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The first week of 2025 is a reminder that while the country and the world face peril, we are on the cusp of a revolution in the West by voters who demand accountability and a sweeping out of arrogant, corrupt, and incompetent…

With the passing of Jimmy Carter at the age of 100, there is a scurry to rewrite the history of our 39th president. According to the popular narrative, Carter faced economic and foreign policy challenges, yet his accomplishments,…

<img alt="Raphael, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons" captext="Wikimedia" src="https://images.americanthinker.com/f7/f7o6rs9dqkcsm7lir5uc_640.jpg">Raphael's Disputation of Holy Sacrament, Public Domain The Great…

Immigration resides at the intersection of domestic and foreign policy. Political battlelines are forming along this intersection. Skirmishes are underway. Observing the mele will be interesting.Donald Trump has successfully linked illegal…

I’m white, yet I can claim a reparation. You roll your eyes and think, “Another boring article on a subject about which almost everything has been written.” Well, yes and no. First, why reparations? The…

Andrew Breitbart had a maxim, that politics are downstream from culture. Thanks to Trump, his team, and a once-in-a-lifetime realignment, we find ourselves on the positive side of this equation. We find ourselves upstream, in a…

There is a forgotten piece of turf — at least to us Americans — that has probably the greatest effect on history outside Jerusalem. Yet, thanks to name changes and legends crowding out the truth — if they really be legends — no…

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So busy has the FBI been these past four years rounding up the “terrorists” who “stormed” the Capitol on January 6, 2021 -- nearly 1600 and counting -- that they have not had time to track guys like New Orleans lifetaker Shamsud-Din…

Education has long been central for African Americans in the quest for equality and historically, what blacks sought was identical to what whites received. In the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) the plaintiff -- Oliver…