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We Can’t Erase History — Or Simplify It
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When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is — Your Enemy
In November, students at a historically black university in New Orleans led a massive protest against a speaker heavily supportive of Donald Trump. Socially Engaged Dillard University Students, the...
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The Art of Making the Right Enemies
This week, Democrats elected former Obama Labor secretary Tom Perez to head the Democratic National Committee. In an act of obeisance to the Left’s insistence that President Trump be opposed by any...
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Why We Should Ignore Trump’s Rhetoric
Take Trump “seriously but not literally.” That’s a piece of wisdom coined by reporter Salena Zito, and it’s used by Trump’s defenders to brush off whatever bout of rhetorical diarrhea has plagued his...
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A Field Guide to Harvard’s Field Guide on ‘Fake News’
Last week, Harvard released a new research guide on “fake news.”“Fake news,” of course, is the source of all evil, according to the Left. It’s only thanks to lies that Donald Trump was elected! Instead...
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To Promise Free Things Is to Lie
Democratic politics is riven by a central conflict: the conflict between truth and desire. People generally want things; they want government to give them those things. Conservatives aren’t wrong when...
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Religious Trumpians Suffer from Stockholm Syndrome
One of the great lies of the last election cycle didn’t come from Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. It came from conservatives.Specifically, the lie came from conservatives who suggested that after...
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The Left Can Cite Scripture for Its Own Purpose
Leftists, it seems, have discovered the Bible.This week, the Washington Post ran a story by Caitlin Dewey with this shocking headline: “GOP lawmaker: The Bible says the unemployed ‘shall not eat.’” The...
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In Trump’s Government-by-Applause, All Bets Are Off
The president who proclaimed that he was a rock, he was an island, sure seems to be shifting a lot. Donald Trump has now flip-flopped on Chinese currency manipulation (he no longer believes it’s...
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Trump’s ‘Hire American, Buy American’ Is Redistribution by Another Name
This week, President Trump reiterated his commitment to his “hire American, buy American” program -- a supposedly crucial element in his “economic nationalist” program. The notion here is threefold:...
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Science vs. Science™!
On Saturday, leftists around the nation took to the streets to sound off about their new religion: Science™! No, not testable hypotheses and well-constructed experiments. Science™! You know, like gay...
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Trump Should Be Held to Account for His Promises
We’re now more than 100 days into the Trump presidency, and not all that much has gotten done. Yes, Trump appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Yes, Congress has trimmed around the edges...
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GOP Doublespeak on ‘Free Market’ Health Care
According to the Republican leadership -- Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) and President Donald Trump in particular -- last week marked a celebratory moment for conservatism. In particular,...
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Trump Isn’t Playing 8-D Chess
This week, President Trump proved once again that character matters. Trump failed miserably on all fronts -- not because of his political principles, which were never philosophically conservative, but...
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Democrats’ Incessant Trump Bashing Will Pay Electoral Dividends
Conventional wisdom says that Democrats are in serious trouble. In the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s defeat, the narrative goes something like this: Democrats are internally divided, with the far-left...
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Whataboutism and Misdirection: The Latest Tools of Dumb Political Combat
All that matters now is misdirection. On the left, all major issues can be ignored by pointing to the evils of Trumpism. Are Americans concerned about the rise of radical Islam? Well, it’s Trumpian...
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The ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Smear
On Monday, the New York Post ran a story about Warrior Week, a boot camp for men run by Garrett J. White, “a 40-year-old blond with tattooed biceps who looked like a video-game soldier.” For the low,...
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All the Rage
The Democrats have apparently discovered the fountain of political youth: rage. Speaking last week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), a crazed elderly loon recently spotted wandering around the country...
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Addicted to the Apocalypse
We are in love with the apocalypse. Doomsday thinking justifies anything. If Armageddon lies just beyond the horizon, then all measures are worthwhile in staving it off. Armageddon simplifies the...
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Bipartisan Agreement on Health Care Masks a Deep Divide
Over the weekend, President Trump gave his weekly YouTube address, using the platform to bash Obamacare: “Millions of families across our nation are suffering under the disaster known as...
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