American Greatness,
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Jim Daws
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Imagine a young, bright-eyed journalism student, envisioning a future as a crusading force for truth, justice, and holding the powerful accountable. You idolize journalistic giants like Woodward and Bernstein, Upton Sinclair, H. L. Mencken, and Seymour Hersh - reporters who fearlessly exposed corruption and deceit, often putting their careers on the line to do so. Yet, somewhere along the way, this passionate dreamer finds himself in a perplexing situation: that he is now part of the mainstream political reporting machinery, promoting narratives designed not to expose the truth, but to obfuscate and deceive.
So, how do these once-aspiring journalistic heroes live with themselves?
Daily Signal,
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Tyler O´Neil
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8/17/2023 7:16:50 AM
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In the lead-up to the Civil War, pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to Kansas to determine whether the Sunflower State would enshrine the “peculiar institution,” releasing a bloodletting that foreshadowed the larger war to come. This year, Kansas finds itself in the middle of a similarly ideological battle, a focal point in a debate about truth with ramifications for justice.
In April, the Republican-majority Kansas Legislature overrode the Democratic governor’s veto of SB 180, the Women’s Bill of Rights. In this bill, the Kansas Legislature had the audacity to define “sex” and related terms in a biological way
Breitbart,
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Ian Hanchat
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8/16/2023 9:25:40 AM
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On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stated that the question in the wake of the indictments of his 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump is how we’ll respond and end weaponized government. DeSantis said that while he has removed Soros-backed prosecutors in Florida, Trump “had three years to fire Christopher Wray” and didn’t, let former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “off the hook.” And “The swamp got worse in his four years.”
American Thinker,
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Steve McCann
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8/16/2023 7:27:54 AM
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Never in the 235 years since the ratification of the Constitution has an administration premeditatively and blatantly prosecuted, on specious and conjecturable charges, the titular leader of the opposition party and leading candidate for president. And doing so while overtly flaunting their egregious actions to protect and cover-up for the incumbent president who has been exposed as potentially complicit in massive bribery and fraud. In any previous election cycle, these overt and unabashed actions would have been the death knell for the incumbent president’s campaign and his party.
Conservative Review,
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Susannah Luthi
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8/16/2023 7:13:18 AM
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California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) signaled Monday that Democratic I’ll be meeting with the [assembly speaker and senate leader] this evening, we’ll be discussing it," Newsom said during a speech about public school funding where he touted California as pro-parents' rights. "I know that the LGBT [legislative] caucus has some language they’re working on. lawmakers are crafting a last-minute legislative crackdown on school districts that alert parents if their child expresses a change in gender identity.
American Mind,
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Daniel J.Mahoney
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8/14/2023 10:58:41 AM
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The conservative tradition has always been wary of populism in the form of an untutored mob, an undisciplined populus, or tyrannical majorities. It particularly fears the moral anarchy that accompanies the undermining of sound tradition and salutary self-restraint. That does not mean that it is against populism tout court, however. For its part, the Left has often claimed to be the party of the people, or at least the people properly understood. That does not mean that it truly stands for the real, concrete people. A tradition from Lenin to the New Left to Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas
American Greatness,
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Paul Gottfried
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8/14/2023 10:54:31 AM
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ast week David Azerrad posted on American Mind a detailed critique of the ‘statement of principles” issued by Freedom Conservatism, a movement that came into existence this summer. David recognized in his subjects the remnants of a desiccated Reaganism, from whence arose the Never Trump persuasion. Almost all signatories to the document have been outspoken opponents of the former president and profoundly upset by the rise of the populist Right. Most of their rhetoric has an unmistakably shop-worn appearance. “Fiscal sustainability,” “American exceptionalness,” “the shining city on a hill,” “a nation of immigrants,” and ”immigration is a driver of prosperity” are among the document’s less than inspiring tropes.
Washington Examiner,
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Zachary Halaschak
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8/13/2023 9:16:21 AM
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A new front has opened up in the battle over diversity as Republican officials target the corporate world and Democrats push back after the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions. Activists and GOP officials who long have disparaged the practice celebrated, and since have turned their sights on a new target — the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and hiring practices of big businesses
American Spectator,
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Nate Hoffman
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Donald Trump had hardly made it down the escalator in 2015 by the time political commentators had begun to search for ways to explain away his appeal to the public. Eight years later, the search continues — and the stubborn persistence of What’s The Matter With Kansas? reduxes suggests that most of it has been in vain. For most of the people who prognosticate about politics for a living, Trump is every bit as much of an enigma today as he was when he first announced his candidacy.
New York Post,
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Charles Gasparino
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8/13/2023 7:35:03 AM
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Sean O’Brien just might be the worst labor leader in America. If you don’t believe me, just consider his horrible performance last week culminating in the unemployment of thousands of his working-class members, and a sweet payday for Wall Street fat cats.
As the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, O’Brien styles himself as a fighter, an in-your-face kind of guy in public and on social media,
City Journal,
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Roundtable
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8/11/2023 10:14:27 AM
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The summer of 2020 was a watershed in American life. After George Floyd’s death in police custody and the ensuing season of rioting, major institutions—from federal agencies to Fortune 100 companies—hastily pledged themselves to the narrative of critical race theory, which holds that America is a fundamentally racist nation and that public and private entities should practice “antiracist discrimination” to equalize group outcomes—a state of affairs that its advocates call “racial equity.”
This ideology stands in direct opposition to the principles of the Constitution, which provides for color-blind equality under law.
American Thinker,
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Albert Veltman
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8/11/2023 8:34:02 AM
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Brett Baier is not qualified to moderate the Republican debate on August 23 in Milwaukee. Mr. Baier had a much-publicised interview with President Trump a month ago. This interview amply demonstrated Baier’s antipathy towards the President. Most of the time he appeared to be cordial towards the President, however, when Trump brought up the topic of the stolen election, Baier became abusively hostile and interrupted his guest incessantly and would not let the President talk.
Right after the election the charges of fraud surfaced, and at every opportunity, the Republicans were asked by the media and Democrats if the election was stolen