Category: Editorials
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The Far Left is No Longer Just on The Fringe of the Democratic Party. Republicans Need to Make This a Campaign Issue.
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Aug. 21, 2026) — History teaches us a few things about mid-term elections, namely, turnout is lower than in a Presidential election year, and the party out of the White House always (with exceptions in 1998 and 2002) gains seats in Congress. I suppose it makes sense; the party out of…
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Education and Marxism
by Jerry Newcombe, New American Prophet, ©2026 (Aug. 20, 2026) — How is it that so many young Americans have come to espouse Marxist ideas and want to impose them, even by force if necessary, on the rest of us? Marxism has the most abysmal track record imaginable. How could it be so popular? The…
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Ex-Cops Are Speaking Out. Parliament Is Looking Away.
by Cheryl Lacey, DGSJ, ©2026 (Aug. 20, 2026) — In 2013 a 15-year-old boy was hit by an SUV, but Victorians were told otherwise – that then opposition leader Daniel Andrews and his wife were the ones hit, by the boy. Then the photos surfaced. The damage wasn’t on the side of the car where…
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Morens Guilty
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Aug. 19, 2026) — David M. Morens, a former senior adviser in the Office of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty on August 18, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to Count One: conspiracy to commit offenses…
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U.S. Citizen Busted at Border for Smuggling Cocaine
by Allan Wall, Mexico News Report, ©2026 (Aug. 19, 2026) — The Trump administration is fighting the Mexican cartels. But I never hear Trump talk about the massive American contribution to the Mexican cartels. U.S. drug addicts, after all, are the main consumers of the drugs sold by Mexican cartels. That makes American drug users…
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Religion Is The New Identity Politics: Massachusetts Wants Muslims Placed In Gov
by Prophecy News Watch, New American Prophet, ©2026 (Aug. 18, 2026) — For years, Americans have been told that government should never discriminate against someone because of religion. That principle is worth defending. A Muslim should not be denied a government job because he is Muslim. A Christian should not be denied one because she…
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With an Assist from ABC’s Jonathan Karl, AOC Attempts to Memory-Hole “Woke 1”
by David Shepard, ©2026 (Aug. 17, 2026) — I can’t think of any politician more associated with wokeness than New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So, it was with great surprise that I heard her acknowledge that “Woke 1,” as she terms it, was crazy. This admission naturally would lead a curious person to follow up…
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Perspective: Leftist Voters’ Obsession with Glamor versus Statesmanship
by John Bernard, ©2026 (Aug. 16, 2026) — The problem with Leftists’ political focus can be encapsulated in a single reply: Ro Khanna (D-CA): net worth, $340,000,000, this morning on Meet the Press replied to Kristin Welker’s question as to whether he would be a better 2028 candidate than AOC. His answer says all you…
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How to Defeat the Emergence of the Surveillance State
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Aug. 15, 2026) — On August 13, 2026, Flock Safety announced a substantial revision of the privacy and accountability controls surrounding its automated license plate reader network. The company is recommending that its default retention period fall from 30 days to seven. It is adding an “Evidence Mode”…
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The DSA Wants to Remove Our Constitutional Safeguards
by Jerry Newcombe, New American Prophet, ©2026 (Aug. 13, 2026) — Recently, we’ve seen the success of various political candidates associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA). This is not just in the bluest of states, like New York or Washington. But it now includes candidates in the Midwest as well. Their website says,…
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Wisconsin Democrats Dodge a Bullet
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Aug. 13, 2026) — Every once in a while it is good to be reminded that the polls can be wrong. We found this out Tuesday night in Wisconsin. State Representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America Francesca Hong was the front runner to win the nomination for governor;…
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SCOTUS, World Cup, The Odyssey: US Citizenship Suffers Summer of Degradation
by Allan Wall, Border Hawk, ©2026 (Aug. 12, 2026) — An extremely bad Supreme Court decision coinciding with an international soccer tournament and a blockbuster Hollywood movie show that U.S. citizenship no longer belongs to us, but to the entire world. In Trump v. Barbara, the John Roberts SCOTUS Majority declared on June 30 that any child…
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The Democrats’ Big Tent Delusion
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Aug. 11, 2026) — Former Democratic President John F. Kennedy believed that cutting taxes would help to stimulate the economy. His free market economic philosophy can be summed up with his line, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” Is there anyone left in the Democratic Party today who believes in cutting…
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White House Answers the ACIP Injunction: Makes Vaccine Choice Federal Policy
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Aug. 10, 2026) — After a federal judge froze the January childhood-vaccine reset, the reconstituted ACIP, and every vote it had taken, the August 10 executive order reasserts the reform at the presidential level, directs federal enforcement of religious liberty and parental rights across the states, and orders…
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A Newport, Rhode Island Reunion With Friends of “Evgenia Smetisko” alias HIH Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia
by Ioannesfrobenius, Froebel Galleries, ©2026 (Aug. 9, 2026) — Early August can be extremely humid in the Northeast of the United States. Just days after terrible flooding and extreme rainfall in the Hudson Valley of New York State, this author traveled from still soggy Hudson (Columbia County), New York with two friends, actually DNA relatives.…
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Signing Your Own Death Warrant?
by Jerry Newcombe, New American Prophet, ©2026 (Aug. 7, 2026) — Put yourself in the buckled shoes of the founding fathers centuries ago, picking up a quill pen, and then signing your name on a document, the Declaration of Independence. This could have been signing your own death warrant. Last month we celebrated the 250th anniversary of the acceptance of…
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CONTEMPT!
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Aug. 7, 2026) — The contempt resolution is in. The phone copy may shine light on the factual claims Fauci declined to address. The operative provision of the Senate contempt resolution is nine lines long. It directs the President of the Senate to certify a committee report describing Dr. Anthony…
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Avocados and the Problem in Michoacan
by Allan Wall, Mexico News Report, ©2026 (Aug. 6, 2026) — Mexico exports a large quantity of vegetables to the United States. The Mexican climate is very advantageous for this, as they can be growing vegetables in Mexico when it’s winter in the U.S. Mexico is the biggest producer of avocados (Persea americana). Botanically, the…
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RFK Jr. Asked CNN for the Evidence. CNN Could Not Produce It.
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Aug. 6, 2026) — Dana Bash invoked “data upon data” on COVID vaccination. When Kennedy asked for evidence responsive to a pediatric benefit–harm claim, she supplied a different claim and tried to move on. On August 2, CNN’s Dana Bash told Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…
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The USA Today is a Joke of a Newspaper
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Aug. 6, 2026) — I woke up today, and, as I usually do at the beginning of my day, checked my news feed, and I came across an article from the USA Today, “Another conservative endorses Jon Ossoff in crucial GA Senate race.” “Wow,” was my first reaction. Who? What solid, principled, rock-ribbed…