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In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are seeing power-hypocrisy, as politicians and plutocrats live one way, while telling everyone else to live another way.

There was once a Democrat Congressman and a Democrat aide who spied for a communist country, and a Democrat president who took action.

The irony of Obama is that for all his “Yes, we can” rhetoric, he was content to say, “No, we can’t.” In this, he fit Machiavelli’s definition of the fox-like politician who is shrewd enough to avoid traps. And while the life of a fox might be long, it is unlikely to be consequential because the ability to avoid traps is not the test of greatness.

It’s not Democrats’ first choice to go criticizing other Democrats—they’d rather, of course, be blasting Republicans—and yet the disappointment of the 2020 election has convinced them that they had better speak up.

As we wait for the wheels of justice to do their proper grinding, we might look back on former Vice President Joe Biden’s record, which sheds light on his long-standing association with crony capitalism.

Drastic turns can, and do, happen at any time, and yet now, in October 2020, as so many eyes are glued to political events, we realize how much effect they can have.  

The Founders were fully familiar with vote fraud and electoral distortion, which is as old as democracy itself — and they had a plan to deal with it: the Electoral College.

It’s likely that if the Democrats were to win this November and were actually to propose a court-packing bill, they would, soon enough, suffer the same sort of cold reaction that FDR’s bill suffered back in 1937.

We’re having an election over rioting, violence—and law and order. On August 25, CNN’s Don Lemon said of the riot issue, “It is the only thing right now that is sticking.”

On the front page of the August 24 edition of The Washington Post, the headline was, “More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall.” 

The fact is, Joe Biden is going to have to speak for himself on the key issue of keeping the streets of America safe. And that’s a reality that threatens to really bite the Democrats over the next ten weeks. 

Californians could desalinate sea water, put out fires, and spur a rural renaissance. Or they could keep doing what AOC and the greens want.

The Democratic Party’s presumptive vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is the ultimate San Francisco Democrat, representing the “woke” left-libertarianism of a place where everything is tolerated except for conservatism and where Silicon Valley’s plutocrats are free to enrich themselves insulated from the deplorable riffraff they despise.

Male Democrat presidential nominees haven’t always done a good job of vetting their female vice presidential choices.

A look back in U.S. history tells us just how much can change when a president is suddenly replaced by a vice president.

In a new documentary on his life, work, and struggles, legendary political and media warrior Roger Ailes gets the chance to respond to his critics in his own voice.

Bill Barr’s July 17 speech to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, MI, will be seen as both prescient and influential about U.S.-China relations in the years to come—no matter who’s president. 

As we know, the police are under constant attack.  Just on July 13, a cop in Bothell, Washington, was shot and killed by a gunman during a traffic stop.

It was with wonder-weapons that we won World War II. And it’s with medical wonder-weapons that we’ll win World War Virus.

It shouldn’t have to get to this point, but here it goes: We need a written pledge to protect our statues and monuments. That is, a written document for politicians to sign, if they wish, pledging to protect public order and the dignity of our society.

Every Fourth of July commemorates a great moment in American history, and yet not every Fourth of July comes at a happy time for the country.  And this Fourth is one of those unhappy ones. 

If Trump campaigners are truly in it to win it, they will have to start defining Joe Biden—and doing it in a most tangible way, so that Americans can truly get a sense of what an actual Biden presidency would be like.

The would-be statue-topplers know little or nothing about Andrew Jackson, the war hero who defended the nation with courage and resolve.

It seems that virtually all the groups on the political spectrum—conservatives, libertarians, liberals, and progressives—are converging together to crush police unions. And that’s a shame, because the rights of policemen and women, as workers, should be fully defended.

The people in the streets creating riotous unrest are in the news, they are making news, and as such, we know exactly who they are.   

Big Tech in the 21st century is likely to face the same regulatory destiny as Big Railroads did in the 19th century.

Republicans must not only combat fraud wherever it’s found—and new techniques, such as bar-coding ballots and tracking their movements through the mail, can help—but they must also better adapt to the use of these new voting mechanisms. And yes, that means fighting fire with fire.

If the CCP strategy is to conflate Chinese communism with China itself, then our strategy must be the opposite: We must seek to widen the divide between the CCP and the Chinese people, not only in China, but also among Chinese communities around the world. 

The great events of the past are the lighthouses by which we navigate our present and our future.

On May 20, speaking from the Senate floor, Josh Hawley, the youngest member of the chamber, laid out his plan for fixing international trade, taking on the People’s Republic of China—and thereby, too, perhaps saving America. 

Weihua Chen seems happy to advertise his journalistic credentials without worrying about the credentialing outfits asking him to return his honorific certificates. And if that silence continues to be the case, well, that says something about Knight, WPI, and Freedom Forum. Moreover, there’s nothing stopping any journalist from criticizing Chen, an obvious propagandist in their midst. But will they do so?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered that ballots be mailed to the state’s 20.6 million voters for the November election.

The coronavirus has reminded all of us—even the tech titans of Silicon Valley—that the digital and the virtual ultimately matter less than the physical and the biological.

If an honest international commission could be formed and allowed to do its work, the findings would be enormously valuable, not only for the sake of finding out the truth, but also for the sake of making sure that this sort of debacle is never repeated.

The Republican Party should always abide by its core principles, and yet at the same time, it should return to its Lincolnian roots, becoming the avowed party of first responders, blue-collars, and other frontline workers—and joined by, of course, soldiers, homemakers, and believers.  

Americans who have grown weary of globalism might wish to spend more time considering an emerging new center-right alternative to failure: Hawleynomics.