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Weaponising the Courts for Political Gain

Weaponising the Courts for Political Gain

Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com Like many with an interest in politics and foreign affairs, I have been following the recent Trump court case in New York. I am now following what I suggest is a ‘counter case’, this time against Hunter Biden. For me, both cases highlight a

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Politician First, Influencer Close Second

Politician First, Influencer Close Second

Adeline von Drehle realclearwire.com Donald Trump’s first TikTok video, in which the former president arrives at a UFC fight to the tune of Kid Rock’s “American Bad Ass,” has now been viewed 78.4 million times in two days. If Trump hadn’t already cemented himself as

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A Real Doctor Serves It to Fauci

A Real Doctor Serves It to Fauci

Anthony Fauci — like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I decline to use the honorific “Dr” — is a career bureaucrat who earned a medical degree back when flared trousers and the Apollo missions were big things, who went into a government desk job right after completing his residency. Dr Rich McCormick is an

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Trump Convicted: So What Happens Now?

Trump Convicted: So What Happens Now?

John G. Malcolm John G. Malcolm is the vice president for the Institute for Constitutional Government and also directs Heritage’s Meese and Simon centers at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts when

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Has the Verdict Backfired on the Dems?

Has the Verdict Backfired on the Dems?

You’d think they’d learn by now. When an “anti-racism” campaigner created a “Caucasians” t-shirt to protest the Washington Redskins name and logo, white folks bought them by the truckload. When the media splashed Donald Trump’s mugshot with glee, the Trump campaign made it into t-shirts and coffee

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Biden Administration Tells Allies Don’t Confront Iran

Biden Administration Tells Allies Don’t Confront Iran

Dave Patterson libertynation.com When it comes to US allies, Biden seems to want them to be fearful just as fearful of confrontation with Iran as America currently is. The White House will rely on negotiations to address Iran’s expanding nuclear program, which would make perfect sense if only

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The Fake Conviction

The Fake Conviction

Newt Gingrich realclearwire.com Americans are now being forced to think through the first fake conviction in the history of presidential politics. As an historian, I am really bothered when I hear lawyers on television describe these proceedings as though they were somehow related to the rule of law and

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75-Year-Old Woman Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Praying

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Paulette Harlow, 75, was arrested back in 2020 after praying outside of a Washington D.C. abortion clinic. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Harlow on May 31, deciding that she deserves to sit in jail for two full years. Harlow, visited the Washington Surgi-clinic with a group

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Yes, Donald Trump Has a Point About Political Prosecution
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Yes, Donald Trump Has a Point About Political Prosecution

Ronald Sievert Senior Lecturer in Government, Texas A&M University The facts and the law behind New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s successful prosecution of Donald Trump could be argued at length. But as a government prosecutor for thirty years, I have been most interested in the ethics

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Trump Vows to Fight on despite Conviction

Trump Vows to Fight on despite Conviction

Philip Wegmann realclearwire.com Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday, a New York jury brought the country to an unprecedented brink by finding Donald Trump guilty of financial fraud, making the former president a convicted felon for now (unless or until the conviction is overturned on appeal) and making

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Dr Daquan Finna Check You Out Now

Dr Daquan Finna Check You Out Now

If you were going under for open-heart surgery, would you want your surgeon to be: a) the best and smartest at medical school, or, b) the “right” race? If the woke have their way, you won’t have any choice but to opt for b, and hope that Daquan knows

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Now Where Is the Media?

Now Where Is the Media?

Jeffrey Lord Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania he went on to work for the Pennsylvania State Senate

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Trump Breaks Fundraising Record after Verdict

Trump Breaks Fundraising Record after Verdict

dailytelegraph.co.nz THE FORMER US PRESIDENT’S CAMPAIGN HAS RAISED OVER $1 MILLION FOR EACH OF THE 34 CRIMINAL CHARGES. Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has reportedly raised over $34 million since the former US president was found guilty on 34 felony counts in New York, in a trial

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Two Sides of the Same Coin

Two Sides of the Same Coin

Debbie Lerman Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. brownstone.org Much finger-wagging and self-righteous condemnation are happening in the halls of government these days, regarding revelations that HHS, our umbrella public

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‘Shogun’ Shows Why the 2nd Amendment Is So Important

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Senior Creative Strategist of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org My wife and I are in the process of finishing Shogun, the new FX miniseries on Hulu based on James Clavell’s 1975 book. Shogun was one of the first

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