Best Townhall Review Conservative Commentary Podcasts (2025)

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Hugh Hewitt: The Schumer Shutdown 1:00

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So Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have done it: The minority leaders in both the Senate and the House and have rallied their Democrat colleagues to not support a Continuing Resolution that would keep the government running. Senate Majority leader John Thune had put forward what we call a “clean CR”—a clean Continuing Resolution that just allows …

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Carol Platt Liebau: The Weaponization Whiplash 1:00

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The left is in full meltdown about the Comey indictment. They’re outraged about weaponization of the justice system. They’re about a decade late. Back then, Comey’s FBI used a Clinton campaign opposition memo to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Then Comey drove the Russiagate hoax by ensnaring Trump’s National Security Advisory in a perj…

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Chris Stigall: Hope In Policy 1:00

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In a landmark moment for public health, the Trump administration announced a series of initiatives that signify a compassionate and long-overdue approach to addressing the autism epidemic. Led by HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and his team, it will include a comprehensive investigation into potential root causes, including acetaminophen exposure during preg…

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Albert Mohler: When Civil Religion Meets the Gospel 1:00

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The nation at large and certainly our elite media continue to wrestle with what to make of the recent memorial service for Charlie Kirk. Some are likely to argue that it was just “civil religion”. That's a term that was invented in the 20th century by sociologist Robert Bellah, and he was trying to argue that an awful lot of American religion is ju…

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Hugh Hewitt: How Do You Cover Forgiveness? 1:00

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"How do we cover that?" That had to have been the topic on the table of those newsrooms on Monday morning following the memorial service for my colleague Charlie Kirk on Sunday. Much of post-modern media simply lacks basic fluency in the language used and the truth claims affirmed by the speakers. Erika Kirk made a heart-breaking and deeply moving …

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Seth Leibsohn: We Should Not Reward Hamas With Statehood 1:00

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The UN recognizing a State of Palestine is in vogue. While the popularity of such a cause is increasing, so, too, is its danger, ignorance and capitulation to ahistoricism. The Palestinian effort, Palestinianism, is a cause and ideology of hate and violence, no matter how dressed up its propagandists try to color it. The official emblem of the Fata…

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Seth Leibsohn: An Appeal to the Better Angles of our Nature 1:00

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In a day and age of fleeting stories fed to us by a constant conveyor belt of crisis and frenzy, keeping us all in a constant state of agitation with little ability to focus on the meaningful, what cannot be ignored is that our nation recently witnessed the first national political assassination in over 50 years. In the wake of that, the memorial s…

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Ed Morrissey: Erika Kirk Draws A Loving Line In the Sand 1:00

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As the national political temperature hit dangerous levels, Erika Kirk offered a moment of grace with just three words—speaking of the man who shot her husband at the memorial this past weekend: “I forgive him.” With those three words, the young widow did more than attempt to restore calm in an increasingly violent era in American politics. She tes…

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Hugh Hewitt: We Shall Not See His Equal Again 1:00

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I first met Charlie Kirk a dozen years ago on the campus of Colorado Christian University, where I was teaching some 40 high school students a two-week course on the Constitution and the outline of American history. Bill Armstrong—then the president of CCU, a former US Senator—asked me to set aside an hour to two for a young man starting a new proj…

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Albert Mohler: We Need to Talk About the Trans Issue 1:00

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We have to talk about the trans issue and—most recently—the young man arrested for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Utah’s Gov. Cox made it clear in his statement: the alleged killer’s roommate, “was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female.” It was immediately clear that mainstream media wanted to stay as far away from that part of the…

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Carol Platt Liebau: How Did it Come to this? 1:00

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Decent people were stunned and horrified by the assassination of husband, father, and conservative activist Charlie Kirk. But almost as disturbing was the celebration from so many quarters. Fellow Americans—including many in “helping professions”—applauded the brutal slaying. And we’re left wondering: How did it come to this? Perhaps it shouldn’t b…

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Seth Leibsohn: Charlie Kirk: Vocal About His Christian Faith 1:00

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Right now, the phrase “there are no words” has never been more poignant. And yet, we have seen a profligacy of words: some beautiful, some awful, and some words we’d like to hear but haven’t—particularly from those who created the diseased environment of parlance justifying violence. Like to point to something that’s been particularly true of Charl…

