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David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico

If you remember in Anchorman when Brick says he loves lamp, and Ron Burgundy asks him if he's just calling out the names of things he sees in the...

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Blue State Failure Is Destroying Federalism And The Constitution

Washington, D.C., is now in charge of making sure that dogs in Los Angeles aren't mistreated.

06.03.2026 4

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Senate Debate On Iran War Turns Into Senile Men Shouting At Sky

If the United States Senate can figure out who's responsible for all these unfortunate wars over the last couple of decades, somebody's really gonna...

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The Texas Primaries Just Ended A Bunch of Jerry Springer Episodes

The primary elections in Texas this week may bring us closer to the daily heartburn of a Sen. James Talarico, endlessly sermonizing on the biblical...

04.03.2026 6

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California’s Dying Bullet Train Is A Preview Of A Newsom Presidency

California's high-speed rail project, approved in 2008 and under construction since 2015, is running out of money and time, while failing.

04.03.2026 4

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The Iran Attack Presents A Series Of Reality Checks For The World

American military power is unrivaled, while Europeans and Canadians give speeches about shoving the American military aside and becoming rival powers....

02.03.2026 10

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Weirdly, A City Full Of Insane Actual Communists Is Experiencing A Financial Crisis

Blue states, and blue cities, have gone floridly and relentlessly insane. There is no problem they can solve.

26.02.2026 2

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Abigail Spanberger Is Playing Blindfolded Darts With Her Lame SOTU Response

As she finishes this dark, threatening message, she's smiling again.

25.02.2026 7

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Obtuse GOP Politicians Are Pretending The Courts Will Save Us

There is no evidence of any kind that Supreme Court rulings will stop government from continuing to get much bigger. This kind of make-believe is...

24.02.2026 3

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Gavin Newsom Is Playing A ‘Trump’ Character He Doesn’t Understand

Newsom and his communications team see the form: Trump insults people and he's rude, so he won the presidency, so being rude and insulting wins the...

24.02.2026 3

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California Democrats Pile Out Of Clown Car At Their Convention

An all-you-can-eat buffet of free stuff and Trump sucks represented the ideological substance of California's late-AWFL Khmer Rouge party.

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America Slides Into A Congress-Shaped Hole, And Gorsuch Helps

Our discussion, in media and in law, has been about Trump's excesses and boundary-crossing. A better starting place would be the laziness and...

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God Requires You To Agree With Democrats, Democrats Announce

People who live by the assumption that all faith is a meaningless and expedient surface posture can't speak to people who have actual faith.

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While Democrats’ Anti-ICE Fury Escalates, Americans Show They Want Immigration Laws Enforced

As protests and riots against ICE grow more common, formal state and local cooperation with ICE grows far more common.

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Attacking America Abroad, Hillary Clinton Is The Eileen Gu Of Politics

Hillary was the vessel into which Europeans could pour their refusal to accept American political change.

17.02.2026 5

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The Nixon Library Is Wrong About Nixon And The Deep State

The new revelation about Nixon 'bears directly on allegations by President Trump and his supporters about the existence of what was once called the...

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The ICE Drawdown In Minneapolis Is Probably A Surge To California

The Department of Homeland Security has been rapidly growing its footprint across the country, but California is high on the list of new and expanded...

13.02.2026 150

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Democrat Fanatics Embrace Trans Madness Like Ahab Chasing That Whale

Trans people, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., declared this week, 'hurt absolutely no one.'

12.02.2026 6

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California Is Teaching America How To Destroy Itself

People running for elected office to govern the state promise an unbroken flood of new spending, while people holding elected office and governing the...

11.02.2026 2

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Canada’s Mark Carney Can’t Even Challenge American Hegemony Without American Help

Canada's brave new challenge to American military power requires American weapons and technical support.

10.02.2026 10

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The Trump Administration Defeated The ‘Seditious Six’ By ‘Going On Offense’

The 'Seditious Six' called for a mutiny, and the administration decided to 'go on offense and make them tap-dance a little.'

10.02.2026 7

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A Viral Video Shows How The Left Coerces Fake Agreement

You’ve probably seen the video making the rounds today of the “Peak AWFL” meltdown in a Minneapolis yoga studio. You can see a bunch of obvious...

07.02.2026 20

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Democrats Hate Anyone Who Doesn’t Love Crime And Fraud As Much As They Do — Even Leftists

The first rule of Democrat Club is that you aren't supposed to mention the fraud and the grift.

06.02.2026 3

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Stalled Battle Against Woke Science Shows Trump Can’t End The Entire Deep State By Himself

For Trump, the problem at the NSF is the problem in the entire government. Do the agencies carry out the president's directives?

05.02.2026 3

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California Catholic School Desecrated In Reported Burglary

A TK-12 Catholic school in Long Beach, California, has suffered major damage after vandals destroyed religious icons in an attack between Sunday night...

04.02.2026 8

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What I Saw At An Anti-ICE Riot Proved The Hysteria Is Totally Fake

I went to a minor riot this Saturday in Downtown Los Angeles, but I kept running into routine life on the way to the uprising.

