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Republican Political Failures In California

California’s GOP establishment has failed its grassroots conservatives for decades. A Colorado-style political overhaul may be the only way forward.

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Arthur Schaper

France Bows to the Reality of Its Debt Crisis

When societies drift toward central planning and state-run economies, only nuances separate political clownery from its disastrous real-world...

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Thomas Kolbe

Voters Didn’t Switch Parties. They Fired The Contractor.

Sometimes, the iron laws of economics answer all the questions.

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Raymond B. Jewell

Did JD Vance Break With Trump?

Vance’s post-election remarks on Iran, Israel, and the war raise an unsettling question: Was he merely explaining the loss—or positioning himself...

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Sally Zelikovsky

The War For Freedom Is Just Beginning

The midterms were one battle of a much bigger war.

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J.b. Shurk

We Were Wrong

Republicans should have been hammering home every single day how their policies had actually made things more affordable, such as tax cuts for working...

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Kenneth R. Timmerman

Trump Is Still President

,,, and he still has an oppositional Congress.

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Brian C. Joondeph

The Feminization Of America

The women’s rights movement moved from Constitutional ideas to an experiment in unintended consequences.

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Allan J. Feifer

Insights Of A Desert Warrior

Lawrence of Arabia and the imperative of courageous realism.

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Lars Møller

America Has Welcomed the Trojan Horse

And we’re going to pay the price.

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Maryann Diorio

How Republicans Lost The Senate, And What It Could Cost Them

This was more than the usual midterm penalty for the party in power.

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Josh Kantrow

Slow Learners

Americans, as brilliant and insightful as we like to think we are, can be so dead wrong about the real-world consequences of something like sexual...

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Paul E. Scates

Democrats (In And Out Of The Media) Live In A Fantasy World

Unfortunately, feckless Republicans made it possible for them to win.

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Jack Hellner

The Character Of Freedom

A free society cannot survive when its citizens surrender the responsibilities that make freedom possible.

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Luis Gonzalez

Election Scheming, From Joseph Stalin To The Democrats

There’s a very important lesson to be gleaned here, with history as our teacher.

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D. Padgett Blakley

What Happens When AI Makes It Possible To Build A New Civilization?

Imagine a civilization where nobody has to convince anybody else how society should work.

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Kyle McClay

What’s Next For Trump And Republicans?

Donald Trump, throughout his careers in business and politics, has proven time and again that when knocked down, he has the resilience to get up,...

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J. Robert Smith

The Internet’s Hidden Weakness Detected by AI

The next cyberattack against an American company may not begin with a suspicious email, a stolen password, or a hacker manually probing a network.

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Julio Rivera

A Requiem for the Midterms

Defeats often turn into victories.

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J.b. Shurk

How Moral Relativism Ushers in Moral Repression

Pro-abortion feminists who vote militant Muslims into power shoot themselves in the foot.

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Jeannie Deangelis

John Thune (A Lot) And Donald Trump (Somewhat) Drove Tuesday’s Outcome

Yes, there’s a lot of blame to go around, with John Thune bearing much of it, but Trump is not free of responsibility.

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Ted Noel

The Miracle Vitamin That Modern Science Refuses To Re-Examine

How much of this common vitamin are you supposed to get? The medical system’s answer is hopelessly off base.

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Jeff T. Bowles

Where The Hammer Sleeps

Saint-Denis, the red-green alliance, and the soft conquest of Christian France.

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Lars Møller

The Lost Daughter Of Cornell

One psychotherapist’s opinion on Jane Doe’s motivations and identity.

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Deborah C. Tyler

Welcome To Waterloo, Mr. President

If we are to have any hope of reversing course in 2028, now is the time for candor, not pride.

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Michael C. Hurley

Paranoid Or Prescient?

The midterm elections may signal a disastrous turn toward antisemitism in America.

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Susan Quinn

An Israeli-American Female Journalist Noted For… Having A Pair!

Caroline Glick takes European nations to task for being the same, cowardly states that turned away from the Jewish suffering of the 1930s.

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James Zumwalt

The Cuban Vote Saved Florida

Florida offered our families something the old country could no longer provide: a future.

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Luis Gonzalez

What Kind Of Person Is Ilhan Omar?

This woman should be kissing the American ground she walks on for gratitude. What we get instead is despicable.

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Chris J. Krisinger

The Time Is Now For Republicans To Rally Around Trump

Republicans must stay unified around Trump’s policies or, assuredly, they will all be subpoenaed, show-trialed, and de-personed separately.

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Joseph Ford Cotto

You Tell ’Em I’m Coming—and I’m Bringing Hell With Me

Will we get the Donald Trump we deserve after Tuesday's bloodbath?

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Vince Coyner

No Time to Grieve

Before Democrats take over, Congress should cancel the recess, do a 60-day sprint, and execute Trump’s playbook through 2028.

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Judd Dunning

Multiculturalism Must Die

The war over American inheritance.

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Cole Ellison

Passively Accepting Defeat Is Not The American Way

George Washington set the American template: We do not give in to despair. We fail, learn, return, and eventually win.

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Andrea Widburg

Congratulations Democrats. Now What Do You do?

What possible good can come from a party driven by ten years of raw hatred?

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Christopher Knight

American Elegy

The ramifications are staggering, tragic, and universal … and not just for the U.S.

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Eric Utter

The Affordability Illusion

An entire generation can experience higher living costs while simultaneously making lifestyle choices that increase those costs.

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Luis Gonzalez

Federal Reserve Rate Setting: Bankers Love It, But The People Don’t

That’s because of the Cantillon Effect, a 271-year-old economic observation about how money and pricing decisions move through the marketplace.

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Raymond B. Jewell. Ph.d

Dealey Plaza: An Unintended Memorial

Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas was never meant to be a place of controversy.

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Dan Bell

The Media’s Propaganda Machine Is Malfunctioning

Your brain is the battlefield.

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J.b. Shurk

The Truth About Jews And Immigration

Leftist Jews may have tried a little too hard to ‘repair the world.’

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August Harriman

When A Warhawk Is Actually A ‘Peace-Monger’

The price of war is high, but the price of passivity in the face of nation-destroying evil is invariably higher.

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Allan J. Feifer

What Are They Preparing Us For?

Governments are warning their citizens. The Pentagon is preparing for prolonged disruption. Military activity is intensifying. Are we paying...

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Luis Gonzalez

Civilization On Thin Ice

The precarious veneer of human order and the specter of collapse.

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Lars Møller

Before the Brewers Were Champions, They Were the Seattle

Milwaukee’s first World Series championship is also an occasion to remember the unlikely pioneers who brought baseball back to Wisconsin.

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Will O'Toole

Will Midterms Release The Real Frankenstein?

The Democrats’ position is clear: control at all costs, even if the price is our country.

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James Zumwalt

Spain Is A Socialist Dictatorship

If Americans do not want to see their country become another nation drifting toward twenty-first-century socialism, the lesson is right before their...

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W. Galt

Iran’s Children Do Not Belong To The Regime

From classrooms to checkpoints, Tehran is recruiting for its survival; Washington should understand the consequences.

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Hamid Enayat

Do Not Call Me ‘African American’: Why Self-Identification Matters

Descendants of American Freedmen are increasingly asking whether they should be afforded the same right granted to other ethnic communities: the right...

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Mustafaa S. Muhamed

British Columbia’s Conservative Earthquake Shakes Canada’s Political Landscape

Conservatives score historic win in most left-wing province

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Arthur Schaper