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The Unreported Economic Boom, and Why Elon is Wrong about the Big Beautiful Bill
Is the world's richest man wrong to demand more cuts? Heck no: federal spending is a disgrace. But his argument misses the bigger picture.
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Ordo Amoris: Should We Love Some People More Than Others?
Many of today's leftist talking points are an inversion of Christian doctrine, intended to manipulate our compassion to advance sinful ends.
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Birthright Citizenship: Rod Debates a Yale Law Professor
Rod Martin vs. Prof. Cristina Rodriguez: Does the 14th Amendment require that every individual born in America be entitled to U.S. citizenship, and if…
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The Case Against Birthright Citizenship: A Constitutional and National Imperative
Trump is right: "birthright citizenship" isn't required by the Constitution, no matter how many pundits tell you otherwise. And it's being badly abused.
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Entitlement Fraud Is Now a Stated Aim of the Democrat Party
Democrats have finally said the quiet part out loud, as they have before on Socialism, open borders, and censorship: the fraud is exactly the part of…
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J.D. Vance, and Why Progressive Christians Hate the Doctrine of “Ordered Loves”
The Vice President takes Progressive Evangelicals to church on basic Christian teachings. Their teaching is political, not Biblical.
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ChatGPT Is Just a Fancy Calculator: Why AI Is Going to Create More Jobs, Not Less
Productivity and economic growth are a tide that lifts all boats, whether we're talking about agricultural machinery or artificial intelligence.
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The Case Against Birthright Citizenship: A Constitutional and National Imperative
Trump is right: "birthright citizenship" isn't required by the Constitution, no matter how many pundits tell you otherwise. And it's being badly abused.
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Rod Martin's Keynote at the National "Pirate Money" Legislative Summit
The Biblical roots of American liberty, growing Anglosphere totalitarianism, the power of lesser magistrates to oppose tyranny, the Information Theory…
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Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It
Too frequently, government intervention hurts those it is intended to help.
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A Universal Basic Income Would Engorge the Paternal State
A UBI would quickly become the mechanism of central control. It would also create legions of human house cats.
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The Rod Martin Report: April 14, 2018
You can read about the world anywhere. You read The Rod Martin Report to understand it.
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