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If The Drug Cartels Are Terrorist Groups, Mexico Is Their State Sponsor

The naming of the Sinaloa Cartel as a terrorist organization might mean the collapse of the Mexican government.

20.02.2025 20

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Pope Francis’ Letter To U.S. Bishops Sows Confusion Over Immigration

On several key points, it’s unclear how Pope Francis’ view of immigration squares with the teachings of the Catholic Church.

12.02.2025 4

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Ousted From Power By Voters, Dems Turn To Activist Judges To Defy Trump

Lower federal court judges have no constitutional authority to govern by injunction and undermine the executive branch.

11.02.2025 20

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We Still Need Answers To The Many Unanswered Questions About Jan. 6

Until we know all the basic facts about that day, Americans will have no reason to be confident that justice has been served.

07.02.2025 60

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Defunding USAID Isn’t About Reducing The Deficit, It’s About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda

USAID isn’t just a ridiculous scam on U.S. taxpayers, it funds leftist causes that erode western civilization and destroy traditional values.

05.02.2025 200

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It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power

We’re never going to have peace and security on our southern border until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run Mexico.

30.01.2025 40

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Birthright Citizenship Is A Pernicious Lie That’s Destroying America

Beyond the legal arguments about the 14th Amendment is the moral argument: who is America for, and what makes someone an American?

24.01.2025 10

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Trump’s Executive Orders On Immigration Prove Biden Could Have Secured The Border At Any Time

Chaos on the border and mass illegal immigration were policy outcomes the Biden administration chose on purpose.

21.01.2025 100

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Marco Rubio Is Right, The Postwar Liberal Order Was A ‘Dangerous Delusion’

It’s long past time to reconsider our suicidal obsession with an open society and recognize that America is more than just an idea.

17.01.2025 10

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The Legacy Of Jan. 6 Should Be Massive Reform Of The FBI And DOJ

Four years later, it’s clear that the federal government’s response to Jan. 6 is far worse than anything that happened that day.

07.01.2025 3

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The Failed Omnibus Would Have Let The J6 Committee Off The Hook For Framing Trump

Democrats are trying to insulate their Jan 6. probe from scrutiny because they know they destroyed and suppressed evidence.

19.12.2024 100

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John Bolton’s Cheap Shots At Kash Patel Are A Sign Of Panic In Washington

Bolton doesn’t really oppose Patel for being unqualified or lacking good character but because he wants to thwart Trump’s reform agenda.

12.12.2024 20

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Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Is A Hill Trump Should Die On

If the GOP establishment in Washington can kill the Hegseth nomination, it will obstruct Trump’s entire agenda for the next four years.

09.12.2024 20

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Hunter Biden’s Pardon Is All About Protecting Joe Biden, Not His Son

President Joe Biden didn’t pardon Hunter because he’s a loving father who thinks his drug addict son was treated unfairly by the Justice...

03.12.2024 30

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The GOP Establishment Is A Greater Threat To Trump’s Agenda Than Democrats

Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration for attorney general on Thursday. It was an early setback for President-elect Donald Trump that...

22.11.2024 70

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Speaker Mike Johnson’s Response To The Trans Bathroom Fracas In Congress Was Cowardly

House Speaker Mike Johnson failed to answer a very easy question lobbed at him Tuesday morning. He was asked whether Rep. Sarah McBride, an...

20.11.2024 50

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We Need To Take A Wrecking Ball To The DOJ. Matt Gaetz Is Just The Man For The Job

The collective pearl-clutching by the corporate press and Washington establishment on Wednesday after Trump announced he’d chosen Matt Gaetz to be...

14.11.2024 70

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Trump Shouldn’t Hire Kristi Noem, Or Anyone Else, To Run DHS. He Should Abolish It

News broke Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump picked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security, a key...

13.11.2024 20

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Hard Times Ahead For The Dispatch, The Bulwark And The Rest Of The Liz Cheney Grifters

Amid the celebration and relief at Donald Trump’s landslide victory last week on the right, there was a small yet shrill cadre of unreconstructed...

12.11.2024 40

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After Trump’s Victory, There Can Be No Unity Without A Reckoning

Back in July after the first Trump assassination attempt, I wrote that there can be no national unity, no burying the hatchet or cooling the...

07.11.2024 90

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Media Run Blatant Election Interference With Propaganda About Trump ‘Threatening’ Liz Cheney

If you woke up Friday morning and glanced at the headlines of any major media outlet, you would think former President Donald Trump had threatened...

02.11.2024 90

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If Trump Wins, He Should Arrest And Prosecute Jimmy Kimmel

The law is the law, and Jimmy Kimmel broke it. Or at least, he broke the law as it has been outrageously interpreted according to President Joe...

01.11.2024 70

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The Social Stigma Of Being A Trump Supporter Is Gone 

With just a week left before Election Day it’s obvious there’s been a major vibe shift in American politics, and the vibe shift is this: People...

