Athena Thorne

2 weeks ago | lucianne.com | Athena Thorne

Original ArticlePosted By: ConservativeYankee, 4/4/2025 5:18:00 PMRemember how, after the September 11, 2001, attacks, the shock of a massive, deadly assault on our homeland was followed by the secondary shock of learning that a large chunk of the Muslim world had long been at war with us? And we hadn't even known it? That's what's happening now in the aftermath of Trump's Liberation Day declaration. He wisely called his new import duties regimen "Reciprocal Tariffs," because that's what they are.

2 weeks ago | pjmedia.com | Athena Thorne

Remember how, after the September 11, 2001, attacks, the shock of a massive, deadly assault on our homeland was followed by the secondary shock of learning that a large chunk of the Muslim world had long been at war with us? And we hadn't even known it? That's what's happening now in the aftermath of Trump's Liberation Day declaration. He wisely called his new import duties regimen "Reciprocal Tariffs," because that's what they are.

3 weeks ago | pjmedia.com | Athena Thorne

I never used to imagine myself a populist. The product of prestigious Northeastern schools and mindset, lauded for childhood accomplishments, I probably fit the cultural mold of an elitist more than anything else. I was born an instinctive Republican/libertarian, though, and the more I was exposed to the Marxist left (especially as an undergrad at Columbia U), the harder I turned right. But like most of you reading this, I was gradually disillusioned by the establishment Republican party.

1 month ago | pjmedia.com | Athena Thorne

In 2016 and 2017, the left vented its shock and fury at Donald Trump's unexpected victory by, among other things, protesting the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota. The "mainstream" media claimed that Energy Transfer was ramming its Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) through all sorts of sacred Native American lands and that no one wanted it.

1 month ago | pjmedia.com | Athena Thorne

Don't misunderstand me: I am thrilled with the new administration and especially the meat cleaver known as DOGE. I am a taxpayer and a conservative, and there is so much wrong with how much money the federal establishment has squandered for decades to promote and commit policies to which I am diametrically opposed and by which I am profoundly offended — some of which are even outright illegal.