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In this election season, one thing becomes more evident every day. If you value human life, you have no choice but to vote for Donald Trump. 

Big media outlets claim to speak for the powerless, so why do they treat their own employees like trash?

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Pummeled by the impacts of severe weather, California Democrats list climate change as the top issue they want their presidential nominee to tackle, outstripping healthcare reform, a poll finds.

Pete Buttigieg has a nondisclosure agreement that keeps his consulting work for McKinsey & Company a secret.

The Belt and Road Initiative has come to Turkey and Greece while the U.S. cannibalizes the system that made it great.

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Spreading Christmas cheer is what we do this time of year because, well, the spirit moves us.

Nancy Pelosi, American Psycho.

These are hard times for anyone trying to cling to a shred of sanity in politics. The lying, the distortion, the projection, the dual personalities, the anxiety, the obsessive-compulsive disorder and the schizophrenia.

Liberals are overreaching with impeachment, just like they did in my recall. It could cost them the 2020 election.  

The late actor disagreed that his film was about a lack of freedom in 1960s America. Quite the opposite.

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Despite impeachment and unclear re-election prospects, presidential favor is in as much demand as ever.

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One month ago, I thought Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was the front-runner to be the Democratic presidential nominee, thinking she had an excellent chance to win Iowa and New Hampshire and run away with the nomination, carried by momentum and enthusiasm.

Never in the history of public schooling has a regiment of substitute teachers been so disappointed in their rowdy new pupils as the impeachment professors were Wednesday.

It seems that every single time we’ve been forced to hear from Hillary Clinton over the past few months, she’s informed us that people are encouraging her to run for president again.

By winning over both Gaullist and liberal conservatives, he's rewritten France's political calculus yet again.

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'OK Boomer': teach your children not to respect traditions and eventually they'll turn against even your watered-down ones.

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The comeuppance for the incestuous nature of City Hall politics finally came calling Tuesday afternoon — and aims to boot D.C. Council member Jack Evans out the door.

The latest Scorsese film portrays organized labor pulling Americans up, before big capital busted them down.

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What the @#$%^&* is going on with Joe Biden?

Bloomberg News, one of the English-language media's largest (with some 2,700 journalists) and most well-capitalized (its owner is quite literally a $58 billion man) news outlets, announced last month its intention to essentially sit out the 2020 presidential election.

Lisa Page, the now-famous former FBI lawyer who was outed as an adulterous anti-Donald Trumper during the now-defunct — nothing to see there, go home, folks — Russia collusion-slash-conflict-of-interest investigation into the president, has come forward, finally, to publicly speak.

Three different federal judges recently blocked the Trump administration from implementing a regulation that would give the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) additional resources to enforce more than two dozen laws related to conscience rights. The regulation had been scheduled to go into effect Nov. 22.

On Sunday afternoon, prior to the Washington Redskins, ahem, emerging victorious over the Carolina Panthers, a teen named Mayce Wood and several other Carolina student-athletes drew cheers and applause.

The league is uniquely positioned to dunk on the People’s Republic’s human rights atrocities.

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THREE DAYS AT THE BRINK: FDR'S DARING GAMBLE TO WIN WORLD WAR II

By Bret Baier, with Catherine Whitney

William Morrow, $28.99, 434 pages

His BS meter enabled him to slyly—but laughingly—project the idiocy of politicians, the war state, and the elite.

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Several years ago in driving by a Chick-fil-A, a question on its marquee was so striking that I turned around, drove back and took a picture. It said: "The battle is coming. What side are you on?"

Is Zhao Lijian, as his Twitter handle says, the "Deputy for Director General in the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China" — or is he just the latest candidate to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination?

Don't be misled: elected officials are subjugated to the national security firmament. Trump is just exposing it.

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Defining an impeachable offense isn't easy. Just ask Alexander Hamilton.

This past week, a Facebook “friend” and former student, asked me why I’m so relentless in criticizing progressive sexual politics, and more specifically, why I persist in challenging “LGBTQ sexuality.”

Democrats are crazy. How crazy? Martin O'Malley crazy. And the fact that phrase probably requires little explanation says all that needs to be said about the Democratic Party and its acceptance of insanity as proper politicking.

The hardest job for a critic is reviewing a flawed but enjoyable book. It’s like trying to praise a play with lots of clever, catchy dialogue but a hopeless plot.

Nobody as far left as socialist Sen. Bernard Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth "I'm not a socialist" Warren can possibly win a U.S. general election, right?

Probably true.

This new genre-bending film from South Korea delivers a sophisticated upstairs-downstairs with a macabre twist.

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Thanksgiving is one of those days on which gratitude is front and center — even though marking (and mocking) it with such terms as "Friendsgiving" and "Black Friday" is commercially trendy.

Cyberspace, the human-made fifth domain, has proven to be a great force multiplier for free expression and commerce.

But it has also proven to be an unregulated playing field vulnerable to exploitation by bad actors like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as well as criminal cartels and international terrorists.

House Democrats have a new motto: "If you can't beat 'em, impeach 'em."

Rich Lowry, named editor of National Review in 1997 by Bill Buckley, is author of “Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream — and How We Can Do It Again” and “Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.”

How serious is the destruction of the Democratic Party? The entrance into the 2020 presidential race by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirms the party essentially doesn't even exist anymore.

Contra the media, religious affiliation and churchgoing hasn't fluctuated dramatically over the last decade.

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Thanksgiving has always held a very special place in my heart and the hearts of all Americans who celebrate this day to thank God for the blessings He has bestowed upon our lives and our nation.

When it comes to ending the opioid crisis, not all Trump administration officials are on the same page. 

A former information security manager alleged he was retaliated against for complaining that sensitive BioWatch data were vulnerable to hackers.

