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December 23, 2024
Biden Leaving a Steaming Pile of Syria Under Trump’s Christmas TreePresident Joe Biden is often unaware of his surroundings or behavior, but he surely knows that Christmas is almost here. Playing Santa Claus, he is handing out gifts — pardons to existing and as-yet-unprosecuted criminals and members of Cong...
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December 16, 2024
Trump is Flushing the Expert Class Down the ToiletPresident-elect Donald Trump is taking a media break from being called a fascist or Nazi to the latest criticism of filling his cabinet positions with those not deemed to be “experts” by the self-proclaimed “expert class” of g...
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December 9, 2024
Move Over Tom Homan – Hillary Clinton for Border Czar!No, I am not crazy. Follow along for some fun. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Tom Homan, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to serve as his “border czar.” Trump chose Homan, rather than nomina...
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December 2, 2024
Presidential Polling Postmortem Winners and LosersElection 2024 is in the rearview mirror. Pollsters won’t be bombarding voters anymore. Today’s entertainment is liberal heads exploding on social media or the latest Democrat threatening but not actually following through on everything fr...
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November 26, 2024
Congress Dithers While Vlad and Joe Play Nuclear ChickenIs President Joe Biden out to start a war? Or are his shadow warmongers Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan responsible? War can potentially explode regardless of who pulled the pin on the grenade. Several days ago, the pin was pulled. Reuters repor...
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November 18, 2024
The Trump Dream TeamThe 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona was the first games in which professional basketball players were allowed to participate. Previously, college players competed against the professional national teams of the Soviet Union and other countries. I...
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November 11, 2024
Let the Reckoning BeginPresident-elect (that does have a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?) Donald Trump delivered a shock and awe election victory on November 5. Those most surprised are the corporate media, Hollywood, and the paid Democrat X-shills, all living in their ...
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November 4, 2024
What Could Trump’s Second Term Look Like?With the 2024 presidential election a week away and former President Donald Trump beginning to extend his polling lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, it’s worth considering what a second Trump term would look like at a macro rather than mic...
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November 1, 2024
With Less Than a Week until the Election, What Do the Polls Say?The 2024 election is just days away. Media coverage, especially on social platforms, is rampant with fake news and misinformation, making it challenging to distinguish between what is real and what is misinformation. Although opinion polls are far...
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October 28, 2024
Trumpmentum: Trump is Peaking with the Fall FoliageElection Day is almost here, and Donald Trump is rewriting the book on campaigning. He is peaking at just the right time, along with the beautiful autumn leaves. Fortunately, he remains the Republican candidate despite deep-state efforts to rem...
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October 23, 2024
Globalist Misinformation: No, the Earth is Not WarmingWorld War III is well underway, both conventional wars, as in NATO versus Russia via Ukraine, and the US playing both sides of a battle between Israel and Iran and their proxies. There is also a psychological war underway. This is the war against ...
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October 14, 2024
Past Presidential Polls Provide a Big Clue About November 5What do the polls of elections past tell us about the current presidential race? Borrowing from Charles Dickens’s classic “A Christmas Carol,” miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by ghosts from Christmas past, present, and future...
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October 10, 2024
Could the Hurricane Response be Election Interference?Election 2024 is weeks away. Donald Trump still holds a 2-point lead nationally over Kamala Harris according to the latest Rasmussen Reports polling. J.D. Vance wiped the debate floor with Tim Walz, despite election interference by Vance’...
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October 7, 2024
A Tale of Two Hurricanes and PresidentsHurricane Katrina battered New Orleans and coastal Mississippi as a Category 3 hurricane 19 years ago. As a hurricane, a Category 3 storm is average, not the killer Category 4 or 5 storms that we less frequently see. Most of the damage and loss ...
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September 30, 2024
Who Fact Checks the Fact Checkers?Corporate media is obsessed with former President Donald Trump and his so-called "lies." Fact-checking is a new media pastime, popularized during the first Trump presidency. After Trump's first term, the Washington Post pub...
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September 26, 2024
Targeting Mike Lindell Again, Democrats See Nazi Bogeymen Under Every BedChildren fear the dark as it is scary. They believe it’s filled with monsters and bogeymen. As a child, I always wanted my bedroom door kept open with a light on in the hall. That way I felt safe, at least from the wild rides of my imaginati...
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September 23, 2024
Harris and Biden Putting Illegal Aliens First and Americans LastThe MAGA or “America First” agenda places Americans at the head of the line, providing economic opportunity. Harris and Biden’s “America Last” agenda favors securing other countries’ borders while leaving America...
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September 17, 2024
Weren’t Democrats Once the Champions of Free Speech?Democrats were once the party of free speech. The ACLU and “truth to power” were part of the Democrat party truth brigade. Yet now Democrats and the left are stifling free speech so fast it would make George Orwell’s head spin. ...
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September 9, 2024
Election Home Stretch -- What do the Polls Say?The presidential election is heating up as both nominating conventions have concluded. As we approach the home stretch of the election season, it's important to take a closer look at the opinion polls. Where are the opinion polls now and wh...
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September 3, 2024
Harris is Flip-Flopping Toward November 5Flip-flopping politicians are nothing new, whether Democrats or Republicans. The latter campaign on cutting taxes, slashing wasteful government spending, and securing the border, just to name a few issues. Once elected, they discover that America,...
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August 26, 2024
Enough With 'Very Fine People' and Other LiesNazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels said that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. Democrats and their media lapdogs know this very well and apply it assiduously. How ironic then that Democrats call Republicans 'Nazis...
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August 19, 2024
Time for NeverTrump Republicans to Put On Their Big Boy PantsMy flak jacket is on as I write this since I am sure to offend or piss off some friends, family, and colleagues who are ostensibly Republicans or conservatives but have a visceral aversion to Donald Trump. Some tell me they are Republican and miss...