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Ed Morrissey: Free Market Consequences for Despicable Speech 1:00

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For years, the Left claimed that cancel culture was merely consequences for bad speech. Now that the free market has applied the same rules to them over their celebrations of political assassination, they’re trying to claim victimhood. The latest example comes from former Washington Post editor Karen Attiah who got fired this week over her social m…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Judges Eroding Public Trust 1:00

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Last week, NBC News conducted what it described as “rare interviews” — and indeed they were. Rarely has any news organization allowed twelve federal judges to use it to bash the Supreme Court under the cloak of anonymity. These judges are unhappy with the Supreme Court for overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with mini…

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Chris Stigall: A Thunderbolt to the Heart of America 1:00

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The shocking news of Charlie Kirk’s assassination strikes like a thunderbolt to the heart of America. At only 31 years old, Charlie was more than a political voice. He was a husband, a father, and a relentless champion of freedom, faith and conservatism. I had the privilege of meeting him recently. His conviction reminded me of the same clarity and…

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Ed Morrissey: Can't Any Democrat Play This Game? 1:00

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This week, Democrats utterly conceded the issue of crime. Before Trump deployed the National Guard in DC, mayors and governors in blue states shrugged crime off as inevitable. Illinois Governor Pritzker did so in a national interview last month. When crime dropped dramatically in DC, the situation changed. Voters in high-crime areas run by Democrat…

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David Santrella: Charlie Kirk: 1993-2025 1:00

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It is with profound sorrow that we mourn the tragic passing of Charlie Kirk following the horrific assassination attack at Utah Valley University. It was a cowardly and vile act of violence, carried out to silence one of America’s boldest Christian conservative voices. Our hearts are shattered for Charlie’s wife, family, friends, colleagues and the…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Taxpayers Deserve Honest Accountable Government 1:00

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DOGE has done a lot for American taxpayers. One of its chief benefits has been highlighting the government fraud and corruption eating up Americans’ tax money. Investigators at the Senate DOGE caucus are reporting examples of abuse that should light taxpayers’ hair on fire. At the Department of Agriculture, a supposed anti-fraud investigator allege…

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Seth Leibsohn: The UN Should Reject Palestinian Statehood 1:00

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The General Assembly of the UN meets this week and will take up the issue of Palestinian Statehood. It’s a bad idea. The UN Charter states that “Membership in the UN is open to all other peace-loving states.” The cause for Palestinian statehood is not one of peace, but violence—current polling of the local population there showing far more support …

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Carol Platt Liebau: Biden’s Open Border Nightmare 1:00

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It’s the stuff of nightmares. The Biden administration’s open borders resulted in a scandal that should keep every American awake at night. Between 2019 and 2023, four hundred and forty-eight thousand unaccompanied minors came into the country. ICE was required to hand them over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within 72 hours. From there, NGO…

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Chris Stigall: Trump's Tariffs: Both Legal and Necessary 1:00

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President Trump’s tariffs are legal, strategically necessary and crucial for preventing an economic crisis in America. Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) crafted by Congress in 1977, the President holds clear authority to declare a national emergency against any unusual or extraordinary foreign threat to America's securit…

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Carol Platt Liebau: For Once, Our Government Is Shrinking 1:00

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Ronald Reagan, one of our greatest presidents, once quipped that “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.” But when it comes to government employment, the Trump Administration is turning that truism on its head. Thanks to DOGE, the US government will have three hundred thousand fewer people working for it. That’s the lar…

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Seth Leibsohn: Health Professionals Harm Reduction Is Really Enabling 1:00

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Tom Wolfe once postulated there are times it seems we go back to the Year Zero—where we unlearn everything we have learned about life, health, civilization. For years now, major cities and so-called health professionals have been doing under the euphemism of “harm reduction” what actually should be called “enabling” when it comes to illegal drug us…

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Chris Stigall: An Open Letter to President Trump 1:00

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I recently penned an open letter to President Trump. Here’s an abbreviated version: Dear President Trump: I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your unwavering dedication to our nation. Your leadership has profoundly strengthened Americans in the face of relentless challenges. Your sacrifices inspire millions. The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was …

