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Democrats Said Thoughts And Prayers Won’t Stop Leftist Violence, So Here Are Some Ideas

Pray — not just for comfort, but for courage and prudence to frustrate evil where it has taken individuals and institutions captive.

15.09.2025 50

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After Charlie Kirk’s Murder, There Can Be No More Both-Sides-ism

We have met the enemy, and they are nothing like us.

12.09.2025 60

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Each Word Of This NYT Agitprop On The Charlotte Murder Is Worse Than The Last

The entire article is an exercise in lazy propaganda slop, and they don't care if you notice. Just don't go around noticing any more crimes.

10.09.2025 3

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Is Wuthering Heights The Smutty BookTok Feminists’ Final Conquest?

Emerald Fennell remakes 'Wuthering Heights' in the image of bookstore bargain bins and terminal late-stage feminism.

06.09.2025 7

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MSNBC Tries To Scare Taylor Swift (And Everyone Else) Out Of Getting Married

An MSNBC writer takes it upon herself to warn Taylor Swift that marriage isn't 'magical.' Here's why she's wrong.

04.09.2025 1

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If Your Response To Tragedy Is To Mock God, Repent

Those scoffing at Christians' prayer after Wednesday's tragedy repeat the folly of the crowds who dared the crucified Christ to save Himself.

28.08.2025 20

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Trump Ending Wars Is Wonderful, But Only One Thing Can Get Him Into Heaven

Trump may have been joking, but it bears repeating: None of your own works, not even saving lives, can earn you a spot in paradise.

19.08.2025 2

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Don’t Believe The Lies From NYT Russia Hoaxers About The Durham Annex

Russia hoax handmaiden Charlie Savage falsely claimed that the annex to the Durham report said something it never actually said.

02.08.2025 20

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If You Need An App To Rate Your Date, What You Actually Need Is Better Community

If you have to turn to strangers on an app like Tea for advice about your date, you probably need a better community -- so build one.

28.07.2025 5

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FBI Analyst On Russia Hoax: ‘Our Instructions … Were To Push This’

An analyst interviewed by House investigators about claims of Russian collusion said FBI leadership made it clear 'we were to push this.'

24.07.2025 50

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2024 Was A Year Of Bullet-Dodging

Sometimes we see the divine hand of providence work in the shadows. Other times, it's caught on live television.

14.07.2025 3

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The Sexual Revolution And Its Consequences Have Been A Disaster For Charlize Theron

The 49-year-old multimillionaire and mother of two approaches sex with all the maturity of a beer-chugging frat boy.

07.07.2025 10

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After Federalist Inquiry, National Parks To Review DEI Signage In California For Violations Of Trump Order

Signage at Muir Woods National Monument will be reviewed after a Federalist inquiry raising concerns it violates an executive order.

03.07.2025 20

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Protest Is Overrated

For most protests in modern America, the operating assumption is that action from the government will solve the problem.

26.06.2025 20

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With Abortion And Euthanasia Votes, The U.K. Rejects The Basis Of Every Human Freedom

Once a nation ceases to respect the source of human dignity, it doesn't take long to stop respecting the rights that dignity demands.

23.06.2025 40

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The Abrahamic Covenant Is A Bad Argument For The U.S. Going To War With Iran

We shouldn't treat the Abrahamic covenant lightly, but neither should we cherry-pick it to haphazardly apply to a modern geopolitical map.

20.06.2025 4

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Look How The Google Speech Police Scold Me For Searching The Term ‘Illegal Alien’

A patronizing warning at the top of the page scolded me that "the term 'illegal alien' is considered pejorative and offensive."

05.06.2025 5

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Is The Smithsonian Violating Trump’s Ban On Taxpayer-Funded Gender Ideology?

Why is the Smithsonian, which rakes in more than a billion taxpayer dollars a year, hosting events promoting LGBT ideology for June?

03.06.2025 5

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How And Why Southern Baptists Are Losing Confidence In The ERLC

Critics allege the SBC's lobbying arm is ineffective on the right political issues, and that it actively devotes resources to the wrong ones.

30.05.2025 10

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Local Man Swims In Creek, Media Freak Out

Americans want the freedom to make their own, informed choices about their health -- both which risks to take and which ones not to.

13.05.2025 4

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The Fake News Media Come For The Kentucky Derby

You can't have a healthy society without events like the Derby and the sense of shared heritage that they produce.

08.05.2025 10

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17 Ideas To Up Your Mother’s Day Gifting Game This Year

If you're stumped on what to get for your mom (or the mother of your children) this year, The Federalist is here to help.

01.05.2025 4

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This Week’s Politico Playbook ‘Journalism’ Was Brought To You By Planned Parenthood

In 2016, weekly sponsorships were 'expected to cost in the range of $50,000 and $60,000.'

29.04.2025 4

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The Media Have A New Conspiracy Theory About Trump’s Interior Decorating

No, Trump's Oval Office decor-maxxing is not a dog-whistle for monarchy. It's actually on-brand, not just for Trump, but for America.

24.04.2025 10

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15 Gifts To Celebrate Your Favorite Graduates That Aren’t Cash

If you know someone graduating high school or college and you'd like to gift something personal, try one of these thoughful options.

23.04.2025 3

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An Easter Love Letter To My Church

If you've been needing some extra encouragement to commit to being in community with your local church body, let me give you some.

