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The stunning death of the pivotal, liberal icon comes as the presidential race reaches a chaotic culmination.

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On Thursday, Sept. 17, President Trump signed a proclamation extolling our country’s virtues and praising our Founding Fathers for their courage, wisdom, insight and sacrifice as they crafted a Constitution that would guard and guarantee life and liberty for all United States citizens.

The famed Russian dissident reflects on why he could not become an American citizen, in an excerpt never before published in English.

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Triggering hatred and fear is the road well-traveled in the nation's capital, and sometimes regardless who's occupying the White House and or holding the reins of the House and the Senate, and regardless of whether it's a presidential election year or not.

2020 is no different.

The great Ronald Reagan once said: “if we ever forget that we are ‘One Nation Under God,’ then we will be a nation gone under.” 

Taiwan wants closer trade relations with America, and this is the perfect time for the United States to consider it and gain an upper hand over Communist China.

A cavalier remark on assassinating the Syrian dictator stands in clear contradiction to Trump's campaign message critical of war.

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The Public Policy Institute of California poll released Wednesday night found that just 31% of likely California voters surveyed said they would vote for the proposal, Proposition 16, while 47% said they oppose it. The remainder, 22%, were undecided.

Football fans have grown tired of woke sloganeering. They have a point.

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Chinese access to research, data streams and information collected within the United States is under increasing scrutiny. While the threat to your personal data or our nation's critical security information comes from many directions, the biggest wolves in sheep's clothing are Chinese-based corporations.

Despite President Trump’s steady and durable deficit in nationwide surveys, a closer look at the Electoral College map indicates that his pathways to victory remain open.

In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN’s coverage of the Trump administration was negative. The center found similarly negative Trump coverage at other major news outlets.

Facebook is claiming that their ban on new political advertising the last week before the election equally affects everyone and is simply an attempt to stop “misinformation” and at the last minute. However, they know that it is simply not true.

Bob Woodward's book claims that Trump boasted of saving the Saudi crown prince. He shouldn't have bothered.

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In the nineteen years since 9/11, the U.S. has waged ceaseless wars in dozens of countries around the world. A new study finds that those wars have exacted a heavy human toll on local populations—at least 37 million people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya and Syria have fled their homes due to […]

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It’s amazing how disasters, both natural and unnatural, have the fingerprints of Democrats all over them.

The mainstream media has spent months hyping the dangers of COVID-19. But let’s take a quick look at some numbers, shall we?

While Americans navigate the widespread social and economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 public health emergency, one thing is clear: Access to affordable health care is critical to mounting a meaningful national response.

Read the tea leaves. Test the political winds. Smell the smoke of Molotov cocktails in the air. President Donald Trump is on a sure and steady path to win reelection. Why? Two words: Kate. Steinle.

Moscow wants to show up the United States, but they're also cutting corners with potentially disastrous consequences.

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It's practically impossible to read and listen to daily local news without learning of a police-involved shooting.

The lists of names are emblazoned on COVID-19 masks and sports gear worn by athletes, and T-shirts sold on street corners in urban areas, including the nation's capital.

This just in! Embalmed D.C. journalist Bob Woodward has proof that President Trump killed 200,000 Americans!

Since before he rode down the escalator in 2015, President Trump has seen manufacturing capacity — thousands of plants across the country operating, with full workforces, to make things — as a strategic asset in its own right. 

Top brass are suspiciously cozy with contractors who profit from war. Trump is the first president to point it out.

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For years, those warning of the perils and pitfalls of a New World Order global governance and its effect on American sovereignty and freedom have been painted as conspiracy theorists, tin foil hat-wearers, loony birds without benefit of brains.

But the so-called conspiracists are right.

On Aug. 29, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe informed congressional leaders that they would no longer get in-person briefings on election security because of “… unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information.” Their briefings, he said, would be limited to written, finished intelligence products.

Undercut by China and fly-by-night board salesman, LA's surfboard shapers contemplate protective measures

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Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of arguably the worst congressional vote in this century.