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August 12, 2024
We Need a Badass in the White HouseEstablishment Republicans would rather lose with honor and dignity than get their hands dirty and their noses bloodied in a street fight. Politics ain’t beanbag, as the expression goes, except to genteel Republicans who prefer the wimp appro...
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August 6, 2024
The New Olympic Sport: Woman BeatingThe ancient Olympic games were held in Olympia, Greece, in honor of the Greek god Zeus. The original games date back to 776 B.C. and ran for a millennium until 393 A.D. The games were held every four years and initially only permitted first-born G...
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August 1, 2024
Media Gaslighting Trump-Harris PollsWhat a month it’s been! Starting with President Joe Biden’s trainwreck debate performance a few weeks ago, stumbling and stuttering, with his zinger “We finally beat Medicare,” to an attempted and bungled assassination attempt...
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July 29, 2024
Yes, Kamala Harris Was the Border CzarNow that Vice President Kamala Harris is the leading contender for the Democrat party’s presidential nomination, the corporate media are gaslighting the public to a degree many of us never thought possible. The latest Orwellian history rewri...
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July 22, 2024
MSNBC Lets the Biden Cat out of the BagMorning Joe, or “Morning Joke” as I like to refer to it as, is a propaganda arm for the Democrat party. But then again, so is CNN, network news, and increasingly more often, Fox News. They are no longer even pretending to be apolitical...
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July 15, 2024
Clapper and the Spooks – Enemies Foreign and DomesticDonald Trump was almost assassinated less than two days ago. Was this a crazy lone wolf or was this a continuation of a pattern, eliminating one’s political opposition, gradually ratcheting up the techniques? Were the agencies charged wit...
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July 8, 2024
Biden's Dementia: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? -Updated“What did the president know, and when did he know it?” This famous question was asked 50 years ago by Sen. Howard Baker about the Watergate scandal. This eventually brought down President Richard Nixon, leading to the installation ...
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July 1, 2024
Biden, Age, and Elder AbuseElder abuse plagues 1 in 6 people 60 years of age and older, according to the World Health Organization. It’s nice to see the WHO looking at real public health issues rather than pushing a “pandemic treaty” that would de facto ma...
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June 26, 2024
Trump Needs to Hammer This During the DebateThe first and perhaps only presidential debate between presumed nominees Donald Trump and Joe Biden takes place on June 27 in CNN’s Atlanta headquarters. Home court advantage goes to President Biden. Is there anyone at CNN, aside from the ja...
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June 18, 2024
AI – Humanity’s Savior or Worst Nightmare?“Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.” This definition is from Wikipedia, which is the closest thing to an open source of information and “know...
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June 12, 2024
Don’t Overrely on National Presidential PollsElection season is well underway. President Joe Biden is mumbling, bumbling, and stumbling his way toward his party’s nomination for a second term, the final nail in the coffin of American greatness and exceptionalism. Former President Trump...
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June 4, 2024
America Has Crossed the RubiconThe Obama/Biden/Soros cabal is nearing its fourth term running America, driving this once great nation into the ditch of communism and tyranny. Last week, America finally crossed the Rubicon from a nation of liberty and the rule of law to a banana...
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May 29, 2024
Lola is an Oregon Track State ChampionLola is the title of a song released by The Kinks in 1970. The song chronicles the romantic misadventures between a young man and a transgendered woman named Lola who, "walked like a woman but talked like a man.” Lola may provide a s...
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May 20, 2024
Polls Are Popping for TrumpThe 2024 presidential election is five months away. Corporate media is calling it a “tight race.” It probably is, as have been most recent presidential elections, but what do the polls say? Remember this caveat about polls: They are...
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May 13, 2024
If You Give a Denver Migrant a Cookie...When my adult children were young, a favorite read-along book was called If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. It was a cute story with the premise, If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him...
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May 7, 2024
Is Marjorie 'Judas' Greene Betraying Donald Trump?Judas Iscariot was one of Jesus’s 12 Apostles. In the Garden of Gethsemane the night before Jesus's crucifixion, Judas betrayed Jesus to the Sanhedrin who eventually arrested Jesus. Jesus predicted this betrayal during the Last Supper...
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April 22, 2024
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mike Johnson?The Sound of Music was an iconic movie for my generation. We watched it at movie theaters when it made its yearly appearance, then eventually on television. If you missed it, you had to wait a year until it was rebroadcast as there was no video on de...
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April 15, 2024
Democrats with Thin Skin and Glass JawsA “glass jaw” is a boxing term referring to a boxer who could be knocked out with one good punch to their jaw. It can also refer to a public figure who wilts under the discomfort of public scrutiny. Democrats are great at dishing it ou...
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April 8, 2024
Democrats Plan to Kneecap Trump’s CandidacyDonald Trump holds a 1 point advantage over President Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential election in the RealClearPolitics polling average. Many of these polls oversample Democrats. Most survey registered voters or whoever answers the phone when ...
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April 2, 2024
Resigning RINOs Threaten Trump and AmericaA handful of RINO members of Congress have either resigned or announced their intentions to do so in the coming weeks to months. They claim this is in protest to the now all but certain nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candid...
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March 25, 2024
Trump Can Win Again on Building the WallDonald Trump rode the escalator at Trump Tower (soon to be called Letitia’s Crib or Engoron Tower) in June 2015, promised to build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it. It was the foundation of his successful presidential campaign. I...
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March 19, 2024
The Buck Stops in Northern ColoradoA phrase associated with President Harry S. Truman, “The Buck Stops Here” refers to making the important decisions, taking accountability, and getting the job done. To quote Truman: You know, it's easy for the Monday morning q...
