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General MacArthur, General Milley, And The War On The Constitution

By Frank Miele for RealClearPolitics In 1951, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was relieved of duty by a Democrat president because he was too tough on China. Seventy years later, Gen. Mark Milley got celebrated by a Democrat president because he collaborated with China. Go figure. That’s just the way Democrats roll. Apparently, they’ve always had a […]

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Will Biden’s Border Crisis Cost Democrats Texas Seats?

By Susan Crabtree for RealClearPolitics As the immigration crisis worsens in South Texas, President Biden’s inconsistent border policies and messaging are not only damaging his approval ratings nationwide, but they could also cost the Democratic Party once-safe seats in Congress. The Rio Grande Valley is the epicenter of the crisis, and its residents feel the […]

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Study: $290,921 In Taxpayer Money Spent To Learn That Your Beard Blunts A Punch To The Face

By Adam Andrzejewski for RealClearPolicy Human men have evolved to have beards to better absorb a punch to the face, according to a University of Utah research paper. That research cost taxpayers up to $290,921. Research funded, in part, through by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The three male researchers tested their hypothesis […]

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Biden Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tied To Alleged 2016 Clinton Scheme To Co-Opt The CIA And FBI To Tar Trump

By Paul Sperry for RealClearInvestigations White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan figures prominently in a grand jury investigation run by Special Counsel John Durham into an alleged 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign scheme to use both the FBI and CIA to tar Donald Trump as a colluder with Russia, according to people familiar with the […]

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Rubio Bill Would Hold Woke Corporations Accountable

By Alfredo Ortiz for RealClearPolitics Call it a “wokelash.” Ordinary Americans are fed up with corporations’ woke politics on issues unrelated to their businesses. A recent Rasmussen poll finds that two-thirds of Americans think companies should stay out of politics. Now, new legislation sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio will help people hold companies accountable for their political virtue signaling. […]

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The Power Of President Trump’s Endorsement

By Matt Schlapp for RealClearPolitics An old campaign adage argued that political endorsements often aren’t worth the paper they are printed on, and until President Donald J. Trump, they were right. Now the most important political asset any Republican candidate could earn is the Trump endorsement, and how he’s using it will continue to reshape […]

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There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders In America. Here’s Why You Rarely Hear Of Them

By John R. Lott Jr. for RealClearPolitics While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them. On May 15, an attacker at an apartment complex in Fort Smith, Ark., fatally shot a woman and then fired 93 rounds at other people before a man killed him […]

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How Russiagate Became A Story Of Old Friends In High Places

By Eric Felten for RealClearInvestigations The indictment of Washington attorney Michael Sussman — accused of lying to the FBI in order to smear Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign — reveals the ace up the sleeve of high-powered Democrats. It’s a card they played time and again to advance the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory: friends in […]

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The Democrats’ War On Blacks Keeps Growing In The Pandemic

By Roger L. Simon for The Epoch Times One of the key reasons I left the Democratic Party years ago was the atrocious way they treated black people. I’m not just talking about “Jim Crow” or LBJ’s well-known patriarchal and racist use of the “n-word” to celebrate blacks voting Democratic forever in gratitude for his […]

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The Stain Of Afghanistan Will Stick To Biden

By Charles Lipson for RealClearPolitics President Biden’s supporters are hewing to one message since the disastrous Afghan exit: “Voters won’t remember it.” That analysis—or hope, really—could well be wrong because the evacuation left Biden with so many problems. None are going away soon. The most consequential is that many independent voters are deciding that Joe […]

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