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The American Revolution Is About To Experience The ‘Ken Burns Effect’

As our nation nears its 250th birthday, Ken Burns’ miniseries should give us a newfound appreciation for the sacrifices of our ancestors.

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Republicans Tempted To Bail Out Obamacare Should Remember Democrats’ Shutdown Implosion And Just Say No

When the vote on the enhanced Obamacare subsidies comes around, GOP lawmakers should keep the wailing of Democrats over the past few days in mind.

12.11.2025 20

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Outrage At Harvard Grade Inflation Report Reveals The Rot In Higher Education

Individuals can most excel when asked to do so, and Harvard should embody that call to greatness.

10.11.2025 3

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If Republicans Don’t Focus On The Economy, They’ll Lose In The Midterms Too

If Republicans don’t pass a tangible agenda over the next 12 months, they will face another electoral reckoning next fall.

07.11.2025 2

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Democrats Want Republicans To Bail Them Out Of Their Bad Political Gamble

By punting the issue into 2025, Democrats hoped they could secure a permanent extension of Obamacare subsidies. That plan backfired.

05.11.2025 2

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Health Insurance Companies Spend Big To Support California’s Partisan Redistricting Fight

The battle over Obamacare subsidies that led to the government shutdown is shining a light on corruption in the insurance industry.

04.11.2025 6

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Places To Visit In D.C. Unaffected By The Government Shutdown

If you’re at a loss for what to do in Washington during the shutdown, or if you're looking for off-the-beaten-path places to visit once the...

31.10.2025 3

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‘Conservative’ Pollster Shills For Health Insurance Companies With Sloppy Pro-Obamacare Talking Points

The arguments for extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies are not just biased but contradictory, almost to the point of incoherence.

31.10.2025 2

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6 Reasons Congress Should Let The Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Expire

Here are some fast facts about open enrollment and the enhanced Exchange subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

30.10.2025 40

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How Leftist Think Tanks Twist Facts To Manipulate Congress On Obamacare

Groups on the left know full well that allowing the enhanced subsidies to expire as scheduled wouldn’t cause a catastrophe for most families.

24.10.2025 10

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2025 Budget Review Shows We Can’t Afford To Extend ‘Temporary’ Obamacare Subsidies

CBO's review of the 2025 fiscal year shows Republicans have every reason to reject Democrats’ demands to end the 'Schumer Shutdown.'

14.10.2025 3

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Margaret Thatcher Docudrama Shows What Media Corruption Stole From Us

Brian and Maggie shows how a good interviewer can still reveal much about a subject that the subject does not necessarily want to reveal.

10.10.2025 2

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Shutdown Democrats Demand Concessions They Never Gave Republicans

Democrats’ present conditions for ending the shutdown essentially amount to a demand that they succeed where Republicans failed.

09.10.2025 2

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How Many Of 300,000 Virginia Early Voters Want To Change Their Mind On Jay Jones But Can’t?

In addition to calling on Jay Jones to drop out, Democrats should also end the nonsense of a months-long 'election season.'

08.10.2025 10

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No, Obamacare Premiums Are Not Doubling

Contrary to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim, most of the Obamacare subsidies are not expiring, for good or for ill.

08.10.2025 20

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Here’s How Republicans Should Fix Health Care Rather Than Bailing Out Obamacare

To state what should be obvious but isn’t to most members of Congress, an Obamacare bailout wouldn’t make anything more 'affordable.'

07.10.2025 30

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Here Are All The Transgender Medical Experiments Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Through Obamacare

In a social media post last week, President Trump noted that what Democrats are demanding in exchange for their cooperation in reopening government...

03.10.2025 50

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Chuck Schumer Has No Leverage In The Shutdown Showdown

Republicans shouldn’t bail Democrats out of their own political problems; they should make Democrats swallow the bitter pill of surrender.

30.09.2025 2

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New Audit Reveals Shady Way Biden Increased Medicaid Spending

The Biden administration’s actions demonstrate Democrats' desire to turn Medicaid into a vehicle for an all-encompassing government.

25.09.2025 30

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Tom Brady Should Pick One Job And Stick To It

If Tom Brady wants to own a piece of the Raiders, more power to him. But then he should stay the heck out of the broadcast booth.

24.09.2025 9

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Why You Should See The Full Constitution At The National Archives This Month

The display of the full Constitution seems timely, given not just our country's impending 250th birthday but our polarized political climate.

22.09.2025 10

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Budget Office Estimates Tens Of Billions Lost To Obamacare Exchange Fraud

The Congressional Budget Office finally admitted that enrollees are lying about their income to qualify for Obamacare subsidies.

19.09.2025 30

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‘Self-Care’ Spending Might Explain Why America Is So Deeply In Debt

However much we want to blame Congress for the nation’s budgetary woes, our lawmakers do little more than reflect the societal zeitgeist.

18.09.2025 3

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Mike Johnson’s Obamacare Squishiness Could Expand Abortion Tourism And Undermine Pro-Life Laws

Republican 'leaders' thinking about playing footsie with Democrats to enact policies that will perpetuate wasteful spending and enrich the abortion...

15.09.2025 40

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Shocking Absenteeism Report Shows Covid Lockdown Effects Still Linger

The absenteeism problem has hit hardest in those communities with the biggest need for quality education.

