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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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Abdul El-Sayed Is Either Lying or Very Stupid

Abdul El-Sayed Is Either Lying or Very Stupid

“If you think health care is expensive now, wait till you see how much it costs when it’s free!” said PJ O’Roarke, famously.  If there’s...

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A Turnout Election Like No Other

A Turnout Election Like No Other

Elections have always been about turnout – if your voters don’t show up, you lose. It’s pretty simple, actually. Yet that bit of “wisdom”...

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Democrats Are Coming After You and It Won’t End Well

Democrats Are Coming After You and It Won’t End Well

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. When someone tells you they’re coming after you, believe them and prepare accordingly. Democrats...

03.10.2026 7

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Medicare for All Is an Awful Idea

Medicare for All Is an Awful Idea

We hear it every two years – some Democrat promising to solve all your problems by pushing “Medicare for All!” It’s the cure for what ails...

30.09.2026 3

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Get Ready for the AI Whiplash

Get Ready for the AI Whiplash

At the last show of a U.S. tour for the Sex Pistols, lead singer Johnny Rotten famously asked the audience, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been...

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Some Thoughts on How to Handle the Awful White House Press Corps

I get why President Trump hates certain media outlets. Honestly, I think his list is far too small and should, honestly, involve every single one of...

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Ms. Rachel Is Cancer

If you’re over the age of 2 or have taste, you might not know who Rachel Accorso is. She’s a pudgy, condescending and uniquely annoying in her...

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The UN Is Almost As Useless As Democrats Are

The “President” of Iran spoke at the United Nations General Assembly this week, and I remember thinking to myself, “Now would be a pretty good...

23.09.2026 9

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I Can’t Bring Myself to Care About What Happens to Illegal Aliens or Those Who Defend Them

Most people I went to high school with did not go to college. Unless you grew up someplace incredibly wealthy, I bet it’s the same for you. It...

21.09.2026 10

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Democrats Hate Money in Politics, but They Sure Want Yours

If there’s one thing Democrats all agree on, it is that they hate Jews, America, Americans who disagree with them, mutilating the genitals of...

20.09.2026 9

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Shut Up and Don’t Even Sing, Just Get Off the Damn Stage

The last time I remember thinking about Macklemore, the 43-year-old d****e-pencil mustachioed Eminem wannabe, was when he won a Grammy more than 10...

19.09.2026 8

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Is It Time to Stop Funding Libraries?

Have you been to the library lately? I bet you haven’t. I bet, unless you have young kids, you haven’t been there in 10 or 20 years, at a minimum....

16.09.2026 8

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Hollywood Loves the Talarico ‘Equal Time’ Scam

Ever notice how leftists routinely rally around people and things that the general public simply has no interest in, seemingly in the hope of forcing...

14.09.2026 9

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Why Do Leftists Hate Sydney Sweeney?

It’s kind of a silly question – why hate an actress whose only “crime” is being out of your league? Maybe some people are really, really...

13.09.2026 9

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Here Are Some Promises That Republicans Can Use to Win in November

We just had the first “mid-term convention.” Do you remember anything from it? Maybe President Trump’s promise to send every adult a $5,000...

12.09.2026 8

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It Was 25 Years Ago and It Still Seems Like Yesterday

My generation – Gen X – was pretty lucky. We grew up in the aftermath of the Baby Boomers and the Greatest Generation, which had built the middle...

09.09.2026 6

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No, Abdul, My Kids Are Not 'All of Our Kids'

Leftists are coming for your kids. They always have been, so that’s not breaking news, but you have to be reminded of this on occasion so no one...

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What Makes Palestinians So Special?

As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, expect an influx of “think pieces” about how the “Muslim community” has been impacted since 19...

06.09.2026 10

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Eleven Angry Idiots (and One Hero)

It’s only fitting that Gloria Steinem died the same week the personification of her existence faced a hung jury. “You’ve come a long way,...

05.09.2026 10

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‘The System’ Is Not ‘Stacked Against’ Anyone

It was a really funny and informative moment on CNN, and like most funny and informative moments on CNN, it did not involve anyone who calls...

02.09.2026 7

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Democrats Won’t Even Talk to You

“I want to be President of all Americans,” said Joe Biden. Barack Obama said something similar about there not being red Americans or blue...

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Republicans Better Realize That Texas Could Easily Go Blue

Republicans look at the polling in Texas and dismiss it pretty quickly. The idea that someone like James TalaWeirdo could win the “deep red Texas”...

30.08.2026 10

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Opposing Democrats Is a Literal Matter of Life and Death

Every election season (and election seasons are getting longer and longer), we hear from Democrats about just how wonderful Medicare, the health...

29.08.2026 10

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The FDA Needs Better Leadership, Not Patronage

It’s probably not very often, if ever, that a Republican nomination to head a federal agency is compared to a Democratic mayor’s race in...

