Peter Merkl
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 19, 2026
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- Jul 25, 2026
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The Democrats have end-stage TDS (opens the original)
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The Democrats’ deranged hatred of Trump has driven them to reveal their true, socialist selves, and they’ll happily destroy America if it means destroying Trump. Q: How many socialists does it take to change a lightbulb? Socialism is a joke, and everyone knows it. So, conservative cable news (which is to say, Fox News) needs to stop putting “socialism doesn’t work” on an endless loop. Everyone knows it’s never worked and never will. Working-class people know that a ‘59 Chevy Bel Air is considere
A Deplorable reads The New York Times (opens the original)
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Having bitten the bullet, because you should always know your opposition, I’ve found a closed and very boring leftist ecosystem. The New York Times is such a closed, smug system that it simply renders its readers unconscious. The Left’s Clouseau-like confidence in their mad ideas is a bottomless source of amazement to those of us who’ve read books not written by J.K. Rowling. With the flat affect of a burned-out life insurance salesman, they rattle off civilization-extinguishing ideas like aboli
The civilization that mistook animals for people (opens the original)
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A societal disaster of slavery’s scale inevitably leads us to wonder if we, too, might be blindly participating in a catastrophic moral failure of our own. It’s the question that haunted Mark Twain: How did the Christianity-drenched antebellum South come to regard slavery as “right, righteous, sacred, the peculiar pet of the Deity, and a condition which the slave himself ought to be daily and nightly thankful for”? How could Twain’s fine friends and neighbors collude in a “lie of silent assertio
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