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The controversial rapper turned radical Christian family man may be the best successor to President Trump.

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Not near enough critical discussion has been had about what it would really be like to have a Joe Biden administration in Washington. Collected here are some of the more troubling aspects of that possibility — in a national security context and context of the election campaign.

The movement was poisoned at its root--or rootlessness--but it can be revived.

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On July 13, 85 years after he was born, we pause to honor and celebrate one of the most gifted, influential and transformational leaders in American history.  Happy Jack Kemp Day.

But anything that points out the folly of the generals and the heroism of regular grunts, can't be all bad.

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Every American taxpayer should be outraged that the Trump administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation have been asked to consider bailing out yet another failed high-speed rail project.

American conservatism is more than standing athwart history yelling stop.

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If President Donald Trump doesn't win this November, and former Vice President Joe Biden takes over the White House, then it's goodbye America, hello globalism. Goodbye America, hello new world order.

It doesn't get any clearer than that.

Thoreau and Emerson's effort to canonize the abolitionist fanatic helped spark the Civil War.

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When I was a young teenager, I was busted for spray painting on a neighbor’s house. When the police contacted my mom, she dragged me up to the neighbor’s house, forced me to apologize, handed me a brush and a bucket, and ordered me to clean up the mess.

To many people in Wisconsin, the faux-revolutionary insanity we’ve seen unfold in our state capital and dozens of other places across the country didn’t seem to make sense.

Stop it. For the sake of sanity and common sense, stop it. Cloistered away with idle time, and in search of new targets, the musty library shelves provided two academics with a 50-year old interview to tarnish one more idol: Duke Wayne.

It is far better to see the world with clear eyes than foolishly hope for a return to “High Noon.”

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As you already know, we’ve descended into full idiocy. The world — with its cancel culture and PC police, its race riots and pandemic panic — has gone insane, and there’s no end in sight.

Corporate pressure and negative press have forced a review of the franchise's longtime name and mascot.

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The latest in the ever-changing COVID-19 crisis is that hundreds of scientists have joined forces and penned a letter to the World Health Organization chiefs to get an official, formal, authoritative ruling that the new coronavirus is airborne, meaning transmitted by breathing contaminated air.

Well, ba dum dum on that.

The New Deal's social welfare programs have actually fared much better than its industrial policies.

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You gotta love Joe Biden.

The guy has been part of the problem in Washington for 47 years. But now? Now, he is really going to get after it!

A myth says lightning never strikes twice in the same place. President Donald Trump appears to believe it can when it comes to replicating his narrow victory in 2016.

After a jury convicted former Ku Klux Klan member Thomas E. Blanton Jr., who died in prison June 26, of participating in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963, then-FBI Director Louis Freeh called the case “a disgrace to the FBI.”

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

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Nick Timothy's latest book reckons with the failure of Theresa May, and argues for moving past right-wing as well as left-wing liberalism

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The Republican Party is wasting an opportunity that may not come again for a generation.

Congressional Republicans and many in the Trump administration have accepted the verdict of the mob that police reform/defunding/whatever is the essential element in addressing everything that can get poured into the phrase “systemic racism.”

Author R.B Bernstein details the life of John Adams, a serious intellectual, lawyer, and devout patriot.

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Biden's pledge to attack racial injustice contrasts with Trump's stoking of white resentment at Mt. Rushmore.

Justin Haskins, executive editor and a research fellow at The Heartland Institute and the editor in chief of StoppingSocialism.com wrote this past week that “while most Americans have been preoccupied with protests and pandemics, a potentially bigger story has managed to slip beneath the radar.” 

How so?

More than ever we need its reminder that, however often we fall short, we will always seek out that more perfect union.

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“Imagine there’s no Heaven / It’s easy if you try / No Hell below us / Above us only sky” — from John Lennon’s “Imagine” (1971) 

During the Vietnam War, former Beatle John Lennon penned an ode to atheism that is annoyingly catchy and still ubiquitous.

Sometimes just when you're feeling up, tears come and take you by surprise.

As a happy Fourth of July greeting, my wife and I sent friends the link of The Texas Tenors singing "God Bless the USA."

One friend texted this back:

Pompeo’s recent claims about caring could only generate laughter since it was widely recognized as false.

