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August 29, 2025

The uproar over the restaurant chain’s rebrand might appear trivial, but it carries a deeper significance. Source: Cracker Barrel and the Power of Conservative Boycotts

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August 29, 2025
Mass Shootings and Simple Narratives

There are no easy, simple solutions to the problem of school shootings.

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August 27, 2025
Forgotten How to Say, “Yes, and . . .”

By: Dean Karayanis – nysun.com – August 27, 2025 Instead, the opposition party is denying a problem that is bothering Americans in their millions. With President Trump mulling troop deployments in more American cities, Democrats are responding with denials that crime is a problem — reflexive opposition that amounts to a weak posture. Voters tend to be more favorable to…

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August 27, 2025
Gerrymandering and the Dominant Party

The argument against gerrymandering begins with visuals. Across the U.S., almost without exception, if you view a map of state and federal electoral districts, they appear as convoluted…

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August 27, 2025
Florida University Became World-Class

Florida’s universities are in the top tier of the Washington Monthly’s rankings thanks to strong public governance.

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August 27, 2025
Powell, Tariffs, and Inflation

Federal Reserve chairman acknowledges tariffs create only one-time price adjustments, not inflation spirals, as calls grow for aggressive 100 basis point rate cuts.

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August 27, 2025
Why Are We Paying for Presidential Perks?

View PDF Key Facts: Former presidents are very wealthy and continue to earn millions from books, speeches, and media deals, yet still receive over $5 million a year in taxpayer-funded pensions and perks for offices, staff, and supplies. Budget data for FY 2026 show that Biden’s office and expense perks will exceed those of the other former presidents.

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August 27, 2025
Democratic Party in Disarray

The answer was not Trump alone. Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” the Republican Party.

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August 27, 2025
AI Doomsayer

By: William A. Galston – wsj.com – August 26, 2025 While the technology carries risks, some critics’ alarmism seems excessive. Every Tuesday evening, the Rationalists gather to read and discuss “The Sequences,” a collection of essays by AI researcher and writer Eliezer Yudkowsky. It’s “almost like a Bible study,” Mr. Metz writes. Ilia Delio, a Catholic theologian whom Mr. Metz…

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August 27, 2025
Mail-in-Voting

Americans deserve to know that when they cast their ballot, it will be counted accurately and fairly — without interference, delay, or doubt.

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August 27, 2025
Is Chicago Next?

Monday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss the debate over President Trump’s federal takeover of the police in Washington and opposition from Democrats to taking it nationwide, the takeaways from the first day of the DNC’s summer meeting, and President Trump’s latest threat against the “fake news media.

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