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Only Trump Seems to Understand Putin

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Originally posted July 13, 2016. The American Conservative’s Philip P. Giraldi has penned the indispensable explanation of today’s Russia and it’s leader Vladimir Putin. Philip concludes that only Trump seems to understand Putin. Truly, the unwillingness to takes steps after 1991 to assist Russia in its post-communism transformation into a stable, prosperous, and secure state […]

Restricting Departments So People Can Live Free

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Our Founders supported four departments to run our fledgling country, explains Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College. These four departments were necessary to the federal government “in a way that the functions of other departments are not.” Secretary of State “to handle the relations of the American people with other countries.” Secretary of War […]

Was Abstention at the UN Really Based on Obama’s Hatred of Israel?

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Former CIA bin Laden chief Michael Scheuer explains that U.S foreign policy ought to consist much more in abstaining than doing. The U.S. abstention on the UN Security Council’s resolution condemning Israel’s building of settlements in the West Bank was absolutely the right action, but it was taken for wrong, sophomoric, and really rather dastardly […]

Do Democrats Really Want another Cold War?

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Pat Buchanan, writing at The American Conservative, explains how America can go about avoiding a new Cold War. In the Cold War between Communism and capitalism, the single-party dictatorship and the free society, we prevailed. But in the new struggle we are in, the ethnonational state seems ascendant over the multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial, multilingual “universal […]

Can This One Man Reform Washington? It’s Not Who You Think

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In the weeks just after the election of Donald Trump, the President-elect met with many of America’s brightest minds, but one stood out above the others. Former BB&T CEO, and former Cato Institute president and CEO, John Allison met with Donald Trump and his future Treasury Secretary pick Steve Mnuchin, on November 28. Despite Trump’s […]