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Erick Erickson

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Barabbas or Bust

Barabbas or Bust

Two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalem on a Sunday with crowds cheering on the arrival of a king. Riding on a white donkey, the...

02.04.2026 2

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The Addled Brain

The Addled Brain

"Hezbollah hit 19 IDF tanks today. That's $95M lost in 1 day. The IDF is a paper tiger," declared Ethan Levins on Twitter with a...

26.03.2026 7

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Iran's Most Powerful Weapon

Three weeks into a military engagement in Iran, a war Republicans will not call a war, the American and Israeli militaries have all but wiped out...

19.03.2026 9

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Democrats Side With the Mullahs

"Hegseth spent $93 billion in one month -- roughly the cost of extending the ACA tax credits for THREE YEARS. But instead of lowering...

12.03.2026 6

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The Rules Were Never Meant for Them

There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that masquerades as principle and the American left has perfected it. It goes by either...

05.03.2026 6

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Immigration Fairy Tales

Last Saturday, federal border patrol agents shot and killed progressive protestor Alex Pretti in Minnesota. After his death, a video surfaced from a...

31.01.2026 10

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The Goal Posts Keep Shifting

16.01.2026 20

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Tragedy and Reality

Renee Good died on Wednesday in Minneapolis. She had been attempting to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents engaged in federal law...

10.01.2026 10

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Tragedy and Reality

09.01.2026 30

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Let There Be Light

25.12.2025 20

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It Will Be OK

On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” Earlier in... Read...

21.12.2025 9

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It Will Be Okay

19.12.2025 20

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At War With Cartels

I am very willing to criticize President Donald Trump. From tariffs to some of his pardons to his behavior, I am not willing to serve... Read More The...

06.12.2025 9

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There Is So Much to Be Thankful For

In 2006, a few days before Christmas, doctors announced my wife had six months to live. She had, they said, a rare form of cancer... Read More The...

28.11.2025 9

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Thankfulness

26.11.2025 8

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A Vast, Divergent Land

The United States of America is 3.8 million square miles, filled with 340 million people, producing over $30 trillion in gross domestic product per...

08.11.2025 8

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Accountability Matters

24.10.2025 6

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Not All Fights Are Worth Fighting

17.10.2025 10

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Decency on the Ballot

10.10.2025 20

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Talking Point vs. Truth

On X, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted, “Let me be perfectly clear: Undocumented people CANNOT AND WILL NOT receive ACA premium tax...

05.10.2025 7

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Talking Point vs. Truth

03.10.2025 10

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We Arrive at My Fear

A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the Left that their opponents are evil, and words are violence. A permission structure...

27.09.2025 8

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We Arrive at My Fear

26.09.2025 20

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The De-escalation of Politicization Can’t Be One-Sided

Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting are the two largest owners of ABC television stations in the United States. After Federal Communications Commission...

20.09.2025 10

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De-Escalation

19.09.2025 10

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A Turning Point

“You have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having...

13.09.2025 6

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A Turning Point

12.09.2025 7

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Invade New Orleans

Wealthy white progressives are generally the most paternalistically racist people you will ever encounter on planet Earth. Overwhelmed by the soft...

06.09.2025 10

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Invade New Orleans

05.09.2025 20

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Invade New Orleans

05.09.2025 6

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Evil On the Prowl

Everything has a political angle now. The Left gets worked up by a jeans ad. The Right gets worked up by Cracker Barrel removing both... Read More The...

31.08.2025 9

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Evil on the Prowl

29.08.2025 10

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Feeding the Leviathan

22.08.2025 10

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Secret to Life Is a Community of Friends

A few weeks ago, I participated in a “Care-a-Thon” for the AFLAC Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. For 25...

17.08.2025 9

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Life

16.08.2025 10

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The Future Requires Dinosaurs

Long before man walked the Earth, God in His providence created the animals, then sent a massive asteroid that collided with the Earth, wiped out......

10.08.2025 10

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The Future Requires Dinosaurs

09.08.2025 10

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They Aren’t Alright

A few weeks ago, press outlets globally ran a horrific story about Israel shooting at starving Palestinians trying to get food. The story was not......

03.08.2025 8

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Trump and Huckabee Took the Right Stand for Christians in the Holy Land

25.07.2025 7

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Trump Grabbed the Tiger by the Tail, Now He’s Letting It Go

Catching the tiger by the tail, like catching lightning in a bottle, is a difficult task. More difficult is letting go of the tiger’s tail.... Read...

19.07.2025 7

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How Republicans Can Prove They're Serious About the National Debt | Opinion

The Republican Party's unified control of Congress and the White House is on borrowed time.

17.07.2025 7

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Media Flailing to Discredit Successful Iran Bombing

On Tuesday, in what it labeled an “exclusive,” CNN reported that initial intelligence assessments of the Iran bombing suggested Iran had been set...

29.06.2025 20

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Assessments and Credibility

27.06.2025 10

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Rational by Other Standards

21.06.2025 8

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Reality and Idealism

13.06.2025 10

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Media Shows Sympathetic Views on Antisemitic Terrorist

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, armed with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, attacked a group of peaceful Jews in Boulder, Colorado, who were...

08.06.2025 9

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Eighty-Twenty

06.06.2025 7

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Distrust and Accountability

CNN’s Kasie Hunt interviewed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer the other day. She confronted him about allegations of a meeting with former...

18.05.2025 7

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Regardless, Good

25.04.2025 10

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The Greatest Event in Human History

“Eighty and six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong,” said Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in A.D. 156 before climbing... Read More...

20.04.2025 9

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