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Mamdani’s Rage at ICE Over Shooting Is Pure, Dishonest Grandstanding

If you only listened to Mayor Zohran Mamdani you’d think that ICE was just plucking out random New Yorkers to shoot for no other reason than sheer...

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Mamdani’s Antisemitism Plan Should Alarm America

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants everyone to know that his administration is serious about fighting antisemitism. Just don’t ask him to...

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How to Know When a Mexican Migrant Caravan Really Threatens the Southern Border—a Day Sure to Come

Last week saw much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments among American voters and Trump administration officials watching the “Fey Esperanza”...

06.10.2026 4

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California’s Lawsuit Industry Is Driving Businesses Away

When it was reported that Paramount is considering leaving California, many politicians looked for ways to keep one of the largest moviemakers in...

06.10.2026 5

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Nixon’s Realism Returns to America’s China Policy Under Trump

When President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to D.C. last month, much of Washington expected nothing more than political theater. To...

06.10.2026 4

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Don’t Let a Vaccine Become the Only Answer to Lyme Disease

There is a silent, rapidly growing epidemic in the United States, one that my family is no stranger to, unfortunately. Lyme disease enters the body...

05.10.2026 4

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How Mamdani Is Merging Socialist Activists With New York City Government

When Zohran Mamdani said he’d govern New York City as a socialist, he meant it. And the way the mayor is doing that is by merging the Democratic...

04.10.2026 5

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Trump Administration Turns Up Pressure on DEI Admissions at UCLA Law

This is the way to defeat systemic DEI racism. Don’t let up, don’t back down, keep up the pressure. The Trump administration has released another...

02.10.2026 5

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Newsom Signs Bill That Recognizes 2 Muslim State Holidays

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two Muslim holidays into law this week, making California the second state to officially recognize them. On Sunday, Newsom...

02.10.2026 7

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Seattle DEI Case Signals a Major Victory in the Fight Over Workplace Diversity Programs

Another big step was taken to eliminate workplace DEI, and it came via a notoriously left-wing appeals court. On Monday, a three-judge panel for the...

01.10.2026 6

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Jack Smith’s Media Dragnet Gets a Pass From Legacy Press

One of the biggest government attacks on free press occurred under a presidential administration and the legacy media have collectively shrugged. Why?...

30.09.2026 10

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Trump’s Student Loan Rules Finally Hold Higher Education Accountable. The Left Is Furious.

The Trump administration put some reasonable limits on federal student loans, and the Left is having a fit about it. According to a Department of...

29.09.2026 10

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Open Prostitution Booms in NYC. It’s All Part of the Socialist Plan.

Prostitution is openly proliferating in New York City thanks to socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It’s all part of the plan. The New York Post...

28.09.2026 10

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Cornell’s University Reform Report Sidesteps the Real Reason Americans Have Lost Trust in Higher Education

Higher education is suffering through a self-inflicted crisis of declining public confidence. Only now are its faculty members and administrators...

27.09.2026 10

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Mamdani Is Gradually Undermining Public Order in New York City

New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has carefully plucked away another small but significant element of public order. According to the...

24.09.2026 10

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Canada’s MAID Nightmare Gets Even Worse

Canada’s mutually assisted aid in dying, or MAID, program continues to produce the grotesque results that its detractors warned about. The latest...

22.09.2026 20

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Why Higher Education Deserve to Lose Federal Support Over DEI

America’s top universities can’t quit and won’t quit DEI no matter how unpopular it is with the American people. A recent editorial in the New...

20.09.2026 10

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New Documentary Answers the Question UK’s Ruling Class Won’t Ask About Mass Immigration

The West is in a self-inflicted crisis, and the only way to fix it is to recognize the problem. A new documentary created by the Heritage Foundation...

17.09.2026 10

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German Chancellor’s Attack on Free Speech Reveals Europe’s Growing Fear of Dissent

Free speech isn’t just dying in Europe; it’s being ruthlessly strangled by an out-of-touch ruling class that’s desperate to snuff it out before...

16.09.2026 10

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Grad Schools Are Training Activists, Not Teachers

Who is teaching the teachers? Critical theorists, DEI peddlers, and all manner of indoctrinators who have weaponized the American education system to...

09.09.2026 10

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Even After Affirmative Action’s Fall, DEI Thrives at Elite Law Schools

DEI may be crumbling in the federal government and waning in the public esteem, but it is still going strong in elite educational institutions despite...

31.08.2026 10

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Mamdani Turns Rikers Murderer Into Victim in Larger Plot to Abolish Prisons

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani demonstrated yet again this week how much of his ideology ultimately leads to mass mercy to the guilty and cruelty...

29.08.2026 10

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Every State Can Open Its Doors to Nuclear Energy

States want nuclear energy. That makes sense. They all face the same problem. States need energy now and lots of it. According to one industry...

24.08.2026 20

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You Don’t Have to Help. You Do Have to Police.

I spent 24 years in Enforcement and Removal Operations. Every officer who has worked in an arrest team knows the moment. The target is in custody, the...

24.08.2026 20

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He Can’t Vote for Congress. The Census Still Gives Him a Seat.

