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Why the Babies (and the Voters) Might Be Moving Right

Why the Babies (and the Voters) Might Be Moving Right

Politics may be downstream from culture, but culture is downstream from cribs.  In the U.S. and across the West, who’s having children today will...

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Brian C. Joondeph

No Kings Protestors Fight for the Status Quo

No Kings Protestors Fight for the Status Quo

On Oct. 18, 2025 a second round of anti-Trump demonstrations under the banner “No Kings” occurred throughout the U.S., with several million...

yesterday 10

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Reid Fitzsimons

When Cease-Fires Become False End

When Cease-Fires Become False End

History has taught one stubborn lesson: the page that ends the fighting is not the same as the page that ends the cause of fighting. Armistices,...

yesterday 8

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Aaron Shuster

Inferno: Cashless Bail and the Collapse of Justice in Allegheny County

Inferno: Cashless Bail and the Collapse of Justice in Allegheny County

I began my career with Allegheny County Pretrial Services in April 2008. I was sworn in by a judge, issued a badge, and placed into a system built...

yesterday 7

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Kelly Rae Robertson

The Assisted Suicide Lie

The Assisted Suicide Lie

For my entire adult life, Americans have been sold the idea that allowing doctors to provide terminally ill patients intentionally deadly...

yesterday 4

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Trish Randall

Nuke the Filibuster? No, Thanks

Nuke the Filibuster? No, Thanks

The Democratic Party has violated too many norms of American governance. During the Biden administration, they unleashed the Department of Justice...

yesterday 1

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Arthur Schaper

Too Many Americans Want a Civil War

Too Many Americans Want a Civil War

The political assassination of Charlie Kirk continues to impact America.  Charlie’s conservative nonprofit organization, Turning Point USA, has...

yesterday 30

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J.b. Shurk

Trump as Br'er Rabbit

Trump as Br'er Rabbit

If you remember the wonderful Song of the South, Br'er Rabbit begs Br'er Fox not to throw him in the bramble bushes, knowing, which fox doesn’t,...

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Clarice Feldman

Michelle Obama’s Bigoted Book Tour

Michelle Obama’s Bigoted Book Tour

In recent years, former first lady Michelle Obama has embarked on several book tours.  The first occurred in 2018 when she promoted her memoir,...

previous day 10

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Jeannie Deangelis

Guess What: You’re Jewish!

Guess What: You’re Jewish!

Several years ago, my husband Steve and I were watching TV as an American politician of Hispanic descent responded to a challenging question by an...

previous day 30

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Joan Swirsky

The Beauty of the Nuclear Family

The Beauty of the Nuclear Family

In a world increasingly shaped by fleeting trends and fractured relationships, the enduring beauty of the nuclear family stands as a quiet miracle....

previous day 10

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Christian Vezilj

Who Will Protect the Christians?

Who Will Protect the Christians?

From Wikimedia Commons: Rome, from the Vatican (J.M.W. Turner, 1820) The story of Christianity, from its birth in persecution to its global witness...

previous day 10

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Lars Møller

Republicans Are a Tragedy; Democrats are A Disaster

Republicans Are a Tragedy; Democrats are A Disaster

As a political Independent, I read and listen to the full spectrum of information from left to right before deciding what to support, what not to...

previous day 8

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Michael Applebaum

The Red-Green Alliance Is Still Powerful

The Red-Green Alliance Is Still Powerful

We have been through a lot, and we are going through a lot. Getting President Trump elected was a great gift, and he has, as expected, done amazing...

saturday 10

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James Simpson

Are 80:20 Issues Fueling a Civil War on the French Right?

Are 80:20 Issues Fueling a Civil War on the French Right?

Knowledge that France is in a deep constitutional, financial, and political crisis is now widely recognized, not just within the country but far...

saturday 30

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Francois Siddiqi

Mamdani, Debs, and the Rise of Democratic Socialism

Mamdani, Debs, and the Rise of Democratic Socialism

Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City, quoted Eugene Debs in his acceptance speech last week. “The sun may have set over our city this...

saturday 10

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A.f. Cronin

Thank A Farmer

Thank A Farmer

With the fall harvest advancing toward completion across the nation’s breadbasket, early reports by the Department of Agriculture predict a record-...

saturday 10

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Chris J. Krisinger

Estranged Bedfellows: Politics and Assassination

Estranged Bedfellows: Politics and Assassination

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship” – George Bernard Shaw “Politics makes estranged bedfellows” – Goodman Ace A nineteenth-century...

saturday 10

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Caren Besner

In the Shadow of the Bataclan

In the Shadow of the Bataclan

From Wikimedia Commons: Arab Horsemen Carrying Away Their Dead (Théodore Chassériau, 1850) Ten years have passed since the night of November 13,...

saturday 2

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Lars Møller

Mamdani Wins! America Loses!

