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The Green Energy Paradox: Saving Nature by Destroying It

Sun, 09/06/2026 - 21:00

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By Mark Keenan

If saving nature requires destroying nature on an industrial scale, perhaps the first thing that needs recycling is our definition of environmentalism.

Does Volkswagen have a Future?

Sun, 09/06/2026 - 21:00

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By Thomas Kolbe

The impression exists that Volkswagen Group’s consolidation course represents less a controlled downsizing than an internal corporate collapse -- the twilight of an economic era.

California Still Needs Prop 39

Sun, 09/06/2026 - 21:00

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By Kyle McClay

California already knows who is supposed to vote. Only citizens. Only living people. Only the person whose name is on the roll. What the state has refused to do is check.

JD Vance Dishonored Himself for Tucker Carlson

Sun, 09/06/2026 - 21:00

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By Joseph Ford Cotto

The vice president seems to have made his decision.

A Young Immigrant’s Poem to America

Sun, 09/06/2026 - 21:00

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By Luis Gonzalez

In the late 1960s, a boy left Havana in the middle of the night, and days later, he was standing on Merritt Island, Florida.

What’s in a Name – Trump Style

Sun, 09/06/2026 - 21:00

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By Brian C. Joondeph

After years of insisting that names are fluid, the left suddenly discovers tradition when Trump picks the name.

Iran’s Ring of Fire Now Ashes

Sat, 09/05/2026 - 21:00

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By Clarice Feldman

Iran is rapidly being consumed in the flames it lit.

America’s Nuclear Reassessment: The Dangerous Return of Limited Nuclear Deterrence

Sat, 09/05/2026 - 21:00

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By Mario Alexis Portella

A strategy designed to prevent strategic nuclear war could inadvertently create greater incentives for early nuclear use during a regional conflict.

George Clooney, Mark Ruffalo, and the Free Speech Straw Man: How Cowardice Sanitizes Hate

Sat, 09/05/2026 - 21:00

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By Erez Levin

We shouldn’t hold our breath expecting Hollywood celebrities to display spontaneous moral courage.

When the Algorithm Becomes the Gatekeeper: What AI Hiring Means for Merit

Sat, 09/05/2026 - 21:00

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By Michelle Brenier

The question is what we want AI to optimize.

Let NATO’s Free-Riders Fight WWIII

Sat, 09/05/2026 - 21:00

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By J.B. Shurk

If the socialists of Canada and Europe wish to fight Russia, they should do so without us.

The Consumption God

Sat, 09/05/2026 - 21:00

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By Allan J. Feifer

Americans have become consumers of civilization itself.

Communism’s Insidious Change of Priorities

Fri, 09/04/2026 - 21:00

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By E. Jeffrey Ludwig

Philosophy and Christianity base themselves on goals. Communism has another basis entirely.

Europe Signs On

Fri, 09/04/2026 - 21:00

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By Kenneth R. Timmerman

At last, the EU is pulling on its big-boy pants to take up sanctions against the mullahs.

What About Clancy's Diet?

Fri, 09/04/2026 - 21:00

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By Jeannie DeAngelis

One thing that hasn’t been broached is Lindsay’s metabolic health and whether what she was suffering from had more to do with her quest to be “healthy” than with birthing three babies in five years.