Oshawa is a small Canadian city on the shoreline of Lake Ontario. It was also the hometown of the late left-wing Canadian…
In the 2020 election, Joe Biden won Wisconsinās electoral votes by a margin barely visible to the naked eye. In the small…
Prager University has no classrooms. It has no dormitories or cafeterias or students running around playing frisbee on sunny days. It is…
The Senateās most recent bipartisan immigration bill, which was packaged with foreign aid proposals and stalled out earlier this week, would have made…
If there was ever any doubt that Donald Trump has this thing in the bag, it was removed by last nightās results…
Weāre only a few days away from the Iowa Caucus. Thereās at least a little bit of drama on the Republican side,…
When I was growing up, I could walk from my parentsā place to the Greyhound station in East Lansing, Michigan. There was…
The video essay opens with battling citations of environmental activist Greta Thunberg and independent presidentialĀ candidateĀ Robert F. Kennedy. She says, āCapitalism will kill…
The House of Representatives just passed a resolution censuring Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat. The resolution is full of outrageous lies:…
Itās easy to mock the ābanana discourseā thatās materialized on left-wing Twitter in the last week. But there are important issues here…
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