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Derek Hunter, Opinion Contributor

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The Penny and Mangione sagas highlight the left's moral bankruptcy

Progressive Democrats have reacted with joy to the murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, while condemning the acquittal of Daniel Penny,...

11.12.2024 10

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Derek Hunter, Opinion Contributor

Biden’s corruption highlights the need to fix the pardon power — here's how to do it

President Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden for tax evasion and lying to the government to buy a gun, but the pardon covers any federal crime he...

04.12.2024 10

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Trump should give Biden permission to pardon Hunter

President Biden should pardon his son Hunter Biden, who has been convicted of tax and gun law violations, in order to avoid appearing mean and to give...

27.11.2024 20

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Americans want mass deportations, period

If you’re watching MSNBC or CNN, the degree to which the idea of “mass deportations” will ruin the economy fluctuates by the hour. You'll hear...

20.11.2024 30

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Yes, democracy was on the ballot — and it won!

Democrats are angered by the American public's decision to vote for Republicans, despite their claims that Trump and Republicans are a threat to...

13.11.2024 20

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How to make a Trump voter out of any undecided parent: Take them to a library

A couple of weeks ago, I took my daughters, 7 and 6, to the local library because I had seen a sign for an event that seemed like it would be fun. It...

30.10.2024 3

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Harris can't make the case for herself because there isn't one

The closing weeks of a campaign are when opinions start to harden. Candidates and their surrogates make the last-minute cases for themselves. They...

23.10.2024 20

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Kamala's newest lie: Trump will send the army after you

Vice President Kamala Harris has lied about Donald Trump's statements, claiming that he would consider using the military against his political...

16.10.2024 20

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Either Trump or Harris will win in spite of themselves 

The 2024 election is shaping up to be a battle for the leftovers, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris competing for the support of the...

09.10.2024 6

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Larry Hogan is making a huge mistake in Maryland's Senate race

What’s weird about this race isn’t that Hogan could win, it’s the issue they’ve both decided to campaign on: abortion.

02.10.2024 5

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VP debate: Vance wins as Walz whiffs on easy questions

Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance won the debate against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz by effectively addressing tough questions and exposing Walz's...

02.10.2024 5

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Republicans and Democrats are living in 2 different Americas

Americans are living in two completely different worlds when it comes to the 2024 election, with cable news networks providing only what viewers want...

25.09.2024 20

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Kamala Harris will raise your taxes, no matter what she's saying now

Kamala Harris has promised not to raise taxes for those making less than $400,000, but her proposed tax credits and deductions are not actual tax...

18.09.2024 10

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Debate night: Just another night of Kamala Harris dodging all substantive questions

Neither candidate was “likable” in the traditional sense. But that is par for Trump's course. Harris wanted to come off as the anti-Trump, but she...

11.09.2024 4

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Kamala Harris's 'unrealized gains tax' — so dumb it's truly historic

Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a tax on "unrealized capital gains" which would harm all investors, and historically, taxes that start off...

04.09.2024 7

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Rape, drugs, adultery, DUI all okay. But if you back Trump, the Kennedys will disown you

The Kennedy family, once a unified and loyal unit, has transitioned to an appendage of the Democratic Party, with RFK Jr.'s family attacking his...

28.08.2024 6

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Kamala’s moment: The pantsuit is truly empty

Kamala Harris has officially accepted the Democratic Party's nomination, but her acceptance speech lacked substance and contained no vision for...

23.08.2024 80

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Trump needs to realize how many people hate him before it’s too late

Donald Trump needs to find a way to reach people who do not like him, or else 2024 will be a repeat of 2020, as he is leading on the issues that...

21.08.2024 10

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Harris is trying to run a no-substance campaign. Does she believe in anything?

Kamala Harris has been unable to articulate a clear vision or original thought on policy, despite having campaigned on radical left-wing positions in...

14.08.2024 5

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The Harris-Walz campaign is just an admission of Biden-Harris's failures

Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to announce her plans for the presidency, despite running on a far-left list of promises in 2020, and her...

07.08.2024 10

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Democrats demand you celebrate Kamala Harris for precisely what doesn't matter

Democrats have been focusing on abortion and racial identity politics, while praising Vice President Kamala Harris for being "diverse" despite having...

31.07.2024 10

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Kamala Harris’s record is as bad as Joe Biden’s

Now, thanks to the roll-out of the Harris campaign, people mad at President Biden over the idea that two bags of groceries now cost $100 will be mad...

24.07.2024 60

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Why are Democrats glad Trump survived if he's a Nazi and a threat to our nation?

Democrats have been calling Republicans Nazis for years, and the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump has exposed their lies and manipulation...

