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December 16, 2024
Could Russia destabilize itself?The recent collapse of Syria provides stark evidence that our intelligence apparatus doesn't know what it's paid to know, nor can it be counted on to provide reliable, actionable advice early enough to avoid surprises. You might belie...
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December 10, 2024
Trump's second term is shaping up to be different from his firstPresident Trump’s Wild Bunch returning to power signals not just a change in leadership but a focus on substance over style. If we use his first-term performance as a gauge to measure what to expect in his second term, we can see that ...
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November 23, 2024
Not Retribution — Truth and Reconciliation is the Way ForwardThe Apartheid government of South Africa fell in 1995. The country faced an existential question: How to reconcile the two sides in such a way that blacks got the justice they believed they deserved without destroying the economic hear...
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November 16, 2024
Trump Will Have Two Years to Run Wild -- and Then What?In the worst sneak attack we'd ever faced, Japan took us by surprise on Dec. 7, 1941. The nation's mood then was universally anti-war, with the sentiment to stay out of Europe and not get involved in another foreign war. On ...
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November 8, 2024
Chicken Kiev: Biden is to blame for the carnage in UkraineThe Russia-Ukraine war is a useless waste of life unless you value freedom and the individual even more. Some 728,000 Russians are dead or injured, and many Ukrainians, mostly civilians, have met a similar fate. According to an esti...
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October 30, 2024
Bad Bunny who?The level of trash-talking nonsense in this election has been over the top. Nothing I've heard in the last six months is more bogus than the introduction of the "Bad Bunny" factor this week. Hundreds of articles were p...
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October 26, 2024
The Anxiety ElectionI read an Economist editorial that highlighted Canadians' concerns about their economy, farm sector, immigration policy, and other things affected by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's uber-progressive leadership. The piece suggested th...
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October 16, 2024
Featherbedding: What's Old is New AgainWith the labor participation rate near its lowest point of all time (outside of COVID's lockdowns) at 62.7%, too few of us work today; therefore, we should all be friends of labor. My hat's off to any union member, non-union worker, or ...
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October 1, 2024
When A Society Lacks ConvictionIt's an unfortunate reality that millions of Americans lack convictions founded in logic, reason, and history, instead relying on feelings as their primary touchstone. They seek out misinformation sources that aligns with their emotional...
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September 26, 2024
War is Unavoidable -- and Must Be WonBetween the U.S. and Israel, there's a huge gulf in unity of resolve. At this moment, hundreds of thousands of Israel's citizens are bracing for an all-out war in Lebanon and Gaza, and no one is coming to their rescue. While...
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September 11, 2024
What If 9-11 Happened Today?We're a different America than we were in 2001; seems we're no longer the same country or people. Millions of us are emotionally broken, divided, and led by a post-patriotic administration featuring "joy" over substance and...
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September 7, 2024
Iran is Moving In for the KillJoe Biden and his progressives would sell out their parents. Did you hear him blame Netanyahu for the absence of a ceasefire? The only action that he could take that would bring hostages home (maybe) is to surrender to Hamas. I'...
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August 25, 2024
Can the Dems Run Out the Clock?The presidential race boils down to understanding the reality that the next 45 days, and not Election Day itself, will determine the election. By then, how many undecided voters will have already voted based on Joy and Hope vs. the reality...
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August 18, 2024
What sort of chaos can we expect at the Democrat Convention?The Chicago DNC Convention is on. Comparisons to the last Chicago DNC Convention back in 1968 make Democrats nervous. Convention-goers are being told not to use their real names when checking in for fear of being targeted. ...
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August 16, 2024
'Having it All' Requires Big Government Programs and That's a ProblemFor women, "having it all" was a concept that became mainstream in the '70s and '80s and culminated with the publication of Helen Gurley Brown's 1982 book of the same title. This 1979 ad exemplifies the era: Even then,...
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August 10, 2024
The Next ConflictThe United States has been at a financial, social, and leadership crossroads for at least the last twenty years. Whatever approaches we've used in the past to fix our country have failed. Mistakes we've made are cumulative; ...
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July 25, 2024
Russia vs. American Self-interestAs a conservative writer, I come into contact with a lot of people, many who identify themselves as Republican and conservative. Having been at this for years, I have detected a marked change in how many former Russia haters have altered their ...