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Hugh Hewitt: Free Traders Debt Hawks and Tariffs 1:00

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The new report from the Congressional Budget Office is surprising, even stunning. Yes: Questions always arise from “supply-siders” about the CBO scoring mechanism. Whatever the agency’s methodology, the new report on Trump’s tariffs ought to have received more attention: Phillip Swagel—the CBO’s director wrote: “We project that increases in tariffs…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Our University Students: Pressured to Feign Left-Wing Views 1:00

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It’s not an easy time to be a college student. According to a study of roughly fifteen hundred undergrads at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, over the last two years, fully eighty-eight percent pretended to hold more left-wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically. In other words, the atmos…

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Ed Morrissey: Trump Corners the Political Market 1:00

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Back in 2016, Salena Zito warned that Donald Trump should be taken seriously, not literally. Democrats are still not listening to her sage advice. Bill Clinton employed a triangulation strategy to co-opt Republican voters. Now, Trump has spent the first seven months of his presidency employing a cornering strategy—using his bully pulpit to force De…

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Albert Mohler: Send Harvard's Chinese Students Home 1:00

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“Send Harvard’s Chinese Students Home.” That’s the title of a recent piece at the Wall Street Journal. And it ought to have our attention. It comes from Mike Gallagher, former member of Congress, and now Chief of Defense for Palantir Technologies. He writes out of a sense of concern for America’s national defense. He writes this, “President Trump b…

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Albert Mohler: Dr. James Dobson 1936-2025 1:00

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Dr. James Dobson defender and friend of the family, died in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His public life began as an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, which he joined after completing his doctorate in psychology, He saw the permissive models of parenting then gaining ground, and h…

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Seth Leibsohn: The Dark Impulse to Blame Trump 1:00

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Curiously, more media attention has centered on President Donald Trump’s peace brokering between Russia and Ukraine than one might have imagined. I say curiously, because media largely ignored the war for most of the past two years—when the carnage was most severe … when Joe Biden was president and under whose watch the war began. After the Zelensk…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Canada's Death Culture Gains Momentum 1:00

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Canada has embraced “medical assistance in dying”—or “MAID”—with unseemly enthusiasm. It was legalized in 2016 only for very sick people already at the end of life. It was then extended to those with serious medical conditions. Now, in just two years, it will be available for people just with mental illness. Certainly, no decent person wants termin…

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Jerry Bowyer: A Vibe Shift in Corporate America 1:00

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Since President Trump’s victory corporate America’s had a vibe shift—and it’s long overdue. DEI quotas: getting rolled back. Debanking: facing real pushback. Companies are waking up and getting back to business. J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup say “no” to politicized debanking. Target and IBM are backing off DEI. Even BlackRock, the ESG poster chil…

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Seth Leibsohn: We Must Do Better on Drug Messaging 1:00

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A new poll from Gallup found the percentage of Americans who drink alcohol has fallen to its lowest level in history. On the other hand: drug use is at an all-time high and young adults use marijuana more regularly than alcohol, while our youth use it at the same rate (which, before legalization, was never the case). This is the result of years-lon…

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Jerry Bowyer: Commonsense for the Capital Markets 1:00

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Conservative members of the State Financial Officers Foundation from Utah Treasurer, Marlowe Oaks to Pennsylvania Treasurer, Stacy Garrity and others, just sent a clear message to financial giants like BlackRock - If you keep attacking our energy industries, you can't do business with us. That's right. These Red State financial officers are standin…

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Carol Platt Liebau: We Need Fewer Drugs, Not More Drugs 1:00

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The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump might reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous, Schedule III drug. The President should reconsider. Marijuana harms our children and darkens their futures. In states with legal “adult use” marijuana, there’s been a 25 percent increase in marijuana use disorder among twelve-to-seventeen-year-olds, comp…

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Jerry Bowyer: Pushing Back on Debanking 1:00

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There's a major shift coming in the finance world that could protect both your portfolio and your principles. As initially reported by Alex Saeedy of the Wall Street Journal, the White House just released an executive order to stop big banks from debanking customers over political views, including conservatives and crypto firms. Why does this matte…

