The election of Donald Trump has already proven to be a huge victory for unborn children and the American pro-life movement. President Trump has reinstated the “Mexico City policy” first put in place by President Reagan in 1984, which bans federal funding for foreign non-profits who provide abortions or information about them. This policy was...
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Democrats’ Handling of the Presidential Election Fallout Shows They Still Don’t Get It
As was the case for much of the primary season, Bernie Sanders did not beat around the bush and called it as he saw it. He saw exactly what everyone outside of the Democratic establishment saw unfold on November 8th. He saw that it wasn’t racism or sexism that proved to be the final nail...
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A Brief History of Hatred: RB Leipzig
It’s December and, as of this article’s writing, Bayern Munich has some unlikely company near the top of the Bundesliga table. One would think a challenge to the stranglehold that Bayern and Borussia Dortmund have on German football would be welcomed, but the club ahead of them also happens to be the most hated club...
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Donald Trump: The Waterloo for Moderates
Most Republicans aren’t Nazis. Most Republicans aren’t white supremacists. Most Republicans aren’t racist, sexist, or xenophobic. But a portion of them are, and that faction of the party now seems to be driving the bus. Donald Trump winning the presidency represents more than a victory for populism. It also represents something far more sinister. President...
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Ignore the Russophobia-America Needs Russia
Our elite politicians have established a bipartisan consensus to harbor intense hatred toward Russia. In the wake of the latest Russian hacking allegations, political figures of all stripes have been tripping over one another to prove that their hawkish Cold War fever is unmatched. Failed presidential candidate Evan McMullin claimed in McCarthyite fashion that President-Elect...
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Why Donald Trump Will Not Win
Donald Trump will not win the presidency. However, he will lose not because his policy proposals are racist, homophobic, misogynistic, or anti-immigrant, and definitely not because the election is rigged against him. Trump will not win because of biased media coverage and Trump’s failure to unite his party and appeal to independents. While WikiLeaks has...
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The Double Standard of Demagoguery
Ever since Donald Trump launched his campaign last June, the media has relentlessly attacked him for his controversial language. Rightly so perhaps, many of Trump’s comments are alarming regardless of your political affiliation, but that article has been written already. Only one side of the political spectrum is held accountable when it comes to demagoguery...
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Brexit 2.0?
On June 23rd, 2016, British voters resoundingly rejected their participation in the European Union (EU) and smashed establishment politicians. This was despite months of threats and fear mongering from the establishment—Conservative and Labour alike—which claimed Brexit would trigger a global recession. This was despite President Barack Obama claiming that the United Kingdom (UK) would be...
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Why Trump Will Win
Donald Trump will be elected President of the United States because of three main factors: WikiLeaks, media mastery, and voter enthusiasm. The WikiLeaks emails were released to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. If, as the Democrats claim, Russia was behind the hacked emails and Russia wants Trump to win, then we can expect an...
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The Free Tampon Reality: A New Perspective on SA Referendum 30
In 1978, Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn said in an address, “Western society [has] expanded in a triumph of human independence and power. And all of a sudden in the 20th century came the discovery of its fragility.” Today, we live in this society of fragility: we rely on bureaucratic structures to provide for us, and...