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Commentary: How Conservatives Can Protect the Environment and Win Voters, Too

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Conservatives need to do a better job on the environment. That seems like a controversial thing to say, because usually when you hear a conservative speak positively about an issue closely identified with liberalism, it is the precursor to a sellout of conservative principles. How many times have you read an essay claiming to make “the conservative case” for some profoundly anti-conservative project like voting for Hillary Clinton or government-run healthcare?

Sen. Hawley Calls Facebook’s Conservative Bias Audit A ‘Smokescreen’

August 22, 2019August 21, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Facebook’s critics were not persuaded after the company revealed its long-awaited audit Tuesday into whether the Silicon Valley giant is biased against conservatives.

Professor Finds Lower College GPAs Among Conservatives Compared to Liberals

July 30, 2019July 29, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Research finds that conservatives on average earn higher GPAs and test scores in high school, but ultimately receive lower GPAs in college when compared to their liberal classmates, at least partly due to liberal ideological bias. This grade discrepancy is even more evident in the humanities and social sciences, as compared to the more objective STEM fields.

Commentary: Who Is for Middle America?

July 17, 2019July 16, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Pedro Gonzalez The late Edward Abbey, an irascible and irreverent American environmentalist, took aim at the immigration ideologues in terms still relevant for our time: “The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.” In other words, if the Republican Party and the Democratic Party…

Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Changes Are Laying Waste to Conservative and Liberal Outlets

July 15, 2019July 14, 2019 Admin

by Chris White Facebook recently changed its algorithms to steer focus away from explicitly political content, but now that alteration is laying waste to conservative and liberal outlets. Conservative pundit Deneen Borelli laid into Facebook last week, telling her followers on July 9 that the company’s bias against conservatives…

Commentary: A Conservative Resistance?

June 15, 2019June 14, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Angelo Codevilla Leftists in America treat conservative voters, elected officials, and policies as illegitimate. Should conservative Americans return the favor? Could they? Few outside the corporate leftist media took seriously Hillary Clinton’s accusation that Donald Trump might refuse to accept defeat in the 2016 election. Though Americans’ sociopolitical divisions…

Commentary: Bible Verses Now ‘Unsafe’ on Social Media

June 14, 2019June 13, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by CHQ Staff Our friend James O’Keefe and his team at Project Veritas have obtained a massive “Sensitive Terms List” from a Pinterest insider, which revealed the social media giant manipulates search results for “Bible verses,” “Christian Easter,” and other Christian terms. The terms on the list are marked…

Trump’s Campaign Considers Creating a New Account on a Conservative Version of Twitter

May 29, 2019May 28, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Chris White President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign may create a profile on what is being called the conservative version of Twitter, Politico reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source inside the president’s campaign. “It’s something he’s aware of and is checking out,” a senior Trump campaign official told Politico,…

Judson Phillips Commentary: Crisis Management for Dummy Conservatives

May 12, 2019May 11, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Judson Phillips In the age of Trump, something has become obvious. The news media is the enemy of conservatives. Across Tennessee and the nation, we see the liberal media attack conservatives with the single objective of destroying the conservative. Why shouldn’t the left wing media attack conservatives? After…

Twitter Meets with Conservatives for Input on Social Media Practices

January 11, 2019January 10, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Evie Fordham Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hosted dinners to pick the brains of conservative leaders, including Grover Norquist, about criticism over content policing or lack thereof, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, told TheWSJ he asked for help for…

Commentary: Democrat Excess Leads to New and Improved Trump in 2019

January 1, 2019December 31, 2018 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Jeffrey A. Rendall Predictions. It’s what New Year’s is all about. It goes without saying that 2018 was full of surprises. Heading into this year Republican majorities in both houses of Congress had just passed a massive reorganization of the federal tax code, including a sizeable tax cut…

Commentary: Fighting Democrats Dirty Politics

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Karin McQuillan The midterms are in the rearview mirror and the chattering classes are back to debating fake collusion with Russia and a looming indictment of the president. Before the midterms, Republican voters were told this election was consequential. After the midterms, we’re told it is just one…

Commentary: Don’t Listen to Conservative Quitters

December 8, 2018December 8, 2018 Admin

by Brandon J. Weichert Ann Coulter thinks Donald J. Trump will be the last Republican president ever. She might be right. In fact, in my darkest moments, I have feared as much. After all, there hasn’t been a Republican like Trump in more than a generation—and there aren’t any…

Google CEO to Testify Before Congress to Discuss Allegations of Conservative Censorship

November 30, 2018November 29, 2018 Admin

by Evie Fordham Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 5 to answer questions about the company’s possible political bias, the committee announced. “Americans put their trust in big tech companies to honor freedom of speech and champion open dialogue, and it is Congress’ responsibility to the…

Commentary: Fight the Denigration of American History

November 17, 2018November 17, 2018 Admin

by Michael Finch American history is everywhere under attack. The recent skirmishes started with the campaign to remove Confederate statues, but it surely won’t end there. As our betters in America’s universities want us to know, the whole of American history is suspect. In our media, in the popular…

Commentary: Why is America Divided?

November 11, 2018November 10, 2018 Admin

by Martin Cothran In one sense political divisiveness has always been with us. The United States was birthed in political animosity. If you doubt it, go read about the contention between figures such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, or between Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. And, of course, there…

MSNBC’s Toure Neblett Calls Conservatives Anti-Media, Anti-Intellectual and Anti-Science Conspiracy Theorists

October 29, 2018October 29, 2018 Admin

by Nick Givas MSNBC contributor Toure Neblett called conservatives “anti-media, anti-intellectual and anti-science” and accused them of believing in conspiracy theories on Up With David Gura Saturday. Neblett was discussing conservatives’ reactions to suspected mail bomber Cesar Syoc Jr., who was arrested Friday on suspicion of sending 12 potential explosive devices to…

Why Conservatives Can’t Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa)

October 14, 2018October 14, 2018 Admin

by Jon Miltimore It’s probably important to preface any conversation on morality by noting that humans often struggle—mightily—to agree on what morality is. While it’s a thorny topic to define and explain, it would, of course, be foolish to avoid the pursuit of moral truths for this reason. Jonathan Haidt,…

Commentary: Democrats About to Discover Conservatives’ Angst That Lies Beneath

October 12, 2018October 11, 2018 Admin

by Jeffrey A. Rendall There’s mystery in what lies beneath. Or at least it’s true in conservative Republican circles, since the average citizen doesn’t go around shrieking, clutching offensive and abusive signs, disrupting formal government functions or carrying on like a spoiled five-year-old kindergartner who won’t lay down at…