Posts with the category “opinion”
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Heterodox Liberal Thinkers: Please Stop Throwing Us Conservatives Under the Bus
July 24th, 2021
By Charles LoveFor a long time, the battle lines of our current culture war were clearly partisan. As identity politics took hold and went from a political tactic to the hegemonic liberal view, fighti... Read More
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Colorblind - Part II
July 22nd, 2021
By Patrick HallColorblindness is the “content” of which Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke. It is the critical difference between awareness and obsession. When one speaks of not judging people by skin colo... Read More
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Lying About 'Misinformation' To Justify Tyranny
July 21st, 2021
By Ben ShapiroThis week, President Joe Biden was asked whether he had any message for social media amidst a dramatic rise in the number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases thanks to the delta variant. Biden i... Read More
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Woke Language
July 21st, 2021
By John StosselHave you noticed how our language is changing?At a congressional hearing on "Birthing While Black," nearly every politician used the words "birthing people" instead of "women" or "mothe... Read More
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Colorblind - Part I
July 20th, 2021
By Patrick HallBack in the 1970s, I found myself working at Yupik Eskimo Boarding School in Northwestern Alaska. Saint Mary’s Mission School had been a fixture on the Yukon Delta-Bering Sea Coastal ar... Read More
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It’s Not Racist to Support Election Integrity Laws
July 15th, 2021
By Kay Coles JamesEarlier this month, when I heard that the Supreme Court had struck down a lawsuit claiming that Arizona’s election laws were a form of racist voter suppression, I happened to be stan... Read More
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OPEC and Big Oil\'s New Best Friend, Joe Biden
July 15th, 2021
By Stephen MooreAttention readers: Larry Elder is off this week. Please enjoy the following column by Stephen Moore.The price of oil surged to $75 a barrel the other day under President Joe Biden's gr... Read More
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What Foreign Dissidents Understand About the American Flag
July 14th, 2021
By Ben ShapiroThis week, thousands of Cuban dissidents marched against the repressive communist tyranny that has subjugated the Cuban people for three generations. They chanted "Libertad!" and called ... Read More
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Break Rules
July 14th, 2021
By John StosselAmerica has so many regulations that today, often the only way to do something new, to create something great, to prosper is to ignore rules.Minutes before SpaceX launched a rocket, the... Read More
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MLK believed there was ‘no slave nor free’ in Christ. A trip to Alaska taught me there’s no Black, white or Eskimo either.
July 14th, 2021
By Patrick HallOne of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s favorite Bible verses comes from the letter of St. Paul to the Galatians: “In Christ, there is neither Jew, nor Greek, there is neither slave no... Read More
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Yes on School Choice -- But It Requires Parental Involvement
July 8th, 2021
By Larry ElderQuestion my sanity, but I'm considering running in this election to recall California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Here's a big reason why.No one doubts that bad K-12 public school te... Read More
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Big Business Loves Big Government
July 7th, 2021
By John StosselPoliticians say they pass laws to "protect Americans from big business."People like hearing that. Many don't like big business.Unfortunately, most people don't realize that those laws o... Read More
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Stop Surrendering Education to the Radical Left
July 7th, 2021
By Ben ShapiroThis Independence Day, a poll from Issues & Insights revealed that only 36% of adults aged 18-24 said they were "proud to be American," compared with 86% of those over the age of 65. Thi... Read More
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The Right to Bear Arms
June 30th, 2021
By John StosselWould carrying a gun make you feel safer?Robert Nash and Brandon Koch thought so. But the state of New York denied them gun permits, saying they hadn't demonstrated a "special need."Why... Read More
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Turn Your Back on the National Anthem?
June 30th, 2021
By Ben ShapiroThis week, heretofore nearly anonymous hammer thrower Gwen Berry made international headlines when, during the podium ceremony for winning bronze in an Olympic trial, she turned away fro... Read More
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VP Harris, What About the 'Root Cause' of Urban Homicide?