18.04.2025 2

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On Palm Sunday, The New York Times Repeated A 2,000-Year-Old Mistake About Jesus

A Palm Sunday op-ed takes the same small view of Christ's mission that the cheering crowds hoping for an anti-Roman revolt did.

15.04.2025 4

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Our Culture Isn’t ‘Dying For Sex,’ But Our Faulty Approach Is Killing Us

In reality, the conscious uncoupling of pleasure and purpose that fuels Williams' 'sexcapades' in Dying for Sex produces less pleasure and,...

11.04.2025 4

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Europe’s Latest Attacks On Free Speech And Free Elections Prove Vance’s Munich Warning Right

Vance warned that shutting down speech destroys democracy. European leaders have apparently taken his statement as an instruction manual.

02.04.2025 70

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10 Times NPR Proved It Doesn’t Deserve Another Taxpayer Cent

On top of its blackout of the Hunter Biden laptop story, here are 10 other times NPR proved it doesn't deserve another taxpayer dime.

27.03.2025 100

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Obstructing Trump’s Agenda Via Injunction Is The New Russia Collusion Hoax

Just as the Russia hoax was weaponized to hamstring the first Trump presidency, the flurry of injunctions is designed to hamstring his second one.

25.03.2025 30

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The Chief Justice Needs To Stop Taking PR Cues From Meghan Markle

The Meghan Markle strategy of issuing press releases to make people take you seriously is no way to run a Supreme Court.

20.03.2025 30

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After Media’s Covid ‘Oopsie,’ I Don’t Want To Hear The Word ‘Misinformation’ Ever Again

Media gave air cover to censors by constructing artificial boundaries around acceptable thought and calling everything else 'misinformation.'

18.03.2025 4

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Covid Taught Americans To Stop Trusting A Government That Puts Them Last

The reaction to Covid showed Americans the system wasn't going to save them. They were going to have to do it themselves.

12.03.2025 90

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Julia Roberts, Melania Trump, And How To Wear A Necktie Without Looking Like A Man

Move over, pantsuits of the lean-in era. Melania Trump is making menswear-as-womenswear great again.

07.03.2025 3

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A Year Late, Laken Riley Finally Gets The Honor She Deserved

A year late, Laken Riley's family finally got to hear a president honor their beloved daughter and sister in an address to the country.

05.03.2025 10

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Dems Scripted Their Response To Trump’s Speech Before Hearing It And They Don’t Care If You Know

Senate Dems are doing roughly the equivalent of those 'copy and paste this or something bad will happen to you' emails from middle school.

05.03.2025 30

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Why Is Fertility-Tracking App Natural Cycles Promoting Abortion To Pregnant Women?

My friend told Natural Cycles she was expecting a baby. The app responded with a plug for abortion.

03.03.2025 20

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WHCA Cartel Is Freaking Out Because It’s Losing Power And Control, Not Press Freedom

The media pearl-clutch about a 'free press' when they really mean their power and control are threatened.

27.02.2025 60

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How To Make Yourself Invincible To Media Info Ops

The most effective tactic for not getting duped by the media's information operations is to understand that they happen.

26.02.2025 2

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Will Someone Please Explain The Birds And The Bees To The Washington Post?

Americans agree on the sex binary by a bigger majority than any president has won in two centuries, which means most Americans are smarter than The...

21.02.2025 20

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Rick Warren’s Bell-Curve View Of Jesus Is Bad Politics And Worse Theology

If our positions are properly calibrated to the truth, moderating them is not an act of virtue but one of cowardice.

13.02.2025 5

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Cultural Recovery Is Going To Take More Than Schmaltzy Super Bowl Commercials

With its feel-good sentimentalism, corporate America is celebrating relics of an identity for which it's largely lost the vocabulary.

11.02.2025 6

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Democrats Have Become The ‘No You Can’t’ Party

In the battle between the 'you can just do things' and the 'you can't do thats,' whose side do you want to be on?

10.02.2025 60

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Left-Wing Lawyer Behind Anti-Trump Lawfare Is Running A New Op Against Kash Patel

Eisen co-founded the group behind the effort to throw then-candidate Trump off the Colorado ballot in 2024.

06.02.2025 20

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The 12 Worst Fails Of Media Propagandist And Toilet Paper Bandit Chuck Todd’s Career

As Todd departs NBC, we hope his future plans for full-time employment don't involve an OnlyFans full of seatbelt crotch photos.

01.02.2025 40

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To Create Good Aesthetics, The Right Must Believe In What They Represent

Aesthetically, what do you make of a crypto ball in a neoclassical building where glamorous outfits are topped off with red MAGA hats?

30.01.2025 5

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The New York Times Still Refuses To Admit Kash Patel Was Right About Russiagate

Few people understand the FBI's Russia hoax abuses as well as Kash Patel, which is probably why The New York Times hates him.

27.01.2025 5

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The Trump-Vance Women Are Dressed For A Resurgent ‘Golden Age,’ And The Media Hate It

As Trump assures America that things are looking up, 'looking back' has never looked so good.

22.01.2025 30

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Biden Attempts To Change The Constitution Via Press Release On His Way Out

Biden's legally pointless amendment-by-fiat accomplishes nothing but weakening the Constitution, which is the entire point.

17.01.2025 2

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