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Under the Trump administration, I have witnessed a significant improvement of Native American lives, particularly our rural tribal citizens and urban Indians. Like all Americans under this administration, we benefited from an overall increase in wages, a return of manufacturing jobs, lower health care premiums, and the ability to buy a home. We now have a president who encourages an expedited entrance to a career through technical training and enrolling in two-year colleges. To me, this speaks to our Native communities. Many of us saw an increase in job opportunities, especially in 2018-2019. If you wanted a job, you could...

Source: Photo Credit: Kansas for MarshallDr. Roger Marshall, a two-term congressman representing Kansas’ 1st Congressional District, is confident he’ll be the Sunflower State’s next U.S. senator. This is an open Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), who endorsed Marshall ahead of the Republican Party primary.“Roger is a doctor who can help guide this country through a pandemic that has touched every Kansan,” Roberts tweeted on July 21st, 2020. “I sit on the Health Committee and know firsthand how important it will be to keep a Kansas view on the committee.”RealClearPolitics shows Marshall leading his competitor, Barbara Bollier, by...

When people as disparate as John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, journalist Piers Morgan, and Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald raise their voices in concern, you know that there’s a problem. A very big problem. Censorship by the giants of media and social media has gotten out of control. Ted Cruz’s grilling of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has rightly gone viral. Yet the answers given by Dorsey were chilling. To paraphrase, 'Even though we blew it, if the New York Post' – yes, the Post, one of the nation’s leading and historic newspapers – 'wants to access its account again, it...

Retired Navy officer Tony Bobulinski told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the Biden family hoped to avoid any scrutiny over their tangled web of financial ties to foreign entities for alleged influence-peddling with two simple words: "Plausible Deniability." “I remember saying, ‘How are you guys getting away with this?’ ‘Aren't you concerned?’” he told Carlson.He claims that Jim Biden chuckled."'Plausible Deniability,' he said it directly to me in a cabana at the Peninsula Hotel,” he said.In the interview, he outlines how an alleged meeting with Joe Biden took place on May 2, 2017.Here's the thing about plausible deniability: Your...

Joe Biden would force semiautomatic rifle owners to either participate in a gun buyback program, or register their firearm under the National Firearms Act, which requires the payment of a $200 tax. This would extend to AR-15s and other common household rifles. Those who do not comply would face up to 10 years in federal prison, and a potential $10,000 fine. This is yet another violation of Joe Biden's pledge against any tax increase on anyone making less than $400,000 a year. In fact, it would hit working class Americans the hardest.As detailed on Biden’s campaign website, this proposal would...

Imagine that you are running for U.S. president and are seated comfortably at a table with your wife. You refer to your primary opponent as "George," twice, before referring to him as "Trump," moments later. Now imagine that you are the president, running for re-election. You refer to your primary opponent as "Bill" or "Ronald," twice, before referring to him as "Biden." Would that not become non-stop international headline news, right up to November 3rd? In the face of his obvious mental health lapses, the mainstream press is still running cover for Joe Biden. By contrast, throughout President Trump's first...

In recent weeks, people of all political stripes have expressed fear of turmoil and riots following this year’s election.  Even Facebook is reportedly preparing for such election-related unrest.   And not surprisingly, certain candidates are exploiting these fears with promises that only their victory will restore civility and peace.  Those claims are untrue.  Don’t be so naïve and gullible to believe them.  Only you can lead the rally for Post-Election Peace (PEP).The reason is clear:  The blame for the acute polarization of our views lies not only at the feet of many of our nation’s media outlets but also our...

The real tragedy of this upcoming election is not just our inability to separate the politician from his shortcomings (the so-called "shiny object"), but that many of us may not have been given a full picture of how we got here. How has Donald Trump's base remained so steady? And why do I believe that anyone who supports Trump's agenda for America are making a critical error when they abstain from voting for the man simply because they're turned off by his crudeness? Trump's nomination was a direct response to an unpopular Bush presidency and a materialistic Romney campaign. It...

“Having a good relationship with leaders of other countries is a good thing,” said President Trump last week, when the subject of North Korea emerged in the final debate.  “That’s like saying we had a good relationship with Hitler before he in fact invaded Europe,” countered Joe Biden, who rightly took heat for the claim. As Conrad Black notes, U.S. relations with Hitler were frosty from the start in 1933, and President Roosevelt withdrew the American ambassador after the infamous “Kristallnacht” pogroms in November of 1938. What could use more attention is Biden’s claim that Hitler “in fact invaded...

Many NeverTrumps assert that they're voting against Trump, not for Biden. But the reality is that a vote against Trump is a vote for Biden/Harris and their progressive policies. Biden promised that if he is elected, "I'm gonna be good to go down as one of the most progressive presidents in American history." Bernie Sanders asserted, "Joe Biden will become the most progressive president since [FDR]." Kamala Harris, who stands a good chance of replacing Biden, has the most progressive record in the Senate, farther left than even Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who will likely serve significant roles in a...