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July 17, 2024
A look at Biden's Secret Service chief as a DEI hireKimberly Cheatle has been the Director of the Secret Service for less than two years. She has had a 25-year career with the Service, holding multiple positions until she was appointed by President Biden as its Director in 2022. Based on her ...
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July 16, 2024
Walking Over The Graves of Our HeroesSince 1861, more than 1,350,000 American soldiers have given their lives in defense of our country and what it stands for. A bit less than half of those died in our own American Civil War and settled the fundamental mistake that was slavery....
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July 15, 2024
Exit Stage LeftEvents may have overtaken Biden's now widely known cognitive issues. What you can readily take away from past assassination attempts is the empathy factor. None of the major networks (except Fox) regularly carry Trump rallies. T...
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July 10, 2024
Too Many Rights?Our Constitution worked successfully for almost 200 years until a litany of newly perceived pseudo-rights burst upon the scene, devaluing our core historical rights. How did we transition from a generally accepted interpretation of the Const...
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June 19, 2024
The New York Times Is The Democrat Party’s Mouthpiece and GuardianOur President ostensibly sets the government’s tone, and so does America’s MSM, with The New York Times as its lead dog. The NYT, which calls itself America’s Newspaper of Record, sets the tone for something even more significant th...
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June 13, 2024
Three A.M. And Seven Minutes to Armageddon—Can Biden Be Trusted?If this article doesn't scare you, I doubt anything will. Imagine that Biden is still our president, and it's 3:00 in the morning. Biden is in a deep, drug-assisted slumber to ensure he has the best chance of appearing cognitively normal for ...
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June 8, 2024
Progressive Democrats Fear Deficits More Than Conservatives DoGiven how the Democrats keep piling on the deficit, you’d think they don’t care about it. In fact, they’re more afraid than conservatives of the individual collapse. They know, though, that they just need to last through the electio...
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June 6, 2024
The Monstrous Lie of White PrivilegeThere are errors of omission and errors of commission. When an error rises to the level of intentional misleading, we call it a lie. The currently unassailable concept of some widely held white privilege was and is a deliberate falsehood designed to ...
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June 1, 2024
Bearing Witness To The Downfall Of Our Constitutional RepublicIt’s the middle of the night as I write this, and I’m deeply troubled by Trump’s conviction. Why? Perhaps I’m hyper-partisan, perhaps not. I know I’ll never forget where I was when I heard about his conviction. I knew I...
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May 31, 2024
Sometimes People Aren’t Merely Misguided. They Really Are EvilA difficult concept to explain to ordinary people is that some people and some ideas are unadulterated evil, not just in their implementation but in their conception. Most of us are unfamiliar with evil because we spend much time and effort staying a...
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May 29, 2024
America Is At A Crossroads, With The Wrong Choice Leading To DisasterMost of us cannot evaluate equivocal information, which is essential to project future trends and events—“forwardcasting,” as I call it. In ancient times, we read the entrails of some poor beast or threw a roll of some old bones to ...
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May 22, 2024
The Damaging Modern Cultural Imperative of ‘Compassion’Under the left’s aegis, which values emotion over reason, “compassion” is the highest societal goal. However, as the West’s collapse shows, while compassion has a place in a civilized society, it’s no way to run a countr...
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May 18, 2024
The West’s hostage trapHamas is not unique in taking hostages, although its genocidal fury and the sheer number of hostages seized are unique. In fact, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Afghanistan, China, Syria, Haiti, North Korea, Somalia, the Philippines, and the Palestini...
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May 14, 2024
The Biden Anti-American LegacyNever before has an American president been so physically unstable that he needs an accompanying entourage wherever he walks. That shakiness is a visual metaphor of Biden’s presidency. He represents a departure from previous presidents in being...
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May 12, 2024
Biden and the Democrats denigrate rational fears of unlimited immigrationIf you liked our country the way it was before he arrived on the scene, Biden says you must be xenophobic. It’s obvious that he means it disparagingly when speaking of people who don’t see a virtue in America’s fundamental transform...
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April 30, 2024
Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?The U.S. and its allies keep substantial forces in the region to ensure an ability to intercede when our interests are threatened. It is not possible to leave the area to its own devices. It's only a question of time before we are sucked back in ...
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April 26, 2024
Democrats Have Deliberately Shattered The Ties Binding AmericaThere has never been a more dangerous time in the world than right now. Moreover, great empires can end quickly, as the Soviet Union’s abrupt collapse showed. The lesson we should take away from this monumental historical moment is that nothing...
