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March 2017

March 15, 2017

The end of Reaganism?

At the Conservative Political Action Conference, attendees swooned over President Trump. They applauded him even...

March 14, 2017

Shutting down the government over the Wall & Planned Parenthood

Senate Democrats say they will shut down the government by filibustering any spending bills that...

March 14, 2017

The ACLU “resistance”

The American Civil Liberties Union conducted livestreamed training across the country Saturday, teaching people how to...

March 13, 2017

The difference between Mike Pence’s e-mails and Hillary Clinton’s

Vice-President Mike Pence, it turns out, used his private e-mail account for government business when...

March 03, 2017

Trumpism as the new punk rock

A young former-buttoned-down conservative at CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) said that he has...

March 02, 2017

The presidential President Trump

President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress is being hailed as a "home...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

The travails of pro-life Democrats

Who do you think said this? "Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even...

February 24, 2017

Why conservatives need Edmund Burke

In another in our series of my-former-students-who-are-making-me-proud-by-their-writing, Gracy Olmstead explains why today's conservatives need to...

February 23, 2017

Are evangelicals responsible for Milo?

How did the gay, profane, iconoclastic Milo Yiannopoulos get to be a poster child for...

February 22, 2017

The fall of the gay right-winger

Conservatives used to have moral qualms about homosexuality, but Milo Yiannopoulos had become a right wing...

February 21, 2017

Intersectionality

If you are going to understand and navigate the complexities of oppression, victimhood, and political...

February 21, 2017

Trump’s appointment do-overs

President Trump seems to have chosen some well-qualified replacements for his original picks for Labor...

February 20, 2017

And now the conservative Generation Z

Forget Millennials. A new generation is coming of age: Generation-Z. It's being heralded as the...

February 17, 2017

Survey finds 2 million non-citizens illegally registered to vote

A 2013 survey of Hispanics in America found that of the 56% who were here...

February 16, 2017

Are U.S. spies staging a “soft coup” against the Trump administration?

President Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn lost his job because someone leaked records from his...

February 09, 2017

Should tax-exempt churches be allowed to preach politics?

In 1954, President Lyndon Baines Johnson pushed through a law that would revoke the tax-exempt status...

February 03, 2017

Trump will retain Obama’s LGBT policy

As conservatives are giddy and liberals are panic-stricken over various policies put into place by...

February 02, 2017

The anti-Trump “resistance”

Democrats have gone into full resistance mode, with Democratic Senators boycotting confirmation hearings to prevent...

February 01, 2017

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

President Donald Trump has nominated Colorado appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

The new culture war

The old culture war was about morality and was informed by religion. The new culture...

January 25, 2017

The problem with crowds

In a column in which he explains why he didn't go to the Inauguration, Jonah...

January 25, 2017

China pushing Communism to replace failing Democracy

China says Western democracy has reached its limits and has started to deteriorate (alluding to...

January 18, 2017

Fear of the working class

The editor of a liberal website has written about a plumber he had called to fix...

January 17, 2017

Who will pray at Trump’s inauguration

The six religious leaders who will offer prayers at Donald Trump's inauguration have been announced....

January 12, 2017

Trump and the prosperity gospel

Giving the opening prayer at Donald Trump's inauguration will be Paula White, a megachurch "pastor"...

January 11, 2017

More Russian dirty tricks

Not only did the Russians hack into the Democrats' e-mails in an attempt to influence...

January 10, 2017

Flipping on Assange

Not long ago, conservatives condemned Wikileaks leaker Julian Assange. After all, Assange exposed U.S. intelligence...

January 09, 2017

From Russia with Love

Donald Trump and his supporters have been dismissive of U. S. Intelligence claims that the...

January 06, 2017

Democrats hope to come back by going left

Democrats strategizing over how to overcome their recent defeats now have a plan: go left....

January 05, 2017

The Cubs didn’t really win the World Series

The Chicago Cubs didn't really win the World Series over the Cleveland Indians. Actually, both...