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How the Democrats Are Using the COVID Playbook to Seize Our Second Amendment Rights

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June 6, 2022

Seizing the rifles of law abiding American citizens won’t stop criminals intent upon murdering others anymore than locking healthy Americans in their homes slowed the spread of COVID.

Guns Are Not the Problem

By Matthew Boose

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June 5, 2022

It’s the culture, stupid. Gun violence is the penalty for our failure to uphold a moral, functioning society.

Equality Explained

By Glenn Ellmers

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June 4, 2022

Defending the founders’ republican principles—all of them—is the best and most effective way to fight our emerging woke tyranny, which categorically rejects those principles—all of them.

Yes, They’re Coming for Your Guns

By Ned Ryun

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June 2, 2022

What the un-American Left really wants is to destroy the American people’s right to self-defense.

The Left’s Intellectual Inconsistency on Life

By Ned Ryun

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May 31, 2022

With Roe gone, the question of whether abortion should continue would return to the states. We’ll learn from those debates who is and who isn’t truly upset about school shootings.

Sandal Wearers and Sex Maniacs

By Christopher Gage

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May 29, 2022

Within the pages of the Guardian, I habitually encounter a species of human being bearing no resemblance to those of my working-class roots.

No Duty to Protect

By Ben Boychuk

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May 28, 2022

After what happened in Uvalde, why on earth would anyone give up their weapons and trust to police to do anything?

Alasdair MacIntyre’s Essential Liberalism

By Roger Kimball

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May 28, 2022

In recoiling from the fragmentation of values that characterizes modernity, MacIntyre has presented less an alternative to the depredations of liberal individualism than an escape from its challenges.

The Dysphoria of Modern Life Is Its Obvious Weakness

By Vincent McCaffrey

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May 27, 2022

The irony of postmodernism, a critical metaphysics which dwells on irony for sustenance, is that there is no there there.

On Guns, the Right Will Win Because It Has the Courage of Its Convictions

By Christopher Roach

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May 26, 2022

The Right’s take on the Second Amendment should be contrasted with the usual positions of conservatives, particularly on issues implicating sexual morality, immigration, and race relations.

Time for a New Declaration of Independence?

By Dan Gelernter

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May 24, 2022

Will we continue to endure this long train of abuses? It seems likely.

Banning Abortion Is the Only Reasonable Moral Choice

By Sean Ross Callaghan

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May 20, 2022

Even supposing that an unborn child is not a person right now, it almost certainly will be one soon. That future must weigh in the moral balance.

A Unifying Pro-Life Flag

By James Chapman

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May 19, 2022

The pro-life flag is exactly what the movement needs to showcase Americans’ support for the pro-life position as the abortion debate rages on.

Trans People and the Politics of Propriety

By Adam Ellwanger

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May 18, 2022

The Left is weaponizing propriety to dissolve resistance to their demolition of the existing order.

How the Dobbs Leak Undermines Justice

By Michael Warren

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May 16, 2022

Regardless of anyone’s particular feelings on the merits of the Dobbs draft, its premature release is a grave threat to our republic and must never happen again.

The Truth of the Heart

By Thaddeus G. McCotter

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May 7, 2022

The extremism of the abortion ideologues is archaic and barbaric.

Friends, Enemies, and Prudent Alliances

By Glenn Ellmers

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May 4, 2022

If your principles are standing in the way of pursuing justice and engaging in effective political action, Aristotle would suggest you are probably doing something wrong

What the Left Hates Most

By Albin Sadar

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May 4, 2022

It should be obvious to all of us by now, if we want to “save democracy,” we need more free speech to uncover the truth, not less.

The Age of the Absurd

By Dennis Prager

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May 3, 2022

In terms of the absurdities our cultural elites believe, and have convinced masses of people to believe, there has never been a time like today.

Civic Education Requires Liberal Education

By John Agresto

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April 23, 2022

Do we really need Jefferson and Witherspoon to help us understand our world today? Yes, because what we know and what we believe shape our individual lives and our civic lives.