Mideast policies pursued by Donald Trump have forever changed the Arab-Israeli dynamic – for the better. To state that the upcoming presidential election will probably be the most consequential in U.S. history, is not an overstatement. It is fact. At stake nothing less than the future of America and its trajectory. Will it continue to be a vibrant liberal democracy that encourages the free exchange of ideas and a free market system or will it devolve into a dark Orwellian black hole with excessive government overreach, burdensome regulations, prolonged closures, skyrocketing energy costs and mandatory conformation to the prevailing, forced...

“When this nightmare is over,” tweeted Robert Reich, “we need a truth and reconciliation commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.” The diminutive Clinton-Obama retread, with a JD from Yale, was expanding on an idea from MSNBC mouthpiece Chris Hayes. He accused people who don’t take face masks seriously of “getting people killed,” and “the most humane and reasonable way to dealt with all those people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth...

An accelerant on all things the average Cultural Marxist holds dear. For some time I had been struggling with a conundrum: Why is it that Covid breaks down, more or less precisely into an ideological divide? This had been clear for a while in a kind of white-of-the-eye way before I began really to focus on it. Then it struck me: Had a ‘pandemic’ occurred when I was a feature writer and reporter with Irish newspapers about 20 years ago, I could not imagine attending editorial conferences in which the matter would be discussed as though implicitly a left-right question,...

It's no secret that the predictions of so-called "scientific polls" have been very wide of the mark over the past five years. Remember the 2016 election in the USA and Brexit in England? Both polls were wrong. Amid all the loud vociferation of the media shouting the results of polls they have oftentimes commissioned, it's forgotten that the only poll that counts is the poll that the voter votes in. It's well to remember that opinion polls are bought and paid by various special interests who seek to influence and change the way people vote or to discourage them from...

Nothing threatens the progressive project more than the existence of a Supreme Court that adheres to the Constitution. It's really that simple. That's what the tantrum over Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation is all about. The notion that the same Democrats who shelved the judicial filibuster and now threaten to destroy the separation of powers with a revenge scheme to pack the Supreme Court -- the same people, incidentally, so fond of smear-drenched confirmation hearings -- are sticklers for process or decorum is simply ludicrous. For one thing, no norms have been undone by the confirmation of Barrett. If Democrats...

If the final election returns, when they finally come in, match the current polls, Joe Biden's Democrats will win a trifecta: the White House and majorities in both houses of Congress. Biden currently leads Donald Trump 51% to 44% in the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls and leads by a smaller margin of 49% to 46% in six target states. Current polling shows Democrats leading in races that would give them a 51-49 majority in the Senate, and they seem well positioned to hold their majority in the House. Of course, those numbers are not etched in stone. Plenty of...

A remarkable percentage of Americans have already voted early in this critical election, pitting against each other a fundamentally Americanist vision of governance and a fundamentally insurrectionist vision of anarchic mayhem. But with election day impending, and with many yet to officially cast their ballots, it is incumbent upon proud patriots to make closing arguments for the greatness of the American regime and the American way of life -- and why both are worth preserving and defending amid their greatest threat since the Civil War. The United States, as it is often said, has continually strived toward an ever-closer fulfillment...

It was the wrong time for 33-year-old Miles Taylor to announce he is the much-celebrated "Anonymous" Trump official who wrote a New York Times op-ed and then a New York Times-bestselling book in which he trashed the president. The announcement came in the last days of the presidential election campaign, as the establishment media are bloviating that they can't rush to cover the New York Post's evidence about Hunter Biden because they have such high standards for confirming facts. None of them had such a standard when they gushed over Captain Anonymous in September 2018. No one needed to know...

Source: Official White House Photo by Shealah CraigheadMichael Anton wrote a seminal essay for the Claremont Review of Books in September 2016 titled “The Flight 93 Election,” which went viral, particularly among conservatives. It was a wonderfully crafted metaphor, suggesting that the survival of America as a viable republic depended on the against-all-odds election of an outsider to the D.C. swamp by the name of Donald J. Trump. Although it was a gamble as to whether this brash businessman with no government experience could effectively lead the country, the alternative of a Hillary Clinton election was a guaranteed death sentence...

We are just days from the most important election in modern times, and sanctimonious scolds are still telling conservatives that they're immoral for supporting the main person fighting to prevent this nation's destruction. Seriously? Your shaming isn't working. We don't believe we are betraying our values for standing with the person who is pursuing policies that will sustain America's liberty tradition and opposing those that will enslave and impoverish us. You can force-feed us op-ed after op-ed from well-respected Christian theologians urging us to vote against President Trump because you apparently believe he's Satan's spawn. But your pleas will fall...