Joe Biden has a few more weeks left in his epically failed presidency, but redemption seems well out of reach. After he issued a sweeping pardon for his son despite repeatedly claiming he never would, the book is all but closed on an administration with a record so appalling that everyone from his defenders-to-the-end to…
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has grabbed the nation’s attention for his theatrical pronouncement that he would use local police and a vast array of citizen volunteers to block federal authorities from conducting mass deportations of illegal aliens in his city. The comments run face first into the uncomfortable reality that Johnston and his woke Denver…
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You may have noticed that one state has been predominant in President-elect Trump’s vision for his new administration. And it starts at the top. The soon-to-be 47th president, once the quintessential New Yorker, no longer identifies with the Big Apple after the city that had once been entranced by his every move while bringing him…
On Wednesday, November 27, President-elect Donald Trump and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo talked about closing the US-Mexico border. Behind the conversation, it seems an accord is waiting in the wings. While both sides declared the discussion productive, an undercurrent is being purposely obscured by US media. The Mexico Connection “Just had a wonderful conversation…
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Editor’s Note: From the Back Forty is Liberty Nation’s longest-running and most popular weekly column. While the Swamp squabbles over Cabinet picks put forward by President-elect Donald Trump, folks in the heartland are busy preparing for extreme family gatherings and arguments over whether fresh cranberry sauce is better than canned. The answer is always fresh, but…
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It’s been said that the first task in extracting yourself from a hole of your own making is to stop digging. Only then can the lengthy process of repair and recovery begin. In the wake of their stinging repudiation on Nov. 5, have Democrats and the hard left been willing to face the blaring music…
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Joe Biden became a lame duck the day he ended his 2024 re-election campaign. No matter who won between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, he had resigned himself to leaving the White House in January 2025. But he hasn’t left yet – he’s still president until his predecessor-turned-successor is sworn in, and there’s still plenty…
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Editor’s Note: From the Back Forty is Liberty Nation’s longest running and most popular weekly column. Once the concussion of Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris wore off, it didn’t take long for TDS 2.0 to kick in and the progressive blame game to begin. One entrepreneur is taking a capitalistic approach to safe spaces for the…
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President-elect Donald Trump is building his administration – and he’s poaching from the incoming Congress to do so. So, who’s going where in DC, and what does this mean for the Republican majorities in the Senate and the House? How would any vacancies be filled? Who’s on first, What’s on second, and I Don’t Know…
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What’s on the MAGA menu? Headlines are abuzz with speculations about President-elect Donald Trump’s likely Cabinet selections in an administration that has signaled it will demand loyalty, competence, and determination. For his second term, Trump is building a team to implement a bold agenda that he claims will target an inefficient and entrenched bureaucracy, taxes,…
Incumbents worldwide were crushed in 2024, but will they learn from the beatdown? The triumphant return of President-elect Donald Trump did not occur in a vacuum. Throughout the world, governments led by the parties of the 21st-century global political establishment find themselves reeling from a public blowback that has been decades in the making. “From…
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Even with their power gone, leftists are sure to have many a trick up their sleeves. Kamala Harris and the left got their clocks cleaned in the 2024 election, but that doesn’t mean they will rest in their despair. They have already started setting up an obstacle course for the second Trump presidency. While they…
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