June 24th, 2021
By Larry ElderVice President Kamala Harris just returned from Guatemala where she discussed the "root cause" of the post-election "surge" of "migrants" to our southern border. Harris said, "People lea... Read More
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Capitalism Makes Us Better Off
June 23rd, 2021
By John StosselLast week, I debunked three myths about capitalism. Here are four more:Myth No. 4: Capitalism creates unsafe workspaces."Greedy capitalists" will risk workers' lives to increase product... Read More
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The Movement Against Critical Race Theory Is Deeply Necessary
June 23rd, 2021
By Ben ShapiroAccording to the establishment media, critical race theory, or CRT, is a distraction. It is a right-wing smear. It is a conservative attempt to quash the dark side of American history. M... Read More
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Father's Day: Fatherless, America's Top Domestic Problem
June 17th, 2021
By Larry ElderA new powerful new documentary called "The Streets Were My Father" features three Chicago men, two Hispanics and one Black, who grew up without fathers. All three did hard time for serio... Read More
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How Blue City Governance Is Destroying Blue Cities
June 16th, 2021
By Ben ShapiroThis week, a video from a San Francisco Walgreens went viral on Twitter. The video depicted a man standing next to his bicycle, loading up a garbage bag with products. The man then rides... Read More
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The Poor Get Richer
June 16th, 2021
By John StosselEverywhere, people trash capitalism.But what they think they know about capitalism is usually wrong.My new video debunks some myths about capitalism."No one ever makes a billion dollars... Read More
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Trump's 'Racist' Rhetoric Blamed for Anti-Asian Hate
June 10th, 2021
By Larry ElderThe Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, released findings in March that showed a rise of 149% in reported anti-Asian American hate ... Read More
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The Falsehood Behind New Tulsa’s Black Wall Street Narrative
June 10th, 2021
By Dr. Eric M. WallaceAs everyone probably knows June 1st, 2021, marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Oklahoma riots of 1921. A new documentary, “Tulsa burning: The 1921 Race Massacre,” a little ... Read More
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The Definition of Courage Has Shifted Since Normandy
June 9th, 2021
By Ben ShapiroLast Sunday marked the 77th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. On that day, Operation Overlord began, launching the Allied invasion of Europe that would spell the beginning o... Read More
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The Climate Censors
June 9th, 2021
By John StosselWhom does Facebook trust to censor?A Ph.D. graduate from France.Really.The Frenchman, Emmanuel Vincent, started a group he calls "Climate Feedback." It does "a new kind of fact-checking... Read More
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Black Racism Matters
June 8th, 2021
By Patrick HallIt has enjoyed the benefit of being excused, fatuously ignored, or repackaged for quite some time. As we have seen with Black Lives Matter, race-obsessed Democrats, Controlled Opposit... Read More
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Jan. 6 Commission: Do Democrats Really Want 'the Facts'?
June 3rd, 2021
by Larry ElderAfter impeaching President Donald Trump for the so-called insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, House Democrats want to, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "establish a bipartisan agreement for a 9... Read More
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The Muddled Thinking of 'Antiracism'
June 2nd, 2021
By Ben ShapiroThis week, a clip of America's most prominent racial grifter, Ibram X. Kendi, began making the rounds on Twitter. Kendi, the author of "How to Be an Antiracist," has undoubtedly made a f... Read More
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On Reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. Kennedy
May 27th, 2021
By Larry ElderWhen did the civil rights movement go off the rails?The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exactly when this occ... Read More
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Progressives Pull Hat Trick With Dishonest Voting Rights Bill
May 27th, 2021
By Ken BlackwellProgressives are pushing another federal takeover of elections with the so-called John Lewis Voting Right Advancement Act. This one is a power grab forcing states to get permission fro... Read More
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Are You on the Take?
