AuthorR. Cort Kirkwood

Harvard Crimson: Search Committee Did Not Vet Gay’s Scholarship Before Hiring

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) On the heels of the latest revelation that another diversity officer at Harvard University plagiarized her doctoral thesis, the school now faces the unpleasant task of explaining why the search committee that hired former president Claudine Gay — forced to resign after her plagiarism was revealed — did not check her scholarship. The latest blow to the...

Heritage Oversight Project: Biden, Leftists Rigging 2024 Election

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) On March 7, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the innocuously titled “Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting.” But it wasn’t so innocuous after all. For the last three years, the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reports, federal bureaucrats have worked with radical leftists to rig the 2024 election, most likely with a massive ballot-harvesting...

Judge Rules That Penny Trial Will Proceed, Rejects Motion to Dismiss Charges

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By R Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Daniel Penny will stand trial for second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide for saving subway riders from a homicidal maniac about to go on a rampage.  A judge in Manhattan rejected Penny’s motion to dismiss the charges filed by Democrat prosecutor Alvin Bragg, one of the many prosecutors backed by Hungarian...

Chinese Billionaire Lands on List of Top 100 U.S. Landowners

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) A Chinese communist billionaire who admires mass-murderer Mao Zedong has joined the Top 100 landowners in the United States. Of course, Tianqiao Chen didn’t buy almost 200,000 acres of pristine America in his own name, or that of the Chinese Communist Party of which he is a dutiful member. Rather, he acquired it in the name of his investment...

Biden Admin to Remove William Penn Statue From Park at Independence Hall, Replace With Indian History Lesson

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Not satisfied with erasing the memory of the Confederacy and its heroes by renaming anything and everything under Defense Department control that honored Southern heroes, the Biden administration has moved on to erasing the history of American whites in general. Last week, the National Park Service (NPS) announced that it would remove a statue...

The Motive for Haley’s Civil War Question: To Prove That Republicans Are Bigots

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Courtesy of an obvious plant for the Democrats or a GOP rival who appeared at Nikki Haley’s recent town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, the new gotcha question for GOP political candidates is this: “What caused the Civil War?” And as Haley just learned, any answer but “slavery” will blow up like a plugged Confederate Howitzer at Vicksburg. And so the former...

Laddybuck NR Editor, Who Doesn’t Know What He Doesn’t Know, Smears Buchanan

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R. Cort Kirkwood My late dear friend and mentor Howard Phillips, one of the few conservatives who went broke because he didn’t sell out to Conservatism Inc., gave me the following advice: “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance.” We must therefore not be angry with a young conservative you’ve never heard of, Jack Butler, who recently suggested at National Review that Pat...

We Heard the Chimes at Midnight (On Friendship)

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By Wayne Allensworth In Act 3, Scene 2 of King Henry IV, part II, Shakespeare’s grand comic knave, Falstaff, reminisces about old times with his friend Justice Shallow, particularly a memorable night more than 50 years in the past.  They recall a woman, Jane Nightwork, who, like Falstaff and Shallow, has fallen victim to advancing age, as time flows on, and the chimes will eventually toll for the...

Why We Need the Death Penalty: Manson Murderess Released From Prison

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) If you want to know why the California Supreme Court’s ruling in 1972 that temporarily stopped the death penalty was such a disaster not only for crime victims but also for justice itself, the state’s Second District Court of Appeal has provided some insight. The court has freed Leslie Van Houten, who murdered Leno and Rosemary LaBianca on August 9, 1969...

Durham Report Shows Hate-Trump Bias Inside FBI

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Despite the leftist mainstream media’s best effort to hide the truth about the hate-Trump Russia Collusion Hoax hatched by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign team, the truth surfaced thanks to the investigation and prosecutions of Special Counsel John Durham. Clinton torpedoes paid for British spy Christopher Steele to manufacture his famous...

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