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Articles by James P. Pinkerton

Pinkerton: The Real Battle of 2020: Who Votes, and Who Counts

On the front page of the August 24 edition of The Washington Post, the headline was, “More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall.” 

In this May 17, 2016, file photo, ballots are prepared for counting at Multnomah County el

Pinkerton: Riot Reality Is Biting the Democrats  

The fact is, Joe Biden is going to have to speak for himself on the key issue of keeping the streets of America safe. And that’s a reality that threatens to really bite the Democrats over the next ten weeks. 

KENOSHA, WI - AUGUST 24: A man looks over caution tape during a second night of rioting on

Pinkerton: The Return of the San Francisco Democrats

The Democratic Party’s presumptive vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is the ultimate San Francisco Democrat, representing the “woke” left-libertarianism of a place where everything is tolerated except for conservatism and where Silicon Valley’s plutocrats are free to enrich themselves insulated from the deplorable riffraff they despise.

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Pinkerton: Ten Things that Will Happen in a Biden Presidency

If Trump campaigners are truly in it to win it, they will have to start defining Joe Biden—and doing it in a most tangible way, so that Americans can truly get a sense of what an actual Biden presidency would be like.

FORT DODGE, IA - JANUARY 21: Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe

Pinkerton: In Defense of Andrew Jackson

The would-be statue-topplers know little or nothing about Andrew Jackson, the war hero who defended the nation with courage and resolve.

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Pinkerton: In Defense of Police Unions

It seems that virtually all the groups on the political spectrum—conservatives, libertarians, liberals, and progressives—are converging together to crush police unions. And that’s a shame, because the rights of policemen and women, as workers, should be fully defended.

New York Police Benevolent Association President Mike OMeara and representatives from othe

Pinkerton: Chinese Propagandist Meddles in American Politics

Weihua Chen seems happy to advertise his journalistic credentials without worrying about the credentialing outfits asking him to return his honorific certificates. And if that silence continues to be the case, well, that says something about Knight, WPI, and Freedom Forum. Moreover, there’s nothing stopping any journalist from criticizing Chen, an obvious propagandist in their midst. But will they do so?

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Pinkerton: The Emergence of Hawleynomics 

Americans who have grown weary of globalism might wish to spend more time considering an emerging new center-right alternative to failure: Hawleynomics.

Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., pauses during a Senate Arm