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January 7, 2025
Dante Meets Satan in the Inferno: The Ninth Circle of HellAt that I turned, and saw before my feet a lake of ice, which in the terrible cold looked not like frozen water, but like glass. — Inferno Canto 32. 22–24 (translated by Anthony Esolen) In Dante’s Inferno, the relati...
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January 5, 2025
Joe Biden is the definition of petty spiteHow does Joe Biden still hate us, America? Let us count some of the ways, here: 1. U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to: a. Hillary Clinton b. George Soros ‘Do These Come with Pardons?’ "Seriousl...
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January 3, 2025
New Orleans suffers the horrific last-hour wages of Biden’s FBI, Defense, and DHSThe last two days have been pure kabuki theatre for those of here in Lousiana, or call it 'Terrorism 101.' The FBI has been demonstrably lying — and as one does when lying, changing the tune at every step, and reversing itself ...
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December 28, 2024
Jan. 6, 2021 vs. Jan. 6, 2025: Dems may try to double down on their own crimesComparisons are odious, but Americans are used to that from the failing Democrat party — the party of ‘no apology; no matter what.’ They refuse to acknowledge the ongoing (how long does it take, really?) Republican-led congressio...
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December 26, 2024
May the Circle Be Unbroken: Readers and Writers in the Turn of the YearI am writing here, to first, extend my thanks to all who took time and effort to read my material in 2024—here at American Thinker and elsewhere. Those who took care and thought as commentators also deserve a writer’s expressed appreciati...
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December 22, 2024
A year’s end comic portrayal: The DNC announces its January 2025 Democrat Schtick Award nominationsI say “comic portrayal” because we’ve had so little to laugh about in politics for so long. Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana recently and rightly said, twice, “I don’t hate anybody.” But he does often poke fun ...
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December 20, 2024
Biden’s Federal Grants Spending Spree Will Soon Close ShopJoe Biden's federal international dole-out grants are, we hope, going to crash and burn after January 2025. Hallelujah. Remember Ronald Reagan to the rescue? Back then, I was directing federal grants for a bloated, multi-county Com...
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December 19, 2024
Joe Biden's Immoral Reasons for Fixating on UkraineThere is a tremendous ambiguity around what the United States is doing in and about the current war in Ukraine. Even the least involved and roughly informed know this is true. Where is the money going? Why have no legitimate efforts for p...
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December 7, 2024
Today's snapshots of jobs, jobs, jobs -- notMainstream media outlets, such as CNN, the New York Times, CNBC, and others are all reporting a good jobs picture coming out of the November stats from the Department of Labor. This is the CNN version (don’t worry, they’re all pretty m...
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December 6, 2024
Our congressional Republicans already fall down dead at the Dems’ blusterPresident-elect Trump didn’t get elected by Republicans, although the RNC did better at their job (minus RINO Romney and his likely-collaborating niece). Rather, it was the younger generations (imagine that: 20-year-olds showing up for a geezer...
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December 5, 2024
Mainstream media is in the driver’s seat for deep state pardonsWell, their ratings are crashing, but never mind, the MSM yackers are still at the wheel—and screaming hard to drive Biden Inc. to pardon all the standout Biden Inc. criminal figures, of…well, everything—duh. Will the willy-nill...
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November 25, 2024
The left’s annoying war on English speech just got voted downLanguage is powerful, that is at least something the left gets right, but only in theory: Heaven knows they shout and yammer enough. In reality, they get it wrong, and receive just recompense on November 5th, 2024. They got shellacked, word-wise, in ...
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October 30, 2024
Closing arguments: Biden calls Trump supporters ‘garbage’ and Kamala’s silly, filibustering performanceSo last night Joe Biden called MAGA—every one of us millions—and I quote, “garbage.” So a comedian not affiliated with Trump’s campaign makes a joke about a PLACE, but Joe Biden just called at least 75 million American PEOPLE garbage. pic.twitte...
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October 27, 2024
The 2024 election race that goes bump in the nightOne of my clearest of few early memories is that of a little me, a very petite, enraged six-year-old, standing, dressed as a ghost (white sheet), posted in front of our main windows (nose on the glass), on Reno Road, Washington. D.C., watching the t...
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October 24, 2024
Who wants yesterday’s girl?Kamala Harris played a funny joke on the left. She has, through the last tortuous several months, revealed herself as a sort-of-hippie-cum-beatnik kook who, despite her age, never left (sorry, pun) the ‘60s behind. Any day now she’s going...
