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Being Fully American Means Americans First

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UPDATE 11.17.23: In a discussion with Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson called out commentators who hyperventilate about tragedies overseas, but turn a blind eye to problems here in America. Watch: Tucker: “I’m an American. Our country is being invaded right now. Over 100,000 Americans die every year of fentanyl. Those are real tragedies. I’ve never seen […]

Who Is Still Representing the American People in DC?

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Is anyone in Washington, D.C. still representing the will of the American people? That’s what Paul Craig Roberts is wondering at the Institute for Political Economy. He writes: US Representative Matt Gaetz has courage and principles, for the most part good ones. It was Gaetz who had the courage and leadership ability to get rid […]

Conflict Between Democratic Sovereignty and Transnational Progressivism (Globalism)

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UPDATE 7.30.22: Tensions with China are escalating quickly as a potential visit by Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan has encouraged a protest by China. President Donald Trump has condemned the plan saying that it would “only make it worse.” The Hill’s Jared Gans reports: Former President Trump on Friday criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) planned trip to Taiwan, which has […]

The War in Ukraine Killed the Davos Globalization Dream

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At Foreign Policy, Edward Alden suggests that the war in Ukraine has broken the dreams of the Davos globalists. He writes: In her co-authored 2018 book Political Risk, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells the story of an hourlong negotiation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. For what were clearly protectionist reasons, Russia had banned […]

The Unending War on America’s Past

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Over the last two years, Americans have lived simultaneously through both the greatest pandemic in a century and the greatest social upheaval since at least the 1960s. Americans are harangued with incessant criticisms of past wrongdoing either real or imaginary. In American Greatness, Victor Davis Hanson explains the “unprecedented escalation in a decades-long war on […]

All Men Recognize the Right of Revolution

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At LewRockwell.com, Gary D. Barnett echoes the words of Henry David Thoreau, that all men recognize the right of revolution against a tyrannical government. He writes (abridged): “All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great […]

Has the Time Come to Abolish the American Government?

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At LewRockwell.com, Judge Andrew Napolitano asks “What if when government tramples our rights, we alter or abolish it? What if the time to do that is coming? What if that time is here?” He writes (abridged): What if we all start a return to normal life now that the government says the worst of the […]

On Why the World Needs the U.S. President to Succeed

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From former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s speech at the Heritage Foundation, 21 January 2020 (WSJ): I have to say that on this trip to Washington, I’ve noticed that respect for the office of the president is not so common, even here in the United States itself. That’s a pity, if I may say so, […]

Here’s Why Citizens Are Angry at their Leaders Worldwide

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At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains that people around the world are upset with their leaders because neither democracies nor authoritarian regimes have been able to cure their problems. He writes (abridged): The riots in Chile were started to oppose a small hike in train and subway fares in a country with the highest […]