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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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                Reclaiming The Human Home            </title>

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                                       <p>Public Domain</p>Roger Scruton&rsquo;s defense of beauty and home against the modernist assault.
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                Lars Møller            </category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Trump&#039;s Business First Diplomacy            </title>

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                                       <p>White House</p>While the media frames President Trump&rsquo;s Beijing summit with Xi Jinping as just another high-stakes photo-op, the real story runs deeper and looks strikingly familiar.&nbsp;
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                Monty Donohew            </category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                James Madison&#039;s Truth            </title>

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                                       <p>Public Domain</p>Federalist 10 by James Madison is a noble founding document which is being seriously misrepresented in many of today&rsquo;s classrooms.
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                Stephen M. Astrachan            </category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                The Climate Myth that Sought to Change Our Way of Life            </title>

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                                       <p>Pixabay</p>For more than three decades, climate policy has been built on a central premise: that rising populations and expanding economies would inevitably drive ever-increasing pressure on the planet.&nbsp;
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                Roland Duchatelet and Samuel Furfari            </category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Britain Is the Canary in the Coal Mine            </title>

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                                       <p>Pexels</p>Replacing globalism with national self-sufficiency is a life-or-death decision.
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                J.B. Shurk            </category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Baltic States Warn Against Defense Policy Funded by the Printing Press            </title>

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                                       <p>RawPixel.com</p>Politicians from the Baltic states are warning about the consequences of debt-financed defense policy.&nbsp;
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                Thomas Kolbe            </category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                What Role Did UNC play with COVID?            </title>

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                                       <p>https://www.nursetogether.com/</p>North Carolina taxpayers and families deserve to know whether their flagship public university played any role in the research that may have sparked the COVID&nbsp;disaster.
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                Don Brown            </category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Russia Is Struggling Badly            </title>

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                                       <p>American Thinker</p>It went into Ukraine imagining a swift and decisive victory, but after four years, its energy and business sectors are increasingly fragile.
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                Allan J. Feifer            </category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                The Last Refuges            </title>

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                                       <p>Public Domain</p>Elite hubris and the desecration of Britain&rsquo;s countryside.
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                Lars Møller            </category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                The Political Economy Of SWIFT            </title>

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                                       <p>ChatGPT</p>A marginal policy adjustment can, at times, illuminate the deeper structure of an entire system.
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                Peter C. Earle            </category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                DEI Effects On CIA Analyses And National Policymaking            </title>

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                                       <p>American Thinker</p>DEI hasn&rsquo;t just affected America&rsquo;s education and corporate institutions. It&rsquo;s had a profound and damaging effect on our intelligence community.
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                John A. Gentry            </category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Democrats Spit on Democracy, Midterm Voters Should be Scared            </title>

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                                       <p>pixabay</p>Democrats posture ab0ut being saviors of democracy, but their behavior in Virginia tells another story.
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                Joseph Ford Cotto            </category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Paris in 1853 Provides A Lesson For Trump in 2026            </title>

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                                       <p>Vince Coyner</p>Sometimes, systems are so rotten that you need to break them down and start from scratch to create beautiful functionality.
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                Vince Coyner            </category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                The Real Problem with Gerrymandering            </title>

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                                       <p>Picryl</p>Underneath the partisan takes, there lies something we all can (or at least should) agree on.
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                Jeremy Egerer            </category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Leftism: A Religious Cult for Psychopaths and Crazies            </title>

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                                       <p>Chris Dodds</p>It&rsquo;s indoctrination, humiliation, subjugation, hysteria, lunacy, and, ultimately, genocide.
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                J.B. Shurk            </category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                Trying to Get Through to My Liberal Friends            </title>

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                                       <p>Perchance AI</p>On certain topics liberal ability to reason seems to break down.
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                Armando Simon            </category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                America&#039;s Ideological Takeover            </title>

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                                       <p>Perchance AI</p>It wasn&rsquo;t long ago that major questions in public life were routinely presented as debates between competing visions.
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                Jim Cardoza            </category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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                MFAA -- Make Football Affordable Again            </title>

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                Frank Friday            </category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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