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March 30, 2024
We Must Have Courage To Take Back Our CountryThe America that I knew regularly performed miracles. We put men on the moon, dug the Panama Canal, invented the atomic bomb, and created the transistor. There was no limit to what we could do. Nothing seemed impossible. Fifty years ago, the seeds...
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March 22, 2024
It’s time to stop accommodating the crazies in AmericaIt should be apparent to all that normal, productive people no longer sit at America’s heart. Instead, our government bows to, and we taxpayers support, all of the fringes, whether economic or social. This is an unsustainable burden for any soc...
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March 18, 2024
American Work Ethic: Missing in Action?We can't continue to be passive as our systems crumble around our feet. Bad things happen when the canaries in the mine start chirping. Boeing, Airbus, and other worldwide aviation companies have execution issues at all levels...
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March 13, 2024
The anti-Israel JewsAs repulsive as Jonathan Glazer was to disavow Israel and Judaism at the Oscars, the worst part is that he’s far from alone. At Sunday’s Oscars, Jonathan Glazer, who directed a movie about the Holocaust, used his moment to reject Jewis...
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February 17, 2024
Delusions or malevolence: The Biden administration’s two-state ‘Palestinian’ solution?Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped over 200 more, many of whom it murdered or let die. Now, the Biden administration is thinking about rewarding Hamas with a state carved out of Israel’s sovereign territory. Only lunacy disconnected...
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February 8, 2024
Democrats should worry that Americans’ five-second attention span is lengtheningAlmost everyone has heard of the Five-Second Rule, which says it never happened if you drop something on the floor and pick it up in less than five seconds. That’s how this world has long worked, especially for Democrat politicians. “Stuf...
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February 6, 2024
Is It Safe To Fly?The government heavily regulates aviation. We used to understand that every piece of knowledge gained was written in blood after something went wrong. We are losing that understanding. See if you agree with me as you read along. On January 5, 2024...
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February 2, 2024
No matter the country, Islamists don’t play well with othersAround Christmas in Nigeria, Muslims killed 140 Christians in accordance with Allah’s commandments in the Quran. You learn that Christians were the victims only in the sixth paragraph of this ABC report story. I recently read “Infidel...
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January 21, 2024
The Dominant Narrative Requires Citizen PassivityThe worst possible outcome, the beginning of the end of our Western Civilization, has already occurred. That’s the bad news. The good news is that we may finally be ready to confront the problem—if only people are willing to push back. ...
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December 18, 2023
Demands For Proportionality Are Meant to Handcuff IsraelLeftists are highly focused on the subject of proportionality in Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas. Relying on dubious casualty statistics from within Gaza, they claim that Israel has gone beyond a “just war” into a “genocida...
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December 8, 2023
The Government Controls You by Lying About Its Policies And LawsMark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” More than one reader has told me that I frighten them and rob them of hope for tom...
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November 26, 2023
A Monstrous Conundrum in the Middle EastRather than be filled with joy that some of the hostages in Israel are released, I’m sick to my stomach at the monstrous nature and sheer audacity of the “deal.” Biden is squarely on the backs of the Israelis, who know be...
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November 22, 2023
The Binary Choice: If Trump Were Our President TodayWhatever your news source, there is a consensus among most that the world is a tinderbox with more chaos and danger than many can recall within their lifetime. Sixty years ago, I grew up during the Cuban Missile Crisis. People were scared...
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November 19, 2023
Is It Time to Pull the Fire Alarm?When I suggest that it’s time to pull the fire alarm, I’m not talking about Representative Bowman, who actually and knowingly committed a crime when he pulled a fire alarm in the Capital to stall a vote of the US Congress (a crime for whi...
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November 18, 2023
Who is Pulling the Puppet Strings?The Nazi rise to power was an aberration in world history. Or was it? Based on recent events, is it impossible to believe we could be re-living 1938 Germany's past? Could we see another Kristallnacht occur in America at a...
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November 1, 2023
When History is Rewritten, Look OutIf I were to describe Iran's hostage crisis, a reader might think I was writing about the 1979 incident when Iran held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days during the Carter administration. But I am writing about the current hostage crisis!...
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October 28, 2023
The Pink Flamingo ScenarioA Pink Flamingo describes a predictable event, or series of events, ignored through the bias of leadership, trapped in their institutional thinking. It differs from Black Swan events, which generally come out of nowhere and are statisticall...