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Seth Liebsohn: Holiday from History 1:00

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Charles Krauthammer identified the 1990s as a “Holiday from History”—where the civilized part of humanity ignored the barbarizing part, namely the rising tide of Islamist terrorism. That holiday ended on September 11, 2001. It is tempting to turn away from that same Islamist terrorism, or pretend it is not our business. But, meantime, tens and tens…

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Jerry Bowyer: Presbyterians for Planned Parenthood 1:00

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In just a few weeks, the PCUSA—America’s largest Presbyterian denomination—is set to pressure companies into supporting abortion. How? By using its pension plan assets to file shareholder proposals demanding that companies support employee abortion access and divest from pro-life states like Idaho. The P-C-U-S-A is using church funds to push aborti…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Left Losing Control of the Narrative 1:00

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Almost everyone has seen the American Eagle jeans ad starring Hollywood starlet Sydney Sweeney. Many on the left have claimed the ad’s play on the word “jeans” was a eugenics dog whistle because Sweeney is white, blonde, and blue-eyed. They insisted that opposing the ad was taking a stand against modern day Nazism. It's nonsense. Those complaining …

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Ed Morrissey: Trump's Influence 1:00

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CNN’s foremost data analyst Harry Enten recently declared Donald Trump the most influential president of this century. Enten backs that up with metrics on tariffs, immigration, and executive orders, but even that may sell short the breathtaking changes over the past six months. But influence goes beyond data and metrics. Trump has entirely changed …

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Seth Liebsohn: Time for a Great Re-Learning 1:00

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NBC recently reported the U.S. fertility rate has dropped to an all-time low. More women “are waiting longer to have children or never taking that step at all.” This is another social decline, especially as attached to historically low marriage rates and declining church attendance. The forces of composition in civil society are losing to the force…

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Carol Platt Liebau: Don't Trust These Papers 1:00

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New documents released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have shattered the legacy media’s narrative about Russiagate. Although Americans have long known Russia didn’t change the election’s outcome and Trump didn’t “collude” with the Russians, there’s still plenty of news. Most notably, the new documents prove President Obama order…

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Jerry Bowyer: Fire the Fed 1:00

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The president’s mad at Fed chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates fast enough. But here’s a better idea: Don’t fire the chairman. Fire the Fed. Why should a handful of unelected economists decide the price of money for 330 million people? That’s not a free market. That’s central planning with a necktie. Let the market set interest rates…

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Hugh Hewitt: Promises Made; Promises Kept 1:00

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President Trump ran on closing the border and taming inflation. Done. The borders closed. Period. No new law was needed. Deportations will require years of efforts—but the consequences of President Biden’s open border are being reduced on a daily basis. Trump had promised for more than a decade that Iran would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapo…

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Carol Platt Liebau: A Moral Sense Encoded in Humankind 1:00

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Millions were transfixed by video of a couple caught cheating at a Coldplay concert. Some are surprised by the widespread fascination — but perhaps we shouldn’t be. What made the video compelling was how the cheating couple reacted when the kiss cam found them. It wasn’t rational behavior—they’d have stood a greater chance of getting away with it i…

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Ed Morrissey: Trump’s Bully Diplomacy 1:00

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Bill Maher spoke the words that no one else in the mainstream media will say: Donald Trump was right about tariffs, and he was wrong. Not one other Trump critic has thus far made a public record of their error or even acknowledged that the stock markets never crashed, as they predicted. Nor have Trump’s critics recognized the value of his “bully di…

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Chris Stigall: Dismantling the Abusive System 1:00

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Our political landscape is sharply divided. On one side we have the Clinton-Obama-Biden Democrats, who have wielded the extensive machinery of government as a weapon against opponents and citizens to retain power. On the other, we have Donald Trump, who’s dismantling that same system. And the contrast couldn’t be more clear. The Obamagate story we …

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Ed Morrissey: Columbia Gets a Babysitter and Harvard's Next 1:00

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In the end. Columbia University chose to do the right thing. But only after almost every other option got exhausted. After abdicating authority for months while agitators targeted Jewish students and faculty for intimidation, the Trump administration suspended access to nearly a half-billion dollars in federal funds. Columbia finally threw in the t…