Despite the increasing volume on both the right and the left of calls for a constitutional convention, the solution to our problems is not to change the Constitution or even throw it out, but to obey it.
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Emboldened Global Jihad Is Final Nail in Coffin of Mass Migration Delusion
Open-borders dolts who have peddled the insane notion that "all cultures are equal" bear much of the blame for rising anti-Semitism.
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Moral Reckoning in ‘The Masque of the Red Death’
Edgar Allen Poe’s famous short story is a memento mori reminding us that we must one day face our Creator.
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Democrats’ Noncitizen Voting Scam
Across the country Democrats, like New York City Mayor Eric Adams, are pushing for the disaster of allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections.
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The Conservative Double Standard for Collective Responsibility
Conservatives who condemn the Palestinians for voting Hamas into power don’t apply the same standard to American minorities who vote for Democrats.
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Israel’s Lesson for 2024: A Liberal Crackup
The new New Left has the potential to spark a civil war among progressives, especially as causes like Black Lives Matter and anti-police policies entwine with "anti-colonial" and anti-Israel ideology.
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Caring More for Palestine than East Palestine
Even in Ohio, it seems the activists motivated to get out in the streets are more concerned for people in faraway destinations than those in their own backyards.
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Israel, Hamas, and the Death of Liberalism
The bill is coming due for the West’s complacency in believing in that its special inheritance is easily transferable to any and all who arrive from the Third World
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The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes
In Sidney Lanfield’s 1939 production of The Hound of Baskervilles, we have a perfect ghostly reflection for spooky October viewing.
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Steeped in Islamic Orthodoxy, Hamas Is Israel’s Permanent Enemy
It is necessary to be aware of the ambitions of political Islam and to harbor no illusions about its goals.
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Why Henry Kissinger’s Epiphany on Border Security Matters
America desperately needs to exchange activist-inspired utopian thinking on immigration for a healthy dose of Kissinger-style realpolitik.
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Down With Del Marxists
Elites who live in wealthy communities like Del Mar pose as revolutionaries and preach fellowship with the disenfranchised while holding America’s underclass in contempt.
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Israel’s Strategic Dilemma
Israel will face an impossible strategic situation if it enters urban warfare in Gaza. Far from being a sign of weakness, exercising restraint in the face of Hamas’ provocations is the sound and politically profitable course of action.
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Liberals’ Dilemma: Immigration or Israel?
American internationalism was shaped by the national origins of Americans themselves, so it’s not surprising it shifts with shifts in those origins.
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The Faustian Bargain of Dorian Gray
Albert Lewin’s 1945 film, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is the perfect selection for this season of reflection about our mortality and the virtues we need to cultivate to make life worth living.
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Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness … Unless Talking About Trump or His Foreign Policy
Too many very public Christians in politics seem to have a problem honoring the ninth commandment when it comes to Trump, his supporters, and their foreign policy preferences.
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Why Bidenflation Defines Bidenomics
Bidenomics holds little hope of saving Biden, no matter what happens next.
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Pursuing Ethnic Blocs Stupidly
In responses to the Hamas attacks, conservatives again demonstrate inept attempts to imitate the left’s shameful and divisive appeals to ethnic blocs. In abasing themselves to pursue special voting blocs, these conservatives adopt a bad principle and a clumsy and embarrassing strategy.
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Shock and Awe by Hamas
This weekend’s unprecedented attack on Israel from Hamas exposes weaknesses in intelligence, fault lines in ongoing efforts to maintain stability and peace in the broader Middle East region, and potential dangers ahead for all parties.
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It’s Time to Change Our Constitution
Conservative reluctance to change the Constitution cedes ground to the left and allows the progressive drift of the nation.
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We Can’t Vote Ourselves Out of This: Organizing a Middle American Resistance
The American right needs a Middle American resistance united in its focus on internal secession and self-government, one that does not rely on national politics or bet on political saviors.
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Biden’s Shameless Hypocrisy on Migrant Family Separations
Team Biden is going to great lengths to conceal data on the high and growing number of family separations occurring at America’s southern border, which have resulted from their bad policy and are happening on their watch.
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Gaetz’s Rebellion Against McCarthy Is a Rational Response to the Fiscal Emergency
The historic rebellion of Congressman Matt Gaetz and other Republican fiscal hawks against their own House leadership was a necessary move in the face of a financial crisis in the making.
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Oh, Canada!
Canada’s government and its premier, Justin Trudeau, betray their true nature in the blunders of the past few weeks.
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Will Gavin Newsom Copy Trump?
Gavin Newsom now assumes the same role within his party that Donald Trump assumed within the GOP back in 2015. It remains to be seen how closely this charismatic deal maker will follow the Trump game plan.
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The Missed GOP Debate Opportunity
The Republican Party keeps looking back at Reagan without considering what has changed since Reagan. This results in missed opportunities for the GOP.