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October 18, 2023
The New World Order is Now Multi-PolarOn May 10 of this year, Vladimir Putin met with fellow members of the Valdai Discussion Club in Russia and shared the following: "The question is much broader and more fundamental: we are talking about the principles on which the new w...
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October 14, 2023
The Cult of Our BettersWhat could be the single overriding thread superseding all others, tying all narratives together? It is that we face a ruling cult with no moral rudder and no identifiable corporate or organizational hierarchy, and that allows it ...
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October 8, 2023
The Blood DealOn Saturday morning at dawn, Hamas, supposedly representing all Palestinian people, invaded Israel, causing widespread panic, mayhem, death, and destruction. No precursor event launched this attack, one of five over the last 25 years....
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October 6, 2023
Could Kevin McCarthy's Ouster Be a Tipping Point?House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster is a symptom of a much broader malaise. Given Republicans’ inability to save our country through legitimate means, i.e., working through the system, will this firing be enough? I hope ...
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October 3, 2023
The Specter of Permanent Democrat RuleWhat would be the most unAmerican goal today's so-called Democrat party is pursuing? It is permanent one-party rule. That's what the New Democrat party is doing by and through its political actions. Democrats have a ...
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September 23, 2023
They Want You DeadSome progressives would be happy to see conservatives dead. Why? Because we strongly question government's role, direction, intent, and motives and resist the control they wish to exert on us. We're an existential threat t...
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September 22, 2023
They’re Pushing Us Because They Assume We Won’t Push BackI’m angry; you will understand why by the time I finish. We are transitioning into what might be called the Post-America period. All the pillars of a free Republic are under attack. Forces are surging from all sides, led by Progressives who ...
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September 18, 2023
The Long Journey to Our MistrustI’m an unabashed, 66-year-old, flag-waving American. That makes me somewhat of a dinosaur in today’s America. I support my country with the understanding that we are neither perfect nor can we control or intervene in every world event tha...
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September 8, 2023
Harbingers of Europe"Let's roll" were the last recorded words from the passengers on Flight 93 on 9/11. "Let's roll" means the die is cast, and our last actions should count for something. With 9/11 just around the corne...
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August 27, 2023
Independent Journalists, the Frontline Workers in the War on TruthTruthful and comprehensive journalism is at the heart of whether we will continue to devolve, or whether we regain our national footing. By their nature, journalists have a platform with the public, and a tremendous ability to influence it; peo...
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August 18, 2023
Domestic Enemies of the Constitution and the American PeopleThe tragedy of September 11th defined President George W. Bush’s first term, but it was also an inflection point that defined the American government. Now, almost 22 years on, our nation still hasn’t recovered from the events of tha...
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August 10, 2023
A Modest Proposal to Defeat the Political ClassIt’s time for a do-over. Like you, I am tired of unkept promises and rampant special interests. Faith in government has never been lower. Patriotism is in short supply. I hear a countdown clock ticking off the remaining day...
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August 4, 2023
Does America Need a New Authoritarian President?Given the highly-publicized histories of certain authoritarian leaders, younger readers may be surprised to learn that America has already had several authoritarian presidents. Theodore Roosevelt stands out as one of the best-known, revered by ...
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July 28, 2023
Conditional Support for Israel?Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, recently called Israel “a racist state.” Rep. Ilhan Omar said, “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the US, Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the ...
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July 23, 2023
What Would King Solomon Do?The most well-known historical record in the world holds a wealth of information and among the annals, one can find the wise dealings of King Solomon. One particular story, known as the Judgment of Solomon, details the ancient king’s approach t...
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July 14, 2023
Bureaucratic and Political Ineptitude Gave Way to Institutionalized Lying“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Seemingly isolated news stories offer proof that there is a sinister agenda purposefully hidden from view; for the sake of brevity, here are three examples at which we will look: ...
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July 7, 2023
Modern Transgenderism is a Bastard Child of Colliding EvilsEvery now and then, you hear a story of ritual Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) occurring not just in Africa but right here in America, where half a million girls are presumed to be at risk. Indeed, the average American will likely see this prac...
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June 30, 2023
Seven Truths to Unmask the Regressive LeftAs frequent readers will affirm, I’ve been wondering what has happened to our country and what the future holds for us. I am angry at what we’ve lost in recent years through incompetence, slothfulness, and the deliberate destruction...
