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- Article · Dec 12, 2025Border Backlash
never cared to ask the essential question: What are the consequences of open borders? The failure of Biden and the Democrats to answer this question is a primary reason Donald … most perplexing of all the attitudes that liberals have exhibited during the debates over illegal immigration is their indifference to the fact that the Biden administration handed hundreds of thousands
- Article · Nov 4, 2025The Heritage Foundation Enters the Carlson-Fuentes Dispute
there is no need for any genuine conservative on the Liberty side of the political spectrum to defend Nick Fuentes or excuse any of the vile things he says … couple of statements about Fuentes and Carlson, and that in turn generated even more debate. Let’s try to sort that out. First, an unusual full disclosure: The Patriot Post
- Opinion · Oct 31, 2025Trump Returns
Cruz said, “Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning.” Smith also attempted to obtain phone records from a landline … with that subpoena, saying it was a violation of the Constitution’s “speech and debate clause.” Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley blasted Smith’s “total lack of restraint
- Opinion · Oct 30, 2025The Shutdown We Need
past excesses. That’s money that could fund programs we all agree are essential — such as SNAP benefits, which millions of low-income Americans rely on and which may soon … paid. Yes, federal workers in Maryland should not bear the brunt of political stalemate. But those hardships, as painful as they are, are minuscule compared to what’s coming
- Opinion · Oct 14, 2025I’m a Fan of the New Pope, but He Got This One Wrong
life if I’m in favor of the death penalty. The two great debates of my lifetime have been the following: “Is it gravy or sauce … willingly make a human being suffer, there was some grounding in Scripture for what essentially was the “eye for an eye” theory. He was reading from the Old Testament
- Opinion · Oct 6, 2025Lies of the Left
Northwestern’s administration has refused to allow the students to register for fall classes, essentially kicking them out. Who are these students?! If any of them are here on foreign … their bile is aimed at a man who was committed to open and respectful debate. Well, another radical leftist, a college professor, just paid a price for his hatred
- Alexander's Column · Sep 17, 2025Constitution Day and American Liberty’s 250th!
judicial branches of our national and state governments today pay no homage to the essential obligations inherent in that historic document. Some have outright contempt for Rule … declared: “The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. ... For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom
- Alexander's Column · Sep 10, 2025What Else Did Biden’s Autopen Handlers ‘Sign’?
noted that Donald Trump and congressional Republicans were officially asking a very important question: Who was actually in charge when Joe Biden was in office? Trump had previously raised … Trump and congressional Republicans who are working to push disastrous legislation that would cut essential programs like Medicaid and raise costs on American families, all to pay for tax breaks
- Article · Aug 6, 2025Wednesday: Below the Fold
order is expected from President Trump as soon as this week to take on political debanking, a growing issue conservatives have complained about for years. The order will eliminate Obama … continue performing abortions. The proposal reversing Biden’s rule notes that it was legally questionable and that the law authorizing the VA to provide “general reproductive health care” does
- Article · Jul 8, 2025Tuesday: Below the Fold
targeting innocent people. Calling it “no plan other than fear, chaos, and politics,” Bass told the agents they needed to end their enforcement “NOW!” Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino … home from which they fled. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says this decision is an essential step in restoring the integrity of the immigration system and ensuring that Temporary Protected Status
- Opinion · Jul 7, 2025Without Compromise, American Democracy Has No Future
when politics stops focusing on persuasion and debate and becomes obsessed instead with defeating enemies by any means necessary. Granted, politics ain’t beanbag . The United States has never suffered … evil but as an essential element of our constitutional system. “Those who hammer out painful deals perform the hardest and, often, highest work of politics,” the American thinker Jonathan Rauch
- Alexander's Column · Jul 4, 2025The Patriot’s Primer on American Liberty
gifts from God, not from government. The root of all debate between Liberty and tyranny — or, in contemporary political parlance, between Right (those who would conserve foundation principles) and Left … reference to the question of the length of terms for senators, and other such particulars. However, everyone in the Constitution and Bill of Rights debates would reject the notion that
- Article · Jul 3, 2025Thursday: Below the Fold
using “magic minutes,” a procedure that gives House leadership unlimited time to speak after debate on a bill has ended. Kevin McCarthy used the same tactic to delay Joe Biden … capital is there, the doors get blown wide open” for the Libertarian Party’s political opportunities. He also argued that there’s no way for a new party
- Opinion · Jun 20, 2025How Does the SCOTUS Skrmetti Ruling Affect SAFE Acts in Other States?
active medical debate, and instead reinforced a fundamental principle of our constitutional structure, which is that the power to resolve these types of political decisions rest with the democratic process … Hilgers) in favor of Nebraska’s law (which was only challenged on a procedural question). On April 29, 2025, the Ohio Supreme Court granted the state a procedural stay
- Article · Jun 10, 2025Simone Biles Supports the Bullies
woefully wrong both in her stance against women and in her approach to “debating” Gaines. The question is, why does she accept the lie of transgenderism now when she clearly … defense, saying , “Riley is MAGA and I couldn’t disagree with her more on politics but on keeping sports safe and fair for girls and women I agree with
- Opinion · Apr 11, 2025Inside Whistleblower’s Harrowing Experience With Biden’s Department of (In)justice
Baylor College of Medicine, which is affiliated with TCH. What followed was “a political witch hunt,” Haim protested, in which the prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari, didn’t review … puberty blockers, to hormones, and then to surgery.” “At that point, there was no question,” he recalled. “It was so crazy what these people were saying that it was like
- Article · Feb 25, 2025Trump’s Cadre of Communicators
them said anything smoothly or interestingly? The difference is glaring. Substance is essential, of course — one needs to be in command of the issues — but being able to stare down … debate for 10 Republican presidential candidates, was armed to the teeth with a politically perilous question for Trump. You remember it. “You’ve called women you don’t like
- Opinion · Jan 16, 2025Less Work, More Welfare
Bible into Latin, the language of the West — once asked a monk the same question idle Christians should ask themselves: “If apostles who had the right to live … products such as electric vehicles — all of which distort the market — for short-term political gain. For example, a minimum wage when raised too high prices out the poorest
- Opinion · Jan 8, 2025Confronting Communist China
gone to an entirely different level that has shocked our entire defense establishment and political leadership. The Wall Street Journal reported that a secret meeting was held at the White … United States and China, Beijing’s goal is to cripple the United States domestically, essentially with the flip of a switch. As China expert Gordan Chang put it, “They
- Opinion · Jan 3, 2025IVF and Human Embryos: The Debate We Must Have
debate at all about the significance of this human being or the value of her life. On the other hand, provided it happens, the dramatic array of questions that arise … debated anew as half a century of experience with the practice has passed with little or no discussion in many countries. One essential place to begin that discussion is with