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October 22, 2024
Today’s real inflation rate is closing in at 40%Updated, accurate reports have just been released by distinguished economists, federal watchdogs and reputable fact checkers on the actual economic situation—according to these, the U.S. has been in a recession since 2022, and the real inflatio...
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October 22, 2024
Caveat Emptor: Tim Walz and communist ChinaThe Population Research Institute just released grave findings on Tim Walz’s connections to the Chinese communists: Tiananmen Tim? The more we learn about Walz’ ties to China, the more disturbing—even disqualifying—the...
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October 19, 2024
All that Biden-Harris spending on student loan forgiveness and illegals brings us a near-record $1.8 trillion deficitThe Biden-Harris administration's Treasury Department just posted a near-record U.S. government deficit at $1.833 trillion for 2024, rising 8% over the year earlier. Whoa. It's the third-largest deficit in U.S. history. Is it due to war, or s...
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October 18, 2024
Now that Hamas’s Sinwar is dead, the WSJ consults: Leave the hostages behindIn The Wall Street Journal this morning: After Sinwar’s Death, Israel Has Stark Choice: Declare Victory or Keep Fighting Netanyahu suggests the war will continue as the U.S. and Israel’s military argue for a cease-fire in Gaza[.] ...
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October 4, 2024
The Failing Conceits of the GlobalistThen and now, a global agenda which calls for massive human displacement, death and domination runs its course like any other human effort—in the end, you only end up with what you’ve paid for. We do not have the exact faces yet of the...
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October 1, 2024
Trump in JanuaryIt would be good to feel better about life after January 20, 2025. But wait… We all know that we’ll be more than ‘just lucky’ to get out of this political hellhole intact by February 2025. Not only do we have the multiple ...
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September 27, 2024
Joe Biden Uses Medicare As A Campaign Tool for Kamala Harris, Offering Seniors A Certain Kind of SandwichMedicare just sent out a letter to its recipients by email, ‘signed’ by Joe Biden. We got one. It read: Dear (first name-redacted), With Open Enrollment for Medicare around the corner, I want to make sure you're a...
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September 25, 2024
In bits and pieces, the Swamp moves to elect HarrisThere is much currency in the Biden-Harris federally coordinated effort to swing the upcoming election; here are a few standouts: Federal Communications Commission helps corner the 2024 election radio market for Harris. The Federal Communicatio...
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September 24, 2024
Kamalaworld and the Catholic VoteIn a major break from tradition, Kamala Harris says she’s “too busy” to attend the Catholic Al Smith Dinner; the story, via an item at the New York Post: A charity event that raises millions for the city’s unfortunate, th...
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September 21, 2024
Is Obama cash underwriting Iran's election interference?Obama behaves as a Muslim. We all should have seen that, almost from the get-go, but Americans elected him anyway. Why? Because he was black enough to pass, sort of, the smell test, had no committed Republican opposition, and because Obama had a good...
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September 16, 2024
Another assassination attempt, and more scripted insincerityMight the Democrats be the ones harboring violent white males? With the second Trump assassination attempt yesterday, we have a few new and unfortunate wrinkles for the MSM to autocorrect. First, the consistently scripted reaction from t...
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September 8, 2024
In this tumultous political season, sometimes just praying helps mostThe Democrat news cycle — which is the vast majority of election news we can access — is now so horrifically false and irregular that for regular Joes, like me (not inured by a lifetime of journalism), it has become close to unbearable to...
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August 31, 2024
The Truth About ArlingtonHere is what really happened with President Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery this week: at the request of Gold Star families, Trump came to honor our dead heroes killed in Afghanistan. Simple enough, and very like President Tru...
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August 23, 2024
The DNC’s Chicago look gives us a very clear choiceThe DNC convention (to which I didn’t tune in but saw enough of anyway, mostly to gag) was the most accurate indicator yet of a future America—in nearly three very dark decades, the trend has been once-broken, by the shining reprieve of T...
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August 21, 2024
Kamala Harris’s updated truly lousy jobs report and stock market hysteria, todayReally, we just need to alert readers to this “development” (not really) yesterday and overnight, from Bloomberg: Fed Confronts Up to a Million US Jobs Vanishing in Revision US job growth in the year through March was likely far l...
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August 15, 2024
A frenzied and failing MSM gives the DNC its best shotThe MSM fever worked for Joe Biden, maybe, in 2020 (Did Biden actually win? Most probably, no). And, the MSM fever (same one) might have worked for Hillary in 2016, had she not been—and still is, an essentially unlikeable liar, so patently i...