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June 25, 2023
A Look at Society Shows an Orchestrated DeclineI can’t be the only one wondering what has happened to us. The denizens of Washington and for that matter, the people who virtually live and breathe politics, are not your average Americans. Average Americans desire to live their li...
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June 25, 2023
The Russian people are living in a Potemkin villageWe awoke with a shock to the political system. Putin is being challenged by his lapdog, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who heads Putin's extra military, Wagner. Last year, I wrote twice about Putin's world-dominating aims. Histor...
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June 19, 2023
Waterboarded by the ‘Panther Pee’ That Is the DIE AgendaRule number eight in my personal Book of Rules states: “Play Your Own Game.” Somewhere long ago, we started playing the other side’s game which, coincidentally, is my eighth life rule. However, and to be frank, the Democ...
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June 10, 2023
Radio Free AmericaIf Rush Limbaugh were alive today, what would he tell us? I believe he’d say that the war of attrition against freedom, American prosperity, and uniqueness is entering its final chapter. He might hammer the issue of the J6 prisoners...
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June 1, 2023
American DeviancyYou don’t have to look very far to witness how fundamentally fractured our society is. Intersectionality lauds our differences, and sets us up for punishment for the transgression of individuality. My Webster’s dictionary defi...
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May 27, 2023
Government Accountability and Law Under the LeftGovernment’s ineptitude, apathy, and policies driven by internal politics (as usual), have a real cost in terms of people dying, suffering injury or preventable sickness, and losing their businesses and homes. Federal agencies don’t...
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May 20, 2023
An Appeal to the Thinkers Left Politically AbandonedMost readers know we are in a cataclysmic battle between “progressivism” and conservatism. Should this “progressivism” conquer, America and the current world order will cease to exist. Russia and China privately ba...
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May 12, 2023
The Staggering Flaws of the Biden FamilyWe start with a provocative partisan title. We may lose some readers here who can’t or won’t evaluate issues that don’t align with their beliefs. There is a lot of smoke, plenty of facts, and a staggering unwillingness b...
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May 5, 2023
Complicated Nature of Tech Sector Gives Cover to Climate Change AgendaTechnology defines our contemporary society. Put aside any thought of a quieter time when families came first, and we were much more of a unified and metamorphic society. The genie is out of the bottle, and we are married to technology, f...
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April 28, 2023
Achieving the Political Equilibrium Necessary to Defeat ChinaHistorically, the United States has acted overtly more often than not, with the Monroe Doctrine being a famous example — so why then is America’s strategy so often tied to ambiguity? Publicly shared doctrines of action and foreign p...
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April 21, 2023
Deciphering the Government’s Invisible InkGleaning reliable information from so much of what we see and hear from our chosen sources is frequently difficult, and therefore, counting on these media narratives for a path forward is shaky at best. It’s often not easy to see through ...
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April 14, 2023
Are You Ready to Live with Less?It’s positively diabolical: organized groups of people plot our downfall under cover of woke idealism and climate change. We’ve discovered some of what’s happening, but not everything has yet broken through to a level of ...
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April 8, 2023
The Psychological Ties Between Heightened Emotionality and School ShootingsWhy do we seem so intent on destroying national kinship and in the process, destroying ourselves? Left, right, conservative, liberal, a hundred names simultaneously representing both our divisions and strident beliefs. We know how se...
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April 5, 2023
Unequal Under the Law for One Means Unequal for AllAsk about the assumption that everyone has a right to equal justice under the law, and the majority would answer, “Yes, of course!” Yet, the reality is that many, particularly partisans from the other side, are unwilling to suspend ...
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March 23, 2023
Will We Go Gently Into That Good Night?The most challenging pieces I author address overwhelming topics, or verbalize what many of us are thinking yet fail to say; obviously, “blackpilling” isn’t the goal, and the threat of violence from lowbrow political mobs is a serio...
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March 17, 2023
ESG Will Bankrupt You — Financially and MorallyDo you believe in cautionary tales or think most things happen without warning? Your answer might reveal how your psyche processes information to which you are exposed. Everything you need to make good decisions is readily available, depe...
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March 15, 2023
A Hyper-Fixation on Racial Equality Only Yields DivisionA reader told me, “My head hurts when I read your pieces!” I thought, “Good! You’re thinking for yourself now.” To a certain extent, writers are prisoners of a requirement to share stories that are either uni...
