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Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, has put it out there bluntly that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump by minions of the left, supporters of socialism, defenders of the Democratic Party — which is to be redundant, i.e., the socialists.

Dear Santa,

It's been awhile, a long while since many, perhaps most of us, have written to you.

This summer, a prominent statue of Christopher Columbus was destroyed by activist vandals. But this was no spontaneous act of passion.

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Voters have chosen the moderate Joe Biden who won the Democratic primaries, but by sending more Republicans to Congress and statehouses, they rejected the radical Joe Biden who embraced punitive taxes, racial and gender quotas and other socialist measures in the general election.

If Georgia flips fully blue, immigration activists will deserve much of the credit — and they're ready to claim the spoils of victory. Will Biden let them?

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President Trump’s administration gave great attention to two toxic triangles that this author highlighted, though ignored by the mainstream media. They dubbed the first of these the “Axis of Resistance,” a self-declared malevolence of Iran, Syria and Hamas.

The Tenth Amendment states that "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

Solzhenitsyn spent his exile in America, but he was always Russian, and never Soviet.

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While President Trump’s attorneys continue to challenge the validity of bizarre tallying, anyone interested in free and fair elections should consider the role of Big Tech. 

A call to the Trappists to order a child’s casket is one no parent wants to make. Still, the monks stand ready to answer.

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Well, Peter Newsham is on his way out the door as chief of the D.C. police. He plans to leave after Inauguration Day events.

His departure is not the end of the world, but it does beg a pertinent question:

What, precisely, is the role of a police chief?

Ali Smith’s “Summer,” the final novel of her seasonal quartet, is a remarkable book, rich in word-play and language, witty puns and deep concern for the catastrophes facing humanity today.

Happy Thanksgiving. It may sound odd, but I am extra thankful this year.  

While dealing with the global pandemic, I have become more attentive to my faith, my family, my friends and my freedoms.  

Dr. Anthony Fauci may be pressing for "as many people as possible" to get vaccinated — Bill Gates may be on a "quest to vaccinate the world," as The New York Times put it in a headline.

Some fates are worse than death. Unless you've lived like us, you wouldn't understand.

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Congress can boost the economy and help Americans save billions of dollars — all before the end of 2020. How? Simply by cutting tariffs on thousands of imports through two trade programs that expire Dec. 31.

The first Thanksgiving on American soil may well have occurred in May 1541 near Canyon, Texas, where Father Juan de Padilla said Mass for an army of 1,500 accompanying Spanish conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. 

The left is waging an all-out war on tradition. If they are to be stopped, colleges must resume their role as custodians of that tradition.

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President-elect Joe Biden's Goldilocks Cabinet picks underscore his deftness at hugging the center in politics and policy, as he tries to avoid the bitter partisanship that has hobbled recent presidents.

Editor's note: This is the second in a series "To the Republic: Rediscovering the Constitution." Click HERE to read the series.

We’ve all endured levels of insanity from our government since the coronavirus arrived from China. It is during a crisis when we find out what we’re made of as individuals, and we certainly find out what our government is capable of.

With Joe Biden now well on his way to moving into the White House on Jan. 20, 2021, America is set to go from the most over-exposed president in history to the least seen commander in chief in decades.

Since Harry Truman, Democratic presidential candidates have run on platforms championing enlightened internationalism — leadership in free trade and security alliances — and aggressive expansion of the welfare state — most recently the Affordable Care Act.

Inmates, including some on death row, are receiving unemployment benefits in what D.A.s call 'the most significant fraud on taxpayer funds in California history.'

Redistribution is highly seductive, but don't let it fool you. The zero sum fallacy of wealth distribution is not an argument; it's a delusion.

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The conversation that's going forward right now about President Donald Trump's investigation into election fraud goes like this: But it's not enough to flip the final results.

Well, that's a flipping weak argument to halt the investigation.

Reflections on a visit with Russia's ultra-nationalist, ultra-Orthodox biker gang — founded against communism, now all-in on Putin's New Russia.

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My mom, the matriarch of five generations, hasn't prepared Thanksgiving dinner for several years.

That doesn't mean, though, the show doesn't go on.

She, her mother and her grandmothers taught us, and we related to the young under our watch and command the pertinent undertakings.

It is a true fact that nobody has ever seen Sidney Powell and Paul Revere in the same place at the same time. Could Sidney Powell, in fact, be Paul Revere?

For Americans longing to return to normalcy — tackling COVID-19, keeping their private health plans and opening up businesses and schools, what a Biden-Harris administration will do to our health system and innovation matters.

