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You have to admire the chutzpah of a sports league that includes 29 American teams and one Canadian club but calls its final playoff round the "World Series."

Recently, on the Australian television program called “ABC Q&A,” Jordan Peterson was confronted by a young millennial with the following question.

Rep. Lee Zeldin and several of his House Republican colleagues are hoping to force a vote on a bill meant to oppose the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

If Democrats are Alice, and the rabbit hole represents a descent into Wonderland-like lunacy, then those on the left have certainly been picking up speed in their fall to the bottom for some time now.

Watch out, Mr. Hatter. There's competition for that there madness.

It’s easy, especially thousands of miles away, to jump onto the bandwagon of Turkey-blamers following its recent military incursion into Syria. However, Ankara has legitimate reasons for its actions. Its own national security as well as creating a sustainable solution for the Syrian refugee problem are at stake.

Sometimes, a detached, calm response conveys more than intended. 

In the final presidential debate between Vice President George H.W. Bush and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis in 2008, moderator Bernard Shaw of CNN began by asking this question:

There's good reason for all those headlines and media sniping regarding the NBA's China brouhaha.

Message to the Swamp: American voters still are supposed to be in charge.

That means they get to decide who gets elected. For example, in 2016, they elected a man named Donald Trump. He is still the president. Go suck an egg if you don't like it.

President Trump's legal troubles are growing faster than the number of whistleblowers who are coming forward to testify before Congress.

"Fake news" is a term that has become all too commonplace. Sometimes we're talking about a genuine piece of disinformation. Other times, fake news means simply a news report with which a politician does not agree.

The title “Everything Inside” could not be more apt for this collection of eight short stories that expose the hidden machinery inside all of us — those intricate psychosocial cogs and wheels and power supplies that make us what we are. 

Nearly 600 former EPA officials have called for an investigation into President Trump's authority in response to threats from EPA targeting California.

Let me see if I understand the Democratic position on impeachment: They have begun an impeachment inquiry because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says so. The House of Representatives has not authorized it.

Glenn Reynolds is a law professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Many people know him more directly for his Instapundit blog.

The prospect of President Trump being impeached by the House of Representatives should not be surprising to people. Counter to conventional wisdom, this impeachment does not expose a corrupt president. Instead, it reveals the rot at the core of an establishment willing to abuse the system to overturn an election.

Liberals suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) have a whole new theory: President Trump is Joker.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden has published a memoir called “Permanent Record.”

I’ve not read his book and I probably won’t.

In 1992, the British band XTC released a song called "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" that was described by singer Andy Partridge as an ode to truth — a cynical-but-realistic look at somebody on Earth who ticked off the powers-who-be by outing their secretive, selfish, destructive and wicked deeds.

In the early 2000s, Virginia Walden Ford, a single mother in D.C.'s low-income neighborhoods, realized the importance of private school choice. Her youngest son, William, was falling in with the wrong crowd and struggling in the local public school.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has deliberately cultivated the image of a macho guy, a man’s man, who fears nothing. He rides a stallion bareback; he dives for underwater treasure (and conveniently finds some). He fires assault rifles with deadly accuracy. Mr. Putin is tough. Do not mess with him.

Congressional leftists have finally gone stark raving mad.

In the leftists' latest quest to destroy the president through impeachment, Americans know it's really "impeachment schmeachment."

In other words, they are engaged in just another sham.

On Oct. 2, Brandt Jean, the younger brother of Botham Jean, who was shot and killed by the off-duty Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, shook the political landscape as well as our cultural assumptions of justice and jurisprudence.  

The idiots in City Hall are at it again, planning to spend the public's money as if they're Paris Hilton and drumming up other policies as if the public well will never run dry.

This is always the problem with "government first" kleptocrats. They are constantly coming up with "solutions" — sometimes "final" ones — and then they go off in search of a problem.

In this case, the government-firsters have an impeachment in search of a high crime or misdemeanor.

A number of news networks faced criticism last month for running with a disputed story that the CIA had to exfiltrate a spy from Russia in part due to concerns about President Trump's mishandling of classified information.

Pakistan and India have fought three wars since the 1947 partition created the two states; two of the three were over Kashmir. None of those wars occurred when either country possessed nuclear weapons. 

