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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Hunter DeRensis |Joseph Addington
Politics
Trump Should Revive Jacksonian Military Attitudes
The worship of military technocrats underwrites American failures abroad.
During his first term in office, Donald Trump adorned the Oval Office with a portrait of our seventh president, Andrew Jackson. And for four years, Trump praised the precedent Jackson set as a populist and as a spirited fighter.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Hunter DeRensis
Politics
What Does It Mean to Be 'America First'?
Prominent columnist Josh Hammer is mistaken to argue that the term “America First” is a mere “basic analytical prism” that can be interpreted at face value.
What’s in a name? That’s the question Newsweek’s editor-at-large Josh Hammer pondered in an op-ed last week, examining the foreign policy of Donald Trump’s first term and recommending which direction he should continue in a second.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Hunter DeRensis
The World Doesn’t Owe You a Thing by | Jan 22, 2024A huge drawback to social media is this: I'm not sure I really want everybody's opinions on every last thing, and it's frankly demoralizing to realize just how far gone so many people are. For example, one of my own Twitter followers wrote this: "The idea of having to...
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
antiwar.com | Hunter DeRensis
On the latest episode of Deep Dive, ret. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis spoke with Sgt. Dan McKnight, a former U.S. Marine and Idaho National Guardsman and founder of Bring Our Troops Home. Davis and McKnight discuss the founding of the organization, and why they believe more veterans are becoming involved in the movement to pull back on Washington’s chronic interventionism.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Hunter DeRensis
“You were still reading that book when I walked by three hours ago. It must be a good one.” Sitting outside the cafe, I looked up to see a man strolling by on the sidewalk. I gave him an affirmative smile, and turned my book so he could see the cover. All afternoon on that chilly mid-December day my mind was fully embedded in The Iron Dice of Battle, the first major biography of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston in nearly six decades.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Hunter DeRensis |Rod Dreher
Politics Foreign Affairs Culture Fellows Program Login
History
Epilogue to the Old Right: The Andrews-Werdel Campaign of 1956
The first head of the IRS, who wanted to abolish the income tax, waged an unlikely campaign on behalf of the Taftite remnant.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
antiwar.com | Hunter DeRensis
Prior to his passing on Friday, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg endorsed the work of Bring Our Troops Home, a non-profit led by veterans of the Global War on Terror committed to ending America’s endless wars in the Middle East and Africa. This organization is the spearhead of the Defend the Guard movement. During an October 16, 2020 interview with Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton, Ellsberg said: “We’ve heard so much about – for the last 40 years – support the troops.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Hunter DeRensis
A blatant example of excessive force has come to light as new video evidence reveals that Greensboro police officer Cpl. Matthew Sletten fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Nasanto Crenshaw on August 21, 2022. The video clearly shows that the teen was attempting to flee and posed no immediate threat. Despite the harrowing footage, District Attorney Avery Crump has decided that the officer will not face charges in the shooting.
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Mar 18, 2023 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Hunter DeRensis
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress by Hunter DeRensis | Mar 18, 2023 On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W.
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Feb 15, 2023 | 
responsiblestatecraft.org | Hunter DeRensis
On Super Bowl Sunday, over 113 million people tuned in live to watch the Philadelphia Eagles face off against the Kansas City Chiefs on the gridiron. When the third most watched television event of all time ended, those millions took to social media to complain about the anticlimactic holding penalty that concluded the game. But others went to social media to object to the opening of the Super Bowl — the invocation of the late Pat Tillman.
