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As a conservative, I know how it feels to have an awful year at the Supreme Court.   Off the top of my head, 2015 comes to mind as a year where the Court relied on liberal judicial activism when making rulings in the most politically polarizing decisions.   That year, 6 out of the 9 justices voted to uphold Obamacare while five of the nine justices decided that same-sex marriage bans violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Reading the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s blistering dissents provided conservatives the only source of entertainment and happiness during a time that Senator Ted Cruz referred to as “some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history.”   This year, on the other hand, conservatives have a lot to celebrate as a result of Supreme Court decisions.   The Supreme Court often plays a major role in the ongoing culture war that has engulfed the United States of America and industrialized nations in general for the past half cen...

During World War II, the United States Government reluctantly worked with the Communist Soviet Union to take down an even larger enemy: Adolf Hitler.   After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union , the world’s largest superpowers at the time, had an antagonistic relationship for nearly half a century in a period of American history known as the Cold War Era.   As World War II effectively wiped out fascism in Italy , Germany , and Japan , the United States began to identify a new enemy to freedom everywhere: communism.   During the Cold War era, the United States participated in some “hot wars,” where military intervention took place; such as the conflicts in Vietnam and Korea , where the United States took the side of South Korea and South Vietnam over their communist counterparts.   The United States never formally went to war with the Soviet Union but the threat of war loomed large for decades.   During the “Second Red Scare,” Am...

Today marks the 19 th anniversary of the release of the movie “Big Daddy.”   While not originally intended to serve as a thought provoking allegory for problems faced by the Federal government, the movie has some interesting metaphors for United States Immigration Policy. The movie focuses on Sonny, played by Adam Sandler, whose girlfriend, played by the rare Hollywood conservative Kristy Swanson, dumps him because she does not think he has stepped up to the plate and embraced adulthood; citing his decision to live off a court settlement rather than look for a real job.   Not long after he gets dumped, a five-year old boy named Julian shows up at Sonny’s apartment.   The boy’s mother can no longer take care of him and she sent to him to Sonny’s apartment so he could live with Sonny’s roommate, the boy’s biological father, who has just embarked on an overseas trip.   Initially hesitant to take care of the child, Sonny thinks that introducing Julian to his girl...

While Ann Coulter and maybe even President Trump could probably write a whole piece on the consequences of not putting America first, I will instead choose to write about the consequences the Trump Administration has faced for putting America first, or in some cases, simply trying to. For many years, politicians in both parties have effectively worked to put America last; whether it’s by propping up China on the world stage, which only accelerated the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs overseas, supporting an immigration policy that does not take the country’s national interest into consideration but pleases big business, or signing onto international agreements that undermine our national sovereignty.   Hoping to set a different course for the nation, President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, which required the United States to start implementing “greener” energy sources in the very near future while letting the world’s biggest ...

Earlier this month, Miss America announced that it would no longer hold swimsuit competitions or evening gown beginning with this year’s competition; which will take place on September 9 in Atlantic City .   Instead, the contestants will walk on stage in clothing that “makes them feel confident, expresses their personal style, and shows how they hope to advance the role of Miss America .”   The plan to scrub the swimsuit competition would obviously fail if all of the women agreed that bikinis “make them feel confident.” The contestants will participate in a back-and-forth with the judges focusing on highlighting “her achievements and goals in life and how she will use her talents, passion, and ambition to perform the role of Miss America .”   If people wanted to watch a Talent show, they would tune into “ America ’s Got Talent” or the “X-Factor.”   The free market will ultimately decide the fate of Miss America .   Those who hope to see beautiful wome...

Over the years, the Democratic Party has worked to assemble a loyal coalition, which consists of feminists, minority grievance groups, immigration activists, younger voters, Academia, Hollywood , and the media.   Fox News Contributor and Syndicated Columnist Charles Krauthammer, who recently penned a letter indicating that he will soon succumb to cancer, pointed this out on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” last year as he made the point that Democrats do not have overarching ideas; they instead have constituencies.   They hope that appealing to all of their individual constituencies will help them reach the magic number of 270 electoral votes in Presidential elections.   The new Democratic coalition looks a bit different from the New Deal Coalition that helped the Democrats win all but two of the Presidential Elections from 1932 to 1968.      Dick Morris described the New Democratic Coalition a slightly different way when describing President Obama’s camp...