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Aliens Among Us

No, not the E.T. kind. These are uncomfortably closer to home.

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Jeffrey Folks

Questions The Media Should Be Asking Democrats About Affordability

Democrats promise to lower costs, but journalists rarely ask them to explain their policies—or account for the soaring prices under Biden.

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Jack Hellner

Is China Indirectly Enabling America’s Adversaries?

Chinese technology and commercial ties are helping the Houthis and Russia challenge U.S. interests, raising questions about Beijing’s strategic...

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A. Jathindra

The Left’s Dumbed Down Tower Of Babel

If language corruption continues unchecked, the term “university educated” may soon signify useful idiot.

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Robert Weissberg

Voter Fatigue Isn’t Apathy. It’s A Demand For Accountability

And maybe there’s a way politicians can provide it.

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Deborah A. Wilson

Are Ukrainians Really Just Russians?

It is a question a close friend and former student of mine in Ukraine would despise.

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James Conway

Christians. Rise Up and Vote.

It’s time to be salt and light in the voting booth. Don’t forsake this obligation.

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David Prentice

You Really Think Woke Is Dead?

Then you won’t be prepared when it comes roaring back.

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Cole Ellison

Forced Realism

Yugoslavia, Ukraine, and the end of the West’s civilizational fantasy.

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Lars Møller

Give Me Liberty or Give Me…?

It will be our own fault if we allow our constitutional republic to be transformed by the Left into the kind of government our ancestors broke away...

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Mike Phelps

Incremental Socialism

Once socialism is embedded in our laws and institutions, the march to communism begins.

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Luis Gonzalez

Marxism And Cancel Culture

The Democratic Socialists of America would do well to remember that cancel culture will turn on them. The Soviets canceled Karl Marx himself!

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F. Charles Parker Iv

George Bush Was Wrong On 9/11 And Still Is

Islam a religion of peace? Nothing in its works would suggest that.

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Alicia Colon

Why You No Longer Need to Fear Global Warming

After decades of predictions, we have something more valuable than alarming computer projections: actual observations.

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Anthony Watts

The Great Feminization, Wokeness, And The Rule Of Law

Anyone confronting the maladies coincident with culture’s feminization should follow the money to see who is ultimately pulling the strings.

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Richard Kirk

SI Data Center Reality Check

Make the case for data centers on their merits. Then let the citizens who must live with them decide whether those benefits justify the sacrifices.

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Ed Timperlake

The Fairytale Of An America Without Limits

Leftism is reducing America to a self-hating, government-dependent, multicultural mess that still believes it has the wealth and moral authority to...

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Allan J. Feifer

Ilhan Omar’s Odyssey

I don’t blame Ilhan for the sins of her father, but what she has done since then is entirely on her.

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Bill Ponton

Rome Took Centuries To Fall. It May Take The West Mere Decades.

World leaders, combining citizen bribes in the form of socialization, mass immigration, and cultural hatred, are rapidly destroying the West.

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Vince Coyner

Another Suspicious Election in Brazil

When will the people decide they’ve finally had enough?

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J.b. Shurk

Maybe France Deserves to Burn

Didn't France just legalize abortion?

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Selwyn Duke

Roland At Roncevaux: Sound The Horn, France!

What Roland learned too late, France -- and the West more broadly -- can still learn in time.

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Joan Mounteer

Hand In Hand Toward the Abyss

Hand in hand, Germany and France are steering toward the abyss -- with different domestic political goals, perhaps, but with the same fatal outcome.

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Thomas Kolbe

When is a Color Revolution Not a Color Revolution?

Just which party is usually associated in the minds of voters with “perceived electoral irregularities”?

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Christopher Chantrill

If College Is A Rape Culture, Why Are Women Lining Up To Attend?

Elite universities are portrayed as dangerous places for women. Their enrollment figures tell a more complicated story.

