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✪ “We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans, ‘Time for a change, the mess in Washington, more bang for a buck’ and ‘punch lines and glamour.”— A Face in the Crowd (1957)
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✪ JB Shurk: This is an essay about survival. We should be living our lives today with an expectation that something bad will soon happen. That feeling should not dominate our existence or preclude us from pursuing rich and joyful lives, but it should keep us mentally vigilant and physically prepared before disaster strikes….
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✪ In ripping up and destroying the old foundations of peace, today’s revolutionaries promise the certainty of a new war…
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✪ The report revealed the United States and its allies have supported the Afghan economy with “cash shipments” averaging $80 million that “arrive in Kabul every 10-14 days” ever since the Taliban takeover and President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal in 2021. The U.S. has sent over $11 billion in assistance to Afghanistan and Afghan refugees since then...
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✪ Hamas terrorists kicked the lid off hell and invaded Israel on October 7 in a barbaric attack that included mass rape, murder, torture, and kidnappings. Since then, in the streets of Berlin, Paris, Rome and on to the very heart of London, New York’s Times Square and the steps of the Sydney Opera House, there has been a dramatic surge in worldwide anti-Jewish hatred...
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✪ The House has a new speaker, and now attention returns to whether a government “shutdown” can be averted before November 17. If only the American people could place the federal government in lockdown just as the unaccountable bureaucracy did to them during COVID’s oppressive hysteria...
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✪ The usual advice is don’t-tread-on-me resoluteness, or what Teddy Roosevelt characterized as “speak softly and carry a big stick.” The alternatives – whether “speak loudly and carry a twig,” “speak softly and carry a twig,” or “speak loudly and carry a big stick”- are far worse...
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