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Columbus Is Why I Defend ‘Wasteful’ Space Exploration

Columbus Is Why I Defend ‘Wasteful’ Space Exploration

Christopher Columbus spent years trying to find sponsors to invest in a risky and very expensive endeavor. He failed to entice King John II of...

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Linnea Lueken

Want to Save America? Vote!

Want to Save America? Vote!

It all falls to you, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trump supporters. The midterm elections on November 3 are essential for the survival of the country: The...

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Bradley A. Thayer

It's Time to Confront America's Insurance Monopolies

It's Time to Confront America's Insurance Monopolies

For decades, Americans have relied on competition in the insurance market to help make healthcare affordable. But in most of the country, competition...

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Joel White

We Must Embrace, Not Pause, AI and Data Centers

We Must Embrace, Not Pause, AI and Data Centers

China, Iran, North Korea and ISIS won’t pause their AI race. The US would be crazy to do so. China, Iran, North Korea and ISIS won’t pause their...

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Paul Driessen

The Victimhood Olympics: Charting the Woke Hierarchy

The Victimhood Olympics: Charting the Woke Hierarchy

If you catch a sound bite from any DSA political candidate or if you’ve spent five minutes on most widely used social media sites, you’ve probably...

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Jeff Davidson

Why 'Man in Arena' Trump's White House Never Stood a Chance at Fair 'Public Relations'

Why 'Man in Arena' Trump's White House Never Stood a Chance at Fair 'Public Relations'

President Trump recently stated: "We have the greatest numbers of any president in the history of our country, and I can't get the word out....

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Douglas Mackinnon

The FDA's Mifepristone 'Update' Wasn't One, and Women and Their Children Are Paying for the Delay

The FDA's Mifepristone 'Update' Wasn't One, and Women and Their Children Are Paying for the Delay

The FDA has been studying the abortion pill, mifepristone, and this week it had the opportunity to tell Americans what it has learned about the risks...

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Clare Ath

We’ve Handed Government Our Work, and We’re Paying the Price

We’ve Handed Government Our Work, and We’re Paying the Price

“Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” – James Madison  “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the...

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Mark Lewis

America Needs Permitting Reform — With No Gimmicks

America Needs Permitting Reform — With No Gimmicks

America has forgotten how to build, courtesy of a Byzantine permitting process that delays projects for years and often kills them altogether. A new...

yesterday 1

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Ej Antoni

Whistleblower Mass Email Exposing Alleged Letitia James Corruption Acquired by ACLJ

Whistleblower Mass Email Exposing Alleged Letitia James Corruption Acquired by ACLJ

Just over a month ago, we told you about reports of a whistleblower email claiming he’d been instructed to find crimes committed not only by...

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Jordan Sekulow

From the River to the Sea?

From the River to the Sea?

Hatred of the Jews is nothing new. Hatred of the Jews by American political candidates for major positions is new. For example, ABC4 News of...

yesterday 1

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Jerry Newcombe

Justice Is Finally Coming for the Fort Hood Terrorist Scumbag

Justice Is Finally Coming for the Fort Hood Terrorist Scumbag

Kurt Schlichter is back for another episode of "Stream of Kurtiousness!" Become a VIP member today to get exclusive access to...

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Kurt Schlichter

Five Civic Duties Beyond Voting

Five Civic Duties Beyond Voting

Voting is the first thing that comes to mind for most Americans when they think of civic duty. But civic duty means much more than simply going to the...

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Americans For Prosperity

Iran's Nuclear Deception and 24 Years of Warnings the West Chose to Ignore

Iran's Nuclear Deception and 24 Years of Warnings the West Chose to Ignore

For more than two decades, the world has been warned that Iran’s nuclear program was about far more than a benign pursuit of civilian energy. Yet...

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Struan Stevenson

Why I Don't Think Republicans Are Going to Lose the Senate

Why I Don't Think Republicans Are Going to Lose the Senate

CNN's data analyst Harry Enten said something interesting last week. He said Republicans have a stubborn habit of outperforming their September...

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Erick Erickson

Squatters Don’t Have a Right to Steal Your Home

Squatters Don’t Have a Right to Steal Your Home

In 1816, one of our greatest Americans, Thomas Jefferson, wrote, “A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we...