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August 5, 2024
Election complication for the Democrats: Recession indicators flash redAlong with last week’s terrible labor/jobs report, the U.S. economy, led by its technology and manufacturing sectors, is flashing indicators of a likely recession. That's sent stock markets crashing around the world. Here's just o...
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August 3, 2024
Assassination Politics and the Abrupt Advent of Kamala Harris, a QueryDespite an ongoing range of congressional and independent efforts to get the truth out of the Secret Service and their “intelligence” confreres, we still don’t know what happened in Butler, PA, lacking conclusive, factual informatio...
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July 31, 2024
Faith and fortitude is the beginning of great change for AmericaAs the Left grows more confident of its sway upon our country, it also becomes less mindful of the growing pushback from the American people; its ugly vulnerability is in open view. Their “values” have decayed into a chimera—t...
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July 27, 2024
A wake-up call for the corporate elite: Elections have consequencesElon Musk decided this year to buck the group-think so often on display with the elite. As it turns out, Elon has unearthed an abiding biblical truth: that wealth is not, at the end of the day, everything. Musk upended Twitter, turned it...
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July 24, 2024
Who’s in charge of Kamala Harris now?Right now, the more interesting question is not who’s backing Kamala, but who’s in charge of her. For she is not only wildly unpopular in most polling, but she is also the VP who lost 92% of her staff in her first three years in that offi...
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July 23, 2024
Zombie Alert: Democrats don’t resignAs a rule, although excepted on occasion, the scions of the Democrat party like to die in play. Well known by many and admired by some, leftist ossification is a frequent character quality of this cohort—most especially, for those who hol...
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July 7, 2024
What to do with Biden? What to do with us?An associate reassured me early this week that Biden was “circling down the drain.” If so, someone needs to call a plumber. Swamp drains are always blocked, farther down, with oozy Potomac swampy stuff. Ri...
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June 30, 2024
RFK Jr: A post-debate recapOn the first day of this month, the American Thinker kindly published my piece: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may well mop up the mess on the floors in November My piece was greeted with close to 100% distain and disgust by AT online comm...
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June 28, 2024
Michelle O breaks cover, and her timing is spot onAll over the media in the past two days was Michelle Obama’s “exclusive” interview, in which she dished on the Biden family dysfunction. Such a piece of journalistic slavishness is hardly surprising. Surely the ironies have not e...
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June 25, 2024
Buckle up to vote, AmericaCNN has already made it clear that the debate this week will be rigged in Biden’s favor. So much for that — we saw it last time, remember? No matter. The much-ballyhooed, speculative Trump/Biden presidential match ‘to co...
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June 22, 2024
Louisiana Leads In Protecting Women and Girls from Biden’s ‘Gender Identity’It is a largely unremarked irony that the Biden Left’s so-called “feminism” has resulted in a slew of cultural, psychological, and physical attacks on, and thus degradation of, women and girls. Louisiana led the challenge, won th...
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June 21, 2024
Archbishop Viganò faces off with the PopeAs some Catholics know, Archbishop Viganò is a hero in the eyes of many who do not enjoy the spectacle of Pope Francis’ continual and seemingly ongoing reversal of Catholic teaching and law. The hyperpolitical, leftist Pope has been, by ...
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June 18, 2024
Juneteenth is yet another Biden payoffWell, don’t mind me, but, why “Juneteenth?” It’s akin to everything that Biden has done domestically to buy his way to a second term. (Biden? Second Term? Really?) Very few Americans -- black, white, or indiffer...
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June 11, 2024
Mr. Biden goes to Paris, where European ‘wisdom’ is devolving, againThe smug EU is losing ground as its member nations turn increasingly conservative and, oh dear, “nationalist.” So-called climate change is rumored to soon take a backseat to the daily survival needs of the European citizenry and its huge ...
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June 1, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may well mop up the mess on the floors in NovemberI voted for Trump against the Hill-da-beast. I hope he wins again—if he is still willing and able after they get done with him. However, from the moment RFK Jr. announced his run for the presidency, I had an old D.C. political observer...
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April 29, 2024
It's the Economy... AgainBy this November 5, a high electoral price from the Democrats may be called in due to a fractured American economy. In the runup, there are several negative economic indicators flashing red -- factors soon to converge in force, each one pre...
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April 21, 2024
Quit haranguing Speaker JohnsonHouse Speaker Mike Johnson has been enduring a public scourging from his fellow Republicans these past weeks. Let’s take a closer look at his offenses. Johnson has been ridiculed for comparing his stint thus far as Speaker to the era of t...