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March 4, 2024
Trump’s Promise -– Retribution or Revenge?Former President Donald Trump is cruising toward the GOP nomination. In the general election, Trump has a 2 point lead over President Joe Biden in the RealClearPolitics average, with most polls showing Trump ahead by anywhere from 1 to 6 poi...
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February 26, 2024
Visiting the World’s Strangest CountryArguably the strangest country in the world is one which most have not heard of. I speak of Turkmenistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia. It is bordered by Uzbekistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Iran to the south, and the Caspian Sea...
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February 19, 2024
America’s Open Border – Intentionality or Incompetence?It’s clear that America’s open border is an unmitigated disaster, allowing over 300,000 known migrants to enter the U.S. each month. Migrants are arriving from all over the world, including from geopolitical adversaries like China and Afg...
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February 12, 2024
Republicans Live Up to Being the Stupid PartyAmerica’s political system is based on two parties, Republicans and Democrats. Given that the collective differences between the two parties are minimal, they are referred to as the uni-party, the ruling class, or simply “the swamp....
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February 5, 2024
Trump or BustIn nine months, America will be holding an election for the ages. Yeah, I know everyone says that about every election, but the stakes for November 2024 could not be higher. This assumes we will have an actual election. If it looks like Donal...
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January 22, 2024
Forget Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom -- Dems' Choice to Replace Biden is Nikki HaleyPresident Joe Biden is clearly declining cognitively and physically, based on his garbled speech, frequent falls, disorientation on stage, and inappropriate behavior, especially toward young girls. Voters agree. In the Democrat stronghold of N...
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January 16, 2024
The Immigration Speech Donald Trump Needs to DeliverWhen newly announced candidate Donald Trump rode down the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015, he famously promised to, “Build the wall and make Mexico pay for it.” He certainly tried to build a wall on our southern border but unfort...
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January 8, 2024
No Border – Say Goodbye to AmericaNobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman scolded the Wall Street Journal for cheerleading an open-border immigration policy. "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state," he warned. This leads to a...
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December 27, 2023
Open Borders – Why Not Just Invite the Entire World to the U.S.?America’s southern, and perhaps northern, border is open for business, lined with welcome mats, neon lights, and a sign flashing, “come one, come all.” To even call the physical boundary of the United States “a border...
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December 18, 2023
Election 2024 – It’s the Voters, Stupid!Former President Donald Trump is barreling toward the GOP presidential nomination according to recent polls and the ruling class establishment is petrified. Trump said he would be a dictator, at least that’s how corporate media framed his wo...
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December 4, 2023
Trump’s One Simple Campaign Message for ReelectionNext year promises to be a wild year, given the presidential election and the stakes for both America’s ruling class and its people. Donald Trump represents an existential threat to the ruling class's money, power, and influence. T...
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November 27, 2023
Heading Home From Abroad for the Holidays? Good Luck Getting a U.S. VisaAs each year winds down, holiday celebrations, including Thanksgiving and Christmas, bring families together. With our mobile society, many return home from all around the globe. For American citizens returning home, it’s a long flight, pass...
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November 13, 2023
GOP Can't Make Up Its Mind About AbortionAbortion has been a divisive issue in the U.S. ever since the Supreme Court, in an act of legislating from the bench, somehow found in the Constitution a “right” to abortion. Even liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criti...
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November 6, 2023
The Deadly Folly of Our Open BorderBorders are “real or artificial lines that separate geographic areas,” according to National Geographic. They describe the purpose of borders - “to keep out invaders,” to “keep citizens in,” or to “prote...
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October 31, 2023
The Climate is Indeed Changing – Grab a Warm JacketOver the past few years, we have been lectured to by professed scientists to “follow the science,” echoed by the corporate media that often sees financial gain in following particular views of science. For example, Pfizer is alle...
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October 23, 2023
Proposition HH Bait and Switch – Colorado StyleBait and switch schemes are a staple of dodgy sales tactics; Bait and switch is a fraudulent activity whereby a company advertises goods at an incredibly low price with the aim of substituting for them with inferior or pricier alternatives at th...
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October 16, 2023
It’s The Border, Stupid!As the 2024 presidential election nears with the world on the brink of, or already in, World War Three, America must make a serious choice in 13 months. Will America course correctly or slide into bankruptcy and irrelevancy on the world stage? Perhap...
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October 9, 2023
Trump’s Not the Problem – He’s the Reaction to the ProblemFormer President Donald Trump is blamed for more of the world’s problems than even global warming, climate change, extreme weather, or what we call 'weather' these days. Trump is also blamed for much of the dysfunction in Washington,...
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September 28, 2023
Stick a Fork in Biden – He’s Done!President Joe Biden has become a joke, confabulating tall tales about his past political exploits, shaking hands with phantoms, not shaking hands with world leaders, getting lost on stage, and frequently falling. These are all clear signs of his phys...
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September 18, 2023
To Impeach, or Not to Impeach, That is the QuestionWilliam Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “To be or not to be: that is the question.” I ask the same about impeaching President Joe Biden – to impeach or not impeach. Speaker Kevin McCarthy answered that question, and the process is movi...
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September 11, 2023
Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?What a great question going into the 2024 presidential election! It was asked over 40 years ago and led to one of the biggest landslide elections in U.S. history. As the Harvard Kennedy School summarized: In the final week of the 1980 pr...
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August 28, 2023
Two Presidents, Two Disasters, Two NarrativesHurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with Mother Nature’s fury in late August 2005, causing over 1800 fatalities and over $100 billion in property damage. Because a Republican president resided in the White House, the corporate media and Democr...
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August 21, 2023
The Real Insurrection Began with an Escalator RideCorporate media and the Democrats are fixated on the so-called “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, so much so that they are attempting to imprison a past and potentially future president over supposedly causing it. Aside from the fac...
