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When Jeb and Hillary Saved the Republic

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This Memorial Day, Let Us Remember

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26.05.2025 10

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Democrats’ Confederacy of Dunces

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21.05.2025 40

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The Great Simmering in the West

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15.05.2025 30

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Thank You, Mothers

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11.05.2025 60

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The Era of Great Pretending Looks Wobbly

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09.05.2025 20

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The West Eats Itself

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05.05.2025 10

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President Trump, Rock On!

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30.04.2025 20

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We Must Teach Children to Love Freedom More Than Government

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27.04.2025 10

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Secretary Hegseth Threatens the Deep State

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24.04.2025 30

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This Easter, Let Us Renew Our Faith

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20.04.2025 40

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Globalist Conquistadors Are Here to Colonize Us

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16.04.2025 30

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Democrats Trade Morality for Madness

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13.04.2025 20

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There’s Nothing Free about ‘Free Trade’

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10.04.2025 40

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Trump’s Tariffs Tackle Clinton’s China Carnage

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07.04.2025 30

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War Is Hell

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Canada Embraces European Suicide

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31.03.2025 30

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A MAGA Siege of the Democrats’ Deep State

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29.03.2025 30

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The Trump Administration Goes to War against Bureaucratic Tyranny

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24.03.2025 30

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Generalists Wanted

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21.03.2025 20

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A Businessman and a Brilliant Strategist

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17.03.2025 50

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Globalist Games: They Play, We Pay

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14.03.2025 30

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Did COVID Nearly Start a Revolution?

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11.03.2025 30

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Trump Has Cornered the Market on ‘Hope and Change’

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07.03.2025 10

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Master Thieves Stole the Constitution

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03.03.2025 50

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Canada is a Liability

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28.02.2025 30

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Montana Cowboys, Adam Smith, and Trump

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24.02.2025 8

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Freedom Is on the March

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16.02.2025 20

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Help! The Establishment’s Fallen and Can’t Get Up!

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13.02.2025 20

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A United America Is Democrats’ Undoing

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11.02.2025 40

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Our Self-Important, Self-Deluding, Self-Unaware ‘Elites’

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07.02.2025 40

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Transitioning the Federal Workforce into Farmhands

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31.01.2025 5

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Uncommon Communicators: Churchill, Reagan, Trump

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26.01.2025 20

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Deconstructing the Deep State

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23.01.2025 30

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The Great Man Returns

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20.01.2025 30

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What an Interesting Time to Be Alive

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17.01.2025 10

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Illegal Immigration Is Killing Small Towns

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13.01.2025 20

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Depopulation: A Space Odyssey

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10.01.2025 7

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Remember January 6 Forever

On January 6, 2025, Congress certifies President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s victory.  There is something poetic about reclaiming that day from all...

05.01.2025 10

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Back to the Beginning

So it begins: a new year, a new presidency, and, for America, a new lease on life.  Yet it feels as if we’ve been here before, doesn’t it?  ...

02.01.2025 10

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The Best or the Worst of Times?

Now that Christmas Day has passed, I have put down my beloved copy of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and picked up his masterpiece, A Tale...

29.12.2024 20

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This Christmas, Let Us Pray

It is arguably the most iconic image from the American Revolution.  You can find drawings, paintings, and sculptures commemorating its significance...

25.12.2024 20

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Democrats Don’t Transfer Power Peacefully

After the inauguration of President George W. Bush on January 20, 2001, many new White House aides excitedly showed up for work the next day only...

23.12.2024 50

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Dismantling the Bill of Rights Is No Solution

After the recent school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, the usual suspects immediately called for more “gun control.”  Joe Biden’s White House...

19.12.2024 10

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The Destruction of the Government’s Credibility

Right now, swarms of drones on the eastern seaboard are captivating Americans each night.  Spotted in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and...

16.12.2024 30

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The Cult of Credentialism

I once saw a celebrated American author give a class of literature majors one of the best lessons they could learn.  He was speaking about the...

12.12.2024 7

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The Western Establishment Lacks Legitimacy

Romania’s Constitutional Court summarily invalidated the first-round results of its presidential election because the anti-globalist candidate,...

08.12.2024 20

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Nobody Knew (Except Most Did!)

Media mouth-breathers are shocked that Dementia Joe Biden would pardon his son for eleven years’ worth of crimes against the United...

05.12.2024 10

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Nothing Cool About Democrats’ Woke Religion

Right now Democrats are publicly debating the reasons for their electoral implosion.  I use the word “debating” rather loosely, since being a...

01.12.2024 4

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This Thanksgiving, Let Us Listen

On Thanksgiving Day in 1944, a young American platoon sergeant named Mac St. Johns led his men on a scouting mission in the French...

28.11.2024 30

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