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‘Hood Justice’ in Ohio
Three black men involved in the brutal death of a white teen in Ohio walked away with slaps on the wrist, calling into question whether equal justice under the law still exists for whites in America.
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Biden’s a Loser–but Democrats Can’t Ditch Him
Joe Biden is going to lose to Donald Trump in '24. Democrats can see this but there is little they can do to stop it.
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John Fetterman’s Slovenliness and the Demise of Objective Social Standards
The Senate is defining its standards down to meet the demands of a single mentally defective boor who lived off his parents until he was nearly 50 and still cannot bring himself to dress and act like an adult.
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Do Sex Scandals Matter?
Trump, Boebert, Gibson—or any candidate—might have moral character flaws, but candidates who are personally objectionable are often politically indispensable.
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Inherited Traditions Are More Credible Than Natural Rights
Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried explains why the moral and legal foundations of America are found in religion and custom, not Enlightenment natural rights, which can be interpreted ever-leftward and lead to intolerance and aggression.
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Defending Natural Right
Government on the basis of tradition and biblical morality is no longer possible in modern times, Michael Anton argues; our choices are either a rational morality independent of man's will, or nihilism.
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Hunter’s Gun Indictment Is Moment of Truth for Biden Regime
The Biden Regime's handling of the Hunter indictment will tell us whether we actually have a two-tier justice system as conservatives claim.
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Cornel West Spells Doom for Biden
Cornel West is setting the stage for a replay of 2000 when Ralph Nader peeled off enough votes to cost the Democrats the White House. West's appeal, like Nader's, is a sign of a larger problem facing the Democratic party.
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What We Are Reading: September 11, An Oral History
The agony of this story is close to unbearable, but we recall atrocities in order to respect those souls who were ripped out of this world and sent into the next.
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‘Bidenomics’ Gaslighting Reveals POTUS’s Impotence Lead-Up to 2024
Joe Biden and his cackler henchwoman, Kamala Harris, will run on "Bidenomics." And they will ask you not to believe your own lying eyes, but to believe that the turd sandwich they are offering up is actually a tasty filet mignon.
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Ramaswamy: A Trump Versus Trump?
Trump wasn't on stage in Milwaukee, but Trumpism was, thanks to Vivek Ramaswamy. Will Ramaswamy take votes from establishment candidates, or from Trump himself?
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The Paths Forward for the GOP Presidential Field
There is truly only one person around whom a GOP consolidation might be feasible, and he happens to be the de facto winner of Wednesday's debate.
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The GOP Primary Obviously Isn’t Over, but the First Debate Is Crucial
If one is to believe the prevailing narrative from Donald Trump’s current campaign to retake the White House, the 2024 Republican presidential primary might as well be over. The former president has been consistently dominating the top-line horse race polling for months now, the argument goes, despite (or perhaps because of?) the fact he has...
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How America Kills Its Own
America is a worse place for the 50,000 men and women we lost to suicide last year.
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War in Ukraine: U.S. Analysts Sink to New Depths
The topic of Ukraine brings once-reputable journals and senior analysts down to the level of propagandistic hacks. A particularly egregious example was recently published in an online edition of Foreign Policy.
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They Don’t Just Hate Trump. They Hate You!
The left—and the establishment GOP—want all Trump’s supporters to live in fear that they’ll share the fates of the January 6 defendants, of Jake Gardner, of Ashli Babbitt, of Kyle Rittenhouse, and all the other uppity proles who dared to disobey their supposed betters.
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Armenians in Peril, Again
The ongoing war between Azerbaijan and Armenia threatens the existence of Christian communities in the Near East. The Biden White House is unlikely to intervene in any way for fear of losing support from Turkey.
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Warren Harding’s Real Scandal Was His Conservatism
Warren Harding is overlooked as one of America's best presidents, not because of scandals, but because he was an unpretentious peacetime president who made America normal again.
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Hunter’s Plea-Deal Implosion Reveals the Justice Department’s Deception
The Justice Department's attempt to avoid public scrutiny of the sweetheart plea deal it gave to Joe Biden's son, Hunter, has blown up in its face.
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Geographical Diversity May Be The Next Affirmative Action Trojan Horse
Affirmative action advocates aren't likely to stop trying to implement their racial politics even after the Supreme Court's decision. A "geographical diversity" law in Arkansas may be the model for the left's next move.
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Demography Destiny, for Us and China
Population matters, but continuity of character matters more. Without that, a nation ceases to be.
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Following Affirmative Action’s Demise, Slay the DEI Leviathan
Following the Supreme Court's overturning of higher education affirmative action, there have been a rapid succession of righteous pushbacks against the academic commissars who collectively comprise America's DEI regime.
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Blame Bob Hope
The Democratic Party's realignment with big business was engineered by former DCCC Chairman Tony Coelho, once a lost young man before comedian Bob Hope took him under his wing.
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The Frontrunner Who Looks Like a Loser Is Biden
Democrats don't want to lose next year, but they have to play the hand they dealt themselves.