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August 14, 2023
Of Course the Climate Has Always Been ChangingClimate is the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area, according to NASA. We think of Florida or Aruba having a warmer climate, compared to Maine or Canada. Weather is short term, whereas climate is long term. ...
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August 7, 2023
Democrats Are Dancing the Totalitarian Two-StepDemocrats and corporate media throw around terms like 'fascism' and 'dictatorship' as a means of stifling discussion of anyone they disagree with. Totalitarianism is another term along those lines, typically associated with tyrants su...
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July 31, 2023
Democrats Suddenly Discover that Summers are HotSummer is the season of warm and often hot weather. The Lovin Spoonful sang it clearly, “Hot town, summer in the city. Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty. Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head.” Sly and the Family Stone ...
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July 25, 2023
The GOP Death WishThe GOP, as a political organization, stands for “Grand Old Party.” How does it live up to its name? It’s hardly grand; instead, it is a circular firing squad of squabbling principles and interests, with many GOPers sitting ...
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July 18, 2023
The Left Again Beclowns Itself Over White SupremacyWhite supremacy, according to Britannica, is a belief in the “natural superiority of lighter skinned or white human races over other racial groups.” Going further, white supremacist groups “espouse ultranationalist, racist or fas...
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July 12, 2023
Is the 2024 Election the Last Gasp for America?Monty Python’s 1979 hit movie “Life of Brian” featured a song about optimism: Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse When you're chewing on life's gr...
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July 6, 2023
Do Americans Still Trust Our Elections?Horror writer Stephen King, when not spewing far left argle-bargle (a word I learned long ago from reading one of his novels) on Twitter, may exhibit a bit of common sense. He once said, “The trust of the innocent is the liar's most use...
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June 26, 2023
Diversity's Fatal AttractionDiversity and its cousins, inclusion and equity, are woke America’s new guiding principles. Sports, education, media, government, military, and big business are all in on the “DEI” mantra. Rearrange the letters from DEI to DIE. I...
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June 20, 2023
Wanna Be a Good Samaritan? Fuhgeddaboudit…This past May 1 was a typical day on the New York City subways. Commuters and tourists were transiting beneath the chaos of overhead Manhattan, only to witness New York’s subterranean version of Dante’s Inferno. Specifically, a ho...
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June 15, 2023
The FBI is Now a Democrat SuperPACThe FBI’s mission is “To protect the American people and uphold the U.S. Constitution.” Their motto is “Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity”. How is the FBI doing on these fronts? What are they protecting the America...
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June 8, 2023
When did the Left go from Standing up to ‘The Man’ to becoming ‘The Man’?“The Man” was the left’s bogeyman in the 1960s and 70s, representing establishment authority and oppression, from the Viet Nam war to the civil rights movement. As the Urban Dictionary defines the term, “The Man is the...
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May 31, 2023
The Quota States of AmericaSurprisingly Martin Luther King Day is still a national holiday. Why hasn’t he been cancelled over his past words that today would be deemed racist or white supremacist, much like the names of towns, mountains, or Confederate statues? As a r...
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May 22, 2023
Good Samaritans are Now Chumps and CriminalsA good Samaritan, according to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary is, “a person who gives help and sympathy to people who need it”. This concept goes back to Biblical times, specifically the book of Luke, chapter 10, and the “Par...
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May 16, 2023
Medical Mavens Discover Men and Women are DifferentMedical journals are ranked by prestige, like universities and restaurants, based on criteria that might be more in the eye of the beholder than based on objective criteria. In the medical world, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are...
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May 8, 2023
Is Trump’s Campaign and Reelection a Fool’s Errand?Two weeks ago, President Joe Biden announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, promising to “finish the job”. What exactly does he want to finish, other than American exceptionalism as we know it? America is rapidly imploding ...
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April 18, 2023
What Does Chat GPT and AI Mean for Opinion Writers?As I have been a columnist for American Thinker since 2014, I have wondered what my future as a writer will be in the brave new work of AI and Chat GPT. Here are some thoughts and possible answers. Chat GPT, or the Generative Pre-trained Transform...
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April 10, 2023
Is It Time to Panic Yet Over the State of America?Rush Limbaugh famously reassured his tens of millions of regular listeners many times, “It is never time to panic. It is never time to give up on America!” What would Rush say today? I wish I could listen to Rush analyzing today’...
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April 3, 2023
Welcome to the Banana Republic of AmericaAmerica has officially descended from Ronald Reagan’s “shining city upon the hill” to a banana republic on par with Cuba, Venezuela, or the former Soviet Union. Elected officials from both parties have no interest in slowing Ame...
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March 28, 2023
Why Vote GOP?Following the news and politics of the day, I often ask myself rhetorically, “Why vote GOP?” Hillary Clinton claimed during the Benghazi hearings, a deadly disaster over which she presided, “What difference… does it mak...
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March 7, 2023
An American Tourist in Iran – Crazy, Right?No, not crazy at all. Let me explain. A year ago, I wrote about taking the road less traveled and joining my adventure traveling son on a trip to Iraq. This year the destination was next door in Iran. For my son, it is his 154th country and for me...
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February 7, 2023
Denver – Rocky Mountain High to Rocky Mountain HellholeSeven years ago, Business Insider published, “14 reasons why Denver is the best place to live in America.” They recommended everyone consider Denver as “your next hometown” citing a strong job market, low unemployment, g...
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January 16, 2023
Too Wet? Too Dry? It's All Climate Change!Climate change, as defined by the United Nations: “Refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle.” That’s actually a good definition....
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January 2, 2023
Virtue Signaling Denver Mayor Unhappy that He’s Getting What He Asked forVirtue signaling is a current pastime of Democrats and the left. The Cambridge Dictionary defines it, Virtue signaling is the popular modern habit of indicating that one has virtue merely by expressing disgust or favor for certain political idea...