17.07.2024 30

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Party over country: Democrats stick with Biden, knowing he is unfit to serve

Democrats have come to the realization that they have no better option than President Biden, despite his diminished mental capacity, because their...

10.07.2024 10

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On Biden’s debate, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves

Democrats' attempts to protect President Biden from scrutiny has resulted in a lack of viable replacements, leaving them stuck with a senile candidate...

03.07.2024 10

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Joe Biden just had a 90-minute senior moment. The debate really was that bad.

It was shocking.

28.06.2024 100

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Speaker Johnson: ‘No one expects that Joe Biden will be on cocaine’ at debate

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that no one expects President Biden to be "on cocaine" during the debate later this week, despite President...

26.06.2024 40

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Donald Trump can out-debate Joe Biden with this counterintuitive strategy

Former President Donald Trump must strategically win the debate against Joe Biden without landing a devastating knockout blow, as the Democratic Party...

26.06.2024 10

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Trump risks losing next week's debate before it even happens

During the 2000 election, Democrats lowered expectations too far for George W. Bush. Republicans now risk doing the same for Joe Biden.

19.06.2024 10

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What Trump and Biden must each do to win in November 

Politics is the one area of life where everyone speaks like they’re soothsayers. Most people get their declarations of the future wildly wrong, and...

12.06.2024 7

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Condescension masquerading as justice: MLB tries to whitewash its history

To give Josh Gibson something he didn’t earn, for whatever reason, is just condescension masquerading as justice.

05.06.2024 10

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Derek Hunter, Opinion Contributor

What's the matter with libertarianism?

The Libertarian Party and movement are irrelevant not because they nominate weirdly woke candidates or because their institutions' priorities only...

29.05.2024 30

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Here's how Donald Trump loses the 2024 election

If it becomes an election about personality, then that’s how Donald Trump ends up losing.

15.05.2024 30

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Democrats impeached Trump for exactly what Biden is now doing to Israel

Biden, who needs votes from an angry, antisemitic base of young college progressives, is putting politics ahead of a longstanding ally — in fact,...

08.05.2024 20

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Campus goes crazy, Democrats hardest hit

Hatred is a great motivator, but the question is always, to what end? Democrats are about to find out.

01.05.2024 20

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Caitlin Clark is very impressive. She's not the greatest of all time.

Let's celebrate Clark's accomplishment, but let's do it honestly.

24.04.2024 30

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Why should we be so afraid of Iran?

A strong president — one more concerned with the best interests of the country and world than his chances of winning Michigan — would by rallying...

17.04.2024 9

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Democrats are squatting on the Kennedy name

Entitled liberal media and party elites have broken into the Kennedy home and are squatting on the Kennedy name, insisting that it belongs to them.

10.04.2024 5

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Unlearning the lessons of history

We are prodded by our education system into a corrupted view of history in which only our own sins count.

03.04.2024 10

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Elon Musk is no angel. He's not the devil, either

Elon Musk, like Joe Rogan, is no conservative hero. He’s just a guy who supports the concept of free speech.

27.03.2024 7

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Republicans face the first post-Rush and post-Drudge presidential election

Republican electoral odds are a little bit longer now.

20.03.2024 20

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The case for voter ID is unassailable, unless you're hiding something

If the right to vote is sacrosanct, as Democrats insist, why do they oppose even the most basic efforts to protect the integrity of the voter rolls?

13.03.2024 10

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Derek Hunter, Opinion Contributor

Super Tuesday has ended Nikki Haley’s campaign. Will she accept it?

The question is how long it will take for Haley to accept reality and drop out.

06.03.2024 40

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The 2024 election is Trump's to lose — here's how he could blow it

There are a lot of Republicans doing an end zone dance on the five-yard-line right now.

28.02.2024 10

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The war of words has everyone in denial

What we’re living through is a forced changing of the meaning of words based on the political whims of the moment.

21.02.2024 6

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If Biden has nothing to hide, then he should probably stop hiding

The public accepts that people age. What we don’t like is being told that we are somehow morally defective for noticing it in this particular...

14.02.2024 5

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Derek Hunter, Opinion Contributor

Democrats are suddenly singing a different tune on the border

Having watched them deny the problem for so long, who in their right mind would trust Democrats on the border crisis now?

07.02.2024 20

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Republicans have a serious Taylor Swift problem

If Swift can make her audience take a sudden interest in football, just imagine what she could do if she actively tried to stir up support for...

31.01.2024 30

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Joy Reid just got a painful life-lesson about 'context'

The segment highlighted what is obvious to most sentient beings: There is no context where the sexually explicit writings of adults are appropriate...

24.01.2024 10

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Political journalism keeps hitting new lows

Who is Rachel Maddow, and who is MSNBC, to deny an audience everything except pre-approved, out of context clips?

17.01.2024 4

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