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Republican-Required Referendum
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Who Works For Whom?
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The Year You Made Us More Free
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No Argument
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Abolish. Or Set in Stone
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Destroying Dane Farming
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Disaster Relief Pass-Over
November 11, 2024
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Exemplary Rejections
November 8, 2024
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Not Now
November 7, 2024
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Politicians Bearing GIFs
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Beto’s Best Reform
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Townhall: California’s Cross-dressing Ballot Initiative
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Reader’s Remorse
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Don’t Copy Chávez
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The Venezuela Chaos
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What Kind of Ice Cream Cone?
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Inconvenient Cash?
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Let There Be Light
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A Fake Mystery
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Once the most potent moral figure in Western culture was Jesus Christ. Believer or unbeliever, you took your ethical bearings from him, or professed to. To question his morals was to expose yourself as a monster. Now, the most potent moral figure in Western culture is Adolf Hitler. It is as monstrous to praise him as it would once have been to disparage Jesus. He has become the fixed reference point by which we define evil.
Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (November 2019). See also “The End of the Age of Hitler,” First Things, November 2024.

— Alec Ryrie

Hillary’s Accomplishments
“I’m a progressive who likes to get things done.” —Hillary Clinton Click …
Edmund Burke — “The people never give up their liberties but…”
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” …
“I’ve Got a Plan for That.”
“If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person …
Guess Which is Real.
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Warren and the Bogeyman State
“…the bogeyman government is like the bogeyman under the bed. …