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December 26, 2022
There Certainly Was an Insurrection, But Not by TrumpBeginning Jan. 6, 2021, the government-media deep state cabal sharply pivoted from accusing President Donald Trump of “colluding with the Russians to steal the 2016 presidential election” to “incitement of insurrection,”...
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December 19, 2022
Plenty of Grievances to Air This Christmas SeasonIt has been a tough few years, first with COVID then an economy blasted by inflation and recession. Most Americans are hoping for a shiny present under the American Christmas tree this year. But will it be a lump of coal instead? In the spirit of Fes...
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December 13, 2022
The United States of Fascist AmericaFascism is a political ideology which, unfortunately, is mischaracterized by both media and academia. For example, Wikipedia describes fascism as, "A far right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a ...
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December 5, 2022
The Left Preaches, but Doesn’t Practice, DiversityDiversity, equity, and inclusion are rallying cries of Democrats and the left, spawning an entire industry dedicated to achieving these goals, regardless of necessity, practicality, fairness, or cost. Diversity simply implies differences, an innat...
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November 28, 2022
Don’t Shut Down the January 6 Committee – Supercharge It!Now that the US House of Representatives will be under Republican control, assuming Santa Claus doesn’t deliver Democrat ballots to a few key swing districts as an early Christmas present for the Democrat party, the new House GOP leadership wil...
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November 21, 2022
Has the GOP Learned Anything After the Midterms?The congressional midterm elections are thankfully over. Predictions of a red wave, including by yours truly, didn’t materialize. Instead, it was more of a pink trickle with the GOP flipping the House. The Senate is still up for grabs, with...
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November 15, 2022
Trump/DeSantis 2024As election day, November 8, is turning into election week or month, the outcomes are being dissected through the lens of the 2024 presidential election. What looked like a red wave initially is turning out otherwise as several swing states, perhaps ...
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November 7, 2022
Vote Like Your Life Depends on It – Because it Does!This is it, the “most important election of our lifetime,” which is how most national elections are described. But this year’s Congressional midterm elections may be just that important. Much rides on which party controls Congress, ...
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October 31, 2022
Here’s why I am predicting a red wave on November 8If your news source is CNN, the New York Times, pre-Elon Twitter, or just about any broadcast television news network, you will see a blue wave coming for the November 8 midterm elections. The economy is in great shape, according to the White House, ...
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October 24, 2022
One Simple Question Republicans Can Ask for Victory in NovemberThe 2022 midterm elections are two weeks away. Will it be a red or blue wave? Or a shade of purple? Which party will control Congress in January? Rasmussen Reports, in a recent survey of likely U.S. voters found that: “Republicans have ...
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October 17, 2022
The National Debt Elephant in the RoomAmerica is facing formidable challenges, both domestically and abroad, as the midterm elections approach. This is when voters can exercise their choice to make a course correction in current leadership and the direction of the country. It’s als...
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October 10, 2022
Hurricane Hysteria, Hype, and HistrionicsHurricane season is upon Southeastern America and that means hair-on-fire hysteria from the media and the political left. After Hurricane Ian ravaged southwest coastal Florida, we have heard nothing but hype from the corporate media, eager to connect...
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October 3, 2022
Mamma Mia MAGAItaly has spoken. And the White House and the media don’t like it. Politico White House bureau chief Jonathan Lemire claimed that the election of "far-right" Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was met with "deep, if privat...
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September 26, 2022
A Winning Midterm Issue for Republicans – Only If They Seize ItThe Republican Party is appropriately called “the stupid party” given their tendency to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. This manifests in several ways. Republicans often nominate uninspiring and moderate presidential candid...
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September 19, 2022
Martha’s Vineyard Liberals Scream 'Not in my Backyard!'Who knew that residents of woke and progressive Martha’s Vineyard were racist, white supremacist, xenophobes? Former President Barack Obama owns a $12 million estate on this racist island off the coast of Massachusetts. Are the Obamas racist...
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September 6, 2022
Will it be a long, cold, lonely winter for Europe?“Here Comes the Sun” is one of the Beatles’ great hits from their Abbey Road album, written by George Harrison at the country house of his friend Eric Clapton. Those were down days for George, and one of the song lines, “Littl...
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August 29, 2022
The FBI: A Campaign Arm of the Democrat Party“Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity” is the FBI motto. According to the FBI website, this motto, “Succinctly describes the motivating force behind the men and women of the FBI.” The motto may have been accurate in the 1965-19...
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August 22, 2022
Donald the Dynasty SlayerAmerica was created as a constitutionally limited republic for many reasons, one of which was to be governed by “we the people” rather than the political dynasties so prevalent in Europe, from where most early Americans and patriots emigr...
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August 8, 2022
If Trump is Irrelevant, Why is He Still Such a Political Force of Nature?Gas lighters in the media and in Washington D.C. continue to tell the few who still listen to their words that former President Donald Trump is irrelevant. One Trump-loathing Republican-in-name-only, final-term Rep. Adam Kinzinger, decla...
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August 1, 2022
Redefining – The New Pretzel Logic of the LeftDefinitions make order of our lives. Imagine if the definitions of right and left or up and down could vary based on the whims of our leaders and their pet agendas or causes? This is especially true in science, where everything relies on a solid f...
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July 25, 2022
Lessons from an Adventure Trip to Central AsiaLast winter I wrote about an adventure trip I took with my son to Iraq. Our latest trip was to Central Asia, specifically the countries of Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. What lessons can an American learn taking the road less traveled to remote and e...
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July 18, 2022
The 2024 Horserace is Underway – Who are the Favorites?Although the 2024 presidential election is more than two years away, the horserace has begun, with potential candidates jockeying for financing, recognition, and position. After all, the US President is still the most powerful position in the world, ...