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March 10, 2023
A Grand Canyon of DifferenceIn time, we'll learn how our country's political foibles play out. Will the United States retain even a semblance of the greatness it once possessed, or not? Measured from our peak to where we are now, there's a Grand Canyon...
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March 3, 2023
What’s Next for Wokeism?Twenty-five years ago, I told a friend that we would likely bear witness to the acceptance and even protection of several abhorrent social or political practices. That came true, but it didn’t stop there. We've witnessed a distu...
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February 24, 2023
TIA: This Is Africa? No, This Is AmericaSometime in the late 70s or early 80s, I had the opportunity to work in Senegal for several months. My very first experience in-country was that the rental vehicle wouldn’t start. While the friendly and talkative mechanic repaired t...
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February 20, 2023
Make it Go AwaySome of my friends think Biden has been a punching bag for conservatives, while others can't believe how much Biden gets away with. Since both can't be true, which is it? Biden may be the least transparent president in history, al...
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February 14, 2023
The Perversion of Self RespectShould self-respect be automatic or earned? Today, we will look closely at what happened to two generations taught that self-respect shouldn't need to be earned. And, in the process, begin to understand the damage that has been wrough...
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February 3, 2023
As War Clouds GatherGeneral Mike Minihan, a four-star Air Force General who leads the Air Mobility Command, made major shockwaves the other day, stating that he believes our country will be at war with China by 2025. His reasoning: Chinese President Xi [Jinp...
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January 31, 2023
Taking On the Would-be Destroyers of AmericaEnemies of Freedom wish to see our prosperous nation willingly give up our success to become a failed state. Think about the enormity and monstrous nature of that goal they set for themselves. All they had at first were the obvious imperf...
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January 27, 2023
How the Deep State Destroyers Threaten Your Way of LifeThink of the thousands of people working like diabolical ants so we can be reborn in their diabolical image. They have a secret weapon they employ against us. By tearing up the railroad tracks, burning bridges, and putting sugar...
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January 25, 2023
Parsing an Ungrateful GenerationYou can already tell by our title the direction this piece is going. But it's much more than just a bunch of selfish crybabies. Today's story is about a fundamental shift in how the country thinks and acts, whereby we have los...
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January 18, 2023
What Happened to the 'Passion of the People'?Where has our national passion gone? On the left, our children and many adults no longer seem to possess great passion for America. On the right, their emotions seem to be little more than rage and impotence masquerading as p...
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January 7, 2023
The Coup That Almost Was (Or Maybe Is?)Sedition: “Incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority” — Merriam-Webster dictionary The Culture War is upon us, as real as any shooting war, and part of the conflict includes a disruption from the t...
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December 31, 2022
Under Wokeism, Animal Farm Comes to LifeHave you read George Orwell's perennially popular and spookily prescient book Animal Farm? Written in 1945, it is recognized as one of the most foundational books of the 20th century and the book's satire vs. the reality of ...
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December 21, 2022
Why I'm still defiant for TrumpCurrent events make my head spin. I have a gifted and very liberal close friend. She and I probably disagree more than we agree across the spectrum of issues. However, I sense the same angst and frustration within her even as she...
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December 16, 2022
The Rapidly Dissipating Art of ThinkingWhat do all of the following have in common? I have a right to practice recreational oblivion (drug use). I have a right to steal “stuff” from stores and not get prosecuted. I have a right to believe my “fac...
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December 11, 2022
Where's William Proxmire When We Need Him?Can every thinking adult finally understand that our country is broke? Our outlays exceed our receipts by 140%. The last time we were this out of balance was during the Second World War, and deficit spending restraint was not optional....
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December 6, 2022
The Long ConWe are the victim of policies that sound good and feel good but have the opposite effect, all by design. Too many examples of what amounts to malign intent should be readily visible to all. I have come to realize that our basic foundational teachings...
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November 19, 2022
Tip of the Spear: What Our Lack of Military Readiness PortendsOur military should be more important to progressives than it is to conservatives. Why? Our military is their primary guarantee they can rail against America without fear of retribution. We have enemies (think: China) that want us defanged so tha...
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November 19, 2022
Breaking the back of inflation requires energy policy changesMy first blush takeaway from the mid-terms is how disaffected so many of us are. Feeling poorer through inflation is just depressing. This includes the psychological damage felt when your loved ones are also hurting. Our society is inarguably in stee...
