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Posts by Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: How to get involved in party politics

Directly voting for a candidate places a lot of responsibility on the individual voter, especially in down-ballot races that don’t have advertising budgets. Down-ballot races are often decided by chance, where variables such as ballot position, name length, pronounceability, gender, and other factors play a big role.  

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Who really won the Cold War?

Post-Cold War Marxism has returned as a theoretical paradise, complete with catchy t-shirts and slogans proving one is part of the group. A recent survey suggests 62% of American adults under age 30 have a “favorable” view of socialism. Let that sink in. Only 33 years after the Cold War, the majority of young Americans polled had a “favorable” view of socialism.

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Iran, nukes, and downtown Montgomery

Nuclear weapons are in a destructive category of their own. For example, if Iran targeted our State Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., with a crude nuclear weapon, the fireball at the center of the blast would vaporize everything for roughly three city blocks in each direction.

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: America's parallels with the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Unfortunately, there are obvious parallels between the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution and the past two decades in America. But luckily, we didn’t suffer as much as the Chinese because our representative republic held together, continuing to reject the cultural Marxism peddled by modern Democrats.

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Why entertainers should stay out of politics

Let Canada serve as a lesson. The government we elect must continue to fight for our way of life. If we let down our guard, someone will try to destroy everything we’ve built in our great state and country.

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Why is college so expensive?

According to U.S. News and World Report, college tuition and fees at private national universities have increased 112% in the last 20 years. Public national universities didn’t fare much better, with a 107% increase for in-state and a 98% increase for out-of-state over the same period. 

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Denmark’s folly

Why is the Danish social Democrat prime minister determined to undermine a good relationship with the United States over an island in the Northern Hemisphere that’s inhabited by a population that doesn’t want to be Danish?

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Is Europe a bad partner?

After decades of poor EU policies, and in line with America's revised national security strategy and trade policies, Alabama should make every effort to attract additional European businesses.

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Prince Harry and the original 'No Kings' movement

Don't get upset by leftist name calling. No Kings proponents are just the latest self-proclaimed defenders of democracy temporarily interrupting your day if you’re unfortunate enough to drive past one of their gaggles or read their name in a headline. Nothing more.

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Democratic socialists are simply socialists

Fortunately for us, the majority of the world’s workers rejected Marx and chose not to fight for the false utopia peddled by the communists. Unfortunately for us, empirical failures haven’t dissuaded contemporary Marxists from selling and reselling disproven snake oil.

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Are you a Fascist?

Similar to Marx, Gentile used the terms fascism and socialism interchangeably in the manifesto. If you take an hour or two to read the original “Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals” and “The Doctrine of Fascism,” you’ll quickly conclude that references to Republicans being fascists are absurd.

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Dr. Tobias Vogt von Heselholt: Stop saying democracy

If you’re a Republican, you need to stop using the word democracy. That’s because the term doesn’t mean what you think it does.