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Transitioning the Federal Workforce into Farmhands

Transitioning the Federal Workforce into Farmhands

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Uncommon Communicators: Churchill, Reagan, Trump

Uncommon Communicators: Churchill, Reagan, Trump

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26.01.2025 20

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Deconstructing the Deep State

Deconstructing the Deep State

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23.01.2025 30

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The Great Man Returns

The Great Man Returns

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20.01.2025 30

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What an Interesting Time to Be Alive

What an Interesting Time to Be Alive

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17.01.2025 4

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Illegal Immigration Is Killing Small Towns

Illegal Immigration Is Killing Small Towns

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13.01.2025 20

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Depopulation: A Space Odyssey

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10.01.2025 7

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Remember January 6 Forever

On January 6, 2025, Congress certifies President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s victory.  There is something poetic about reclaiming that day from all...

05.01.2025 10

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Back to the Beginning

So it begins: a new year, a new presidency, and, for America, a new lease on life.  Yet it feels as if we’ve been here before, doesn’t it?  ...

02.01.2025 10

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The Best or the Worst of Times?

Now that Christmas Day has passed, I have put down my beloved copy of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and picked up his masterpiece, A Tale...

29.12.2024 10

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This Christmas, Let Us Pray

It is arguably the most iconic image from the American Revolution.  You can find drawings, paintings, and sculptures commemorating its significance...

25.12.2024 10

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Democrats Don’t Transfer Power Peacefully

After the inauguration of President George W. Bush on January 20, 2001, many new White House aides excitedly showed up for work the next day only...

23.12.2024 40

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Dismantling the Bill of Rights Is No Solution

After the recent school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, the usual suspects immediately called for more “gun control.”  Joe Biden’s White House...

19.12.2024 10

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The Destruction of the Government’s Credibility

Right now, swarms of drones on the eastern seaboard are captivating Americans each night.  Spotted in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and...

16.12.2024 30

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The Cult of Credentialism

I once saw a celebrated American author give a class of literature majors one of the best lessons they could learn.  He was speaking about the...

12.12.2024 6

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The Western Establishment Lacks Legitimacy

Romania’s Constitutional Court summarily invalidated the first-round results of its presidential election because the anti-globalist candidate,...

08.12.2024 20

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Nobody Knew (Except Most Did!)

Media mouth-breathers are shocked that Dementia Joe Biden would pardon his son for eleven years’ worth of crimes against the United...

05.12.2024 10

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Nothing Cool About Democrats’ Woke Religion

Right now Democrats are publicly debating the reasons for their electoral implosion.  I use the word “debating” rather loosely, since being a...

01.12.2024 3

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This Thanksgiving, Let Us Listen

On Thanksgiving Day in 1944, a young American platoon sergeant named Mac St. Johns led his men on a scouting mission in the French...

28.11.2024 30

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No Wake for the Woke

Democrats will learn nothing from their electoral drubbing.  If they were capable of self-reflection and intellectual growth, they would not need “...

24.11.2024 3

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A Trumpian Rebuke to the World Economic Forum

In the background of everything I write is a recurring message: human freedom is invaluable, and we must fight for it daily.  We are not...

21.11.2024 10

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Democrats’ Frowns Brought Americans No Joy

I’m not much of a spontaneous laugher, but the explosion of videos with people doing the “Trump Dance” just cracks me up.  When President Trump...

19.11.2024 50

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President Trump’s Magic Show Begins

If you’ve ever played speed chess, then you can appreciate what President Trump is about to do to “official” Washington.  This won’t be like 2017,...

16.11.2024 10

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An Electoral Awakening Worth Celebrating

I must admit that I haven’t exactly been an exemplar of Christian virtue over the last few days.  I keep telling myself, “I will not take pleasure...

10.11.2024 10

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The Greatest Comeback of All Time

The “experts” said it couldn’t be done.  They called him a “loser” and an “illegitimate” president whose time in office should be stricken from the...

06.11.2024 7

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Fight! Fight! Fight! Vs. Fake, Fake, Fake

The most iconic image of the 2024 campaign came from the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Pennsylvania on July 13.  An assassin had just fired multiple...

05.11.2024 2

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Women Deserve Better Than Hillary ... or Kamala

Kama-lama-ding-dong’s got the blues.  This was supposed to be her time.  This was supposed to be her rise.  She was supposed to make her-story.  ...

