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Media bubble-think: Sex is antiquated

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Ben Sasse wants you to love your neighbor not your political party

28.04.2026 5

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Even more than civility, we need humility

27.04.2026 8

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Day care fever costs taxpayers millions

24.04.2026 10

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The Catholic Great Awakening

17.04.2026 10

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Does it matter that Eric Swalwell is married?

13.04.2026 3

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Well-designed townhouses might be the sweet spot for family-friendly housing

The baby bust is mostly cultural, but partly economic. The economic drag on family formation is mostly about housing: In the past six years, it has...

30.03.2026 3

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Capitalism, modified, in a conservative town

BLUFFTON, Ind. — There are no hotels in Bluffton, population 10,308. So ahead of my visit, I wrote to Kathy Gardner, proprietress of the Washington...

27.03.2026 10

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Babies and families should not be exotic

Go to London, and you’ll see Italian and Polish tourists losing their minds over the gray squirrels in Hyde Park. Some will express bafflement over...

27.03.2026 10

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Hollywood wants to conscript everyone as their copyright police

A Virginia jury in 2019 smacked Cox Communications, the cable giant, with a $1 billion penalty for allowing its customers to use its networks to...

25.03.2026 7

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Get more money to new parents

You’ve heard of the proposed “baby bonus,” in which Uncle Sam cuts a check to new parents upon the birth of their child. You’ve heard of the...

25.03.2026 7

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Sins of omission: The Kermit Gosnell defenses the press dared not mention

“Every one of those babies died in utero.” “They have no case,” the defense attorney said of a victim named Baby Boy A, “because it was...

24.03.2026 7

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Politics ruins your travel

Hobby Airport in Houston might have been the worst. Folks showed up on Saturday, March 14, planning to jet off for spring break, only to find a...

20.03.2026 10

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Paul Ehrlich won the debate: Just read the comments

Paul Ehrlich, the celebrity bug scientist-turned-environmentalist who wrote a tract against babymaking called The Population Bomb, was disastrously...

16.03.2026 8

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The conservative case for college

“College is a scam,” the finance bros on Twitter will tell you. The Return on Investment is weak, hustle accounts proclaim. Democrats finally...

13.03.2026 7

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The elite polyamory push

Do you remember when polygamy was retrograde and conservative? You only have to go back to about 13 years, when the gay marriage debate was hitting...

13.03.2026 20

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The Democrats’ ‘gerrymandering ban’ was no such thing

As Democrats support a deceptively worded ballot measure to create a rank partisan gerrymander in Virginia, they nevertheless claim the moral high...

09.03.2026 10

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Too many children!

The Power of Rude was the title of Rebecca Reid’s nonfiction book, so it shouldn’t have surprised anyone that the liberal novelist attacked a mom...

06.03.2026 20

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Murder in a sanctuary county

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia — This murder is on Steve Descano. There can be no doubt that Stephanie Minter is dead because of the indefensible actions...

06.03.2026 30

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No, the War Powers Resolution doesn’t give the president 60 days of free war

The Constitution clearly grants Congress, not the president, the power to declare war. Thus, most defenders of President Donald Trump’s unauthorized...

03.03.2026 10

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Where religion exits, extremism enters

America has become much more secular. White evangelicals are increasingly de-institutionalized.  This is a bad development, which helps explain the...

03.03.2026 10

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‘No controlling legal authority’ goes to war

When former Vice President Al Gore solicited campaign contributions in the White House, in violation of the federal law banning him from raising...

02.03.2026 7

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A woman’s work is never done

The old story came back with a vengeance in recent months. Headlines everywhere declared a “she-cession.” “Women are being forced out of their...

27.02.2026 10

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In Trump’s GOP, the sexual revolution has won

There’s good news for Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, even this week, as the Office of the Inspector General investigation into an alleged...

27.02.2026 10

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State of the Union lowlights: Biden yells, media clap

Going into his 2024 State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden was facing what the press called a coordinated Republican effort to paint him as...

25.02.2026 50

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State of the Union lowlights: Biden yells, media clap

Going into his 2024 State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden was facing what the press called a coordinated Republican effort to paint him as...

25.02.2026 10

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State of the Union lowlights: ‘Axis of Evil’

The State of the Union has been the occasion for many very bad ideas. I’ve been watching them for decades, and today, ahead of Trump’s address, I...

24.02.2026 20

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State of the Union lowlights: ‘We have excluded lobbyists’

Barack Obama was elected president, promising to take on corporate lobbyists. Because much of the news media took Obama’s word for it, he kept...

24.02.2026 10

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Trump plays a dangerous game on judges

Beginning in the Obama era, liberals in politics and the news media began an insidious campaign of threatening the Supreme Court if it didn’t rule...

24.02.2026 40

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That sink-in feeling

A human computer programmer recently angered an AI programming bot, and so the bot wrote a hit piece about the programmer. This being 2026, the hit...

20.02.2026 20

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What the postliberals get right — and wrong

Secretary of State Marco Rubio travelled to Munich this month and articulated a possible foundation for a deeper trans-Atlantic friendship. Rubio...

20.02.2026 20

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Jesse Jackson was not controversial, or liberal, according to the obits

Preacher and long-shot presidential candidate Pat Robertson was a “conservative … culture warrior,” his obituaries told us. Read NBC News at the...

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Bad Bunny is bad

10.02.2026 10

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Peak American

30.01.2026 10

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Party of six

23.01.2026 10

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Philly spreads into the Cumberland Valley

23.01.2026 10

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A year of cronyism and self-enrichment for Trump

22.01.2026 10

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Trump’s sordid pardon economy

16.01.2026 10

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Illegal pickup

16.01.2026 10

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Capturing Maduro was the extraordinarily challenging but easier part

03.01.2026 10

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This wasn’t an arrest in Venezuela. This was an unauthorized regime-change war

03.01.2026 10

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CNN’s Kasie Hunt calls to ‘impeach’ Trump and Bondi: Liberal Media Scream

23.12.2025 10

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Deadbeat Newsom passes loan cost off to California businesses

23.12.2025 60

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Sorry, America, but sunrise will keep getting later for two weeks

23.12.2025 20

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Trump Vows to Make Union Station Great Again

21.12.2025 10

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The holy war over birth control

21.12.2025 20

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COVID-19 closure consequences

12.12.2025 10

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We’re getting fewer births, not just later births

10.12.2025 10

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Time’s 2025 Person of the Year should be an obvious choice: Charlie Kirk

10.12.2025 20

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The Supreme Court must rein in climate litigation

10.12.2025 20

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