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April 20, 2024
Abortion and the American Voter in November 2024There exists plenty of contradiction about the role of the abortion issues(s) in the 2024 presidential race. What are the current, assumed or hopeful, candidates for the 2024 presidential race saying? Is there any alignment detectible vis-a-vis ab...
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April 18, 2024
A disgrace for the US SenateThere is no more room in our country for fools; we are full up. We have been bested by the best of fools — the U.S. Senate, in which today, mostly thanks to Chuck Schumer but really thanks to all the Democrats in the Senate, it has been m...
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April 15, 2024
The American public is exhausted by BidenJoe Biden sides with his family’s wealth: that is the crux of his ‘foreign policy.’ How can it be more obvious after three-plus years of his executive antics? Afghanistan, where he abandoned billions in American supplies and e...
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April 2, 2024
The Collapsed Bridge to Nowhere: Francis Scott Key and Missing LogicJoe Biden is demanding, and pronto, more of our tax money to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. He wants more from us—naturally—but America needs, as its first priority, to investigate and determine if the bridge’...
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March 29, 2024
Gefälscht: the Dems are losing their leftist baseI well remember when a youngish (26-ish) friend of mine told me, ecstatically, “I was just on a conference call with Barack Obama.” (This was during Obama’s first race for president.) Upon query, she said there were “thousands...
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March 20, 2024
Biden’s Afghanistan redo for Gaza, and an Obama sighting at PM Sunak’s Downing StreetWe remember the billions of dollars of American defense equipment, a parting gift to the terrorists in Afghanistan, after Biden’s ignominious, sudden withdrawal. We certainly remember the Americans stranded there, for months and longer. We reme...
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March 19, 2024
Chief Justice John Roberts decides to keep Peter Navarro in jailAs most know, Peter Navarro just asked the Supreme Court to allow him to stay out of prison while his sentence is under appeal. Chief Justice Roberts denied the request: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Tr...
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March 17, 2024
The Eastern Church Draws the LinePope Francis’ recent scandal regarding blessings of gay marriages has spawned a serious regression in the Western Catholic Church’s decades-long efforts to merge with the Eastern Orthodox Church. Already many bishops in America, and fa...
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March 8, 2024
Biden proposes to lay waste to 22 million acres in Western states for solar ‘development’Biden’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced another “climate change” gambit, again through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday unveiled an updated solar roadmap...
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March 5, 2024
Will the Left want to live in the world they are creating?What does the future look like under the Democrats? Day after day, we hear a lot about who is saying what about the 2024 election. It would be better if we heard more about the quality of life for Americans under the current Democrat adm...
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February 23, 2024
Why Are Our Basic Needs Being Ignored?We are told that the poor will always be with us. That’s an historical, empirical fact, as well as a biblical one. Yet during the years under Joe Biden, the plight of the poor working class, and now the middle class too, has worsened day by ...
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February 19, 2024
Shellenberger exposes Obama's CIAIndependent journalist Michael Shellenberger has broken a story on Substack this week exposing Barack Obama’s CIA both before and after the 2016 election: 1. Lying about Trump and Russia and Clinton (Hillary was actually Russia’s...
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February 9, 2024
Both major parties have squandered the right to governYesterday’s public statement by the Special Counsel for Joe Biden’s abuse of power in sharing and personally hoarding federally classified information/property, says it all. Not only does it underline the appalling double standard of a De...
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February 6, 2024
The WSJ jumps the shark on the Schumer/Lankford/Biden border billFor years, the Wall Street Journal has been mocking its readership with its political good cop/bad cop routine — the front-page headlines are usually blatantly anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, and pro-globalism, whereas, its editorials, on any identical ...
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January 27, 2024
Our First GunIt’s a .38 Special revolver. Up until one month ago, I had scant idea what such a gun looked like or could do. My husband eventually made the decision to get a gun, which surprised me a little as he is a very peaceable man. Yet, he is a lover o...
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January 26, 2024
Nikki is Hillary 2.0Well, Nikki Haley lost the New Hampshire primary. But she called it a ‘great night’ and ‘far from over.’ Sound familiar? Nikki will take the votes from, well, from wherever. She got 70% of her votes last night from...
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January 14, 2024
The Official Catholic Church Is Alienating Its Faithful BaseHere in the West, ‘regular’ Catholics in the pews are worried about and baffled by Pope Francis, who regularly pounces on and ‘takes sides’ on secular and political subjects, far more than did any of his predecessors. The P...
