A strategic choice of VP and a party unified in the battleground states, plus Biden's dismal record, might be all it takes to turn the 2020 map back into Trump's winning 2016 map.
Year: 2024
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When a Giant Crosses Your Path
The story of one man’s intellectual and personal friendship with Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, stretching across the last decades of the 20th century, and the lessons it might impart for us today.
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Don’t Blame the Patriarchy for ‘Barbie’ Snub
The Oscars have been a den of meaninglessness and identity politics du jour for so long now that it really shouldn’t matter who gets nominated and who gets overlooked.
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Odysseus Lost
A new novel suggests compelling and realistic ways of thinking about the problems confronted by returning soldiers.
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Texas Is Correct to Defend Its Sovereignty from the Border Invasion
The mass invasion now transpiring at the U.S. southern border is illegal, immoral, and unsustainable. Texas is within its rights to resist it.
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Black National Anthem at the Super Bowl—What Happens If a White Player Takes a Knee?
The first player, white or black, who takes a knee at the Super Bowl during the "black national anthem" will immediately have the league's bestselling jersey. As Nike says, "Just do it!"
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Winter’s Poet
Robert Burns, born on this date in 1759, holds no high place today among academics. His genius continues to elude them, yet his poetry lives on in spite of them, recited and translated all over the world.
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‘The View’ or ‘The Coven’?
A roundup of the woke oddities and mediocrities populating television’s most popular daytime talk show.
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Inside the Defense Department’s Anti-White Schizophrenia
The U.S. Military both needs and hates white men.
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Pro-migrant Dems Playing Russian Roulette with Our Safety
Allowing migrants—or anyone—to board airplanes without photo ID, and promoting ID cards that blur the lines between legal and illegal, sabotage us.
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The North American Meat Grinder that Used to Be the USA
Stories about immigrant workers being chewed up by machinery are used by today’s globalist propagandists to browbeat readers into embracing a world without borders.
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Blazing Brooks
Fifty years ago, a cry went out for a man with laughs. Mel Brooks answered the call.
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Will ‘Lawfare’ Take Trump Off the Ballot?
Democrats have led their supporters to entertain a fantasy of winning by disqualifying Trump rather than beating him, but the scenarios don't work, and lawfare only breeds strife.
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The Madness of King Joe
Six ways Joe Biden has demonstrated his affinity for authoritarianism and his corresponding contempt for the American people.
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Why Lenin Is No Longer Relevant
Today’s woke leftists would find the Soviet dictator far too muscular and manly to make room for him in their pantheon of girly government apparatchiks and petty tyrants.
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Gratuitous Grotesqueness in ‘Poor Things’
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things is now celebrated in Hollywood but, in truth, it is just another feminist revenge story to which creativity comes to die.
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After Iowa, It’s Time for Republicans to Rally to Trump
There is no honor in denying the undeniable. Donald Trump is going to be the GOP presidential nominee. The other candidates should go home.
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Trump’s Not a ‘True Conservative’—He’s a Winner
Amoral populism is the future, whether we like it or not.
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DeSantis’s ‘Participation Trophy’—Why Good People Don’t Run for Office
Ron DeSantis is a decorated Navy vet who served in a war zone and, among other commendations, earned a Bronze Star. So, how about a little respect?
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Our Government is an Unfaithful Spouse
We need a nation of citizen-activists who demand more from their government. The first demand should be simple: prioritize the needs of the citizens already here over those whom the government is recklessly pressing to get into the country.
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Chesterton and the Cowardly Cocktail?
G.K. Chesterton famously derided cocktails. Is there any hope for those of us who love both Chesterton and cocktails, or must we choose one and reject the other?
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Homeless People Do Not Have a ‘Right’ to Camp in Squalor and Invade Our Neighborhoods
SCOTUS is expected to overturn a Ninth Circuit ruling allowing homeless encampments no later than June, freeing municipalities to restore order and safety to their streets. But cities will have the political will to do it.
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At the Intersection of Love and Technology
No matter the advances in technology, filmgoers still long for the magic evoked by the plot device of an implausible lost love reunion depending more on fate than human initiative.
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January 2024: A Perfect Global Storm Brewing
The global mix is becoming volatile in the extreme. Dealing with it demands prudence, wisdom, and strategic clarity. None of this is present in Washington today.
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MLK Redivivus
Martin Luther King, Jr. did not bring the races closer together; and the legacy he left behind has been one of erasing more and more of our national heritage whenever it does not fit a progressively more radical leftist agenda.
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Can Miss America Restore America’s Faith in Merit?