May 26th, 2021
By John StosselHome prices keep climbing. It's another reason to let people build housing.But corrupt politicians sometimes prevent that.The little town of Edgewater, New Jersey, sits right across the... Read More
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China Isn't Winning. The West Is Forfeiting
May 26th, 2021
By Ben ShapiroThis week, The Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with "symptoms consistent with both Cov... Read More
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Fake Outrage Over Cheney 'Ouster'; Dems 'Ousted' Bernie Twice
May 20th, 2021
Larry ElderHouse Republican leadership removed Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., from her leadership position, a position her indignant liberal defenders likely did not even know existed until days ago. Cheney... Read More
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If You Side With Hamas, Your Anti-Semitism Is Showing
May 20th, 2021
By Ben ShapiroFor the past two weeks, rockets have been fired into civilian areas of Israel by the terrorist group Hamas. Hamas' charter openly calls for the destruction of the state of Israel, which ... Read More
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Labor Shortage Caused by Government
May 19th, 2021
By John StosselAmerica has a record 8.1 million job openings.The media call it a "labor shortage."But it's not a labor shortage; it's an incentive shortage."No one wants to work," says a sign on a res... Read More
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Teach the Children … Badly
May 13th, 2021
By Patrick Hall“We in the African American community have cried wolf so often, that we have inadvertently made our own neighborhoods more unsafe. If the police hesitate to act against the violence and... Read More
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Welfare for the Rich
May 12th, 2021
By John StosselCongress passed the $2.2 trillion Heroes Act.House Democrats said it gives money to "governments who desperately need funds."But it also gives lots of money to people who don't need fun... Read More
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Biden Sets Everything on Fire
May 12th, 2021
By Ben ShapiroJoe Biden is the luckiest man to ever assume the presidency.He succeeded an unpopular figure. He was inaugurated just two weeks after the dramatic storming of the U.S. Capitol by extremi... Read More
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White-Savior Movies, Bad; White-Savior Politicians, Good
May 6th, 2021
By Larry ElderI recently came across the term "white-savior movies." According to critics, this is a type of film that features a white hero or heroine entering the life of a helpless, troubled, often... Read More
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Successful Without College
May 5th, 2021
By John StosselAmericans took out $1.7 trillion in government loans for college tuition.Now, some don't want to pay it back.President Joe Biden says they shouldn't have to. He wants to cancel at least... Read More
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January
Cartoon 01/01/2021Cartoon 01/02/2020Cartoon 01/05/2020Will the Real Racists in America Raise Their Hands?Right-Wing Conspiracy 'Insane' -- Left-Wing Conspiracy Theories, Not So MuchCartoon 01/06/2020Cartoon 01/07/2020Cartoon 01/08/2020Critical Race Theory Undermines Racial HarmonyCartoon 01/09/2021Cartoon 01/10/2021Cartoon 01/11/2021Cartoon 1/12/21President Trump's Masada MomentCartoon 01/13/21Twitter Permanently Bans Trump; Why Do Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Harry Reid Get a Pass?Cartoon 1/14/21What Happens to a King Deferred?Cartoon 1/15/21Cartoon 1/16/21Cartoon 1/18/21Cartoon 1/19/21Freedom of Speech Slipping AwayStanding Up to the MobCartoon 1/20/21'Uncle Tom' Blacklisted by HollywoodCartoon 1/21/21Get Ready for 4 Years of Media SycophancyCartoon 1/22/21Cartoon 1/24/22Cartoon 1/26/2021Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless WorldCartoon 1/25/21Rule-Breaking PoliticiansBiden's Anti-Unity AgendaOther Peoples’ Money and the Minimum WageCartoon 1/27/2021This Is Not NormalDemocrats Want a 'Return to Civility'; When Did They Practice It?Cartoon 1/28/2021Cartoon 01/29/2021Cartoon 01/30/2021
February
Cartoon 02/01/2021Cartoon 02/02/2021A New GOP Future -- Beyond President TrumpThe Inequality of 'Equity'Cartoon 02/03/2021Real SocialismDemocrats Want a 'Return to Civility'; When Did They Practice It? Part 2Cartoon 2/4/2021Cartoon 2/5/2021Cartoon 2/7/2021Cartoon 2/8/2021Big Lies MatterCartoon 2/9/2021Opt out of Social Security for Racial EquitySocialism Never WorksCartoon 2/10/2021When the Hateful Think They Are the VirtuousCartoon 2/11/2021If Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Is the Standard, What About Democrat 'Kingmaker' Rev. Al Sharpton?Cartoon 2/12/21Liberals and the Tenth CommandmentCartoon 2/13/21Black Inventors Are Often Overlooked In American HistoryInstruments of Our Own OppressionRevisionist Black history leaves things out
March
Why Aren't Conservative Women Recognized During Women's History Month?Everyday RacismSystemic Delusion – Part IProgressives against Civil RightsCartoon 3/30/21Destroying Public SafetyWoke CollegesNo, the Derek Chauvin Trial Isn''t a Referendum on American RacismCartoon 3/31/21Systemic Delusion - Part II
April
Fight Left-Wing Lies With ... FactsCartoon 4/01/214/02/21Cartoon 04/04/21Cartoon 04/05/21Cartoon 04/06/21Past Time to Fight BackBiden's California DreamCartoon 04/07/21Had Obama Not Played the Race Card, George Floyd Might Be AliveCartoon 04/08/21Claiming state voting reforms are racist is ridiculous.Cartoon 04/09/21Cartoon 04/11/21Cartoon 04/12/21Cartoon 04/13/21George Floyd as MetaphorCrowder Calls Out CensorshipCartoon 04/14/21The Fight Over IdentityBlack Lives Matter Co-Founder Cashes In on 'Systemic Racism'Cartoon 04/15/21Cartoon 04/16/21