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60 Minutes Undersold The Madness of California’s Train-Building Disaster

It works at something; just don't expect it to work when it comes to carrying people from one place to another place.

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New Study: Trans Kids Are Much More Likely To Suffer Crisis After Transition

'Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up.'

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The Fight Against Blue State Fraud Is Probably Going Better Than It Seems

If you’ve been following the news this week, it might look like we’re losing the fight against the kind of fraud you remember from Nick...

02.04.2026 2

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Media Suck Their Widdle Thumbs Over Trump ‘Intimidation’ At SCOTUS

Not explained: What can Trump do to the Supreme Court? Overturn birthright citizenship or else (fill in blank). If you can't fill in the blank, the...

01.04.2026 2

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The Iran War Is Splintering

The war Trump intends may not be the war that's actually underway, and America may de-escalate in the face of regional escalation.

01.04.2026 4

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The Latest ‘No Kings’ Protest Is The Sound Of A Tired Old Thing Trying To Not Die

They speak in a vernacular of protest out of habit and as a cultural identity, but they have no idea what they're protesting. They're very angry about...

30.03.2026 5

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Illegal Immigration Is Way Down, So Naturally The Media Are Freaking Out

'These shifts were largely due to lower levels of net international migration, which declined nationwide.'

26.03.2026 5

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‘Trans Kids’ Is A Dying Trend

Almost 90 percent just ... stopped.

25.03.2026 6

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James Talarico Is Just The Latest Of The Media’s Pathetic Cardboard Heroes

Brilliant new Democrats emerge seasonally, like pumpkins.

24.03.2026 6

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Democrats Have Nothing To Offer But Fear And Misery

See, you can't go to the airport this week, because the government will probably just slaughter you.

23.03.2026 6

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MAGA Isn’t Dying Because Of The Iran War

What force, movement, or personality is rising in American politics, or anywhere, that becomes dominant and shoves Trumpism aside?

19.03.2026 7

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Transgender Skepticism Is The Ultimate Bipartisan Issue

A pro-LGB culture is deeply disturbed by the T. People you mostly wouldn't agree with agree with you on this.

18.03.2026 5

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California Fights To Screen Men For Cervical Cancer

If you don't have a uterus or ovaries but still want to be tested for pregnancy, the health care industry won't be allowed to be mean to you.

16.03.2026 10

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Senate Will Only Pass SAVE America Act If Trump And Thune Impose Consequences For Opposing It

The 'Johnson Treatment' was 'an incredible, potent mixture of persuasion, badgering, flattery, threats, reminders of past favors and future...

16.03.2026 9

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The Crisis In The Strait Of Hormuz Is Worse Because Of Dems’ Disastrous Energy Policy

'If your energy supplies depend on a foreign choke point, that's a national security issue.'

13.03.2026 10

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It’s Not An Accident That James Talarico Is Single And Childless

Unmarried people are significantly more likely to vote for Democrats, and people are becoming significantly more likely to stay unmarried.

11.03.2026 7

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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...

09.03.2026 7

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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 9

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 8

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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 10

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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 7

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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 6

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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.

23.02.2026 350

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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...

21.02.2026 100

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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.

19.02.2026 950

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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.

18.02.2026 550

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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 10

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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...

14.02.2026 250

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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 10

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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 7

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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 10

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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 8

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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 8

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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 10

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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 10

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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 30

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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 40

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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 6

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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 7

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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 10

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