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November 10, 2022
What Should America Look Like?The Supreme Court is taking another look at the question of race-based affirmative action. Central to the question of selecting who gets into colleges that employ a diversity test should be the reasoning behind the requirement to consider it at all. ...
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November 2, 2022
Lenin is Educating Your ChildrenLet’s commence with a simple premise: An uneducated or undereducated American population is vulnerable on multiple levels. Our standard of living, history of peaceful coexistence, prosperity, propensity to be manipulated and more are problemati...
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October 24, 2022
Why American Jews Still Vote DemocratIn just two weeks we have an election. Since at least the 1920s, American Jews have been among the most reliable supporters of the Democratic Party. Half of American Jews self-describe as liberal. But more tellingly, they vote Democratic at a rat...
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October 18, 2022
What Comes After the Current Chaos?False narratives control many of us. There are myriad reasons why our country finds itself a shell of what we once were. It did not happen overnight or by accident. While we talk about causation a lot, it is the consequences and fallout from makin...
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October 12, 2022
Joe Biden's Noise ProblemToday’s story spotlights the downward spiral of the Biden Administration. Myriad crisis-level issues abound. Almost all go unresolved amid the overwhelming “noise” created by constant emergencies. Policy and action...
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October 7, 2022
World War II Parallels Are Getting to Be Too MuchConservatives are fighting for their lives. We are not yet being shot in the streets, but there is a decidedly Kristallnacht feeling in the air. Burning, looting, and wilding — all happening while police stand by watching ...
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September 24, 2022
Why Russia Won’t Use Nuclear Weapons in UkraineI have always felt compelled to stand up to bullies, tyrants, pretenders, and those who take advantage of others who can’t or won’t fight back. It’s that way when I look at Putin. Putin has mastered the art of the stare-down. His ma...
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August 27, 2022
Who are the Good Guys?One of the joys of wide distribution of my musings is the people I get to meet. The other day, two of my readers, while in general agreement with my writings, pointed out, and I’ll paraphrase: “There’s no going back t...
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August 20, 2022
Washington is running out of your money to spendDemocrat leadership is frantic. But not for the reasons you may have heard. The just-passed Inflation Reduction Act is one of the largest revenue-raising bills ever passed. It's slated to raise $725 billion over ten yea...
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August 14, 2022
Would China go to war with us?China matters, so let's attempt to peer into the mind of President Xi and forecast his intentions, which is not an easy task. It’s difficult for peace-loving Americans to believe other nations covet what we possess and will do...
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August 6, 2022
Our Deal with the Chinese DevilMost realize that China has eaten our lunch. But what most don’t know is that China was a reluctant participant early on. Every subsequent action is on us! It was only later that American companies got greedy and decided to trade their pa...
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July 28, 2022
'Dirty' OilMost Americans rank Climate Change concerns low on their priority list. That lack of concern/belief is true in the face of one of the most massive and relentless influence campaigns ever mounted by our government and special interests. Life, as we...
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July 13, 2022
Laboratory One and 'Former Persons'Two things one must understand about evil. First, while everywhere, evil is frequently hidden from our view. Second, evil is seductive and attracts those to it that may live otherwise ordinary lives. It may help us to better understand evil as some k...
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July 4, 2022
America as a Tower of BabelEvery day I'm asked a simple question. "What has happened to our country and why?" Something to reflect on as we celebrate 246 years. It seems that I'm always answering the first part but not really answering ...
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June 27, 2022
A Living Wage?On the left, there's considerable discussion of the idea of raising the minimum wage, and creating a "living wage." Who could disagree with such an idea, right? Actually, it's another bad idea that looks like a good one fro...
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June 13, 2022
At the precipiceDid you know that martial law has been imposed at least 68 times in our country? Consider this Perfect Storm Scenario: Inflation devalues your income and savings enough to where you are seriously impacted in your daily livi...
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May 23, 2022
The Collapse of TrustLooking at the issues facing our country, there seems to be something pernicious for which we don’t seem to know what to do to correct the downward trajectory that is shaking us to our core. The issue at play now is that the majority of Amer...
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May 18, 2022
The race-centered society strikes againLast Saturday's mass shooting was both foreseeable and preventable, but not in the manner you might think. First, let's start with what we know about Saturday's events: An 18-year-old shot and killed black people whom he targeted...
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May 14, 2022
Are we afraid to govern?Is the ever downward spiral of American governance a consequence of political expediency over thoughtful leadership? You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see the abject failure of government to get ahead of issues that were both ...