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January 7, 2024
Two Racial Grievance Girls: Michelle and MeghanHow much do Meghan Markle, duchess of Sussex, and Michelle Obama, ex–first lady, have in common? It’s odd how much, yet how little of distinction or substance is in that muchness — given the strong hints of vacuity in both wom...
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December 27, 2023
2024’s Ship of FoolsLest we forget in the New Year, below are on-record tidbits reminding us where Joe Biden finds his staunchest Washington support, from a bipartisan cast of characters. Lindsey Graham, RINO: Lindsey Graham is well known, since his John McCain da...
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December 17, 2023
After Senate gay sex scandal, where are the morals?We are increasingly visited by sleeplessness and nightmares over what the internet brings us these days. Currently, we have a new shocking image burned on our corneas: a naked youngish man in position to be sodomized; a Senate staffer, curved ove...
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December 2, 2023
Our National Political History DeficitMany Democrats, pointedly its ‘progressive’ left wing, enjoy thinking of themselves as ‘people-person’ trailblazers. This collective and persistent fiction chiefly works because their ‘novel’ efforts cancel out...
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November 11, 2023
Biden is ‘Fighting’ Hamas for Biden’s InterestsThe history of radical Muslim envy and hatred towards the Jews and the Christians is too lengthy to recount here. However, we can start with Obama and his enduring predilections for the terrorist radical Muslim regimes in the Middle East and Africa. ...
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November 2, 2023
Dropping the ball on the GOP debatesThe Republican National Committee debates are not polling well as we approach the Republican nominating convention for a 2024 presidential candidate. The RNC debates have worsened as they progress: too many debates, viewing in decline after a weak de...
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October 25, 2023
Landry Takes LouisianaIn Southeastern Louisiana, in St. Tammany Parish (of the original ‘Florida Parishes’), Attorney General Jeff Landry just won by a landslide in the race for the incoming governor of Louisiana. Louisiana is, if you credit the MSM, co...
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October 20, 2023
Life is cheap in the Arab world -- and the West won't grasp the evilIf Americans do not have good background history, or very good intuition and common sense, it is increasingly difficult to cognitively negotiate the mainstream media war ‘news’ since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Our gut ...
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October 11, 2023
Democrats are paying for Biden now, good and hardThis past Sunday, on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures show on FOX, there was a weirdness going on about Biden. I have never seen a U.S. senator (Tom Cotton) and U.S. congressman (Jim Jordan), and a distinguished and gutsy journalist ...
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October 7, 2023
Biden’s new stealth war happened while we were sleeping and now it’s against IsraelHamas is, as of last night, once more conducting a major frontal attack on Israel—something that hasn’t happened since our last Democrat president, Barack Obama, left office. President Biden can now put a new notch in his p...
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September 30, 2023
Joe Biden’s IRA committed more than $100 million to promote ‘tree equity’The “climate change” (uh huh, sure) picture is clear: the transfer of wealth (to them and away from us), and an attack against nature and sensibility. The burgeoning climate cooperation between the Democrats and the shadowy characters of ...
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September 19, 2023
The Fed's Bait and Switch: Race and the U.S. CensusA handy barometer for federal, monetized aggression against the American people can be readily seen in the documents of the U.S. Census, as it fails to justify its growing demands upon our privacy and insists on the priority of ‘race...
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September 9, 2023
What are Joe Biden’s unarticulated reasons for a very costly overseas intervention?Joe Biden is undistinguished in his verbal skills, to include his speeches—also in his “come on, man” and other shallow asides—regarding the war in Ukraine. To the extent that the U.S. intervention in Ukraine is commonly refer...
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September 6, 2023
COVID Masks: Hell (Again?) for the DisabledI have been severely deaf since my early teens. I was and am one of the fortunate ones: not having been challenged with a sense deprivation before benefiting from an excellent primary and secondary education. This blessing enabl...
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August 20, 2023
Wake Up, Catholics, And Fight the Good FightThe shutdown/lockdown of many Catholic churches during COVID was an ugly shock to practicing Catholics, who count on the weekly/daily Mass, most notably the Eucharist, for their entire well-being. You wouldn’t have to look far (with doubt...
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February 8, 2023
The unbearable lightness of Joe BidenThe shark grins. The sarcastic "Come on, man" at any dared query regarding the most recent, massively horrible, Biden-originated turn of human events. The Vegas, Tinseltown Mafiaesque little woman. The refle...