A draft rule now moving through the Commerce Department would rewrite how many House seats each state gets, by narrowing who counts as a...

24.08.2026 20

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How to Defend Your Faith

I taught the senior theology course at a Catholic high school for seven years. The course name was “Apologetics.” This term has its roots in the...

24.08.2026 10

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The Unholy Alliance You Weren’t Supposed to Notice

Something unusual happened on Oct. 8, 2023. The morning after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel, after women were raped, children were...

23.08.2026 20

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National Media Skip Extreme Pro-Abortion Law in Massachusetts

On Aug. 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it “closing the...

23.08.2026 10

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Data Centers, Polling, November Elections, and the Way Forward

Data centers are about as popular as cancer right now, and my latest battleground polling proves it. In Wisconsin, the consummate swing state,...

21.08.2026 10

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Ending the Welfare State as We Know It

President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, otherwise known as welfare reform, into law 30...

21.08.2026 20

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The Bond Vigilantes Are Stirring Again

Bob Woodward is undoubtedly one of the most famous, yet controversial, “journalists” of the contemporary era. Some people–mostly those on the...

21.08.2026 10

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You May Not Care About the National Debt, but the Debt Cares About You

The national debt just crossed $40 trillion, months ahead of schedule. For many Americans, though, that sentence lands with a thud rather than a jolt....

21.08.2026 20

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In Wake of Arday Scandal, European Elite Institutions Attack Free Speech

The Western value of free speech appears to be hitting a terminal phase outside the United States, especially in the Anglosphere where censorship in...

20.08.2026 10

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The DEI Admissions Scam Is Catching Up With Elite Universities

The higher education racket is being exposed in America as diminishing standards, collapsing public trust, and a cult-like, often unlawful devotion to...

19.08.2026 20

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The Fauci Revalations Prove That Congress Must Take Back Its Power

For too long, Congress has allowed unelected bureaucrats to wield far too much power over the lives and liberties of the American people. It is time...

19.08.2026 20

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Muslim Mass Migration and the Michigan Election

Brand-new polling shows a horse race in the U.S. Senate race in Michigan and suggests that the controversial topic of Muslim immigration to that state...

18.08.2026 20

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America’s Transparency Problem Reaches the Salad Dressing Aisle

Even as the food industry takes big steps toward “Making America Healthy Again,” transparency remains in short supply. A July 2026 study by...

18.08.2026 20

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COVID-19: America Needs Closure, but Fauci Says No

Victor Davis Hanson nailed it: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s dramatic fall from grace—rooted in his own flaws—is a modern play in the style of an ancient...

17.08.2026 20

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Thune Flubs SAVE America Act, Flees for 5-Week Break

Does Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., secretly want Republicans to lose the midterm elections? Rather than pass the SAVE America Act and other key...

17.08.2026 20

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The DSA Has a Diversity Problem

For a movement that talks incessantly about diversity, the Democratic Socialists of America has an awkward problem of its own: it is remarkably white....

17.08.2026 20

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Ceuta–Lessons Learned Two Weeks Later

On July 30 up to 80,000 people crossed illegally from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. They swam or climbed the fence separating the North...

17.08.2026 10

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Europe’s Regulatory Overreach Is Becoming a U.S. National Security Risk

As the Trump administration acts to solidify America’s economic security and lock down critical supply chains, one threat continues to slip past the...

17.08.2026 20

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DSA Praises Fidel Castro in 100th Birthday Tribute, Denounces Marco Rubio as ‘Genocidal’

The Democratic Socialists of America website called deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a “stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and...

16.08.2026 20

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Duke Law Case Shows Why the Fight Against DEI in Higher Education Isn’t Over

The battle to end DEI in higher education is one that can only be won through attrition against a stubborn enemy that won’t back away from the...

16.08.2026 10

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The State Department’s DEI Reckoning Exposes the Global Reach of Wokeness

The menace of the “woke era,” which I’d argue we are still suffering through despite the current counterrevolution, was about far more than just...

13.08.2026 20

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After Billions Spent and Zero Trains, California’s Rail Boondoggle Nears a Reckoning

California’s high-speed rail boondoggle may finally be running out of money. It’s bad news for Gov. Gavin Newsom, possibly good news for the...

12.08.2026 20

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Mamdani Promised Affordability. His New Amazon Delivery Plan Could Make NYC More Expensive.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is once again using a big corporation as an easy target in a scheme that will likely make New York City more...

11.08.2026 10

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Trump Slams Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax as Judge Halts Implementation

President Donald Trump slammed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax on certain second properties in a Tuesday post on Truth Social...

11.08.2026 20

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AOC Laughs Off the ‘Woke 1’ Era. The Damage Was No Joke.

Peak woke revealed a totalitarian mindset in America that raged out of control for a few years, until unpopularity, a little courage from the minority...

10.08.2026 10

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Don’t Let Socialists Fool You: They Still Want to Abolish Police, and Prisons Too

Socialists just can’t let the “dream” of prison abolition go until it becomes your nightmare. Leftist politicians are struggling to handle the...

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