John Brennan put out a call to arms on Twitter for anyone with information on unlawful activities that may have been conducted by President Donald Trump to come forward and report it. Nice. Kind of like calling for a whistleblower movement, right?

The House Democrats' position on impeachment remains intentionally murky. Ask any member of Congress where they stand, and their position is uniquely their own.

The debate about political power and authority among those who profess the Christian faith has raged since the 1st century. In modern America, the debate raged throughout Jimmy Carter’s presidency and more recently through the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. The debate now looms large for Donald Trump.

Earlier in the day, Trump made comments to the media as he met with the president of Finland. He reiterated that he agrees a whistleblower should be protected, "if the whistleblower is legitimate."

The New York Times has published a report describing a series of ideas President Trump allegedly raised with White House advisors in March regarding operations at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo admitted Wednesday that he was on the phone call where President Trump asked Ukraine for help investigating his political rivals.

One huge question looms large over the so-called Trump-Ukraine scandal, and here it is:

Why would the Democrats go after President Trump for allegedly threatening to withhold U.S. aid to Ukraine when their proposed 2020 standard-bearer did EXACTLY THE SAME THING — and is on tape admitting it?

Contrary to what most Americans think, the drugs they’re prescribed at doctors’ offices and in hospitals are not all made in a carefully regulated, scrupulously maintained factory that meets the highest standards of drug safety. 

How is the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry going to turn out? Well, we have already been through the impeachment inquiry, though it was called by another name. It was called the collusion inquiry, and it turned out as most conservatives said it was going to turn out.

It has been a year since the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. Mr. Khashoggi wore many professional hats throughout his career, one of which was as a freelance online blogger for Washington's other newspaper -- I believe it's called the "Post?"

Once upon a time, America was a recognized leader among the governments of the world for a colorblind system of justice that included due process, a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and a basic common law, common sense right to face one's accuser in a court of law.

When President Bill Clinton signed legislation that established federal control of the District's budget (which was drowning in red ink), bureaucracy and legislative authorities (who had allowed the ink to flow), there was but one rule of thumb: Do not believe the numbers.

Impeachment or bust!

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has valiantly fought the war on crazy long enough. She tried her best to be the sane, adult centrist in her party — no easy task for a lifelong politician from San Francisco.

America’s Founders lived well before the advent of social media, but that doesn’t mean they were unfamiliar with some of the more negative tendencies of our digital public square — particularly the problem of factions.

Back when reruns were a staple of summer programming, television networks aired repeats of their programs, giving viewers another opportunity to see what they had already seen. Democratic politicians are now conducting their own version of reruns.

There has been a lot of media coverage speculating that the biggest loser in the ongoing U.S.-China trade war is the American consumer. Headlines screaming that not China but Americans are paying tariffs through higher prices are everywhere. Journalists speculate the tariffs are costing Americans upwards of $1,000 a year. 

Editor's note: This is the last of a four-part series exploring the need for America to transform from a culture of brokenness to a culture of life.

Our Founding Fathers knew that without the Creator, the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness would not be absolute.

"Life on the ocean has long been romanticized as the ultimate expression of freedom — an escape from landlocked life, a chance to explore, to reinvent,” Ian Urbina writes in “The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier.”

For three years now, Democrats have threatened to impeach President Trump for not taking seriously enough the efforts by foreign governments to meddle in our 2016 elections.

The Joker is a pathological supervillain.

He can't stop himself, he's a monkey on Bruce Wayne's back, and seemingly, he's a maniacal genius destined to haunt Gotham City forever after because of the toxins coursing through his veins.

That's the storyline in the world of DC Comics.

It began with a whistleblower who obtained a telephone transcript between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that dealt in part with Joe Biden’s son.

Congress has introduced a bipartisan measure calling for the release of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who has been detained in Russia since December. Still awaiting trial, Mr. Whelan is being held in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo Prison.

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, in a series of scathing tweets, ripped Democrats in general and Speaker Nancy Pelosi in particular for caving to "unrelenting pressure" and launching the impeachment inquiry the "socialist wing" of the party has been pressing "since the beginning of this Congress."

Sequels are rarely better than the original.