It’s been a tough year. Some people even say it’s among the worst years in American history. But the truth is: America has faced and triumphed over tough times before.

Elites have ignored practical scientific approaches to the virus in favor of totalitarian lockdowns which rob us of our humanity and our health.

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If you are a Republican, it is time to refocus your time and attention.

The ruling elites are still sore that the election was so close.  

Defying coronavirus science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, and common sense about where this dangerous path will lead, the chiefs of teachers' unions continue to call for the closing of America's schools and the continuance of home-based online teaching of students.

On May 10, 1933, students in 34 university towns across Germany gathered to burn more than 25,000 books. The works of authors like Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway and Helen Keller went up in flames.

It's time for the populist right to steal the trademark policy of the bourgeois left — with a few important caveats, of course.

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Alice Huffman, 84, cited health issues in her resignation letter to the executive board of the California Hawaii State Conference of the NAACP. She has held the post since 1999 and will step down Dec. 1.

The Senate's most visible advocate of a sane foreign policy spends a little time with TAC.

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What the heck is going on in Washington?

Many of the city's playmakers are dancing and singing and making merry like Christmas because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are poised to again hold court in the West Wing.

Rudolph W. Giuliani announced an outlandish new Trump strategy to overturn Joe Biden's victory while Biden met with governors of both parties amid growing recognition of his election.

Hate wins.

After four years of these people lecturing us about how “Love Wins” and “Love Trumps Hate,” it turns out that hate really does win.

At least for these people.

As the nation remains focused on determining who won the presidential election, world events are not standing still.

Government has no right to infringe on our liberties in this way, even if there is a pandemic going on.

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Donald Trump might be on his way out but that doesn't mean the neocons and nation builders get to come back in.

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Divided government often results in gridlock, and we're likely to see more of that over the next two years. The House majority will be razor-thin, and control of the Senate will be decided by runoff elections in Georgia on Jan. 5.

A few days ago, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was kind enough to send her spokesman (Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer) out to the microphones to demand that presumed President-elect Joseph R. Biden issue an executive order to discharge $50,000 of student loan debt for each person who incurred such debt.

Everywhere one looks there are warning signs, from labels on cigarette packs warning that smoking causes cancer, to ridiculous labels on thermometers that read, “Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally.”

In the recent elections, Americans expressed with considerable clarity they are not receptive to the radical agenda embraced by Democrats since Elizabeth Warren and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez stormed Washington.  

It's a familiar story: China contracts with American companies and then siphons off technology for its own benefit. It must stop.

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Google is curiously upping the ante in their long history of legal challenges by taking the DOJ head-on.

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Editor's note: This is the second in a series "To the Republic: Rediscovering the Constitution." Click HERE to read the series.

As if he needs more money, former President Barack Obama is out hawking a new book — a 768-page memoir that is just Volume One of his latest memoirs (he wrote his first autobiography at age 34).

The Trump administration's Iran policy has been reckless and counterproductive. Biden should seek a complete turnaround, and fast.

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The former president, Barack Obama, during a "60 Minutes" segment, came out and compared President Donald Trump to a dictator for failing to concede to the media-called election of Joe Biden to the White House.

Well, isn't that the pot calling the kettle black.

The dismissals have been called 'nefarious,' a 'purge,' a 'dangerous day' and Trump 'burning down' the Defense Department.

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Our right to vote has been won and preserved by the lives, blood and sacrifice of the patriots of the American Revolution, our war veterans, the suffragists, civil rights marchers and so many others throughout our history.

It must really be hard to live today in a nation of 73 million Nazis.

Seventy-three million of your fellow citizens just voted for the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and the best these weak losers can do is threaten to “keep a list.”

A split-decision election has ideologues in retreat--- especially on the Hill.

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With a massive, growing gap between our military goals and actual outcomes, we must acknowledge that U.S. strategy has hit a dead end.

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If I were a store owner in D.C., New York or any other large city, I’d keep the plywood easily accessible. 

The election isn’t over as courts sort things out, so it might yet come in handy.

With all the challenges he's facing, why is he choosing to meddle in European internal affairs?

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The United States just passed 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases. Dr. Anthony Fauci is predicting a dark winter. President-elect Joe Biden says he has a plan but continues to focus on an unenforceable mask mandate and the potential for more lockdowns.

More than anything, it was “The Wall” that got President Trump elected four years ago.

Mr. Trump’s willingness to tackle illegal immigration earned him unswerving devotion from voters, including Hispanics who live in the United States legally.

China is stifling America's closest allies. Indifference is a terrible mistake.

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Results from the 2020 election have laid the groundwork for a new fusion of social conservatism and economic populism.

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