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Year: 2024
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The Chicago DNC Theme Was ‘Hope’—What About Chicagoans?
In a city where many kids cannot read and in a year when inflation is hitting poor urban families harder than almost anyone else, Democrats have the gall to talk about hope.
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Michelle Obama’s Trauma
The former First Lady’s DNC speech lamenting the ways of America’s racist, sexist red staters confirmed that she is just a champagne socialist with no chance at or interest in being elected to higher office.
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The Dating Crisis Is Really a Maturity Crisis
Excessive insecurity and widespread aversion to commitment are driving our country’s toxic dating culture off a cliff.
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DNC Roundup: What Did I Just Watch?
Democratic conventions are usually filled with soaring rhetoric disguising the party’s extremism. This year’s trainwreck is what happens when a party has no idea what they are or why they’re here.
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Reforming Bankruptcy Laws to Protect Workers
Any serious attempt to address societal income inequality must give compensation to employees absolute priority in bankruptcy over the claims of other creditors.
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Putting Policies Before Personalities
A candidate’s character matters, of course, but what matters most at this moment in history is which candidate proposes policies that will build a better America.
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Will Voters Settle for Joe Biden’s Understudy?
Harris is a more viable candidate than Biden was in his final weeks, but she isn’t prepared to be a better president—and Democrats know it.
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The Kamala Harris Hoax
The Harris honeymoon, like all the frauds perpetrated against Trump in the past, will be exposed sooner or later. The only question is whether that happens before the election.
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A Killing in Canton Points to the Dysfunction of Law Enforcement
What kind of system allows a single unproductive member of society to tyrannize an entire neighborhood?
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Rebuilding: New Tech, Old Principles
After draining the swamp, we need to ensure emerging tech serves the republic’s founding principles, rather than the interests of the centralized administrative state.
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Republicans Should Focus on Harris Rather Than Walz
It is obvious why so many in the GOP are reluctant to attack Harris and, instead, focus their sites on Walz. They deeply fear being labeled racist and sexist for attacking a “woman of color.”
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Family Feud: The Biden Crime Family Edition
Now that Biden is out of the 2024 presidential race, is Congress just going to pretend this is a game show and ignore the impeachment investigation they voted to advance?
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Republicans Must Make a Laser-Focused, Issues-Based Case to the People
If Republicans can successfully frame the 2024 election as boiling down to the actual issues—and above all, the economy, inflation, immigration and crime—then they stand a strong chance of prevailing.
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The Greatest Psy-Op in the History of American Electoral Politics
The ultimate battle between corporate and social media has been a long time coming. The outcome will decide much more than the 2024 election.
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Kamala Harris—In Her Own Words
The lowlights of Kamala Harris’s political rhetoric are quite remarkable.
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J.D. Vance is Both Right and Wrong about Kids and Cat Ladies
We should all be for the proposition that Americans ought to have more children, but the truth is that we may have our hands full with trying to improve the quality of the population we’ve got.
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How to Respond to Tradwife Envy
It won’t do to obsess with condemning the unreality of celebrity tradwives living the dream. Their popularity points to something fundamental about the human condition and it deserves a serious answer.
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Failure to Communicate
Recent weeks have exposed the American government’s relationship to its citizens as one devoid of trust or good will. In response, Americans must demand transparency.
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Donald Trump Has to Run Like It’s 2016 Again
Social media didn’t elect Trump in 2016, showing up in the flesh did. The contours of the election have shifted and that’s what Trump needs to do again to win in 2024.
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Prisoner Swap Exposes Biden’s Weakness and Puts Americans at Risk
For as long as weak administrations govern in the White House, we should expect more Americans to be taken, with ever higher prices for their freedom imposed.
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Sanctuary Cities’ Death Rattle Grows Louder
Americans need to demand more of their representatives and stop accepting the calamitous status quo regarding sanctuary and immigration policy.
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Allen Ginsberg, Pedophilia, and the Corruption of the American University
The fact that our educational and literary institutions do not recognize the corrupted nature of Ginsberg’s and other “artists’” work is evidence of their own corruption.
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Murder, She Wrote—and Lied
Kamala Harris fanned the flames of riots and refused to retract false statements.
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Now is No Time to Boycott the Olympic Games
It would be a huge mistake to make the games yet another casualty of the culture war. It will make little difference, and only deprive us of something unspeakably beautiful.