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Welcome to your Drug War: Corrupt Latin American governments favored by Washington get tons of aid and yes, U.S. troops.

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Watching war movies during U.S. holidays is a given.

Most families and friends try to unite, food and libation are must-haves, and veterans and elders are treated like royals because, well, they are our royalty.

Emergency lending has always been the central bank's Achilles heel, and it is a power that is most frequently abused.

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What kinds of political vultures sit around bobbing their nasty little heads in search of rotten carrion after a human catastrophe?

Freshwater is surprisingly rare and may be about to become rarer. The result could be global hydro inequality and even armed conflict.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom warns that he plans to announce new coronavirus restrictions ahead of the July 4 weekend in California as community spread grows.

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson has a perfect name for the mainstream media’s coverage of COVID-19: Panic Porn.

Take this headline: “COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas hit another record Monday.”

It is a natural human impulse to seek distinction or at least some measure of significance. Who, after all, wants to be a “nobody?” While the desire to be “somebody” is natural, not all paths to distinction are honorable or even tolerable. 

Four years ago, almost to the day, the British people took a monumental decision to take back control of their national destiny. Almost simultaneously, the American people chose a president determined to forge a consequential path forward. Central to both was rejection of decline and restoration of global standing.

The corporate entertainment giant is going to re-educate us about 'Gone With the Wind' before we can watch it.

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Parler, the free-speech alternative to Twitter founded by CEO John Matze in 2018, has exploded on the social media scene in recent days, due in large part to conservative angst over recent censorship of President Donald Trump and others who don't toe the liberal line.

Remembering a forgotten conversation when the Democratic frontrunner got the better of two activists.

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Who's paying the bills?

The "movement" to defund police departments, and in some instances dismantle them completely, will create more problems than it would solve.

President Trump’s re-election campaign issued a “memorandum on enthusiasm” Sunday outlining the very “real and wide” gap in enthusiasm between Mr. Trump’s campaign and that of Joe Biden.

Who is funding the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and riots and why? As people go through life, most learn that many things are different from what they seem, and that the views and positions people have are rarely consistent with what they think is their self-interest.

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

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But the COVID crisis is likely to spur even more consolidation, meaning more CVS and fewer small drugstores.

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White House says Trump wasn't briefed on intelligence about Russian offer of bounty payments. If so, that shows negligence, some Republicans say.

I condemn the manner of George Floyd’s death. I do not, however, condemn all law enforcement because of the reprehensible actions of one cop, and I believe that current destructive efforts will do nothing but harm attempts to address the actions of generations past. 

'Free America' represented an American tradition of populism and decentralization that ended with World War Two.

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Joe Biden, the Democrats' hope for president this November, just said in an interview on KDKA in Pittsburgh that one of his first White House acts would be to make the wearing of face masks mandatory for every man, woman and child in America.

The airwaves are filled these days with experts telling us and each other that America has reached a “tipping point,” that public attitudes toward race, crime, the police and even socialism have changed virtually overnight so that issues believed marginal just a few weeks or months ago are now mainstream.

Why are Russia, France and Saudi Arabia squared off against the U.S. and Turkey in this war ravaged North African state?

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Mary McLeod Bethune, a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet," stands on a memorial with two children alongside her in Lincoln Park. An educator who founded the National Council of Negro Women, Bethune was the first Black person and first woman to be so honored on public land.

In India and China we have two nuclear-armed countries whose leaders are in no mood to back down.

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For conservatives, what’s gotta give is the market fundamentalism that has constrained their thinking for decades.

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The old 2020 election was supposed to be about many familiar issues. It is not any more.

Up until now, the candidates themselves would supposedly be the story in November. The left had cited President Trump’s tweets and erratic firings as windows into his dark soul.

A military service can be many things. It may focus on preparing for big wars or small ones; battles abroad or closer to the homeland; doing nearly everything pretty well or specializing in doing fewer things extraordinarily well.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana (1863-1952)

The public outrage following the killing of George Floyd has refocused many in Congress and the public on the need for police reform. Some of the proposals are simply outrageous, such as “abolishing” the police or defunding police departments seen by some as “systemically” racist institutions incapable of reform.