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Erik Rush

Erik Rush is a New York-born columnist, author and speaker who writes sociopolitical commentary, and host of the FULL-CONTACT With Erik Rush LIVE! streaming radio show. He is also the Founder and Chief Editor of the Instigator News Network. In February of 2007, Erik was the first to break the story of Barack Obama’s ties to militant Chicago preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright on a national level. His book, "Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal ~ America's Racial Obsession," has been called "the definitive book on race politics in America."

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In these last days before the general election – one which some fear may be the last election we have as a free and united republic – I’d like to examine the political lay of the land, as it were, as well as continuing my ongoing assessment of the character of …

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Over the last couple of months, I’ve focused on some of the philosophical fundamentals particular to leftism, and how these have played into the dramatic social upheaval and civil unrest we’ve seen in recent months. On Sept. 2, I began with a discussion around how liberalism has always been the soft …

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Taking into account the criminal deportment of congressional Democrats over the last four years (one could reasonably argue for more) and the disgraceful confirmation process attendant to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018, it was a foregone conclusion that these Democrats would vigorously …

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Just a few weeks after the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and we’ve had a lovely object lesson illustrating the difference in character between those on the political left and, well, everybody else. Despite standing in stark opposition to everything Ginsburg stood for, numerous politicos and pundits …

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When it rains, it pours, I suppose. As if we didn’t have enough quasi-prophetic plagues descending upon us to start with, the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg late last week has provided yet more opportunity for deep contention in the political realm. Unfortunately, “deep contention” these days …

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“We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded [as the military].” – Barack Obama, 2008 If Hillary Clinton had been elected as our president in 2016 and was seeking reelection in November, George Floyd would probably still have met …

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Last week in this space, I illustrated how liberalism has been nothing more than the soft-socialist wedge radical leftists have used over the last several decades to incrementally advance a megalithic socialist state. Further, that our 50 years of employing tolerance, fair play, guarded rhetoric and capitulating to liberal demands …

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Once upon a time, I wrote a regular column for the local Gannett fishwrap of record, having been recommended to the editor by the man who’d recently become our city’s mayor and abandoned his writing slot to avoid any conflicts of interest. Several years ago, I got kicked off of …

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For those who saw the advances in national policy, prevailing attitudes and the level of hope among Americans that came out of the Civil Rights Movement despite the collective pain it took to arrive there, it is profoundly sad to witness the ginned-up civil unrest we are currently experiencing, as …

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With one exception, the wars in which the United States has engaged since its inception involved our nation against one or more external adversaries. That exception, the American Civil War (1861-1865), still elicits an emotional response among our citizens due to the inherent tragedy connected to a nation at war …