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                This Midterm Season, the American Dream is on the Line            </title>

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                                       <p>picryl</p>America is staring down a demographic and fiscal abyss that threatens to devour the American Dream for working families, retirees, and the next generation.
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                Joseph Ford Cotto            </category>
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                Would You Leave Your Child in This School?            </title>

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                                       <p>Perchance AI</p>When students display violent ideation, write explicit threats, or engage in escalating conduct, decisive intervention is not cruelty. It is responsibility.
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                Julio Rivera            </category>
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                &#039;No Go Zones&#039; and &#039;Parallel Societies&#039;             </title>

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                                       <p>Perchance AI</p>&nbsp;Muslim communities are absolutely opposed to embracing Western values and ideas.
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                Eileen F. Toplansky            </category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Following Trump’s Lead on the Climate Hoax            </title>

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                                       <p>Perchance AI</p>Climate hysteria, which was always about power and money, finally seems to have peaked, and President Trump helped lead the way.
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                H. Sterling Burnett            </category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Xi’s Appeasement Trap            </title>

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                                       <p> Wienwiki / Walter Maderbacher</p>Peace through strength deters war, appeasement invites war, and letting an enemy build up unmolested makes wars longer, costs higher, and risks greater.
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                William R. Hawkins            </category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                There Is No Such Thing As A Deal With Iran            </title>

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                                       <p>ChatGPT</p>We did not assemble the greatest armada the world has known to write Iran a traffic ticket.
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                Michael C. Hurley            </category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Google&#039;s AI Overviews: Stealing Content, Starving Independent Media, and Supercharging Leftist Disinformation Ahead of Midterms            </title>

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                                       <p>pixabay</p>If you use Google as a search engine, you've probably noticed Google’s AI Overviews prominently displayed in your search results ...
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                Monty Donohew            </category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                GOP 2026 Campaign: Hold Democrats Accountable            </title>

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                                       <p>mms with pixabay</p>Everything from their lawfare to their gerrymandering is a call for total control.
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                Jim Davis            </category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Does AI Mean the End of the World?            </title>

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                                       <p>Perchance AI</p>Have you given any thought to the wailing and the gnashing of teeth that will daily fill the regime media on the day that our beloved government employees collide with the AI revolution?&nbsp;
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                Christopher Chantrill            </category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Artificial Intelligence and Raw Materials            </title>

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                                       <p>123net</p>Will the AI boom&nbsp;crash against the cliffs of physical reality, or does free-market capitalism still hold undiscovered paths to reduce or bypass scarcity in copper, power grids, transformers, and semiconductors?
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                Thomas Kolbe            </category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Hantavirus Hysteria: The Media’s New Fear Campaign            </title>

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                                       <p>chatgpt</p>The real contagion isn&rsquo;t hantavirus &mdash; it&rsquo;s media-driven fear and institutional panic.
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                Brian C. Joondeph            </category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                The Ongoing Betrayal of Red States on Overturning Obergefell            </title>

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                                       <p>American Thinker</p>In state after state, Republican legislators display both cowardice and short-sightedness when it comes to pushing back against Obergefell.
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                Arthur Schaper            </category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                ET Still Works for the CIA            </title>

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                                       <p>Pixabay public domain</p>Governments lie!
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                J.B. Shurk            </category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Not Even Scalia Was Sufficiently Conservative            </title>

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                                       <p>Levan Ramishvili</p>The problem lay in his hesitancy toward a jurisprudence grounded in natural law.
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                E. Jeffrey Ludwig            </category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Trump’s Cleanup Crescendo            </title>

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                                       <p>Clarice F</p>In Latin America, in China, in the Middle East, the outline of Donald Trump&#39;s plan of action is becoming clear. It is of a scale to take the breath away.&nbsp;
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                Clarice Feldman            </category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Ted Turner, The Last Of The Four Colorful Owners Of The 1970s, Has Left The Field            </title>

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                                       <p>Will O'Toole</p>Baseball teams are purely corporate entities now, but their owners used to have a major impact on the teams&rsquo; looks and management styles.
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                Will O&#039;Toole            </category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                The American Revolution: The Dominion Of Providence Over The Affairs Of Men             </title>

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                                       <p>American Thinker</p>Today is the 250th Anniversary of one of the most important sermons of the Revolutionary War.
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                Craig Seibert            </category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Time To Rid Government Of Leftism            </title>

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                                       <p>ChatGPT</p>And restore America to her rightful place as a shining city on a hill.
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                Anthony J. DeBlasi            </category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                End Judaism, End Western Civilization            </title>

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                                       <p>YouTube</p>After COVID failed to end the American experiment, antisemitism became the new front in the left&rsquo;s endless war against Western civilization.
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                Allan J. Feifer            </category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                The Left’s Oedipus Racket            </title>

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                                       <p>Pxhere</p>Effectively, what the modern college-bred left has produced is a novel means of maintaining political discipline. And it&rsquo;s pretty creepy.
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                Brian Cabana            </category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                We Need To Detransition America            </title>

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                                       <p>California National Guard</p>It&rsquo;s profoundly wrong that we have government policies that support so-called &ldquo;transing&rdquo; children, and that needs to stop now.
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                Anthony Constantino            </category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Islam And The American Experiment            </title>

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                                       <p>U.S. Naval Academy</p>There is nothing new about America&rsquo;s conflicts with Islam. That aggressive theocratic system&nbsp;has been at war with America almost since the U.S. was born.
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                Button Gwinnett            </category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                In War, There Is No Substitute for Victory            </title>

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                                       <p>Defense Visual Information Distribution Service</p>It is time to bring closure and victory to our conflict with Iran.
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                Scott S. Powell            </category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                China and Trump’s Business-first Framework            </title>

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                                       <p>RawPixel.com</p>The post-World War II order treated the world as a chessboard of fixed spheres. Trump&rsquo;s business-first diplomacy treats it as a balance sheet where every aggressive move carries an immediate debit.
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                Monty Donohew            </category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Do You Really Want Washington As Your Doctor?            </title>

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                                       <p>ChatGPT</p>You didn&rsquo;t choose them and you don&rsquo;t want them, but they control your medical decisions nonetheless.
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                Deane Waldman            </category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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