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Brian C. Joondeph

Four Soldiers Died Because The Military Knew The Risks And Continued Anyway

An avoidable tragedy in Canada means the U.S. should be reevaluating the competence of the nation’s military leadership.

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Mike Robertson

Polls Are The AIDS Of American Politics

The polling industry has not merely failed to fix itself; it has become an electoral virus, surging through America’s body politic with almost no...

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Joseph Ford Cotto

Swallow The Medicine. Rebuild The Nation.

Temporarily higher prices at the gas pump must not deter America from defeating Iran and rebuilding its own robust energy and manufacturing sectors.

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Cole Ellison

14 Points of Western Values

And the left aligns with not a single one.

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David Walls-Kaufman

Can Republicans Defy Midterm History?

Surprisingly, they can—but even if they don’t, the Democrats will not fare very well, setting the table for a successful 2028 Republican election.

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Arthur Schaper

When Congress Stops Governing, Presidents Fill The Void

The midterms won't fix Congress's dysfunction or its growing surrender of power to the presidency.

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Allan J. Feifer

A Europe United In Infamy

The European Parliament’s insulting Trump statue exposes the continent’s political decadence.

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Evelyne Joslain

Why Leftists Won’t Let Us Live

Leftism cannot succeed unless everyone fails together.

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J.b. Shurk

For the Midterms, Democrats Hate President Trump’s Stunning Record!

Unless Democrats succeed in rigging the upcoming midterm elections, Americans will continue to benefit and prosper from the POTUS’s heroic vision.

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Joan Swirsky

Romania’s Communist Past Reminds Us That The Left Uses History As A Tool

For them—as for Democrats in America—history is not a record of our past; it is, instead, one more way to control the present and the future.

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Arnold Cusmariu

France in a Chokehold: Now Even a Gasoline Shortage Looms

For the French, everything is coming at once in these difficult weeks.

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Thomas Kolbe

In Vietnam, A Story Of Political Betrayal

The South Vietnamese troops were true and brave allies, and the Democrats cruelly abandoned them to their dire fates.

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Maj. Gen. Joe Arbuckle (Usa

Hopelessly Naive

Afghanistan, Iraq, and the West’s failed attempt to impose democracy on alien cultures.

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Lars Møller

Marching Orders For Christians On Election Day

For Christians, faith in God’s providence does not excuse political inaction.

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Albin Sadar

Trump Demands Two Loyalties

Loyalty to the president personally can get you in the door. But it won’t keep you in his inner circle on its own.

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Meda Parameswara Reddy

Fake Pollsters And Those Who Loved Them

Four polling outfits have recently been exposed as utter frauds, fabricating data and sharing fraudulent reports.

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Clarice Feldman

Only Citizen-Patriots Can Save the West

The war for Western civilization is here.

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J.b. Shurk

‘Atta Boy Roy’—I Don’t Think So!

Career politician Roy Cooper is now vying for a seat in the federal Senate, so let’s take a quick look at his record.

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Richard Blakley

Students Are Back. The Faculty Accountability Questions Never Left.

When professors blur the line between academic freedom and political activism, universities owe their students clear standards and consistent...

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Anna Miller

The Globalist Assault On America

Trump stands firm against a consumerist Europe and a woke Democrat party.

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Istvan Toth

Republicans Are a Cancer. Democrats Are The Grim Reaper.

This is not a distinction without a difference. It is a significant difference that matters greatly to the nation and its citizens.

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Vince Coyner

Cuba's Socialist Con

Cuba paints itself as a people’s revolution… a true democracy, but the language is different from the reality.

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Luis Gonzalez

Another October Surprise?

The Democrats would love the Iranians to pull off their own October Surprise this year.

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Kenneth R. Timmerman

The Blank Stares Of America’s Future

A high school debate competition reveals the leftist claptrap students are taught—and the facts and analytical skills they’ve never learned.

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Chris Boland

What The Latest ‘No Kings’ No Show Told Me

A lot of angry old liberals who don’t have a lot of enthusiasm going into November.

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Arthur Schaper