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  • Polling and the Truth

    Polling and the Truth0

    The Berlin Tagesspiegel recently went after a young Protestant theologian whom naïve readers might have mistaken for a polite, unassuming scholar. This figure was outed by an academic colleague who discovered that he wrote for “new Right” publications, a term that in the German context should be understood quite broadly. One of the venues of this putative extremist

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  • Ideological Imperialism Is Leading to a Bad End

    Ideological Imperialism Is Leading to a Bad End0

    When it was learned in 2016 that Russia may have hacked the emails of John Podesta and the DNC, and passed the fruits on to WikiLeaks to aid candidate Donald Trump, mighty was the outrage of the American establishment. If Russia’s security services filched those emails, and a troll farm in Saint Petersburg sent tweets and

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  • The Trauma of Her Moral Highness, AOC

    The Trauma of Her Moral Highness, AOC0

    The insufferable Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) was in the news again, having discoursed at length on social media about her experience during the bizarre events in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The video showcases what she does best: talk lugubriously about herself and all the things that are causing her pain and suffering. Here’s

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  • The Curious Warnings of Kipling’s ‘Copybook Headings’

    The Curious Warnings of Kipling’s ‘Copybook Headings’1

    I can’t claim to be much of a poetry buff, but upon seeing a footnote reference to a poem called “The Gods of the Copybook Headings,” I was too intrigued to ignore it. Upon hunting down a copy, I found 10 stanzas of verse written by Rudyard Kipling in 1919. The “copybook headings” featured in

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  • ‘American Capitalism’ Is the Enemy

    ‘American Capitalism’ Is the Enemy0

    Sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement, cities across the United States went up in flames last year, beset with looters, agitators, and killers. As leaves, and ashes, fell softly last autumn, homicide rates began to soar nationwide as $1 billion-plus in claims registered on the insurance industry’s books, making these riots the most destructive in American history.  Even so,

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  • Who Are the True ‘Domestic Terrorists’?

    Who Are the True ‘Domestic Terrorists’?0

    “Never allow a good crisis (to) go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do the things you once thought were impossible.” Thus did chief of staff Rahm Emanuel advise Barack Obama on the financial crisis he inherited in 2009.            Following the Capitol riot by a mob of pro-Donald Trump protesters,

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  • The Rules of Debate No Longer Work

    The Rules of Debate No Longer Work0

    Gun rights activist Dana Loesch recently complained that she had been denied the right to respond to her critics on Twitter, according to a story reported in the New York Post. Unlike her adversaries, who are free to swing away at her, Loesch is not allowed to use Twitter’s fact-checking platform to correct their misstatements.

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  • The Dingbat Craziness of the Latest PETA Proclamation

    The Dingbat Craziness of the Latest PETA Proclamation0

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Each morning’s internet headlines bring a new version of crazy. This morning was no different. In her article “PETA: Using Animal Names as Verbal Insults Is Supremacist Language,” Catherine Smith reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is decrying the use of insults and anti-animal slurs

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  • Biden’s Department of Homeland Sleaze Chief

    Biden’s Department of Homeland Sleaze Chief0

    Everything old is new again. The corruptocracy of the Obama administration is back with a vengeance in the White House. Once more, the “S” in “DHS” stands not for security—but for sleaze. Our nation is back for sale to the highest foreign bidders and their “America last” cronies. Last Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee

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