The EU is using the coronavirus as an excuse to consolidate its power and tax and spend.

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Give Mayor Muriel Bowser big credit: She's underscoring the crucial importance of voting in the republic.

Other city and state leaders should take a page from her Election 2020 handbook.

Miss Bowser wants voters where they should be on Nov. 3. At the polls.

Political snipers first, of course.

For some soldiers, news that Trump called the fallen "suckers" and "losers" confirms their belief that he disdains those who serve. Others dismiss it as the work of anti-Trump media.

The dark, grainy footage of Daniel Prude writhing and twisting on the icy pavement entirely naked is certainly painful to watch. It is human instinct to look away.

Video of his arrest in Rochester, New York, sparked a new rash of protests against police.

The president’s senior counselor has left the White House. In the Trump era, her story of familial fissure is all too familiar.

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Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany said Trump is keeping his promise to end endless wars, though thousands will still be deployed

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Amid reports that a good deal of peer-reviewed research is wrong, progressives cross their arms and brook no dissent.

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Falling in the polls, Democrats have finally acknowledged rioting, murder and mayhem in the republic, but are blaming President Trump. The left is no longer merely content with rewriting history, they now want to revise the present.

In the long run, it may not matter much who wins the presidential election.

That is, of course, heresy among pundits, consultants and the political class, but it is at least as accurate as any other thing being said about the race at the moment.

Don't confuse Johnson's poetry with the 1619 project

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A new account of Crown Prince Bin Salman's reign to date is seriously flawed

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The bad news is, last week there was another blatantly false story launched against President Trump. The good news is, it was quickly dismantled as the lie that it was within a week of it appearing.

Liberals are all about demanding that people do as they say, but they never apply their rules to themselves. The COVID-19 pandemic has unmasked Democrats for the true hypocrites they are — and always have been.

India has been supportive of the “One China” policy to date, but at the same time has also maintained relations with Taiwan. The tensions between India and China in recent months have made imperative the forging of greater ties between New Delhi and Taipei.  

On respect for the war dead, Trump's record speaks for itself—and it doesn't line up with Jeffrey Goldberg's spin.

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From bomb drills to COVID lockdowns, protective rituals based on irrational fear are a mainstay of American culture.

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Congress is back to ponder another stimulus package, Sen. Kamala D. Harris is dialing up the coronavirus fear factor and nobody dares to ask tough questions, let alone questions that require little more than a yes-or-no answer.

A recent arrest of a pregnant woman, now facing 15 years, shows how badly Australia has succumbed to public health tyranny

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Blame the president for leaving his core supporters at the mercy of the opposition's cultural and economic revolution.

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Some familiar with American history point to incidents of rioting and looting such as the 1773 Boston Tea Party led by “revolutionary” Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty against the oppressive regime of George III as a catalytic event in the birth of the nation.

Though nobody was ever convicted, investigations of the Franklin ring in Omaha left many questions unanswered

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For the first time since 1976, the sovereign republic of Texas is a toss-up in the presidential election, although you would never know it by the way the campaigns are acting.

If they want to really train their agents, they should thoroughly examine the Bureau's own past abuses.

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Through the most newsworthy year in recent memory, reporters make a habit of gaslighting America.

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In the throes of a heated national election, cities burn and innocent citizens are beat up and murdered in the street. Who is to blame?

Joe Biden offers two answers to this question.

Because it’s not celebrated with fireworks, parades and pomp and circumstance, you might not realize that Sept. 17 is Constitution Day.

We've allowed guns rights to become an issue for the courts. But it's long past time for Congress to step up and take responsibility.

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Some two dozen state attorneys general are suing the Trump administration to block reforms of a 50-year-old regulation that would otherwise speed the nation's economic recovery from COVID-19 and expedite construction of safer bridges and highways. How 2020!

On Solzhenitsyn's struggle to publish Gulag Archipelago in the waning days of the USSR

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