During a presidential campaign, it is standard practice for the US Intelligence Community (IC) to provide candidates with intelligence briefings. Why is this done? It ensures that whoever wins the election can walk into the Oval Office on day one already prepared to deal with developing or potential national security threats. Why, then, would a…
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Editor’s Note: From the Back Forty is Liberty Nation’s longest running and most popular weekly column. President Joe Biden took the podium in front of a joint session of Congress to deliver a campaign speech. Most State of the Union (SOTU) addresses are about the administration’s accomplishments – but not this one. Heartlanders in nearly every state…
It’s that time of year again, when we all struggle with losing an hour of sleep and gaining an hour of sun in the evening. It is also that time when the debate about ending daylight saving starts making its rounds. In 1907, British builder William Willet advocated for changing the hours of sunlight. In…
Traditionally, most states hold a presidential primary every four years in which voters can choose which candidate will represent their party in the general election that November. A small handful, however, take the caucus approach. But changes across six states have turned the 2024 election cycle into chaos. With half a dozen states in flux,…
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This was not so much a State of the Union address as a State of Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign. Delivering a strikingly partisan performance at last night’s (March 7) event, the president ran the gamut on his favored talking points – a large chunk of which involved “his predecessor.” As this was an address aimed…
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The government will keep on rolling, at least until March 22. The US Senate voted 75-22 just before 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, to pass the “minibus” of six discretionary spending bills sent up from the House, thus avoiding a shutdown with less than five hours to spare. The funding package now goes to President…
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Is Kamala stumping for Joe Biden or herself? Recent polls show President Joe Biden losing by more than four percentage points to former President Donald Trump. Could that be the reason Vice President Kamala Harris is slogging her way to Wisconsin today (March 6) to tout her administration’s fabulous successes in jobs and labor and…
Psychology professionals are once again violating their own “Goldwater Rule.” The psychology community’s long knives are coming for former President Donald Trump again. Seemingly unaware of the current commander-in-chief’s gaffes, stumbles, talking to imaginary people, and occasional fugue states, the progressive left psychotherapists have diagnosed, from afar, the former president as demented. From a national…
Examining the challenges of rhetoric over substance. Certain elected Democrats across the US – and particularly in Washinton, DC – are fond of speaking about various things and people being a threat to democracy. As the 2024 general election looms on the horizon, however, it is worth examining whether these fearmongers are themselves posing just…
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of former President Donald Trump against the effort to remove him from the primary ballot in Colorado. While this will have immediate echoes in Maine and Illinois, it also sends a strong message to other states (at least a dozen) who have been considering using Section 3 of…
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It could also be her last. Washington, DC, has granted Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley her first primary season win against former President Donald Trump. When the three-day voting session concluded Sunday evening, March 3, the final tally brought Haley a victory that had little significance. It seems voters in the nation’s capital are essentially…
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Should public institutions endorse such disorderly behavior? American libraries are doing away with all fees for late or unreturned books. Why, then, should they be returned at all? As a metaphor for the revved-up chaos being unleashed upon American society in the past few years, it works quite well. “Our local government library ended late…
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