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- History Uprooted September 22, 2026A new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg peddles PLO myths about Israel’s war for independence in 1948.Jeffrey Herf
- I, Victim September 21, 2026Pascal Bruckner’s book about victimhood culture invites us to choose liberation, and to move from resentment to a secular kind of grace.Marilyn Simon
- Australia Is Sick: Misha Saul on What Went Wrong September 21, 2026Investor Misha Saul joins Claire Lehmann to discuss Australia’s declining productivity, immigration policy, and the political choices shaping the country’s future.Claire Lehmann
- History Uprooted September 22, 2026
- Jay Nordlinger
- ‘True Patriot Love’ May 15, 2025Love of country in the time of Trump.
- WFB & Co. May 12, 2025My time at NR has now come to an end. God bless you all.
- The Conundrum of China Trade May 7, 2025A longstanding question, whose end is nowhere in sight.
- ‘True Patriot Love’ May 15, 2025
Author Archives: Joe Benning
Progressive Failure
The current imbroglio over the impeachment of Donald J Trump, and the various investigations associated with it combine to present a text book example of why progressivism, better described as managerial socialism, is doomed to failure. Like all forms of … Continue reading
Climate Hysteria
The latest hysterical outbursts about climate change make two assertions: (1) that we have only 12 years before climate catastrophe is irreversible and that (2) as a result we are facing mass extinction. John Stossel recently attempted to moderate a … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Politics
Tagged alarmists, climate change, debate, environment, global warming, Heartland Institute, John Stossel, public policy
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Mistakes Were Made
The systematic mishandling of the FBI’s investigation into the charge that candidate Trump colluded with Russia in order to win the 2016 presidential election suggests more than administrative sloppiness combined with routine government incompetence. One need not be a Trump … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Collusion Inquiry, Comey, FISA, horowitz, inspector general, Investigation, report, Russia, testimony, Trump
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Landslide
Boris Johnson, who will inevitably be tagged as BoJo by the tabloids, won a huge victory in Thursday’s snap elections. When the dust settled the Tories wound up with a 78 seat majority in Parliament. Also, the Scottish Nationalist Party … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Boris Johnson, Britain, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, snap election, Socialism, Tory, UK
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Chilling Effects
CNN is reporting that “current and former FBI officials tell CNN they’re concerned that the harsh rhetoric coming from Trump and Barr has only worsened the bureau’s already tenuous standing with the President, leaving them wondering whether federal agents could … Continue reading
Seriously?
Rivals for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) and “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg (D. South Bend IN), have taken to firing at each other over the issue of transparency. Each is busy pretending that other has failed … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Buttigeig, campaign, Democrats, Mayor Pete, nomination, politics, Senator Warren
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Odds and Ends…12/10/2019
The most important near term test vote for U.S. Presidential politics is not the pending pre-ordained impeachment of Mr. Trump by the Democratic House, soon to be followed by acquittal by the Republican Senate. Nor is it the fast approaching … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Attorney General, climate change, Exxon Mobile, Martin Act, Trump, verdict
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Art and Culture
Politics is downstream from culture in that politics is shaped by culture. Famous writers like George Orwell (1984), Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) and Mario Vargas Llosa (The War of the End of the World) have ruminated on this and … Continue reading
He Done It
Perhaps, just perhaps, the Republicans might get around to acknowledging the obvious: President Trump is guilty of the main accusation lodged against him. He attempted to get the government of Ukraine to investigate, or at least announce that it intended … Continue reading
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Judge Napolitano Discusses Impeachment on Reason TV
After 6 months of studied silence, On Liberty Watch is going to re-open. In addition, the website will be revamped a bit over the next few months. The mission however, remains the same: the defense of liberty. The inanity of … Continue reading
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Tagged Impeachment, Judge Napolitano, Libertarianism, Nick Gillespie, Reason Magazine
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