The Perils of Picking the Wrong Running Mate
As Donald Trump is now the presumptive nominee for president by the Republican Party, more focus is being placed on who will be — and who should be —...
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Oklahoma Supreme Court Allows Minimum Wage Petition Effort to Continue
In a 6-3 decision on Monday, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the initiative petition effort to raise the state’s minimum wage will be allowed to continue. State Question...
Exeter School in England Removes Names of Raleigh and Drake From Buildings
In the latest — but certainly not the last — effort to “cleanse” heroic figures of history from the memory of modern society, Exeter School in Devon, a private...
Death of “Nonbinary” Student in Oklahoma Used Politically by the Left
On February 8, Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old female student at Owasso High School in Oklahoma, died in the hospital — one day after an altercation with some other female...
Cheney: Johnson Should Be Willing to Lose Speakership Over Ukraine Aid
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told CNN’s Jake Tapper on the State of the Union program Sunday that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should consider getting military aid to...
Nevada Results Latest Evidence of Problems of Presidential Primaries
The results of Nevada’s Republican and Democratic primaries vividly illustrate what is wrong with the string of partisan presidential primaries that are held every four years in the United...
Misquoting People, Changing History
Prominent people are often misquoted in an attempt to discredit them. Sometimes, such misquotes have led to a false understanding of history. ...
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Haley Waffles on Texas Secession
She now says that Texas lacks the constitutional authority to secede from the Union, yet a week ago she said the state had the right to do so. What...
Joy Reid’s Comparison of Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler Is Demagoguery
It is a convenient propaganda technique to dismiss a political opponent by calling a person by a vile name, or by comparing them to some evil person in history....
Arlington Monument Removal Part of America’s “Cultural Revolution”
The removal of the Reconciliation Monument at Arlington was part of an attempt to change America’s culture by erasing its history. ...
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Propaganda Playbook for War
Today’s elites are beating the drums for war in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, but this propaganda is nothing new. ...
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Minimum-wage Increase Petition Challenged in Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Supreme Court is scheduled to begin hearing oral arguments on January 31 in a case brought by the Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce and the Oklahoma Farm Bureau...
U.S. Intervention in Yemen and Its Consequences
The civil war in Yemen, in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, after years of U.S. support for one side in the conflict, is threatening to become a...
Biden’s Latest Loan Forgiveness Plan Wrong for Several Reasons
Despite the ruling of the Supreme Court that Biden had exceeded his constitutional authority with his student loan forgiveness program, he is not only circumventing that ruling with a...
South African Hypocrisy in Accusations of Genocide Against Israel
If genocide can be defined as the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,” then South Africa’s increasingly hostile actions against...