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Remembering Nobel Prize Winner V.S. Naipaul, A Brilliant Defender Of Humane Values
There are no rose-colored glasses when reading a V.S. Naipaul book. It’s a yellowed, sere world he looks upon, and once you sink into a Naipaul novel or nonfiction account (they are similar in construction), you begin to suspect that this is the way the world actually is…
Watch Chris Pratt Thank God At Teen Choice Awards: ‘I Love God, And You Should Too’
While accepting an award at the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday night, Chris Pratt told members of the audience he loved God and they should too. “I want to thank God,” Pratt said. “I always do that when I’m up on a big platform in front of a…
Former Gun Control Candidate Charged With Shooting Her Campaign Treasurer
Kellie Collins, a former congressional candidate in Georgia’s 10th District, was charged with the murder of her former campaign treasurer, Curtis Cain. The allegations of murder follow Collins’ advocacy for “responsible” gun control laws during her campaign. WSB-TV reports that she argued for stricter legislation “to protect the community.”…
FBI Fires Agent Who Led Investigation Into Trump, Sent Anti-Trump Texts To Paramour
The FBI has fired embattled agent Peter Strzok, who came under fire for sending text messages promising to “stop” Donald Trump from becoming president while leading the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. Strzok, who formerly led…
The Omarosa News Cycle Is Everything That’s Wrong With Media Coverage Of Trump
The news cycle surrounding ousted White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman is emblematic of everything that is wrong with the news media’s coverage of the Trump administration. The famed reality TV villain, who is peddling a book about her stint at the Trump White House, has been getting…
Conservative Combat Vet Seeks GOP Senate Nomination In Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — The outcome of a hotly-contested “insider versus outsider” Republican primary in Wisconsin could potentially decide which party holds the Senate after November. The outsider is Kevin Nicholson — a young, decorated veteran-turned-businessman who walked away from the Democratic Party during his service in the U.S….
New Gallup Poll Shows Democrats Are Officially The Party Of Socialism
More Democrats have a favorable view of socialism than those who have a favorable view of capitalism, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. Of Democrats and those who lean Democrat surveyed, only 47 percent had a favorable view of capitalism, down from 56 percent in 2016. Fifty-seven percent…
Socialism’s Resurgence Is A Doomed Attempt To Address A Spiritual Problem With Politics
As I compose this, a miracle is happening around me. I am flying back to Missouri after a week in my native Pacific Northwest. This is a round-trip Oregon Trail, without the deaths from dysentery, cholera, snakebite, or drowning while fording a river. This direct flight from Portland…
The News Media Bet On Trump Emboldening White Supremacy And Lost
I’ve spent most of my adult life producing theater in New York City. In that time, on more occasions than I care to remember, only 20 people showed up in the audience when I’d hoped for hundreds. I thought of that with a smile yesterday watching the maybe…
This Year, There Was Finally Only One Side Left In Charlottesville
So the mainstream pundits are finally right. They said there was only one side behind the violence in Charlottesville last year, despite extensive reports of black-clad, far-left “Antifa” eagerly brawling with the white nationalists. This has since been cemented as an article of dogma among mainstream “liberals,” who…
If Trump’s Voters Turn Out This Fall, They’ll Give Republicans A Big Senate Majority
Hillary Clinton ruled the big Midwestern cities and suburbs in 2016, often surpassing Barack Obama’s 2012 margins of victory in places like Hamilton County, Ohio (Cincinnati) and Hennepin County, Minnesota (Minneapolis.) But in every Midwestern state, the small towns and countryside gave Donald Trump much higher victory margins…
Why Preschool Doesn’t Usually Do Much Good For Small Children
As Federalist editor Joy Pullmann recently reported, a new study of the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Program (VPK) showed that preschool failed to help students succeed in elementary school and even hindered them in some cases. While the kids enrolled made academic gains at the beginning, these gains disappeared…
Never Trumper Ben Shapiro Might Vote Trump, Says Primarying Him Would Be ‘Major Mistake’
In a recent interview with Guy Benson from Fox’s radio show “Benson and Harf,” Ben Shapiro, editor in chief of The Daily Wire, said he would be “much more apt to vote for President Trump in 2020 than [he] was in 2016” and that attempts to primary Trump…
Leon Kass Offers Suggestions On How To Be A Human Being In ‘Leading A Worthy Life’
The American experiment seems to be going awry in unexpected and disturbing ways. Despite the health of the national economy, troubling signs abound: declining birthrates, family breakdown, rising mortality from suicide or drug overdose, social tribalism, political dissatisfaction, fraying social ties and gnawing isolation. In Europe, Western civilization…
Why Converting The United States To A Full Democracy Will Only Increase Tyranny
It appears that intellectual poverty is no barrier to publication in The New York Times opinion page, if the ideas being expressed put a tingle in leftists’ spines. A recent case in point is an article by Meagan Day and Bhaskar Sunkara entitled, “Think the Constitution Will Save…
U.S. Socialists Back Islamist-Linked Muslim Candidates In Michigan Primaries
The Michigan Democratic primaries on Wednesday proved a mixed bag for Muslim candidates who were endorsed by a mixture of Islamist organizations and members of left-most elements of progressive politics. Yet despite the less than stellar polling results, there’s reason for concern that efforts to legitimize Islamist politicians…
7 Tips For Sending Your Child Off To College
I don’t think I will ever forget the day my husband and I dropped off our firstborn for his freshman year of college. It would have been difficult enough under any circumstances, but the fact that we had homeschooled him through high school made it even more so….
Michael Avenatti’s Arrogance Soars Into Considering A Presidential Run
As the midterm elections inch closer, speculation has run wild as to who will challenge Donald Trump in 2020. In late June, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer whose claim to fame is representing an on-screen prostitute who allegedly had consensual sex with the president 12 years ago, tweeted, “The…