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July 11, 2022
Democrats Overreached Again, This Time on AbortionThere is an expression, “The perfect is the enemy of the good” which encapsulates the danger of overreaching. We can fiddle with things incessantly, trying to move from a good outcome to a perfect one, and in the process destroy what ...
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June 27, 2022
The Supremes are Back – Making the Constitution Great AgainDiana Ross and the Supremes were one of the biggest Motown musical groups in the 1960s. By 1970 they went their separate ways, but this past week, their informal namesakes scored a mega-hit. Not singing catchy pop tunes, but by dancing in their black...
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June 20, 2022
The Coming Economic StormPresident Donald Trump, while meeting with a group of military leaders in the White House in 2017, cryptically warned of “the calm before the storm.” When asked by reporters what he meant he simply replied, “You’ll find out....
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June 6, 2022
Hurricane Joe – A Category Five Economic CalamityHurricane season is officially underway, beginning June 1, and extending to November 30. Expect the usual stories about hurricanes becoming more frequent and severe due to global warming, despite contrary evidence. What about a new type of hurrica...
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May 23, 2022
Want to Visit America? Forget Getting a Visa. Just Walk Across the Border.The United States is one of the most popular tourist destinations worldwide. In 2019, only Spain and France had more visiting tourists, likely due to the rich history, architecture, cuisine, and culture that these European countries provide...
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May 16, 2022
Democrats Blame Inflation on 'Greed,' Instead of Their Own Failed PoliciesInflation, over the past year, has gone from conspiracy theory to transient, to no big deal, to ignored, and now finally reluctantly acknowledged by the ruling class. Yet to consumers paying more for groceries, restaurant meals, airline tickets, and ...
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May 9, 2022
Stagflation – Another Blast from the Past“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” is a quote attributed to Mark Twain. In the political and economic world, this maxim is proving true, as we are witnessing today. The misery index is one such bit of history, da...
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April 18, 2022
Carbon Dioxide and Climate – Friend or Foe?In global warming circles, carbon dioxide is the bogey man, the cause of all evils. CO2 is another Vladimir Putin, blamed for rising gasoline prices and President Biden’s 8.5 percent inflation. Just as Putin isn’t responsible for co...
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April 4, 2022
Biden’s Wealth Tax – Class Envy Hiding Economic MalpracticePresident Joe Biden is likely staring these days at the rising budget deficit along with his desire to spend far more money than the US Treasury has in its coffers. He must also notice his sinking poll numbers and dim prospects for his party in the N...
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February 28, 2022
An American in Iraq – Not What I Was ToldMany of our impressions of foreign countries are based on how the media portrays them, whether describing them as paradise or dangerous s***holes. Unless we happen to know someone personally who lives in or travels to these countries, our opinions ar...
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February 21, 2022
Dude Looks Like a Lady – Ivy League Swimming StyleRock group Aerosmith released a song in 1987 entitled, “Dude looks like a lady” about a man with an effeminate appearance who could be mistaken for a woman. Today the inverse is playing out in the athletic world, where a lady who looks li...
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February 14, 2022
Biden’s Popularity is Sinking Like the TitanicPresident Job Biden is beginning his second year in office. Just over a year ago when he was elected, or selected, tears of joy flowed in blue cities. Political experts like Taylor Swift expressed, “Quiet, cautious elation and relief....
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January 24, 2022
Boulder Wildfires and Media Gaslighting Over Global WarmingThe recent Marshall fire in Boulder, Colorado, and neighboring communities was the most destructive fire in Colorado history, moving quickly and relentlessly, destroying more than 1,000 homes, leaving an apocalyptic level of destruction in its w...
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December 20, 2021
Roses are Red, Crime is BlueRoses are red, violets are blue, is an old nursery rhyme, poem, and eventual song title, ending in “the honey’s sweet and so are you.” A modern-day version might be rewritten: Peace is red, crime is blue Vote for Democrats, ...
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November 5, 2021
Democrats Traipsing Through Strawberry FieldsStrawberry Fields Forever is one of many Beatles hits, a nostalgic remembrance of a piece of land in Liverpool near where John Lennon grew up. A memorable bit of lyric, “Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see” refle...
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October 25, 2021
We Wish You an Un-Merry ChristmasChristmas is a season of joy on many levels. For Christians, it marks the birth of Jesus, son of God, sent to the Earth for mankind’s salvation. For members of other religions or non-believers, it is a time of abundance, families gathering, sch...
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October 4, 2021
COVID has Replaced Climate Change as the Religion of the LeftReligion is a belief system based on a combination of logic and faith, mostly beyond the realm of what can be proven scientifically. A dictionary definition is, “Religion is belief in a god or gods and the activities that are connected with thi...
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September 27, 2021
From Afghanistan with LoveFrom Russia with Love was the second in the James Bond series featuring Sean Connery as 007. Bond was sent to assist in the defection of a Soviet consulate clerk after Bond killed Dr. No in the first of the series. Today we have a remake, more in kee...
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September 20, 2021
What If the FBI Threw an Insurrection and Nobody Came?Saturday, Sept. 18 was the date for the “J6 Rally,” organized by a political advocacy group called Look Ahead America. It was billed as: A rally in support of those who have been charged with nonviolent offences to protest ...
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September 14, 2021
'Nothing Can Stop What is Coming.' What If Nothing is Coming?A popular catch-phrase among pro-Trump patriots is: “Nothing can stop what is coming.” This is based on the theory that there are things quietly going on behind the scenes, that President Trump still has a hand in what is happeni...
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September 10, 2021
Where are All the Americans Returning Home from Afghanistan?President Joe Biden and his team of military, intelligence, and diplomatic advisors oversaw America’s most epic surrender, on the world stage, under the lights and cameras of international media recording it for posterity, spinning the news to ...