Mamdani Wins! America Loses!

A CNBC headline read, “Democrats win big on election night in key races” while CBS reported, “Democrats sweep key races”.  ABC says,...

saturday 4

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Richard Blakley, D. Padgett Blakley

Ursula von der Leyen Wants More Money

Ursula von der Leyen Wants More Money

While the German chancellor burns taxpayer money in the Amazon jungle to “save” the rainforests, his own advisor, Clemens Fuest, is warning of the...

14.11.2025 4

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Thomas Kolbe

How the Disinformation Industry Took Control of American Speech

How the Disinformation Industry Took Control of American Speech

  Censorship used to be loud. Books were banned. Newspapers left blank spaces where articles once appeared. Speeches were shut down with police and...

14.11.2025 1

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Mark Keenan

Disparate Impact Is on the Ropes

Disparate Impact Is on the Ropes

Nearly 100 years ago, Ernest Hemingway wrote that a character went bankrupt “Gradually and then suddenly.”  Likewise, the disparate impact...

14.11.2025 3

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Russell T. Warne

Zero Days Without a Democrat Crime

Zero Days Without a Democrat Crime

Another day, another Democrat found to be involved in some sort of fraud. I don't think there's a single member of that entire party who speaks the...

14.11.2025 1

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Kevin Finn

American Communism Must Be Eradicated

American Communism Must Be Eradicated

After the 2024 election, there was a vast right-wing clamoring for an inevitable realignment favoring conservatives.  Political gravity would force...

14.11.2025 1

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William Manning

Trump Redux Year One

Trump Redux Year One

Referencing Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Trump deserves credit for being the man in the arena striving valiantly to restore American greatness, defend...

14.11.2025 2

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Whitson G. Waldo, Iii

A Double-Barreled Shotgun for the GOP?

A Double-Barreled Shotgun for the GOP?

Starting next year, Republicans should campaign on two correlative issues: the social and political imperative of a thriving middle class --...

14.11.2025 2

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Tom G. K. Swift

Judicial Overreach Threatens the Republic

Judicial Overreach Threatens the Republic

Should America’s constitutional republic ever fall, the most likely cause of death will be its corrupt institutions. When citizens lose faith in the...

13.11.2025 40

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J.b. Shurk

Profanity as a Sign of Cultural Decline

Profanity as a Sign of Cultural Decline

“Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them ‘censorship’ and a violation of free speech and press.” —Goal No. 6, “45 Goals of...

13.11.2025 20

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Michael D. Giammarino

Marxism Never Changes

Marxism Never Changes

Politicians like Zohran Mamdani like to boast that they, like Obama, are the prophets of change.  In reality, they are puppets controlled by their...

13.11.2025 10

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Jeffrey Folks

Rationalism: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Rationalism: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be

For a period roughly coextensive with the Biden administration, the United States seemed to have transformed into a comprehensively ideological...

13.11.2025 10

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Brian Cabana

Rod Dreher’s Checklist on Groyperism

Rod Dreher’s Checklist on Groyperism

Social critic Rod Dreher lives in Budapest, Hungary, but was in Washington last week for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s meeting with...

13.11.2025 10

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James Soriano

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Mamdani Wolf? Not me!

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Mamdani Wolf? Not me!

I stopped counting the massive numbers of articles — both before and after the election of November 4, 2025 — that predicted the complete...

13.11.2025 8

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Joan Swirsky

In Praise of Hypocrisy

In Praise of Hypocrisy

“Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice gives to virtue.” That’s an aphorism that has fallen into desuetude, along with the word “desuetude.”...

13.11.2025 2

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Richard Kirk

New York Bleeds Out

New York Bleeds Out

The nightmare descent of New York City under Mamdani rule has begun.  Defunding the police, “free” services, and antisemitism are the tip of the...

13.11.2025 1

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William Levin