26.08.2026 10

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AI Is Coming, Is That A Bad Thing?

I am not one of those people who think artificial intelligence (AI) will be the end of civilization. Yes, there is legitimate concern about a Skynet...

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Weird How the ‘AIPAC Boogeyman’ Went Away, Isn’t It?

If there was one boogeyman of the Democrat Party’s primary season it was those damn “Joooos!” While even (most of) the Democratic Socialists of...

23.08.2026 10

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It Is Not Racist to Notice Things, It’s Actually Racist to Pretend You Don’t

As a charge, “racism” is completely irrelevant in 2026. “Wolf” has been cried so many times that even if it were a wolf crying it, no one...

22.08.2026 10

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Here’s Trump’s Problem With Iran

The situation in Iran is going to hurt Republicans in the fall. Not because the majority of the American people want Iran to get a nuclear weapon or...

19.08.2026 10

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Is Our Military Really This Weak Now?

I never served; I get it, and so a lot of people will chime in with a “You never served, so you should shut up” comment whenever anyone who...

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The Simple Lesson of Jason Arday: Don’t Be a Fraud

It’s a sad story, the life of Jason Arday – the former Cambridge professor exposed as a fraud and plagiarist, who is now suspected of killing...

16.08.2026 10

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Democrats Are the Disease in the Healthcare Debate

Murderous Democrat heart-throb Luigi Mangione finally admitted what everyone knew, but some left-wing women and gay men denied: He happily murdered...

15.08.2026 10

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Sorry, Media, but It’s Not the Job of the Secret Service to Protect You

No group of people loves themselves as much as the liberal media does. They create awards – new ones every year, named after themselves – to give...

12.08.2026 10

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AOC Plans to Have Little Climate Change Victims by Freezing Her Eggs

Did you hear the news? AOC is freezing her eggs! It was all the rage over the weekend, as the socialist livestreamed as she administered shots on...

10.08.2026 20

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All of the Worst People Are Democrats

Most people add something to the lives of the people around them and to human existence in general, and others simply exist while bringing nothing to...

09.08.2026 10

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Men Make the Best Women

We beat the Nazis and Imperial Japan. We conquered diseases and created capitalism, which lifted more people out of abject poverty than any other...

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Time for the Few Remaining Sensible Democrats to Put Up or Shut Up

Only 25 years after the September 11 attacks on the United States, a major political party has fallen in with people who view that attack as deserved...

05.08.2026 10

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Were These People Always This Crazy?

It’s hard to know what “breaks” someone – which moment the person they used to be, or seemed like they used to be, disappeared and the...

27.07.2026 10

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Hate Is Losing in Michigan (but the Race Isn’t Over Yet)

I want Mike Rogers to be the next Senator from Michigan. More than that, however, I want Abdul El-Sayed to lose. However, when it comes to the timing...

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Democratic Socialists Are Obsessed With Abortion

Psycho stalkers have nothing on the modern left. While stalkers do other things – they have to work, eat and sleep – leftists bring their...

25.07.2026 20

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Government Needs to Think Before It Acts

The government’s first instinct when something scares people is to rush out bad policy before it’s checked the facts. Whether that be for gun...

22.07.2026 10

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Nancy Pelosi Says She’s ‘Done’

Nancy Pelosi is “done,” ladies and gentlemen. No, she’s not dead—no one has dropped a house on her like they did her sister—she’s just...

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The Easiest Way to Be Miserable

I love movies. I love TV shows. I’m not much of a fan of music, but the music I love – The Beatles, The Replacements, etc. – I love, too. And I...

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Half a Nation of Traitors

Democrats hate this country. They hate you if you don’t also hate this country. And they will do anything to avoid you continuing to live free in...

18.07.2026 20

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California Is Killing Itself

If there’s one thing the Governor of California loves to talk about, it's the size of his state’s economy – if it were an independent...

15.07.2026 20

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What Will Happen When the Ladies on The View Die?

I don’t know Sunny Hostin, one of the center hags on The View, nor would I ever want to. I’m not in the habit of keeping company with racist, race...

13.07.2026 20

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In the Death of Lindsey Graham, You See the True Nature of the Left

I didn’t know Lindsey Graham, and neither did most of the people professing to have known him on cable television. Like them, however, I did have...

12.07.2026 20

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Democrats Really Don’t Have Any Idea What a Man Is

It’s a joke I’ve made often: that Democrats don’t know what a woman is when it comes to every aspect of existence…except their dating life;...

11.07.2026 20

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You’re Just Going to Have to Kill Them or Walk Away From Iran, Mr. President

In late 2003, if you’d sat across the table from a team of negotiators from Al Qaeda to work out some kind of deal to end hostilities, what could...

08.07.2026 20

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Democreeps Only Believe Women When It’s Useful to Them

What a difference political affiliation makes. Democrat Graham Platner is now on the outs with the party, not because of assaulting women, but because...

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