29.10.2024 50

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The Atlantic Hit Piece On Trump Is A Psy-Op To Justify Post-Election Violence If Harris Loses

The outlandish hit piece on Donald Trump published this week by Jeffery Goldberg at The Atlantic, which was immediately denied on the record by all...

24.10.2024 70

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Asking Questions About Election Integrity Doesn’t Make Someone An ‘Election Denier’

A sensational report in The Wall Street Journal implies that questioning the integrity of our elections is tantamount to domestic terrorism.

22.10.2024 3

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Kamala Harris Is Priming Democrats For Violent Resistance If Trump Wins

By now it’s commonplace to note that Kamala Harris often seems out of her depth, like she’s unsure what to say about policy, or how to explain her...

17.10.2024 200

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Neocons Imported The Afghan Man Who Plotted An Election Day Terror Attack

It’s hard to imagine a more searing indictment of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal than the news this week...

11.10.2024 20

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Harris Is Only Running For President Because It Became Impossible To Hide Biden’s Decline

Of course she wouldn’t have done anything different than President Biden. She’s the empty replacement figurehead.

09.10.2024 4

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Kamala Harris Claims To ‘Love America,’ But Her Record Shows She Hates It

At a campaign rally in Wisconsin last week with former Rep. Liz Cheney, Vice President Kamala Harris opened by saying, “we love America.” She...

07.10.2024 100

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Kamala Harris Doesn’t Care About White People

In the long-ago of 2005, just days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, a young Kanye West blurted out on live television during...

30.09.2024 4

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It’s Not Just Haitians In Springfield. Mass Immigration Is Destroying The American Nation

After the presidential debate last Tuesday night, J.D. Vance told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins the only reason the media is talking about places like...

19.09.2024 2

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Hillary Clinton Wants To Jail Americans For ‘Misinformation.’ Let’s Start With Her

Hillary Clinton went on MSNBC this week and told Rachel Maddow that she thinks Americans who spread “misinformation” and Russia propaganda should...

18.09.2024 30

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The Debate Was So Biased It Was Divorced From Reality. Trump Should Refuse To Do Another

Tuesday night during the presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the fact-checks were flying, but only...

11.09.2024 1

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If You Want Haitians Eating Cats And Decapitating Ducks In Your Town, Vote For Harris

If you were confused on Monday by the sudden proliferation of social media memes featuring AI-generated images of Donald Trump surrounded by...

10.09.2024 60

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Desperate Democrats Are Pushing Yet Another Version Of The Russia Collusion Hoax

The Biden administration’s announcement this week that the Justice Department is taking action against alleged Kremlin-run websites and Russian...

06.09.2024 80

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Democrats Want To Keep The U.S. Border Wide Open As An Electoral Strategy

For decades, Democrats have favored open borders because they think illegal immigrants will become Democrat voters.

04.09.2024 3

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The Arrest Of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Shows The Truth About The West’s Dying ‘Democracies’

Reading the corporate media coverage of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest in Paris this week, you’d think he was a Kremlin spy or an international...

28.08.2024 4

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The DNC Has Just Been One Long Litany Of Stupid, Obvious Lies

It almost goes without saying that what Democrats are putting on at the DNC this week in Chicago is a simulacrum of democracy, a mimicry of the...

22.08.2024 2

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Democrats’ Abortion Van At The DNC Offers A Glimpse Of America’s Future

Did you hear about the free abortions and sterilizations on offer at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week? Incredibly, the news...

20.08.2024 90

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The Riots In Britain Represent The Total Failure Of Britain’s Governing Class

The rioting breaking out all across Britain right now is what happens when a country’s political class tries to depoliticize mass immigration —...

07.08.2024 70

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Anti-Christian Olympic Opening Ceremony Heralds The Rise Of A Neopagan West

As nearly everyone has seen by now, the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics featured an obscene tableau mocking Christianity with a paganized...

29.07.2024 60

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Pro-Hamas Rioters In D.C. Vindicate J.D. Vance’s View Of America

When pro-Hamas rioters on Wednesday ripped down and burned the American flag outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., and defaced nearby...

26.07.2024 40

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With Joe Biden Out Of Sight, We Effectively Have No President Right Now

There was a moment on Monday during Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee that brought into...

23.07.2024 60

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Why Does The Biden Admin Have ‘100 Percent Confidence’ In Secret Service After Assassination Attempt?

No failure, regardless of how monumental or catastrophic, is ever so bad that President Joe Biden and his lieutenants won’t try to spin it into...

16.07.2024 2

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There Can Be No Unity With The Violent Democrat-Media Industrial Complex

The blood on former President Donald Trump’s face was barely dry before calls to “take down the temperature” and “unite” began rolling in from...

15.07.2024 200

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