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Victor Volsky
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June 2, 2015
What's behind Putin's 86% Approval RatingIt's the worst kind of propaganda, and Russia is using it against its own population. Here's how it works.
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March 11, 2015
Birds of a Feather: Obama, the Left, and IslamWhat's the difference between the Islamist enemies of the United States and its radical foes of the home-grown variety as far as their attitude toward America is concerned?
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May 12, 2014
Benghazi conspiracy? Hell yes!What are the lives of a handful of little people compared to the lofty goal of saving the Obama presidency?
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October 31, 2013
Republican Opposition: a Flimsy ReedThe Republican Party by and large sings harmony to the Democratic vocals.
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October 30, 2013
Obama and the Willful Blindness of the Conservative Beltway IntelligentsiaCharles Krauthammer's formidable intellect did not suffice to see through the pretensions of moderation offered by Barack Obama in the 2008 campaign. There is a lesson in this incident.
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April 25, 2013
How the Left Thinks: It's All a GameChildren play their games by assigning the parts among themselves and devising rules which all players must obey, no matter what. Sound familiar?
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March 18, 2013
That Dirty, Rotten Racist...Abraham LincolnAre liberals willing to put Lincoln under the same microscope to which the ceaselessly subject the Founding Fathers?
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October 2, 2012
Barack Obama: Anticolonialist or Neo-Communist?Kudos to Dinesh D'Souza. He's made a much-needed splash with his brilliant film 2016: Obama's America. But his worldview and the United States have a different provenance much closer to home.
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September 14, 2012
The Real CulpritsConservatives are kidding themselves thinking that liberal journalists are well-intentioned naifs who simply don't know better.
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September 11, 2012
The Miracle of Human GoodnessAn uplifting tale on a difficult anniversary for the United States of America.
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August 27, 2012
Laying the Groundwork of Obama's Second TermBarack Obama has great plans for his second term: to bring his golf handicap down to single digits and finally beat the pants off John Boehner. Obama loves to delegate the more tedious components of his duties (i.e., work).
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August 22, 2012
The Herd of Independent MindsWhy are liberals totally impervious to any counter-arguments -- on those rare occasions, that is, when they actually deign to listen to the contrary views? The short answer: it's tribal.
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July 12, 2012
Is Mitt Manning Up?Watching the strange lassitude that engulfed the Republican presidential campaign around the Independence Day break, one couldn't help wondering: where was the Mitt Romney of the primaries, Mitt the Terrible?
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June 5, 2012
The Hillary Gambit: Will She Replace Biden?In a sign of increasing desperation on the left, speculation is rife that Barack Obama will kick Vice President Joe Biden off his team and replace him with that perpetual presidential wannabe, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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May 27, 2012
Gay Marriage: The Hidden AgendaDon't be fooled by appeals to emotion or sloganeering. The name of the game is deinstitutionalization.
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April 17, 2012
Obama's Smart Diplomacy DisasterReality has proven a little different from Obama's irenic fantasies through 2008. Let's go through some of this administration's "achievements" in foreign policy.
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March 15, 2012
Birds of a FeatherIs Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim? Considering his policies, what difference does it make?
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February 29, 2012
A Guide to the Liberal MindIf you believe that your choice of a car affects the planet's climate while sunspot activity doesn't, you are a liberal.
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February 11, 2012
It's Bush's FaultAs much as Obama loves this old hobby-horse, one thing in particular really is Bush's fault.
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February 1, 2012
Project Obama: A Puppetmaster or a Puppet?With not a single trait of a true leader in evidence, Barack Obama is not the engine of the radical-left juggernaut, but merely its hood ornament.
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December 14, 2011
They Mean Well. Really?For the life of me, I can't figure out why conservative pundits hasten to express their confidence that the perpetrators of liberal foolishness are "well-intentioned."
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November 28, 2011
Race: The Ultimate Weapon of the LeftDon't expect Herman Cain or any other black Republican to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote.
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October 19, 2011
Why Romney Alarms MeI like Mitt Romney. I do. In fact, how can anyone help not liking him? Why, then, do I cringe at the thought of Mitt Romney as the next U.S. president?
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September 26, 2011
The Bugaboo of the LeftWith the possible exception of that eternal bogeyman, Richard Nixon, nobody is hated by the left with such abandon; nobody is more vilified; nobody is targeted with such volcanic eruptions of insane hatred and vitriol as former Vice President Dick Cheney. But why?
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August 26, 2011
Hillary Clinton Redux?As the USS Barack Obama is running into increasingly stiff headwinds, the star of Hillary Clinton is rising higher and higher over the liberal horizon.
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August 13, 2011
The Democrats' Big LieThere are very few things the left is really good at, but one of them is propaganda, its bread and butter, the biggest arrow in its quiver.
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August 6, 2011
It Strikes Me As OddAs a refugee welcomed to these shores, I love America. But certain things about my adopted country puzzle me.
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July 30, 2011
An Innocent in AmericaIt's been quite a while since I came to this country as a refugee. Still I just can't fathom certain things about America -- or rather about American political attitudes. Chalk it up to a foreigner's innocence.
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June 30, 2011
American Leftism: An Infantile DisorderObama and his followers do indeed want to make America into a socialist paradise...they just have no idea how to go about it.
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May 6, 2011
Obama's Courage Vastly Overrated in Pakistan RaidIt is easier to believe in the tooth fairy than to suggest that the Pakistanis were totally in the dark
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April 25, 2011
Political Shock And Awe, PleaseEnough of meek protestations that today's seniors have nothing to fear, that all the sacrifices will be exacted down the road, from somebody else. What is needed is a straight-talker who tells it like it is.
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March 21, 2011
Obama, The Accidental PresidentFaced with a blatant display of indolence and indomitable refusal to fulfill the duties of his office, Obama's supporters are puzzled: What happened to the giant who bestrode the world during the election campaign?
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December 16, 2010
Why Do They Hate Sarah So Much?The one reason, above all, why Palin arouses such elemental fear and hatred on the left.
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August 18, 2010
Just How Smart Is Obama?Mindless sycophancy of Obama groupies aside, what gives his admirers the reason to believe in the incomparable intellectual faculties of their idol?
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December 17, 2009
On the BrinkThe radical left came to power this year eager to take advantage of the rare moment when all the stars were aligned in its favor.
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July 10, 2009
The Audacity of ConceitIntelligent idiots, smart fools, multi-degreed morons - lots of monikers could describe a category of individuals dismayingly prominent in the ruling elites of the West.
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October 5, 2008
Enough Already!I have just about had it with the conservative punditry and their plaintive wailings about the unfairness of the self-proclaimed "mainstream media"