Eric Shaffer
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Eric Shaffer is the host of The Lone Conservative podcast at Lone Conservative and an intern at MRCTV. He is a Finance major at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and plans to attend law school after he graduates for criminal law.

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Eric Schaffer | July 11, 2019
  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MI) spoke at Thursday’s social media summit at the White House, and he was not happy. “The media says… ‘Oh, there’s no censorship in social media. That’s all made up, that’s all fake.’ You and I know that that’s not true,” Hawley said, continuing, “The social media giants would love to shut us down, they would love to shut us up… and we can’t let them.” Hawley…
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Eric Schaffer | July 11, 2019
President Trump had announced some weeks ago that he would be delaying ICE raids on illegal immigrants whose deportations had been ordered - but now a new report claims the operation has been renewed and will start Sunday. "As always, ICE prioritizes the arrest and removal of unlawfully present aliens who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security,” an ICE spokesman…
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Eric Schaffer | July 11, 2019
  Freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been on a crusade against ICE, the agency tasked with enforcing the immigration laws of the United States. While she hasn’t dropped that position yet, she now has a new agency in her sites which she hopes to abolish: The Department of Homeland Security. When appearing on The New Yorker Radio Hour with David Remnick, AOC…
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Eric Schaffer | July 11, 2019
State fairs are always a fun time. They give a sense of community, allowing people to transcend everyday politics and worries so they may come together as fellow statesmen and enjoy themselves. That is unless you live in Illinois. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the band Confederate Railroad has been “barred from performing at an Illinois state fair because of its use of the Confederate…
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Eric Schaffer | July 10, 2019
After a mass shooting at a Virginia Beach municipal building in May, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) called for a special session to take place in the Virginia General Assembly to debate and vote upon new gun control legislation. Going in, it was wholly obvious that opinions on the new spate of legislation would be divided upon party lines. Speaker of the House Kirk Cox said that…
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Eric Schaffer | July 9, 2019
Gun buyback programs: a paragon of success. One need only look to Australia to see the effects of such a program on full display, where only… an estimated 20% of banned firearms were actually handed over to the government, according to Franz Csaszar, a professor of criminology at the University of Vienna… huh. Well, surely New Zealand will have a better go of it! After a tragic, vile…
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Eric Schaffer | July 9, 2019
Alyssa Milano, the intellectual who in no way has ever said anything which would make one question her intelligence, had a brilliant idea on Sunday.  The successful actress took to Twitter to say that Jeb Bush should — wait for it — run for President: If were @JebBush, I’d seriously be considering a run. — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) July 7, 2019 Personally, the amount of memes a…
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Eric Schaffer | July 9, 2019
The even-tempered Mike Pence, who has largely avoided many of America’s most divisive and toxic political debates, had some words yesterday for those who seek to “[cheapen] as a cliché” the Holocaust. “[W]e must never allow the memory of those lost in the Holocaust to be cheapened as a cliché to advance some left-wing political narrative,” Pence said. “But sadly, in recent weeks, that’s…