Opinion
Commentary and editorials from The Rightist.
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Voter ID is on five ballots today. Notice who stopped arguing against it.
Eighty-three percent of Americans back photo ID to vote, Democratic nominees in Nevada and Ohio have stopped fighting it, and only California is still paying to keep it out.
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Tuesday was a rejection of MAGA, not of conservatism
Voters punished tariffs and a war they never asked for. Republicans who read that as a verdict on free markets will lose again.
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Brussels Eyes Europe’s Savings
How Brussels is turning household savings into an instrument of public policy.
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Socialism Part 2 of 3 : The Verdict of History
From the Soviet famine to Venezuela today, the historical ledger of socialist economics is written in shortages, collapse, and people fleeing.
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DHS is winning the border and losing the argument about it
A think tank says deportations fall short of a million a year and DHS says fake news, but both are arguing over the back door while the front one is shut.
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Part 1 of 3: Why Socialism Fails Before It Even Begins
One of the strongest arguments against socialism is not moral but informational: no planner can know what markets know.
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Washington’s 3.6% raise for seniors is a receipt, not a gift
The new Social Security COLA and the $90 Medicare check paper over an inflation problem Washington created and a 2032 cliff it refuses to face.
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Economists: Billionaire tax would hurt, not help, California
(The Center Square) – Economists told The Center Square this week that California’s billionaire tax proposal could undermine the economy, impacting both the income taxpayers can make and reducing the state’s tax base by as much as $5 billion to $7 billion.
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Why Common-Sense Conservatism Still Wins
The principles don’t need a rebrand. They need a megaphone.