Air Force pilot, Harvard grad, and Top Gun hopeful Madison Marsh was crowned Miss America on Sunday in Orlando, Florida, on a platform of hoping to dismantle stereotypes about women in the military. Through no fault of her own, her bigger challenge will be to restore America’s faith in merit and accomplishment.
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Will Africa Save America?
Conservatives are right to take heart from Christianity’s growth in Africa. Yet if the civilization that Christianity created in Europe and America cannot survive here, the prospects for Christian civilization anywhere are bleak.
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The Republican Party May Be Trying to Throw the 2024 Election in Key States
There are signs that the Never Trump faction of the Republican Party is preparing to throw the 2024 election in key battleground states to prevent Trump from becoming president again.
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The Executive Branch Is Deliberately Failing Americans
America cannot afford another four years of an open-borders Democrat administration.
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Against Political Clichés
Being human is something far more complex and beautiful than the habit of ideological repetition can show us. We miss that if we submit to the current morphing of reality in the service of clichés that condemn us to an inanimate fake life.
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Biden-Media ‘Insurrection’ Big Lie
The casual characterization of Jan. 6 as an “insurrection” is unjust and it appears to be creating a backlash, at least among Republicans.
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Fighting Intolerance with More of the Same
It’s a little late in the day to be discovering what cesspools of intolerance American universities have become. Suspending freedom of speech to please those who don’t want to hear anti-Zionist sounds is not the proper response.
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A Stand-Up Comic Stands Up for God: Evan Sayet Obliterates the Atheist Origin Myth
The humorless left long ago met its match in Evan Sayet. Now the comic is offering the same treatment to militant atheists, packing an intellectual punch with his wit.
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The Electric Vehicle Scam Grows
Americans with a sincere concern for the environment and with the concept of self-government should learn to restore an old car and drive it.
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The Folly of À La Carte Immigration Enforcement
America’s political leaders are obligated to enforce all the laws on the menu, whether they like them or not.
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‘The Sopranos’ at 25: A New World Tragedy
America hasn’t yet fulfilled Goethe’s call to find new sources for our stories—but we still have something to gain from the very best tales of knights, robbers, and ghosts.
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Trump, Biden, and the Sham of ‘Our Democracy™’ Laid Bare
As Joe Biden and the elites push a sham narrative surrounding everything from Jan. 6, the principles of American constitutionalism, and even the nature of “the people” itself, Donald Trump stands as a rebuke to them and exposes their hypocrisy and wickedness.
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Fake News Has Always Been a Thing
In re-airing the classic Absence of Malice, Turner Classic Movies reminds us of the sort cinéma vérité about unscrupulous journalism we rarely see from a Hollywood devoted to political leftism.
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Scenes from a Marriage
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro offers an artful examination of questions and contradictions posed by a marriage that was full of them.
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Claudine Gay Is Not a Martyr
The disgraced former president of Harvard University is representative of the DEI regime and the massive undertaking it will be to dismantle it.
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The Financial Black Swan is Already Here
The Biden administration brags that it has figured out a way to get the benefits of declining inflation while continuing to grow the economy, but in reality they are merely kicking the can down the road.
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Another Biden With Tax Problems
It should be no surprise that the president who constantly berates Americans to pay “their fair share” and who wants to send the IRS after more Americans has a family full of entitled tax cheats. Hypocrisy is the Democrat way.
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Why Are Americans At Each Other’s Throats? Ask Barack Obama
The man many Americans hoped and expected to be a unifier, from the beginning of his presidency until its end, played one race card after another.
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The Political Lynching of Derek Chauvin
Chauvin was accused of a modern-day lynching, but mob justice is what Chauvin received as evidence was withheld, expert medical testimony ignored, and even his safety in prison neglected.
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Free Health Insurance for Migrants Is Lunacy
In blue state after blue state, Democrats are pushing to give migrants taxpayer-funded health coverage. It's a knife in the back of hardworking Americans who struggle to pay medical bills.
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January 2024 Chronicles
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Remembering John Taylor of Caroline
John Taylor of Caroline was a man of the American Revolution in whom the “Spirit of ’76” informed a conservative approach to understanding the powers of government.
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The Empire State of Mind
Nigel Biggar's sophisticated history of British colonialism does not ignore the many benefits reaped by the recipients. His work is relevant to all Western nations, now threatened by faux radicals.
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A Conservative Self-Critique
The Up From Conservatism anthology contains some insightful, biting critiques of the conservative establishment, but its contributors are part of an elite class themselves, with their own sacred cows and taboos.