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Wendy Rogers

Institutions Are People Too

Institutions Are People Too

There are many analyses concerning the decline of international institutions like the U.N., and much of this analysis is well-founded. But it is also...

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Stephen J. Blank

The Vanishing Myth of the Gaza Genocide

The Vanishing Myth of the Gaza Genocide

I write these words from Poland, where 90 percent of Poland’s Jews — 3 million out of 3.3 million — were slaughtered during World War II. That...

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Michael Brown

A Quiet Change to Credit Scoring Could Open the Door for Millions of Homebuyers

A Quiet Change to Credit Scoring Could Open the Door for Millions of Homebuyers

For decades, one three-digit number has stood between millions of Americans and the front door of their first home: the FICO score. That's...

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Jared Whitley

How Populist Politics Succeeds and Fails

How Populist Politics Succeeds and Fails

Why is populism, broadly defined, on the brink of historic victories around the world, while populism in the form of President Donald Trump's...

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Michael Barone

News or Ad? Texan Ken Paxton Gets Barbecued by Broadcast News

News or Ad? Texan Ken Paxton Gets Barbecued by Broadcast News

Our elitist media love spreading the buzz when First Lady Melania Trump goes "missing" for a few weeks, but they haven't noticed Texas...

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Tim Graham

We've Forgotten What Made Us Great

We've Forgotten What Made Us Great

What is normal in societies that have gone mad? When I was at Harvard so long ago, I tried to imagine life at the university 300 years earlier....

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Alan Joseph Bauer

The Left Has Made It Harder to Execute Christa Pike. She Must Die Anyway.

The Left Has Made It Harder to Execute Christa Pike. She Must Die Anyway.

"Capital punishment presents moral questions that philosophers, theologians, and statesmen have grappled with for millennia," wrote Supreme...

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Josh Hammer

Genocide Hypocrites

Genocide Hypocrites

On October 7, 2023, Hamas killers slaughtered 1,200 people, more than two-thirds of them civilians, inside Israel. For the ensuing three weeks, they...

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Victor Davis Hanson

So Where Did Talarico Go?

So Where Did Talarico Go?

Where the heck is little Jimmy Talarico, the blasphemous imp who the regime media are trying to tell us is the anti-gun, anti-meat, anti-fossil fuel,...

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Kurt Schlichter

Senators Should Answer to Voters, Not Factions

Senators Should Answer to Voters, Not Factions

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said something out loud this weekend that many in Washington have long understood: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY),...

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Armstrong Williams

James Talarico’s Exploitation of Mental Disorders

James Talarico’s Exploitation of Mental Disorders

Everything about transgender ideology is a lie, so it follows that politicians supporting it are complicit in the lie, if not actively demanding...

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Scott Hogenson

What Rust Belt Voters Are Actually Asking For

What Rust Belt Voters Are Actually Asking For

Every two years, the Rust Belt gets rediscovered. With the midterms a month away, candidates in every competitive seat from Pennsylvania to Iowa are...

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Robert Ordway

It’s the Government, Stupid

It’s the Government, Stupid

All political eyes focus on the economy; they should instead look at government. The reason is that, if left alone, the economy does quite well. Yet...

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J.t. Young

A New Jersey School Board Thinks Parental Rights Stop at the California Border

A New Jersey School Board Thinks Parental Rights Stop at the California Border

On June 15, Ann Ciccarelli, president of the Board of Education for the School District of the Chathams, New Jersey, read a statement into the record....

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Jay Rogers

Cornell Case Is a Moral Failure

Cornell Case Is a Moral Failure

If you have been following the news from Cornell University, you'll know that a former student — identified only as "Jane Doe" — is...

wednesday 2

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Laura Hollis

Trump Administration Ends EV Mandate; Consumers Benefit

Trump Administration Ends EV Mandate; Consumers Benefit

In a far-reaching move, on September 28, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rescinded a rule enacted under President...

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H. Sterling Burnett

The Anti-Trump Media and 'Economic Pessimism'

The Anti-Trump Media and 'Economic Pessimism'

In a college psychology course, my class studied an experiment. This is an oversimplification, but the experiment went as follows. A group of college...

