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After USAID, America Will Never Be the Same

Photo Credit: AT via Magic StudioUSAID does wonderful things for the poor and oppressed of the world. And there’s a heckuva bridge available right...

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Christopher Chantrill

Trump FTC Must Stop Biden’s Prescription Drug Madness

Photo Credit:Image via Pixabay. PixabayPharmacy Benefit Managers improve market efficiency and save consumers money, but in Biden’s world, they’re...

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Brian Garst

The Debt Ceiling: Trump's Next Target?

Photo Credit: AT via Magic StudioThe test of whether we continue to save money and cut the federal government will come as soon as we face another...

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David Lanza

A United America Is Democrats’ Undoing

Photo Credit:Image: stevepb via Pixabay, Pixabay license. stevepbDemocrats’ political success depends upon an ever-growing class of...

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J.b. Shurk

Breathless in America

Photo Credit:Trump flag with superimposed over him picryl / pixabayThere’s nothing pie-in-the-sky about our president; he isn’t a dreamer absently...

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Deana Chadwell

Confessions of Schadenfreude

Photo Credit: PixabayI can’t help enjoying the government workers’ panic over Elon Musk and the DOGE.

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Rob Jenkins

Trump’s Chess Game Is Improving

Trump’s Chess Game Is Improving

Does Chucky Schumer really believe that $20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq will somehow benefit the U.S.?  Or $7 million to promote LGBT...

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Ted Noel

Trump Has the Taxpayers’ Back

Trump Has the Taxpayers’ Back

Is there a publicly traded company in the U.S. where shareholders (in this case, the taxpayer) or the company’s board would not want their CEO to...

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Chris J. Krisinger

Downsizing the Federal Government

Downsizing the Federal Government

Over the next four years, we must take many interconnected steps to modernize, shrink, and renew our system of government. The Cost of Regulation...

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James S. Fay

Tribalism: The Key to Understanding Islam

Tribalism: The Key to Understanding Islam

Despite its religious veneer, Islam can easily be defined and understood by one non-religious word: tribalism. This is key. The entire appeal of...

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Raymond Ibrahim

Is There A Problem With Colorado State University And Its Nipah Virus Research?

Is There A Problem With Colorado State University And Its Nipah Virus Research?

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been totally geeking out on and fangirling @DataRepublican on X. She developed a searchable database of federal...

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Anony Mee

Media Titans Rattled by Lawsuits

Media Titans Rattled by Lawsuits

Zachary Young appeared to be such an easy target. He is a retired U.S. Navy veteran who had the temerity to fight back when CNN featured him in a...

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Robyn Dolgin

The Musk-eteers Reveal You’ve Been Living in a Simulated Reality

The Musk-eteers Reveal You’ve Been Living in a Simulated Reality

Over the past two weeks Elon Musk and his cadre of young computer geniuses have cracked the code. Like Toto pulling the curtain on the Wizard of...

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Clarice Feldman

Reaching for the Source of Meaning and Certitude

Reaching for the Source of Meaning and Certitude

According to Macbeth, “Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is...

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Anthony J. Deblasi

Migration, Conquest, and Exodus

Migration, Conquest, and Exodus

Image: Sack of Rome by Karl Bryullov, Public Domain. The irreversible process of “transculturation” is underway. Without question, the West has...

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Lars Møller

Trump and the States Confront Digital Issues

Trump and the States Confront Digital Issues

With a recent executive order, the race is on between states and the incoming Trump administration to enact real change on digital asset policy...

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Niklas Kleinworth

Shutting Down USAID Is Only The First Step To Cutting Government Pork

Shutting Down USAID Is Only The First Step To Cutting Government Pork

It’s been less than a month since President Trump reentered the Oval Office and he is already moving on his campaign promise to slash wasteful and...

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Connor Vasile

America Must, Can, And Should Renew Its Nuclear Energy Dominance

America Must, Can, And Should Renew Its Nuclear Energy Dominance

The loudly announced policy of the new Trump Administration is for the US to regain global “energy dominance.” Most of us would first think, “drill...

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Joseph Somsel

Dems Oppose Trump's Order Protecting Children From Gender Mutilation

Dems Oppose Trump's Order Protecting Children From Gender Mutilation

Recently the NYT reported that "New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s...

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Rajan Laad

Trump vs. the Democrat Establishment

Trump vs. the Democrat Establishment

President Trump has been the target of numerous 'protests' since the day he descended the escalator at Trump Tower to declare his foray into...

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Rajan Laad

Migration Policy Finally Appears in the U.S.

Migration Policy Finally Appears in the U.S.

Under President Trump, the United States has made further progress in securing citizen safety. However, for some individuals, opposing the current...

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Shawn Hodges

When Words Ignite

When Words Ignite

It’s been said that we don’t change until the pain of change becomes less than the pain of not changing. Some folks may be approaching that point...

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Kevin Finn

The CDC’s Big Mistake

The CDC’s Big Mistake

President Trump’s first week in office included an order suspending all CDC, HHS, and NIH communications: regulations, announcements, reports,...

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Trish Randall

The “Spiro Agnew Standard” in the Age of Biden

The “Spiro Agnew Standard” in the Age of Biden

Born in 1918, Spiro Agnew was the first-generation progeny of Greek immigrants in Baltimore. Agnew served in WWII, and won a Bronze Star for his...

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Jon Wickwire

How American Education Promotes Sloth

How American Education Promotes Sloth

President Trump’s plan to reindustrialize American will invariably focus on education. After all, it is impossible to imagine building things with...

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Robert Weissberg

Tech Titans and the Rise of the Surveillance State

Tech Titans and the Rise of the Surveillance State

In December 2024, Congress quietly extended Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two more years.  Tucked into the...

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Susan Lawson

USAID Down, Now Let’s Get Rid of DRL

USAID Down, Now Let’s Get Rid of DRL

With President Trump going after the “foreign assistance” doled out by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), announcing a...

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John M. Grondelski

California Democrats Move Toward Secession

California Democrats Move Toward Secession

Days after the American nation secured a landslide victory for Donald J. Trump as the 47th U.S. President, some Democrat-led states voiced their...

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Mike Robertson

When Tyrants Hijack Human Rights

When Tyrants Hijack Human Rights

One can’t help but see the grim irony in a United Nations event on human rights being held in Hangzhou, a major Chinese city known for its...

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Charlton Allen

DOGE for the FDA

DOGE for the FDA

What would America look like without a regulatory body like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) overseeing and deciding drug safety and...

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Matthew Williams

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

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

Our self-appointed “ruling class” is insufferable.  Two-plus weeks into the restored Trump administration, and the Democrat/media outrage...

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J.b. Shurk

When Democrats Were Called Fascists: Corporate Socialism and Roosevelt’s New Deal

When Democrats Were Called Fascists: Corporate Socialism and Roosevelt’s New Deal

The presidential election of 1932 was about Wall Street selecting a candidate willing to implement actual fascist plans in America. Unlike the...

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Neil M. Tokar

Trump 2.0: The First Month

Trump 2.0: The First Month

Donald Trump is an acquired taste. Donald Trump is a bully. Donald Trump is a breath of fresh air. Donald Trump is an oligarch. Donald Trump is a...

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Stephen Helgesen