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September 3, 2021
Why all the fuss about Ivermectin?First hydroxychloroquine, now ivermectin, is the hated deadly drug de jour, castigated by the medical establishment and regulatory authorities. Both drugs have been around for a long time as FDA-approved prescription medications. Yet now we are told ...
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August 23, 2021
Afghanistan Evacuations – But Who Exactly is Being Evacuated?Afghanistan is a mess, despite vain attempts by Democrats and the media to spin it otherwise. We left behind a trove of weapons and intelligence secrets in our abandoned airbases and embassy. This was a gift to the Taliban, overnight making them one ...
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August 19, 2021
Biden’s Surrender PresidencyThe seven months of the Biden presidency reveal a theme of surrender. Surrender is to give up possession of something to another or to give up to some influence or idea. President Biden has surrendered so much on so many levels. The only question is ...
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August 16, 2021
Why Vote Republican?Frustration over the mostly feckless national Republican Party is nothing new. Those of us on the political right have few electoral options given our two-party system. In some elections, the choice is stark and easy, as when Reagan or Trump was at t...
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August 11, 2021
Jeb Bush – Trading Low Energy for WokenessWe haven’t heard much from failed 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush since he was vanquished from the GOP primary battlefield by Trump the Destroyer. Jeb was a shoo-in for the GOP nomination in 2016, a coronation for the latest member of the ...
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July 6, 2021
Olympic Jiggery-PokeryOne of the legacies of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, aside from his keen intellect and originalist interpretation of the US Constitution, was his masterful use of the English language, particularly using an obscure word or phrase to ...
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June 17, 2021
The Big Club Spit on Trump but Embraces Biden“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it” is one of comedian George Carlin’s more memorable lines and provides a succinct summation of the US federal government. The “Big Club” is the establishment, deep state, ...
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May 24, 2021
Masks, Theater, and the New Awareness RibbonsAwareness ribbons are popular fashion accessories among the elite, particularly Hollywood celebrities. They are meant to show support or raise awareness for a particular cause. These ribbons are not a modern invention for they date back to the Mid...
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May 14, 2021
Biden's Blast from the Past – The Return of the Misery IndexWhat was once old eventually becomes new, from fashion and hair length to music and economics. As they say, history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Today we are seeing events that rhyme with events of a few decades ago. The rhyme is held ...
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May 10, 2021
Lola Goes to the OlympicsWomen first competed in the Olympic Games in 1900 in Paris, participating in tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrianism, and golf. By 2016, 45 percent of participants were women. Men and women competitions were separate for obvious reasons of strength a...
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May 3, 2021
Fake News Still Gaslighting America with Phony PollsOpinion polls, particularly in the buildup to a presidential election, are not designed to reflect public opinion, but instead to shape it. For the media, objectivity is only of historic interest, a journalistic tenet from a bygone era. Now most of t...
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April 26, 2021
Democrats Blaming Everyone but ThemselvesAn old expression notes that when you point one finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you. This aphorism may have originated in the Bible when Jesus said, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s ey...
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April 23, 2021
Liar Liar, Media Pants on FireMedia trust is at an all-time low, a majority of Americans believing that, “Most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.” An Axios commissioned survey found t...
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April 12, 2021
Fixing Racism by Being Racist?Racism is, by one definition, “A belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” History is replete with societies and cult...
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April 5, 2021
Vacation in Hawaii: Prison on the PacificHawaii is an American gem, a collection of island paradises that one can travel to in a reasonable period of time from most of the US mainland. Hawaii poses no issues with language, currency, or cell phone service. The climate is wonderful, with beac...
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April 2, 2021
Biden’s War on CO2 – Starving Planet EarthCarbon dioxide is persona non grata in leftist circles. Listening to Democrat blathering over CO2, which they exhale copiously with each breath, one would think this gas is poisonous, on par with Sarin or other nerve gases. In reality, CO2 is plant f...
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March 29, 2021
No Storm, No Reckoning, No NothingFor years we have been hearing about a coming storm. It was to be biblical and would bring pain to members of the deep state ruling class who, after exposure, would not be able to walk down the streets. The storm was to begin with spygate, a coord...
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March 16, 2021
President Cloward, Vice President PivenCloward-Piven is a political strategy of calculated chaos first described in 1966, by two Columbia University sociologists, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their theory was published appropriately in the far left The Nation, the...
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March 12, 2021
Walking the Woke, or Just Talking the TalkHypocrisy is a tenet of modern liberalism. Those that talk the talk rarely walk the walk, or in the case of leftism, “walk the woke.” Regardless of the issue, the left says one thing and does another. Examples include environmentalism,...
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March 1, 2021
Storm? What Storm? It Was Barely a Breeze.Millions of Trump supporters have been holding out hope for a coming storm to flood and wash away the corrupt deep state. The purported military insider group, known only as the letter Q, had been making such promises for the past several years. T...
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February 18, 2021
Green New Deal Frozen in its TracksThis past week America has been treated to some chilly weather. Records were broken across what Rush Limbaugh described as the fruited plains. Kansas City broke a record low temperature set in 1936. Colorado Springs broke an 1895 record on Valenti...
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February 15, 2021
An Oppressive Boot on the Neck of Free SpeechFreedom of speech was so important to America’s founders that it was not the tenth, or the fifth, but the First Amendment to the Constitution. It is under assault today from many quarters as evidenced by speech codes and the cancel culture read...
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February 4, 2021
It’s a Big Club, and You Ain’t in itOne of comedian George Carlin’s more notable quotes, pointing out a reality of American life is, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” His words are a simple commentary on the ruling class, the elites, the cabal, the e...
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February 1, 2021
Trump: In Like a Lion, Out Like a LambMarch weather, according to folklore, comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, although late March often has its share of nasty winter storms where I live. Donald Trump’s presidency has followed a similar pattern. He came to the White House...
