A Gen X President (Four Years from) Now More Than Ever

Donald Trump nominated Sean Duffy as secretary of transportation earlier this week. The pick feels potentially more significant than those offered for the old-line cabinet positions. When the outgoing administration was the incoming administration, Joe Biden generated much chatter regarding...

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:04:35 +0000

Isn’t It Time For Jasmine Crockett To Shut Up?

I’ve got a friend — I’ve known him for quite a while and I’m not going to use his name because he’s a private guy who absolutely abhors politics and what it does to people — who I’ll call Curt....

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:01:57 +0000

International Affairs Professor Says Biden ‘Checked’ China: What World Does He Live In?

George Washington Professor of International Affairs Robert Sutter writes in The Diplomat that the Biden administration has successfully checked China in Asia and will be a tough act to follow for the incoming Trump administration. Sutter claims that the Biden...

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:15:27 +0000

Oh Say Can UC?

“The University of California is eyeing a looming budget gap of half a billion dollars next year,” reports CalMatters, and to fill the gap the university is “relying in part on its out-of-state undergraduates,” whose costs will be increased. In their...

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:15:26 +0000

America’s Abortion Blind Spot: How Liberals Convinced Americans to Ignore the Fetus

Although Republicans won resounding political victories across the country this November, there is one area where conservatives consistently lost: abortion. Seven of 10 state-level pro-abortion laws passed — including in four states that Donald Trump won —and Florida’s pro-choice law only...

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:15:25 +0000

Reagan’s 9 Lessons for Trump in Pursuing Peace Through Strength

President-elect Trump ran on a national security platform that promised a return to peace through strength, and within days of his re-election, the world is already responding. Qatar ejects the Hamas leadership while the terrorists beg for peace. After four...

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:11:47 +0000

Kevin Roberts’s Fiery New Fusionism

With President-elect Donald Trump due back in the White House come January 20 — and with Republicans clinching majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives — the New Right is ascendant. This election proves that 2016 wasn’t...

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:05:47 +0000

Newsom Trades Sacramento for $9 Million Luxury Living

Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom purchased a $9 million Bay Area home marketed as an “extraordinary luxury residence” offering “resort-style living.” The timing of his exodus from the state capital, which came just a week after the election, strongly...

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:05:46 +0000

Biden’s Perfect Payback

Joe Biden should pardon Donald Trump. There are many reasons to do so — legacy, magnanimity, and governance. There is also… revenge. Nothing would better pay back the Democrat elite who did Biden in. Still trying to process the Nov....

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:05:44 +0000

Draining the D.C. Swamp Picks Up Steam

The demand to clean the swamp is picking up in volume. Examples? Over there in The Hill is a swamp history lesson that reaches all the way back almost 120 years to the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt in the White House. Penned...

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:05:42 +0000