Escalating its legal battle with California cities and counties over where marijuana can be sold, the state is seeking to intervene in a second court to uphold its rules allowing home-delivery of cannabis in communities that have banned pot shops.

The left has a new anti-Donald Trump trend, and it's one that goes like this: If you like this president, if you support this president, if you regard this president through any other lens than "impeach, impeach, impeach" — well then, that means you're part of a cult.

Republicans, Democrats, independents: Lend me your eyes and ears — and if Michael Bloomberg and President Trump are paying attention, here's the American voter you both need to court.

The real culprit is the trillions we pay in defense and medical costs each year.

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In this constantly roiling sea of lies coming from Washington, it sure is helpful when a politician says something that is obviously false and reveals all you need to know about that particular lair.

Congressional sponsors of Medicare for All single-payer legislation — bills abolishing virtually all existing public and private health insurance — routinely promise that all Americans will get equal access to higher quality care and enjoy superior medical outcomes.

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Trump supporters in the Midwestern states who will decide whether President Donald J. Trump will win a second term next November are organizing, undergoing training and preparing to begin knocking on doors this winter.

Here's what our writers and editors are reading this week.

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Forty-five percent of self-identified independent voters said in a survey conducted this week by Emerson College that they're against impeachment of this president — and that's after a Marquette University poll a conducted couple days earlier found 53 percent of Wisconsin voters want Donald Trump to stay.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren made another pitch for her “2 cents” wealth tax plan during the fifth Democratic debate in Atlanta on Wednesday night, this time with the added bonus that it would help “build an America that works for the people, not just rich folks.”

Israel's longest serving prime minister is down, but far from being out.

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The field of Democrats running to kick President Trump out of the White House was as divisive as ever Wednesday in the Land of Tyler Perry, whose newly minted entertainment compound in Atlanta hosted the presidential candidates' debate.

Believe it or not, some on the left think the crazy new toy doesn't go far enough.

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American Pageant trumpets Democratic presidents while sneering at Trump and ignoring Republicans.

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Democrats likely "Final Four" candidates offer an important measure of diversity: A woman, an openly gay man; two of the oldest men ever to run for president, and the youngest. But missing is any candidate of color, one of the most important constituencies of the Democratic Party.

If anything concrete has come from the Democrat-fueled impeachment hearings being spearheaded by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, it's this: Witnesses acknowledge Hunter Biden's Burisma Holdings' post came in at "less than comfortable" on the old ethics scale.

Sadly, it was the GOP's own lawyer who coaxed the damning statements from Gordon Sondland today.

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The Trump administration has been advancing an "America First" platform, with a focus on immigration, trade and economic development. Now three years in, the results have been positive for the country.

For most of the last three years, Donald Trump’s critics have scoffed at supposed “conspiracy theories” that claimed a “deep state” of bureaucrats were aborting the Trump presidency. We have been told the word “coup” is hyperbole that reveals the paranoid minds of Trump supporters.

Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick’s presidential runs clearly signal Democratic establishment desperation with its 2020 field. What is unclear is whether their runs are the cause or the effect of establishment desperation. Simply, the Democrats’ contest is spiraling out of control and toward November 2020 defeat.  

Clive Staples Lewis wrote “about 40 books” in his lifetime, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. How many of them can you name without assistance?

Chicken restaurant chain Chick-fil-A has become beloved among many Americans who appreciate the fast-food operation for its commitment to community and proud support of Christian nonprofits through its Chick-fil-A Foundation.

Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the EU, has emerged as a pivotal link between Trump and a shadow foreign policy led by Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Nick Fuentes shouts and slurs and makes us wonder—how did we get here?

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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, thank you for your service. Now, please remove your Army Service Uniform.

President Trump is being impeached by Democrats, who control the House of Representatives. And after three days of contentious testimony — with breathless headlines deemed BREAKING! every five minutes — you know how many minds have been changed?

Zero. Zero minds. Zippy the chimp.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants an independent scientific review of all new proposals for hydraulic fracturing by California's oil industry.

So, it’s official, the Conservative Party wants to wreck Brexit. Why else is it fielding candidates in Labor-held seats that it has not won in more than 100 years, which will split the Brexit vote and increase the chances of Remain candidates winning?

The government agency is launching its own payment system which will kill competition while hiking costs to taxpayers and consumers.

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A new book unlocks a magisterial history of three millennia—and language is key to understanding the Middle East.

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Three months ago, I asked a simple question following a house fire that killed a 9-year-old boy: Who knew what all was going on inside the row house?

The answer was simple, too: D.C. police, fire and staff at the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA).

If you are in need of more evidence as to why so many Americans are cynical about politics in general and Washington in particular (and isn’t current evidence sufficient?), you need look no further than the etymological shift taken by Democrats during the House impeachment hearings.

It’s the contention of Charles J. Holden, Zach Messitte and Jerald Podair that “Richard Nixon’s selection of Spiro Agnew to be his running mate in August 1968 proved to be one of the most underrated, consequential decisions in modern American politics, and it still reverberates a half century later.” 

Republicans are counting on a strong economy and energized base to re-elect President Trump. Economists who study such things agree but the major polls and recent off-year elections in Virginia and Kentucky tell a different story.

There are enough dangerous drugs flowing in from overseas without the state helping them along.

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Kim Jong-un is agitated and waiting for a deal, while the president remains distracted by impeachment.

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'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" is not just the name of the English journalist Toby Young's memoir. It's also an apt description of Chinese foreign policy under President Xi Jinping.

John O’Hara (1905-1970) published 374 short stories, 14 novels (seven of them best-sellers) and five plays in his four- decade writing career,  “a body of work unsurpassed in American literature in scope and fidelity to American Life”, according to  biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli in The O’Hara Concern (1975). A master social writer, O’Hara influenced the […]

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