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Providing the wittiest conservative commentary since 1967.
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Joined September 2008
Choosing commitment in your twenties is not giving something up. It’s gaining everything.
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RT @ShivomMParihar: Exclusive: Russian Opposition Leader Predicts Peace Upcoming, Says Biden Administration Was ‘Afraid of Ukraine’s Victor….
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Ten years after Ilya Ponomarev fled from Russia, the Putin government launched its fifth assassination attempt, leaving his Ukrainian home in ruins while the opposition leader and his wife were...
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Ukraine’s effective use of drones should be celebrated, but, sadly, what worked against Russian bombers also works on civilian airliners.
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Ukraine’s effective use of drones should be celebrated, but what worked against Russian bombers also works on civilian airliners.
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Highly educated ≠ highly satisfied. A mass exodus is occurring in America's most educated states.
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A couple of weeks ago, Steve Moore and I revealed in this space that Census Bureau data shows that native-born Americans are fleeing high-tax states. But further examination of the migration data by...
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Freelancing is boxed out by outdated laws. Congress needs to catch up.
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Our technology-driven economy places work opportunities at our fingertips. Yet our outdated federal and state labor laws are decades behind how millions of Americans earn a living today. The House...
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How did Team Clinton learn their unscrupulous tactics that led to the Russiagate scandal?.
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If you want to understand the origins of the Russiagate scandal, you must look back much further than Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency in 2016. Where did Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff...
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Mamdani still refuses to renounce “globalize the intifada,” and Democrat elites are already whitewashing it.
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America’s elite have begun their attempt at Zohran Mamdani’s makeover. The establishment media is doing it with “second-look” headlines. Congressional Democrat leaders are doing it by meeting with...
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8 months after her crushing defeat to President Donald Trump, Kamala Harris has reappeared to promote her new book.
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Eight months after her crushing defeat to President Donald Trump, Kamala Harris reappeared on the public scene to announce her decision to not run for California governor and to promote the release...
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Brian Burch is exactly the kind of Ambassador America needs at the Vatican.
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It took ridiculously long, but it finally happened. Over the weekend, after months of intentional delays by Democrats behaving like partisan ideologues, the Senate confirmed Brian Burch as U.S....
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🧵4/4 Taking back our culture, social, and political realm requires establishing the counterculture. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE:.
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In 1865, William Ross Wallace delivered a succinct and powerful cultural insight: “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” In contemporary American life, the startling...
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🧵3/4 The Left dominates the culture by normalizing new family forms, such as polyamory and open relationships. Coupled with promoting casual sexuality and scorning traditional domestic life as prudish or puritanical, the Left has been waging this war for years. As young.
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🧵2/4 Despite the insistence of modern culture, true happiness is not found in the maximization of personal freedom or licentiousness. A multitude of studies show that married couples report higher levels of satisfaction, mental health, and even physical health than their.
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🧵1/4 Marriage is not just a private arrangement; it is a public good. Strong marriages form the backbone of functioning societies, producing stable households, responsible citizens, and a future generation equipped with values and virtue.
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A message for Governor Abbott: no mercy for the "fleebaggers.".
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You've almost certainly heard about (at the very least, from the column that appeared in this space last week on the subject) the mushrooming imbroglio emanating from Texas, in which a special...
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Stop trying to teach me how to be happy! Self-help from bestsellers to TikTok: desperate people chasing happiness through platitudes.
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Platitudinous self-help from bestsellers to TikTok: desperate people chasing happiness through all the wrong methods.
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How Chinese underground bankers became the beating heart of transnational corruption.
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We’re already in a financial war. The question is whether we wake up in time to fight back.
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The Spectator P.M. Podcast: The Culture Wars Need Catholics and Protestants to Unite, Not Divide with hosts @EllieGardey and @LyrahMargo. Available on @rumblevideo and all podcast platforms.
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The best baseball decade is up for debate, but the 1970s might take the award. Rule changes and numbers-crunching front offices have ensured that it isn’t the 2020s.
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The best baseball decade is up for debate. But rule changes and numbers-crunching front offices have ensured that it isn’t the 2020s.
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