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Kamala Harris and the Civilizational Jihad of Democratic Street Thuggery
The fundamentally Americanist vision of governance confronts the fundamentally insurrectionist vision of anarchic mayhem in the person of Kamala Harris.
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A Postcard from Manchester
The horrors of immigrant violence and the reaction of the UK government to the outrage of its citizens ought to be a lesson for Americans.
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Let’s Make America Weird Again: J.D. Vance vs. the Left
If Vance’s record and achievements at so young an age constitute something weird, then let’s figure out a way to bottle this magic potion and serve it up to every teenager in America.
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Who Should Blacks Vote for in November?
If looking strictly at policies that best serve the interests of blacks, the electoral calculus may surprise. It’s not the party of the donkey or the elephant, but that of the porcupine.
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Barack Obama’s Ongoing Fundamental Transformation
The former president’s fingerprints are all over our current year of living dangerously.
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Kamala Harris, Hollywood, and the ‘Aaron Sorkin Democrat’
Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee means the age of the Aaron Sorkin Democrat may have reached its end.
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Parents Need to Reject Kamala and Tampon Tim
Parents who care about their children’s innocence and future, should not support Harris and her anti-parent running mate in November.
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Kamala Harris, Queen of Oppo Research
Harris’s ties to sketchy opposition research figures are well-established and her fingerprints linger on several significant “oppo” hits. What will this mean for November?
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Josh Shapiro Has Nothing to Lose on a Harris Ticket
Though he presents himself as a competent moderate, the Pennsylvania governor won’t skip a beat in dancing to Kamala Harris’s radical tune.
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Is Trump Running Against Harris—or Donald Trump?
Trump can regain the momentum he’s lost since the convention—but only if he defines Harris in voters’ minds, so he’s running directly against her, not his party, his allies and himself.
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Kamala Harris: Child of the Great Replacement
The putative Democratic nominee for president is a child of the 1965 immigration wave that put on trial everything about the America that came before it.
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Biden Is Not My President … Or Anybody Else’s
The ship of state is without a captain. The willingness by so many to put party and programs ahead of the best interests of the country is appalling.
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Mucking Out the Beltway’s Augean Stables
As Hercules cleaned the stables of King Augeas so, too, must we divert all our ingenuity and strength to removing the accumulated filth of the D.C. swamp.
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What ‘Black’ Really Means to the Left
Kamala Harris’s ancestry matters less to the left in defining her than does Harris’s consistently woke politics which, for them, is part and parcel of black identity.
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Caitlin Clark Against the World
Basketball phenom Caitlin Clark is despised by the woke leftists in her league not because of her privilege but because she is normal and they are not.
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The Right’s ‘Rocky’ Redux: The Tide Is Turning
The June debate between Biden and Trump was that Rocky moment when the opponent was sent bloodied and reeling back to his corner. But the fight is by no means over.
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Trump Turns the Tide with Blunt Talk About Kamala’s Identity
The forbidden truth of the 2024 campaign is that Kamala Harris is an unqualified, race-hustling phony. Donald Trump is the only one with the courage to say it.
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Donald Trump Is Our Era’s ‘Gray Champion’
According to the “generation theory” of history, an elder leader emerges during a once-in-a-lifetime crisis. At stake in the current crisis is whether America will continue as a constitutional republic.
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August 2024
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Polemics & Exchanges: August 2024
Thomas Powers and Jeremy Carl agree on the problem of anti-white racism but spare over the proper response.
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I’m Not Rejoicing
The secret is the Dems don’t have moderates. They march in lockstep and follow orders from the top.
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The Rule of Lawfare
Lawfare is the manipulation of the legal system to get Donald Trump. But more broadly, it's the use of existing law, in a manner not intended by its framers, to neutralize or destroy enemies of those in power.
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Slouching Towards the Gulag
The Trump “hush money” verdict should serve as a wake-up call to all freedom-loving Americans. If the best-known man in the world can be railroaded in a rigged kangaroo court, any of us could be.
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The Empire Strikes Back
Prosecutors pick the person or target and then go searching for the crime. Trump supporters are the latest most glaring example of this inversion of justice, which if often called "lawfare."
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Remembering H. L. Mencken
Critics have long considered H. L. Mencken to be impossible, meaning stubborn, difficult, exasperating. But today the appellation takes on a different meaning: His career and ideas simply would be impossible today.