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Larry Elder

The French Are Toast

The French Are Toast

France is beginning its death spiral — and the events are its own doing. Did you ever have a teammate who you couldn’t stand? You know, the center...

wednesday 3

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Lessons From the Death of Jim Bakker

Lessons From the Death of Jim Bakker

In the 1980s, the media gave them the name "televangelists." These were men (and a few women) who preached a "prosperity gospel,"...

wednesday 2

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Cal Thomas

‘It Ought to Be Criminal’: American Border Ranchers Still Reeling From Biden-Era ‘Invasion’

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Heartlander News

Sophie Cunningham Is Hated by the Left Because She Refuses to Conform or Obey

Sophie Cunningham Is Hated by the Left Because She Refuses to Conform or Obey

Democrats hate reality for a very simple reason: it does them no good. Their beliefs, their strategies, their actions are all antithetical to reality,...

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Derek Hunter

The 2028 Race Is About to Start and JD Vance Has Already Won (Probably)

The 2028 Race Is About to Start and JD Vance Has Already Won (Probably)

We’ve still got the midterms to get through, so maybe it’s too early to talk about the 2028 presidential primary, but then again, why not? After...

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Kurt Schlichter

Have We Learned Anything?

Have We Learned Anything?

Last Wednesday, a co-pilot on a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv attacked his captain mid-flight with a crash axe, trying to seize the plane and put...

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Kevin McCullough

Climate Lawfare Cannot Rewrite Energy History

Climate Lawfare Cannot Rewrite Energy History

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel took aim at BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute, hauling them into federal court...

06.10.2026 3

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Vijay Jayaraj

Trump Wins Again Against Illegal Migration

Trump Wins Again Against Illegal Migration

The Supreme Court delivered another victory for President Trump on the issue of illegal migration on Monday. The High Court reversed a decision by...

06.10.2026 6

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John And Andy Schlafly

No, Leftists: A Wealth Gap Does Not Vindicate DEI

No, Leftists: A Wealth Gap Does Not Vindicate DEI

The radical Left has spent years insisting that racial disparity in American life proves the same, evil thing: America is systemically racist,...

06.10.2026 3

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Stefani Buhajla

Government Must Not Ice Mass

Government Must Not Ice Mass

In the late 1960s, one of my younger brothers and I shared at least one goal. We both wanted to send a ball over the wall at San Quentin State Prison....

06.10.2026 3

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Terry Jeffrey

Time to End Democrats' Lynch-Law Justice for College Boys

Time to End Democrats' Lynch-Law Justice for College Boys

If the investigation of the Cornell Seven results in indictments, they will be tried in a court of law where they are entitled to a fair trial. Sadly,...

06.10.2026 5

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Betsy McCaughey

Enough Is Enough!

Enough Is Enough!

Do you have the feeling that insanity is running rampant in the Democrat Party? Can they truly be taking a stand for policies that make no sense? Have...

06.10.2026 6

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Terry Paulson

The Hyde Amendment Turns 50 During Midterm Elections

The Hyde Amendment Turns 50 During Midterm Elections

As the federal government entered fiscal year 2027 on Oct. 1, we marked the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment's application to federal...

06.10.2026 7

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Star Parker

A Radical Rock 'n' Roll Concert for the Terminally Insincere

A Radical Rock 'n' Roll Concert for the Terminally Insincere

The radical rock 'n' roll leftists threw a concert in Maryland titled — what else? — the "Power to the People Festival." The...

06.10.2026 6

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Tim Graham

Zero-Track Mind

Zero-Track Mind

Some people base all of their views on a single defective principle. In 1989, I made my first visit to Israel. As part of a busy trip from north to...

06.10.2026 6

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Alan Joseph Bauer

When Cooperation Becomes the Problem

When Cooperation Becomes the Problem

That makes cooperation between federal, state, and local law enforcement more than a political talking point. It is a practical question of...

06.10.2026 10

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Joe Abraham

Trillionaires

Trillionaires

How much money should any one person have? When Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, people got mad. "He will own...

06.10.2026 6

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John Stossel