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Does 17-Year-Old Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Have a Viable Case for Self-Defense?
After two fatal shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25, a 17-year-old Illinois resident named Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged with several crimes, including two counts of homicide, one of attempted homicide, and one misdemeanor charge for possessing an...
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The Best and Worst Strategies for the Top Presidential Tickets: Trump/Pence vs. Biden/Harris
One of the nice things about not having a horse in the presidential race is that it grants me greater objectivity in evaluating what’s working and what’s not. But until recently, it was difficult to perform much election analysis without knowing the major variable of...
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What Vegans Teach Us about Abortion
Today, my goal is not to convince you to agree with me but to foster understanding. Too often, good people acting in good faith are vilified because they hold some view we find incorrect, illogical, or even immoral. The radical Left has increasingly shrunk the Overton...
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The Left Won’t Let Us Come Together on Race (Even When the Right Wants To)
According to numerous reports, many Atlanta police officers are walking off the job following the Fulton County District Attorney’s felony murder charge against Officer Garret Rolfe, who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot on Friday night. While...
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The Irony of Common Good Conservatism’s Clash with Quarantine
Dear Matt Walsh, Josh Hammer, Michael Knowles, and the rest of the “Common Good” Conservatism delegation, You made your bed, now lie in it. Several months ago, warring tribes of conservatism continued their battle over the proper use of government force, this time by...
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Postmodernism: The Left’s Artificial Opposition to Conservatism
Common among the Right is the accusation that any given Leftist -- take Bernie Sanders, for instance -- never met a government program he didn’t love. The notion is simple enough: such a person is a progressive, someone who wants to expand the size and scope of...
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REBUTTAL to Matt Walsh: Why Conservatives Shouldn’t Ban Porn
For the last week, Right-wing Twitter has waged civil war, with opposing conservative factions battling over whether the federal government can and should ban pornography on the internet, and if not, to what degree pornography may be regulated. Every schism between...
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Groypers Don’t Really Want to Win
I’m going to start with a disclaimer that may seem odd, but I hope you will understand my intent. As I will discuss, what Groypers want more than anything is attention, which I have given them merely by writing this article. To mitigate any unnecessary spotlight on...
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What Will It Take to Change Minds on Abortion?
One year ago this month, I wrote about the pro-life film Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer. At the time, I said that if pro-life advocates ever had a hope of outlawing abortion, “people would need to start changing their minds en masse. If Gosnell...
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