29.10.2024 3

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It’s Still the Economy, Stupid Globalists!

A paradigm shift occurs when there is a radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one.  Changes in social consciousness...

25.10.2024 6

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Victory within Reach

Victory is such a glorious word.  Anybody who has ever felt victorious knows exactly what I mean.  Those of us who have been lucky enough to...

23.10.2024 10

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The Democrat Party’s Testosterone Deficiency

It appears that the slow-witted political operatives behind this season’s production of “Harris/Walz: Lights, Camera, Cackle” have finally...

17.10.2024 10

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Nobody Fights for a World Economic Forum Flag

One of the peculiar things about our stark civil divide is that Americans who are extremely unhappy with the direction of our country are more...

15.10.2024 3

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Kamala?

Pop quiz, hotshot: You just stole the Democrats’ presidential nomination from a dementia-addled nursing home patient without receiving a single...

12.10.2024 30

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No Hurricane Help from the Feds

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is tired of people criticizing its slipshod response to Hurricane Helene.  So what if FEMA is more...

09.10.2024 10

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Are We All Criminals Now?

If Western nations replaced their respective fiat currencies with digital versions (as many advocates for individual liberty fear they will soon...

06.10.2024 10

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Why They Hate Trump

If you’re old enough to vote in the United States, then you’re old enough to remember a time when Americans of all political stripes liked Donald...

02.10.2024 90

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In Defense of Nation-States

Nationalism has become the great bugaboo of global talking heads today.  It is discussed in the marbled halls of Western capitals as a scourge that...

29.09.2024 6

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Progressivism: An Arrogant and Deadly Worldview

Call me crazy, but I don’t trust government officials who believe that population growth (AKA “our carbon footprint”) is the most pressing...

26.09.2024 30

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Dick Cheney Loves KamaLOL!!!

Mainstream news propagandists are busy touting Dick Cheney’s endorsement of KamaLOL Harris and Tim the Walrus as proof that their brand of...

23.09.2024 10

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Leftists Deserve the J6 Treatment

Remember: illegally appointed special counsel Jack Smith is prosecuting President Trump in D.C. for exercising his constitutional right to free...

19.09.2024 2

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Slaying Leviathan

Ned Ryun has written a new book, American Leviathan, and I was fortunate to get my hands on an advance copy. If you don’t know Ned, he’s the...

15.09.2024 30

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Saving Journalism from the Journalists

It has been eleven years since investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson first revealed that Barack Obama’s government was illegally spying on...

11.09.2024 8

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The Deep State Is Past Its Shelf Life

At the Economic Club of New York, President Trump announced: “I will create a Government Efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete...

09.09.2024 3

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Will Election-Riggers Wag the Dog Again?

How do we know that Washington, D.C. is the nerve center of a global empire and not the seat of a federal government with limited powers over the...

04.09.2024 40

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Daddy Government Is Afraid of His Rebellious Children

Negotiation is the art of getting an opponent to advocate for your position.  You want one thousand dollars for an old car.  You ask for two.  The...

02.09.2024 20

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Globalism Is Economic Slavery

Imagine life in the near future.  A man resides alone in a tiny apartment.  He would prefer to be married, but the State considers that antiquated...

31.08.2024 70

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Everyone Hates Fascism Except the Government

One of the few interesting things about America’s highly choreographed political conventions is the gathering of people outside these events.  ...

25.08.2024 50

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Tweedle-Kam and Tweedle-Tim

The more I see of Tim Walz, the more I realize he’s just a fatter, whiter version of Kamala.  They both laugh at inappropriate times.  They both...

22.08.2024 80

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Harris/Walz: Mostly Peaceful

I saw a t-shirt design shortly after Kween Kamala selected Chinese Communist Party stooge Tim Walz to join her on the vote-free Dim-Dem ticket.  It...

18.08.2024 8

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Kamala’s Last Walz?

Kamala’s got one chance to take the presidency, and if Democrat operatives can’t fill out enough mail-in ballots to get her across the finish line,...

16.08.2024 10

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Deep State Plutocrats Have Nowhere to Hide

The worst mistake the Deep State ever made was to turn conservatives against Big Business.  Traditionally, fighting corporate power was the purview...

14.08.2024 20

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