If we have learned anything over the last six days, as the feeding frenzy over the whistleblower has overtaken official Washington, it is this: Democrats want to impeach President Trump and they do not care if the facts support their cause.

The Ukraine allegations have breathed new life and focus into an impeachment inquiry that even some Democrats feared was at risk of losing momentum.

The American Founders institutionalized the best of a long Western tradition of representative government with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These contracts outlined the rare privileges and responsibilities of new American citizens.

My ancestors were brought to America in chains more than 150 years ago, robbed of human dignity. Now I stand here in the greatest nation — my nation — the world has ever known, where I have pursued my own American dream. 

What's an impeachable offense? A president misusing his power to benefit himself.

How much credibility should we give to a 16-year-old when considering her qualifications to lecture adults about science and an end-of-the-world scenario?

There can be no better rallying cry for President Trump's model of national governance than the words he delivered to world leaders on Tuesday.

As we lead into the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the climate change extremists were out in force. There were student walkouts, demonstrations blocking traffic in Washington, D.C., and the adolescent child of Swedish theater performers lecturing and threatening attendees at the U.N.'s Climate Action Summit in Gotham.

Democrats are @#$^&*% mad.

Their solution for their angst: Cuss it up.

Former Rep. Robert "Beto" O'Rourke, for one, just can't seem to stop himself as he runs for the highest office in the land.

The 2020 election cycle has witnessed some of the most bizarre proposals from Democratic candidates. From free health care for illegal immigrants to calls for the confiscation of AR-15s, 2020 Democrats are in a constant competition to outdo themselves in putting forward outlandish proposals.

“He and his brother have done more than anybody to fund climate science deniers for decades. So f--- him, the Amazon is burning up, I’m glad he’s dead, and I hope the end was painful.”

This was Bill Maher’s opening monologue on the news of David Koch’s death.

The latest attack on Justice Brett Kavanaugh isn’t just another scurrilous piece of yellow journalism, but part of a larger effort to weaken the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court itself.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to financial disclosures posted at the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website, has the teachers in his pocket — or, more to the truth, in his wallet.

And that's worrisome.

Voter distrust — hatred, really — of the media has reached record highs. And it is all your fault.

It is all your fault because you stopped believing in the media.

Editor's note: This is the third in a four-part series exploring the need for America to transform from a culture of brokenness to a culture of life.

With every massacre by a lone gunman, leftist media and politicians begin an unrelenting rant against guns.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has made an entire political career out of denouncing Big Business, Wall Street, Big Pharma and of late, Big Tech. So, too, most of the rest of the Democrats on the campaign trail and in Congress.

But America should tread cautiously on ye olde "Hate Business" path.

“Me and you and dog named Boo
Travelin’ and a livin’ off the land.
Me and you and a dog named Boo
How I love being a free man.”
                       — Lobo, 1971

The decline of American mining and production of critical minerals in recent decades is a self-inflicted wound that could imperil our economy and national security.  

Back in 1971, when I was a teenage sailor serving on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War, I recall when a Communist Chinese minesweeper came dangerously close to the carrier as we sailed from “Yankee Station” off the coast of North Vietnam to the Philippines.

Next year, which is shaping up to be another presidential shocker, will mark the 230th anniversary of what has come to be called Washington, D.C. — and interestingly, two events occurred Thursday that intertwine both the founding of Washington and one of the Founding Fathers of our nation.

President Ronald Reagan was 73 years old when he sought re-election to a second term in 1984 against a relatively youthful Sen. Walter Mondale, who was just 56.

Last week, President Trump announced a prospective federal ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes during a White House press conference. This sweeping, nationwide prohibition on an entire category of products would come on the heels of actions already taken by several states and municipalities.

Divorces are messy — Brexit is no exception.

Border Patrol agents are training to take over "credible fear" interviews at family detention centers, part of the administration's push to have law enforcement screen asylum seekers instead of highly trained asylum officers.

The days of liberal activists pushing their agenda the old-fashioned way no longer apply.

Now, liberals are using a new tactic: Pressuring private companies into severing ties with industries the left deems unsavory.

Many are now noting that this latest attack on Justice Brett Kavanaugh is simply one front in the left’s larger campaign to delegitimize the current U.S. Supreme Court for political reasons.