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  • What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Wrong about Europe

    What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Wrong about Europe0

    • January 9, 2019

    During her interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, newly sworn in Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez justified her vision of democratic socialism by invoking a caricature of Europe. When asked if she wanted to turn the United States into a version of Venezuela or the Soviet Union, Ocasio-Cortez demurred with an incredulous smile. “What we have in mind,” she said, according to the transcript,

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  • What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Understand about Socialism

    What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Understand about Socialism0

    G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) and H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) were near contemporaries, but they were not kindred souls. One was an Englishman; the other an American. One was a Catholic Christian; the other a lifelong agnostic. One dubbed himself a distributist (as opposed to a capitalist or a socialist), while the other was an unabashed

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  • What Al Sharpton Could Learn About Education From Madison and Jefferson

    What Al Sharpton Could Learn About Education From Madison and Jefferson2

    Last week, Rev. Al Sharpton caused some titters to erupt across the internet by his commentary on the Trump indictment over the Jan. 6th issue. “One day our children’s children will read American history,” Sharpton said, “and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could

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  • What About Democrats Who ‘Deny Elections’?

    What About Democrats Who ‘Deny Elections’?1

    After the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference convention in Dallas, CNN published a video with the following headline: “Election deniers take over CPAC after primary victories.” In a recent appearance on CBS, Republican Rep. Paul Kinzinger, R-Ill., who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump and serves on the House Jan. 6 committee, said:

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  • What a Woman

    What a Woman0

    Fierce. Honest. Libertarian. Author and professor Camille Paglia speaks her own mind, uses logic rather than histrionics to make her arguments, and is unafraid of blowback from her critics. Though a lifelong Democrat and a supporter of Bernie Sanders, she refused to vote for Hilary Clinton, regarding her as a “liar.” She has called into

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  • What a Judge’s Ruling on Drafting Women Means for Military

    What a Judge’s Ruling on Drafting Women Means for Military0

    A federal judge’s ruling that women must be included in a potential military draft is based on incomplete information, an advocate for military readiness says. The Obama administration rejected a field test by the U.S. Marine Corps that found all-male units performing simulated ground combat tasks outperformed gender-mixed units 69 percent of the time, said

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