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Conservatives have sat in paralysis for a good part of the past 25 years now not knowing how to address the left’s radical transformation of society that is canceling conservatives and forcing the left’s rules on everyone. Amazon bans our books and only a few people who are ridiculed compare it to George Orwell’s 1984. It’s because we think the takeover is being done by private corporations and actors in a free society, so we don’t know how to react. Most of us aren’t ready to call it communism or socialism; it doesn’t seem to violate the Constitution. The reality...

Warmer ocean temperatures appear to be fueling more intense hurricanes at the expense of the overall number of storms, says a new study published today in Nature Climate Change. Over the past decade, studies have analyzed ad nauseam how warmer temperatures might be changing the annual number of hurricanes, or the maximum intensity. But in practice, the connection between hurricanes and climate change has been a hard nut to crack because of an equally simple caveat — we just don’t have enough years of good historical data to predict how hurricanes intensity or frequency might change in our warming future....

White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won't rule out a health care reform bill that includes a middle-class tax hike. "The president had said in the past that he doesn't believe taxing health care benefits at any level is necessarily the best way to go here. He still believes that," Axelrod told me on This Week, "But there are a number of formulations and we'll wait and see. The important thing at this point is to keep the process moving, to keep people at the table, to the keep the discussions going. We've gotten a long way...

Is the day of the strong, self-reliant American over? Have we turned into a bunch of Euro-weenies looking to government for our every need? A recent Fox News poll makes one wonder. [snip] Along the way, the guys displayed a recent Fox News poll. There was some good news and some very bad news. On the one hand, 76% think Americans are starting to rely too much on government. But when it got down to specifics, way too many Americans think it’s government’s job to do way too many things. The most depressing/disturbing poll result: a majority think it’s the...