02.02.2026 8

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Saint Hillary Is Here To Tell You You’re A Terrible Christian

Hillary speaks, but she doesn’t listen. She half-absorbs events and the lives of other people, and coughs out a kind of instinctive Reader’s...

31.01.2026 20

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South Dakota Offers Chaos-Plagued Minnesota A Recipe For Peace With ICE

A state with significant ICE operations and cooperation with federal immigration officials has experienced no disorder over the very thing that's...

30.01.2026 30

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Trump Is Reading Leftist Desperation As Strength

The desperation of petulant anti-ICE activists is a sign that the Trump administration is fighting a gang of adult children who can't and won't...

29.01.2026 2

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This California Case Shows How Blue States Refuse To Vet Fraudsters Before Gifting Them Millions

Blue states are pouring out cash with a system of pretend-rules that don't matter. They're running free money programs with no lock on the front door.

28.01.2026 3

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The Fraud Scandal Is A Bigger Problem Than Cops Can Fix

Police are funded and staffed on the premise that they’re chasing small numbers of bad guys in a population of honest citizens. If that cultural...

27.01.2026 20

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Leftists Play-Acting At Revolution Are Mad The Cops Won’t Play Along

Word people perform words at doing-things people, while the doing-things people keep doing things, disregarding the words.

17.01.2026 70

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Minneapolis Daycare Scandal Reveals The Trajectory Of Blue Zone Fraud Culture

Blue Zone political culture is empty. There’s nothing in it. They don’t make anything, they don’t do anything, they aren’t trying to do anything.

29.12.2025 100

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Trump’s Oil Tanker Seizure: Another Shocking And Unprecedented Act That Isn’t Shocking Or Unprecedented

The seizure of a stateless oil tanker carrying Maduro’s oil is aggressive, but it isn’t clearly reckless or an act of 'sleepwalking.'

15.12.2025 7

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Theater Kids In Congress Vaguely Urge Military To Disobey Commander-In-Chief

More mush from the wimps. Donald Trump is very bad, because mumble mumble mumble.

20.11.2025 20

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The Republican Party Deserves Their Bad Election Night

Zombie political culture is still eating brains.

06.11.2025 5

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Behind Democrats’ Sob Stories Is A Push For More Tax Dollars To Insurance Companies

It's not a debate about lowering insurance costs. It's about how much of our tax dollars the government will give to private corporations.

05.11.2025 5

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Idiot Media Ignore 40 Years Of History To Pretend Trump Attacks On Cartels Are Unprecedented

Right or wrong, Trump isn’t doing anything new with these choices, which are all well within the range of long-established political norms.

04.11.2025 4

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The Feds Are Rescuing Trafficked Children From L.A. While Useless Democrats Grumble

Elected officials in L.A. and California relentlessly assault reality, while the people they demean and demonize spend their days running down people...

31.10.2025 10

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The Left Isn’t Just Marching Through Our Institutions, It’s Imploding Them

When the long march through the institutions gives destructive and ridiculous people control of the institutions, the institutions become destructive...

22.10.2025 7

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Judge Says Trump Can’t Fire Democrat Bureaucrats Because It Hurts Her Feelings

Judge Illston doesn’t articulate why Clinton RIFs were good but Trump RIFs are a violent hatchet attack, but she clearly feels it.

17.10.2025 4

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Reality Curb Stomps David French’s Psycho Fantasies — Again

To listen to The New York Times’ David French about Cracker Barrel, free speech, Christians, or anything at all is to abuse your own mind.

08.10.2025 6

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Democrats, You Don’t Actually Have To Be Insane On Crime

You don't have to do a ritual performance about the poor suffering souls who were driven to crime by society’s cruelty.

09.09.2025 10

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David French Will Say Anything For A Paycheck

David French's schtick is too obvious now to pretend he’s doing anything but a 'real conservative' minstrel show for pay.

03.09.2025 10

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Furor Over Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park Illustrates Democrats’ Total Departure From Reality

We don’t have politics. We don’t ‘disagree.’

11.07.2025 7

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Let’s Compare Headlines Before And After ICE Cleaned Up LA’s Crime-Ridden MacArthur Park

Mayor Karen Bass couldn’t harm Los Angeles more if she were an actual enemy sent to destroy it.

09.07.2025 7

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Donald Trump Just Made It Harder To Go To Federal Prison

The federal government doesn’t have common law jurisdiction, and so has spent 250 years building a growing list of statutory crimes.

13.05.2025 6

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California’s Problems Are More Sinister Than You Think

Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter's new book, 'Fool's Gold,' exposes a great many of California's political problems, but there are still devils in the...

03.04.2025 3

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It Isn’t A ‘Crisis’ For Trump To Fire Flag Officers, It’s A Crisis To Think He Can’t

Trump's decision to fire flag officers isn’t a break with American law and tradition. The warning about a crisis is the crisis.

28.02.2025 8

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Los Angeles Isn’t Uniquely Dangerous, It’s Uniquely Mismanaged

Susceptibility to natural disasters isn’t the least bit a distinctive feature of Los Angeles. Nope, the fault isn’t in the land.

15.01.2025 8

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