingdom's return to normal force Biden's hand?Even if the British experiment shows normal is the right direction, there are many pre-election considerations affecting how Biden eventually times his decision.
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January 24, 2022
Always someone left to lie to..."It takes two to lie — one to lie and one to listen."
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January 18, 2022
The Political Timing of the End of the PandemicThe Biden administration needs a very big win before November and what could be simpler and easier than simply declaring one?
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January 5, 2022
Seven Hours in January Was Not Seven Days in MayWhat occurred on January 6 had the exact opposite characteristics of an actual coup.
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January 3, 2022
2021: The year that was not my dogLast year was a lot of things — and, sadly, very, very few of them were good.
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December 27, 2021
Joe Biden, MarionetteJoe Biden’s recent Santa-related mishap may mean far more than we think.
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November 27, 2021
Happy Decolonization Weekend!If you take a hard look at America today, there are a lot of little changes we can make to do away with our imperialist attitude (satire, of course).
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November 1, 2021
Expertise blindness has irreparably tainted the COVID responseAs events in America show, looking at half the picture can be worse than not looking at the picture at all.
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October 27, 2021
The Tik Tok Tic and the Politicization of Medical CareWhen it comes to transgenderism, our medical establishment ignores all the rules it normally applies to other ailments that are trendy among teens.
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October 17, 2021
An American apologiaAccording to progressives, ordinary Americans are doing a lot of things wrong. This apology should cover most of those failings.
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October 5, 2021
We’re walking on eggshells…Whoa-oh…and it don’t feel good! (At least, not when trying to navigate our way through everyday American life.)
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October 2, 2021
Give Tease a Chant: The Public Mood Expressed Through SongIt’s the perfect amalgam of a name that works with a familiar chant rhythm and a politician people believe deserves the chant.
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September 24, 2021
The media invented a disease called ‘Trumpism.’Then, in the interest of “curing” an America afflicted with this disease, they did something much worse.
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August 26, 2021
Taking back the language around Critical Race TheoryThe leftists think they have us cornered by controlling the argument about CRT in schools but there is an easy way to reclaim the high ground on this one.
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August 18, 2021
The Rift Between Science and Religion?Maybe it's not as big a chasm as people think.
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August 2, 2021
They're Coming For You -- And Nobody's LaughingHow the AntiHa movement is destroying comedy.
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July 31, 2021
The Consistent Inconsistencies Of The Vaccination DiscussionThe left’s obsessive and almost random focus on shots and masks obscures some profound societal issues connected with them.
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July 27, 2021
The Many Guises Of The Totalitarian ImpulseIn the West, totalitarianism always paints itself as a beneficial and streamlined way to govern, so it’s important to understand what’s really going on.
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June 23, 2021
From Self Help to Societal HarmThe woke co-option of the language of personal improvement and therapy.
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June 16, 2021
The merits of meritocracy, the credulousness of credentialismThe people slamming meritocracy as racist and otherwise unfair have created a parallel universe that's equally problematic.
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June 11, 2021
Identity Politics' Destructive Influence On The NewsAlthough the cynically objective old-time reporter was always an overplayed stereotype, the identity- and class-driven modern journalist is real.
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May 31, 2021
The lab leak hypothesis and media complicityFor over a year, despite an absence of information and a reasonable existing hypothesis, the media had their story, and they were sticking to it.
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April 6, 2021
The Cult of SafetyBy worshiping at the altar of the safe we denigrate, delay, and deny the myriad possibilities for human advancement that are inherent in the concept of risk.