Politics

The ‘American KGB’ Goes to Work 9
- Culture, Politics
- August 9, 2022
FBI agents raided Mar-a-Largo, former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, on Aug. 8, 2022, supposedly looking for federal documents that Trump might have taken with him after leaving office. A day earlier, with Vice President Kamala Harris acting as tiebreaker for the deadlocked vote, the Senate passed the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Among
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Who Won the Taiwan War Games?0
- International, Politics
- August 9, 2022
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied White House signals that she not stop in Taiwan on her valedictory tour of Asian capitals, she ignited the worst diplomatic U.S.-China row in decades. And how did last week’s collision turn out for the United States? Writes The New York Times: Speaker Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan began with
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Senate Increases Government Spending by Passing $740 Billion Bill 1
- Economics, Politics
- August 8, 2022
The Senate has voted along party lines to ratchet up government spending by passing the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act.” Although it is described as a $740 billion spending package, it is likely to cost far more than that, judging by its fine print. For example, taxpayers will be on the hook for more bad loans.
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Why Karl Marx Supported Gun Rights 1
- History, Politics
- August 8, 2022
For just $10.77, people can go on Amazon and buy wall art of Ronald Reagan apparently defending the Second Amendment. “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered,” the text reads next to a picture of Reagan; “any attempts to disarm the people must be stopped, by force if necessary.” There are a few problems
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What Are We Going to Do When It Happens Again?6
- Culture, Politics, Science, Western Civilization
- August 5, 2022
Recently I ordered a copy of Naomi Wolf’s The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human, and began the book the day it arrived. Like you who are reading my words, I lived through the lockdowns, the masks, the school and church closures, and all the rest of it.
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Four Elements of a Good History Curriculum 5
- Education, Culture, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- August 4, 2022
Protesting parents showing up at school-board meetings is one of the new scenes in our cultural landscape in recent months. COVID policies and gender propaganda are big on the list of things parents oppose, but the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) is another issue that raises their hackles. CRT disturbs many parents because it
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