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To my fellow Republicans

Jeffrey Murphy | Wednesday, April 17, 2019

During my freshman year at Notre Dame, I was hesitant about advocating for Republican principles despite my resolute commitment to political conservatism. Trying to have a political conversation with other students was like trying to perform a gymnastics routine across a field of land mines. It was easier to just keep my mouth shut. Then

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The biggest scam in sports history

Jeffrey Murphy | Monday, April 1, 2019

Few athletes have dominated their sport like Monica Seles dominated women’s tennis. During the height of her career, she was considered virtually unbeatable. In 1990, at the age of only 16, Seles became the youngest ever champion of the French Open. In just a two-year period (from early 1991 to early 1993), Seles amassed a

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The fashion of politics: From holy to heinous

Jeffrey Murphy | Wednesday, March 6, 2019

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”  — Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel Holy: Melania Trump If I were to ever see the Virgin Mary in person, I imagine she would look something like Melania Trump on the day of her husband’s inauguration. I didn’t sleep for three days thinking about

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The devil wears a MAGA hat

Jeffrey Murphy | Monday, February 25, 2019

“The fake news media is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People.” — President Trump “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” — Malcolm X “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do

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Ocasio-Cortez’s policy knowledge lacks substance

Jeffrey Murphy | Monday, February 11, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is like a massive train wreck — so hard to watch, yet you cannot look away. Watching her attempt to answer even elementary questions is like watching Paula Abdul try to stay awake during an episode of “American Idol” — I’m on the edge of my seat wondering if today is the day

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In defense of the wall

Jeffrey Murphy | Monday, January 28, 2019

“I want it to be as hard to get into the United States as it was to get out of East Germany,” Ann Coulter has said (God is a woman, after all). Throughout the month-long government shutdown, Democrats anchored their opposition to the border wall in two central points: walls don’t work and it would

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Gay marriage? Love loses.

Jeffrey Murphy | Thursday, November 15, 2018

“A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.” – the late-Justice Scalia, in dissent June 26, 2015 should have been one of the greatest days in American history (right behind November 8, 2016). For literally thousands of years, same-sex

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Give me PornHub or give me death

Jeffrey Murphy | Thursday, November 1, 2018

“[I]t is the state — not free speech — that has been the oppressor of women. It was the state, not pornography, that burned women as witches. It was 18th and 19th century law, not pornography, that defined women as chattel … 20th century laws that refused to recognized rape within marriage … It is the state,

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Justice-to-be Kavanaugh

Jeffrey Murphy | Friday, October 5, 2018

Disclaimer When I first sat down to begin writing this column, I harbored animus toward Christine Blasey Ford. I wasn’t even alive when Anita Hill accused Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual assault, yet I was somehow having flashbacks to watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that plagued his ultimately successful nomination to the Supreme Court

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Christian bakers and (fabulous!) gay wedding cakes

Jeffrey Murphy | Friday, September 7, 2018

This past June, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in the infamous Masterpiece Cakeshop case. For those who are not familiar with the case, it involves a Christian baker in Colorado who refused to provide a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission imposed a series of penalties

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