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March 8, 2022

Free Market Capitalism Is Under Siege -- From Capitalists by Stephen Moore

We live in a strange world. John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, helped provide the energy that powered the American century beginning in the early 1900s. Today, his grandchildren spend the billions of dollars that he donated to the Rockefeller Foundation to attack the same oil and gas industry that he almost single-handedly built. Likewise, Henry Ford's trust, the Ford Foundation, now spends millions of dollars on climate change -- as if the automobile was a sinister invention.

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March 8, 2022

US Policy: Cheer Ukrainians On -- and Keep Us Out! By Patrick J. Buchanan

After Friday's NATO summit refused to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the allies' failure to "close the skies" to Russian military aircraft gives "a green light for further bombing of Ukrainian cities."

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March 4, 2022

Is a Russia-NATO Clash Over Ukraine Ahead? by Patrick J. Buchanan

When Hungarian rebels arose in 1956 to overthrow the Communist regime imposed by Joseph Stalin, President Dwight Eisenhower refused to send U.S. forces to aid the Hungarians.

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March 4, 2022

Volodymyr Zelensky Transforms Germany -- and Europe By Michael Barone

It's been a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Kyiv, and even Kharkiv, 20 miles from the Russian border, remain under Ukrainian control. Contrary to many predictions, Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces have fallen short of their goals so far, but there can be no certainty about the outcome in Ukraine -- or Russia.

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March 3, 2022

Breaking Down North Carolina and Pennsylvania’s New Maps By J. Miles Coleman

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— North Carolina and Pennsylvania are 2 closely-divided states where the redistricting process this cycle ultimately fell to Democratic-controlled state courts.

— Democrats seem likely to gain at least 1 seat out of North Carolina, although the relatively favorable map that they got will only be in place for the 2022 election cycle.

— As we expected, a GOP-held seat was eliminated as Pennsylvania’s delegation was forced to downsize, but some of its Democratic members, particularly in the eastern part of the state, will have their work cut out for them.

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March 2, 2022

My Dream State of the Union By John Stossel

President Joe Biden just gave his State of the Union Address.

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March 1, 2022

The State of the Union Is ... Broke by Stephen moore

To quote a screaming John McEnroe: You cannot be serious!

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March 1, 2022

Is Putin Considering Using Nukes on NATO? By Patrick J. Buchanan

From his principal avenues of attack on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin began this war with three strategic goals.

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February 25, 2022

Ukraine's Fate Is Rooted in a Tragic History by Michael Barone

For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons of history. Mistakes made in the past week, added onto developments covering the last two or three centuries, have left the United States and its European allies -- in particular the largest of them, Germany -- unable to prevent President Vladimir Putin's Russia from absorbing an as yet undetermined part of a theoretically independent Ukraine.

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February 25, 2022

Did We Provoke Putin's War in Ukraine? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When Russia's Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. rule out Ukraine as a future member of the NATO alliance, the U.S. archly replied: NATO has an open-door policy. Any nation, including Ukraine, may apply for membership and be admitted. We're not changing that.

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February 24, 2022

Redistricting and Competition in Congressional Elections Forces beyond gerrymandering explain rising number of districts that strongly favor one party by Alan I. Abramowitz

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

-- Based on presidential voting patterns, a much larger proportion of U.S. House districts strongly favor one party and a much smaller proportion are closely divided than 50 years ago.

-- However, gerrymandering is not the major reason for this trend. Partisan polarization has increased dramatically in U.S. states and counties, whose boundaries have not changed.

-- Moreover, despite the growing partisan divide evident in presidential voting, the competitiveness of House elections has changed very little over the past 5 decades because the personal advantage of incumbency has declined sharply during this period.

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February 23, 2022

The Woke AMA By John Stossel

The American Medical Association now tells doctors: Use woke language! It's issued a 54-page guide telling doctors things like, don't say "equality"; say "equity." Don't say "minority"; say "historically marginalized."

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February 22, 2022

In the End, Sweden Did It Right by Stephen Moore

What if two years ago, when COVID-19 first hit these shores, our politicians hadn't panicked?

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February 22, 2022

Are Democrats Kicking Away Their Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Not so long ago, Democrats seemed the party of the future.

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February 18, 2022

Must Government Be a 'Big, Waddling, Sluggish Beast'? by Michael Barone

Itinerant policy journalist Ezra Klein, now with the New York Times, has highlighted something interesting about the Biden Democrats' now-defunct Build Back Better package -- something beyond its huge cost (trillions) and its failure to get majority support in the Democratic Congress, just like the single-payer health care bill that recently failed to pass in California's Democratic supermajority legislature.

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February 18, 2022

Has Putin Won Round One in Ukraine? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When NBC's Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue Americans fleeing Ukraine, Biden replied: "There's not. That's a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another."

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February 17, 2022

The “Big Sort” Continues, with Trump as a Driving Force By Rhodes Cook

Number of blowout counties spiked in 2016, endured in 2020.

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— More than 20% of the nation’s counties gave 80% or more of its 2-party presidential votes to either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

— Trump won the vast majority of these counties, but because Biden’s blowout counties are much more populous, he got many more votes out of his “super landslide” counties than Trump got out of his.

— Trump’s blowouts were concentrated in white, rural counties in the Greater South, Interior West, and Great Plains, while Biden’s were in a smattering of big cities, college towns, and smaller counties with large percentages of heavily Democratic nonwhite voters.

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February 16, 2022

Canceling Joe by John Stossel

Joe Rogan is amazing.

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February 15, 2022

Under Pandemic Lockdowns, the Rich Got Richer and the Poor Got Crushed By Stephen Moore

Today, two years after COVID-19 first hit these shores from China, most studies confirm that the heavy-handed government lockdowns of businesses, restaurants, schools, churches and parks did more harm than good to our health and well-being.

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February 15, 2022

The Richard Nixon His Loyalists Knew by Patrick J. Buchanan

Whenever America is polarized, as it is today, people go back in memory and history to recall other times their nation was so divided.

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