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About the scholarship itself, received twelve years ago? Probably not. But the ways in which Vivek Ramaswamy has tried to disentangle himself from the indirect connection to George Soros may offer some reasons to consider just what kind of politician Ramaswamy is, and will be.The story has floated to the top of the chum in the waters of the 2024 GOP presidential primary, especially among Ramaswamy’s opponents. In 2011, Ramaswamy took $90,000 to pay tuition for Yale Law School from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Paul Soros was the late older brother of George Soros, the...

President Trump Supports Vaccine, Doesn’t Support Mandates December 23, 2021 | Sundance | 76 Comments President Trump gave an interview to Candace Owens for The Daily Wire. The full interview is only available for subscribers [link]; however, there is a segment released by Mrs. Owens where Donald Trump talks about the specifics of his position on the vaccine and the mandates. President Trump supports the three vaccines that were developed during his administration, and is proud of the system he put into place to develop them and get them available to the public. However, President Trump does not support mandating...

hen the Christine Ford saga finally ended with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a lot of truth had distilled out, along with the evaporation of prior pretensions and misconceptions. The hearing confirmed that the traditional JFK/Hubert Humphrey Democrat party, as once envisioned by a Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, or Jim Webb, is long kaput. In its place is being birthed a hard-left progressive movement that absorbs the ideologies and methodologies of its base and that now incorporates all sorts, from Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist hipsters to Black Lives Matters, Antifa, and Occupy Wall Street protestors.

Obama chose not to try to win over his opposition, but to alienate it by veering hard left in his second term. Hillary Clinton foolishly got herself into a number of personal scandals that embarrassed her party and helped lead to her defeat. In reaction to the sudden loss of political power, Democrats would have been wise to run to the center, as did Bill Clinton, who all but ended the era of the Reagan Republicans. They could have dropped their obsession with identity politics and instead attempted to win over blue-collar voters with more inclusive class appeals rather than...

Swiss researchers have found a rare case of a patient contracting HIV twice. The patient picked up a different strain of the virus over two years after the first infection. Doctors once assumed that patients' natural immunity would keep them from getting the virus more than once. Researchers say the new case highlights the importance of safe sex even between HIV-infected partners. They also say it could have implications for the development of an Aids vaccine. The 38-year-old man was successfully treated for more than two years and was taken off the drugs after getting an experimental vaccine intended to...