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The GOP died last week with the Rand Paul filibuster. By GOP, I don’t mean the Republican party, I mean the old guard Republican party. I mean the Lindsey Graham and John McCain GOP. The new Republican party is the party of Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Pat Toomey, ...

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Dan Bongino is a former Secret Service agent and a former NYPD officer. He is currently running for Governor of the state of Maryland. I came across a video of a speech he made  at a rally and was overwhelmed at how well he articulated the issue. It lasts a ...

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Thumbnail image for Dangers of Ignorance & Apathy of the Left

A friend recently sent a link to me for the Civic Literacy Exam by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. It’s a thirty-three question, multiple choice exam you can take online in about 5-10 minutes. I’ll supply the link at the end of this post for those interested in taking the exam. ...

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During the “Fiscal Cliff” negotiations, President Obama proposed that congress allow him to unilaterally raise the debt limit to whatever amount he sees fit, and to do it as often as he feels it’s required. When Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner delivered that proposal to Speaker of the House John Boehner ...

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Our founders believed in individual rights not group rights. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are rights only an individual can possess. Groups don’t have the right to life because life is an individual attribute. A group can’t be alive or dead, at least not in the biological sense. ...

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Daniel Greenfield hits another one out of the park. Read his latest article below, reprinted with permission. If you’re the biblically minded sort, then the trouble began when a jealous Cain clubbed Abel to death, but if you’re evolutionarily minded, then it’s a ‘chicken and egg’ question. Violence had no ...

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Thumbnail image for Where Do We Go From Here?

America was built on certain values. Among them were individual freedom, personal responsibility, value of human life, religious freedom, fiscal sanity and national sovereignty. Last Tuesday America set aside those values and instead voted based on a system of spoils. Americans voted overwhelmingly on what was in it for them. ...

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In the United States, we have the freedom to vote for the candidates of our choice. When it comes to candidates for the most powerful office in the world, President of the United States of America, I give great value to the opinions of those who have taken a sworn ...

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Don’t believe for a minute that Obama lost the election because of a poor performance in the first debate with Mitt Romney. I can make the case that it has been inevitable for almost four years that Obama would never get re-elected. You only need to remember how he got ...

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On Sunday The Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Quad City Times and the Sioux City Journal all endorsed Mitt Romney for president. These four endorsements mean that Romney has now swept the endorsements from the six largest newspapers in the crucial swing state of Iowa. This is the first time ...

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