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Putin Almost Blew It
None of what Putin said is new to those who have closely followed the sad saga of post-Soviet Ukraine, but the tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of people who will watch this interview because of the identity of the interviewer, are unlikely ever again to accept uncritically the standard narrative spewed out by Western regimes and their media lapdogs.
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Flannery O’Connor and Shadows of Evil
O’Connor understood the complicated relationship between tragedy and joy was related to the inevitable confrontation of good and evil. Freedom is embracing the metaphysical surrender to the knowledge that we are not the beginning or even the end of things.
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Michelle Obama Isn’t Running for President
Dropping Michelle Obama into the presidential race as the ultimate Hail Mary pass may be a fun gossip item, but the important thing to remember is that there’s nothing in it for her.
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It’s Time to End the Legal Fiction of ‘Asylum’
This strange worship of foreigners has been foisted on America in ways that are unnatural and utterly disabling.
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The Mystery of Thomas More
Why didn’t More simply flee when his life was threatened by King Henry VIII? Both his obedience to God and his patriotism forbade it.
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Who Paid the Authors of the Border Bill?
Everything we know about the so-called “bipartisan” border bill suggests that it is has been worked out at the behest of powerful interests that have nothing to do with the will or interests of the American people.
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Democrats Roll Out Welcome Mat for World’s Criminals
International crime rings are exploiting Joe Biden's open borders and heading to blue states with soft-on-crime policies.
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Democrats’ Big Gamble on the Border Crashers Will Pay Political Dividends
Even if the Democrats fail to bestow the franchise on illegals immediately, their beneficiaries do offer enormous near-term and long-term uses for the party.
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Is Taylor Swift Trouble for Trump?
Left-of-center social and economic attitudes are, for Millennial and Generation Z women, the closest thing to not having any politics: They are the path of least resistance—and least reflection.
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Abused Virginia Teen Gets a Second Chance at Justice While Democrats Block It
An interview with the mother of a sex-trafficked, gender-confused teen, who says that Virginia’s proposed ‘Sage’s Law,’ opposed by Democrats, would protect troubled minors and preserve the rights of parents.
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Shiny, Happy People
Like death, suffering is inescapable. It represents the burden of being. But too often today, Americans are trying to escape it with therapeutics and chemicals, neatly packaged as happiness in a bottle.
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‘The Super Bowl Is Rigged!’: An Intervention
To discredit the MAGA and GOP populist movement, the left doesn’t have to resort to disinformation if the movement is disinforming and discrediting itself.
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Is Common Sense Not So Common After All?
In their desire to overcomplicate the world and, perhaps, elevate their own value in it, researchers delight in telling us that common sense is not very common. Perhaps that would mean something if those same researchers had the common sense to understand what common sense actually is. But they don’t.
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The New Gold Rush—The American Border
What U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents really think about what's happening at our southern border.
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There’s Nowhere Left to Run from the State
If you think living in a reliably red state will protect you when the left targets you for punishment, think again.
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The Left’s Convenient Epiphany on Border Security
The anti-borders left will never truly abandon its plan to bring America to its knees through unsustainable levels of illegal immigration. It will only change its spots temporarily, repackaging itself as the solution to the problem it created.
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Yes, America Is Being Invaded
Though most of the migrants crossing the U.S. southern border are in search of economic opportunity, some are used as tools by our enemies. The invasion is deliberate.
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Europa Delenda Est, Part II
An assessment of the situation in Europe by the patriotic right in Germany and Italy.
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‘The Beekeeper’ Is the Hunter Biden Movie In Disguise
The Beekeeper doesn't deliver the red pill whole, but it's the closest thing we're likely to see on film about the corruption possible in the age of the deep state.
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Trump’s Map to the White House
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.
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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.