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Washington, D.C. – the capital of conventional wisdom, ruled by groupthink and herd mentality.

Its latest fad is "we need to get tough on China."

If you uttered those words five years ago, the Beltway geniuses would call you a kook if they even deigned to respond. Today, those same geniuses are muttering some variation on the theme.

This little man from nowhere has nothing to tell us about the China virus. He has a lot to tell us about how our body politic is ailing from a weakened immune system.  

In a short video posted this month, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells us what we must do to deal with the Chinese coronavirus.

Ending wars is the one truly heretical act in Washington.

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After President Trump stated his desire to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Germany and South Korea, the bipartisan war party sprang into action.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined a string of administration officials laying out the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien spoke about its ideology. FBI Director Chris Wray talked about its espionage. Attorney General William Barr spoke about its economic threat.

Pompeo put it all together, detailing what the CCP means for our economy, our liberty and the future of democracies around the world.

In the midst of all this the administration took action.

Since its founding in 2001, the ABF has been working to get China’s debt to America paid.  In 1987, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher successfully settled with China to pay on the same defaulted sovereign bonds to British bondholders. Yet, to this day China has refused to honor its obligation to America. Settlement of this outstanding debt would be consistent with the rules of international law and immediately provide an enormous economic stimulus into the U.S. economy.

Who wants to live in a socially distanced, new normal, re-imagined future?  

In his classic essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell describes how politicians hide their actions beneath generous helpings of words chosen to mislead.

Angela Davis is saying the quiet parts loud.

The Marxist who earned her fame providing guns to murder a judge in 1970 says she backs Joe Biden because the radical left will be able to push him around.

Here's one communist who tells the truth, if only once.

A temporary subsidy to pick up COBRA premium payments would ensure 30 million Americans continue their coverage with employer-provided health insurance.  

As Congress prepares another booster shot to help the economy deal with the pandemic, there’s one measure they should take up that’s good for the nation’s healthcare and good for the nation’s economy.

A temporary subsidy to pick up COBRA premium payments would ensure 30 million Americans continue their coverage with employer-provided health insurance.

The serial plagiarist strikes again.

Joe Biden's habit of copying other people's work and lying about his own past knocked out his previous bids for the presidency.

The millennialist mindset of Big Philanthropy and its fellow travelers leaves one susceptible to any world-saving scheme that comes down the pike.  

Who would have thought the Gates Foundation would endorse tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus, Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington, and other dead white men?