09.09.2025 3

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Politico Is Doing Insurance Companies’ Bidding, And It’s Obvious Why

Politico's latest story about a potential Obamacare subsidy extension ignored sizable evidence of fraud, while including not a single quote from a...

08.09.2025 10

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If Republicans Don’t Get The Economy Right, All Their Other Wins Will Be In Vain

The entire administration should spend every day convincing Americans that they're doing everything in their power to help families get ahead, for...

05.09.2025 2

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20 Years Later, New Orleans Triumphs Over Hurricane Katrina’s Tragedy

The way the citizens of New Orleans united to restore their home and regain their destiny should serve as an inspiration to us all.

30.08.2025 10

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Lee Corso Epitomizes The Spectacle Of Modern College Football

On Saturday, Lee Corso will make his final appearance on College GameDay, the ESPN show he has worked for since its inception in 1987.

30.08.2025 10

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Democrats’ Latest ‘Mediscare’ Gambit Is An Empty Threat

When it comes to potential spending reductions via the sequester, congressional Democrats are bluffing, and everybody knows it. 

27.08.2025 2

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ESPN Documentary Chronicles Kansas City Chiefs’ (Unsuccessful) Three-Peat Quest

The Kingdom takes viewers behind the scenes to find out how the Chiefs got close to a three-peat — and why they came up short.

26.08.2025 2

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Big Beautiful Bill Will Save Taxpayers From Paying Millions To Fund Medicaid For Dead People

State and federal officials ought to be doing everything they can to protect their hard-earned dollars from being used improperly or illegally. For...

25.08.2025 2

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Amid Endless Streaming Silos, Live Sports Still Attract Millions Of Eyeballs

Two recent deals demonstrate the immense power of live sports.

19.08.2025 2

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Expect Misleading Headlines About The Big Beautiful Bill Leaving 10 Million Americans ‘Uninsured’

The idea that this provision would somehow 'increase the uninsured' seems, if not laughable, at least highly speculative.

14.08.2025 40

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Little Beasts Exhibit Examines The Nexus Of Biology, Theology, And Art

Little Beasts gives viewers a chance to take a step back, appreciate the beauty of nature, and contemplate mankind’s place in the universe. 

13.08.2025 20

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Jim Lovell Overcame Extreme Adversity In ‘NASA’s Finest Hour’

For the past 55 years, Jim Lovell served as living proof of what man can accomplish when he puts his mind to it.

12.08.2025 6

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Report: 3 In 5 Veterans Treated For PTSD Are On At Least Two Psych Meds

Portions of the VA medical staff seem to have settled upon powerful narcotics as a way to keep suffering patients churning through the pipeline.

11.08.2025 2

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Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday At Affordable And Educational Colonial Williamsburg

Beyond reasonable prices, visitors to Colonial Williamsburg will find history that all ages can embrace.

06.08.2025 2

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Administration Finds Millions of Individuals Double Enrolled in Taxpayer-Funded Coverage

The existence of duplicate payments demonstrates the left’s desire to make all Americans dependent upon government.

30.07.2025 4

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Report: America’s Debt Situation Will Soon Be Worse Than Right After World War II

Our country cannot get its fiscal house in order unless and until it starts slowing the explosion of Medicare spending.

17.07.2025 4

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Report: Medicaid Recipients The GOP Made Work Part-Time Watch TV And ‘Relax’ 6 Hours A Day

Reestablishing a culture of work via the reconciliation bill represents a hard-earned victory for common sense.

15.07.2025 60

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Here’s What’s Next In The Battle To Get Federal Spending Under Control

Congress should do its job and keep restricting the growth of exploding federal spending.

10.07.2025 4

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John Kasich Criticizes Congress For Failing To Solve A Problem He Helped Create

By promoting Medicaid expansion to able-bodied adults, Kasich helped create the problem that the reconciliation bill begins to address.

09.07.2025 5

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The Media Deploy A Cadre Of ‘Experts’ And ‘Advocates’ To Lie About Medicaid

But the American people aren’t stupid. Many see right through the media bias, which might explain why trust in the mainstream press continues to fall.

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Putting Political Litmus Tests In Your Dating App Bio Is A Red Flag

When people only want political 'discussions' that confirm their biases, they make the vulnerability that relationships require impossible.

01.07.2025 5

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Make A Pit Stop To Watch This New Formula One Movie In IMAX

F1: The Movie shows the triumphs and tragedies that lie behind the world’s most popular open-wheel racing series.

27.06.2025 10

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No, The Federal Reserve Shouldn’t Monetize The National Debt Again

Lawmakers of all parties keep thinking that some magic bullet will solve all of the country’s fiscal problems. It won’t.

27.06.2025 20

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My Annual Allergist Visit Proved Health Care Fraud Is Easy To Commit And Hard To Report

It's so easy for scammers to manipulate our health care system in ways that raise costs for all of us.

27.06.2025 10

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Leftist Think Tank Ignores Potential Medicaid Fraud To Smear Trump’s Budget Bill

Groups like this fixate on the number of individuals with health insurance coverage, regardless of whether those individuals engage in fraud.

23.06.2025 50

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Budget Office Estimates Biden Border Bedlam Cost States Billions

The Biden-era chaos posed ramifications far beyond our southern border, and Washington must take every effort to ensure that it never recurs.

23.06.2025 40

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