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January 23, 2021
What Happened to 'the Storm'?Despite the hype and expectations for "a storm," Jan. 20 marked another relatively peaceful transition of power, from one presidential administration to the next. Yes, there were more law enforcement than spectators at this s...
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January 18, 2021
What’s Next? Great Awakening or Great Reset?Pick your favorite sports analogy. President Trump is at bat, bottom of the ninth inning, two outs, full count, bases loaded, down by three runs. Or he is at the poker table, across from the entire Washington DC ruling class, all the chips now on the...
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January 7, 2021
To the GOP: Trump You!I have two words for the Republican Party establishment: Not Happy Birthday. It’s along the lines of “Trump You,” using a few different letters earlier in the alphabet. Most Trump supporters, like myself, have been...
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December 31, 2020
Hey, GOP: This is Your Do or Die MomentLife seldom offers second chances. When opportunity knocks you can either answer the door or sit idly by as opportunity moves on to the next house, never to return. Opportunity is knocking on the doors of elected Republicans today. Will the door be a...
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December 29, 2020
Is Nothing Happening? Or is Trump Channeling Sun Tzu?I’m impatient, as I expect most American Thinker readers are as well. We have been promised a coming storm that will be biblical, or a Kraken released on Deep State conspirators. Despite Attorney General Barr acknowledging spygate as “one...
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December 14, 2020
Republicans Pushing Themselves Off the CliffDuring the 2012 presidential election, the far-left Agenda Project Action Fund produced a video showing vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan pushing granny off the cliff because he had the supposed audacity to propose a sensible budget, rather than ...
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December 7, 2020
Where’s the Kraken? Where’s the Storm?When Attorney Sidney Powell a few weeks ago said, “Release the Kraken,” it wasn’t clear if she was referring to the mythical creature with multiple arms and heads or a secret military counterintelligence unit that may have real time...
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November 24, 2020
Could Today’s COVID Surge have been Avoided?As the holiday season approaches, Americans are being served a dollop of misery atop their Thanksgiving pumpkin pie. COVID cases are “surging,” resulting in new mandates essentially closing businesses, restaurants, health clubs, and other...
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November 20, 2020
Governors Cancelling Thanksgiving in Favor of MiseryCenturies ago, our ancestors endured unimaginable challenges and hardships in the new world, not yet called America. A group of 100 pilgrims sought a new world where they could enjoy religious and political freedom. This new world was cold, barren, a...
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November 16, 2020
Donald Trump, the Loneliest Man on the PlanetPresident Donald Trump left the glamorous world of celebrity, fame, and fortune in June 2015 on a mission, not for himself, but for the American people. Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new...
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November 9, 2020
The Coming Purge if Trump LosesThe 2020 presidential election is the stuff of banana republics as the ruling class loathes the boss and is trying to steal the election in broad daylight. Joe Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every state except the four where hundreds of thou...
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November 6, 2020
Trumpsters -- This is No Time to Go WobblyA long time ago, when free elections were still a staple of American government along with the peaceful transition of power, a former U.S. president named George H.W. Bush was mulling over how to respond to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait i...
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November 3, 2020
Vote and Pray Like Your Life Depends on It – It DoesEvery election is the "most important election of our time," at least until the next one. This year is no exception, but the contrast today between the two ballot options could not be starker. In past years, the two candi...
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October 30, 2020
Trumpmentum Rolling Toward Election DayElection day is almost here. Some things will end, like incessant campaign commercials, much to the relief of voters on both sides of the aisle. Other things will continue, including protests and riots, as we are seeing in Philadelphia, and as Kamala...
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October 20, 2020
QAnon:The Media's Latest ObsessionBig media has had multiple obsessions during President Trump’s first term. From Stormy and Avenatti to the myriad tell-all books about Trump, his administration, and his family. From Russia and an innocuous phone call to Ukraine, to his taxes a...
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October 19, 2020
Are the FakeNews Polls a Setup for Post-Election Chaos?With the 2020 Presidential election a few weeks away, opinion polls dominate the news, unlike real news of one of the candidates and his family involved in a massive pay-to-play scandal, selling US interests to hostile foreign governments, dutifully ...
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October 9, 2020
Presidential Opinion Polls – Déjà vu All Over Again?Presidential pollsters have short memories. It was a mere four years ago that most pollsters faceplanted after predicting a Hillary Clinton landslide victory. Rather than humility and introspection after such wildly inaccurate predictions, they ...
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September 30, 2020
Trump accomplished what he needed in the first debateDebate number one is in the history books with a new debate emerging about “who won?” Debates are not scored like boxing matches but instead like figure skating at the Olympics, judges deciding the score and who won, often inserting...
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September 21, 2020
NeverTrumpers Unhinged Over Their Growing IrrelevanceWashington D.C. has always been a club, with decorum and strict membership rules. Most of us are not in this club and would have no desire to join if offered membership based on our morals, ethics, and a desire to look at ourselves in the mirror ever...
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September 15, 2020
Carter Page’s Camel Nose Under the Trump TentAn old Arab proverb explains much about the Spygate strategy of infiltrating the Trump campaign and then administration. “If a camel gets his nose in the tent, the body will soon follow.” This is the proverbial “foot in the door...
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August 31, 2020
It's Trump's Republican Party NowBefore President Trump, the Republican Party, and the Democrat Party for that matter, were controlled by the ruling elites of their respective parties. Neither party had any interest in those they claimed to represent, instead bowing to big money don...
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August 10, 2020
Joe Biden – The Cardboard Cutout CandidateCardboard cutouts are life size replicas of a person, typically famous, perfect for parties, events, and photoshoots, as Amazon describes for a cardboard cutout of President Trump. As Amazon explains, these cutouts are easy to assemble, stand on thei...
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August 7, 2020
Polls and Debates – Summertime Blues for DemocratsEddie Cochran sang about the “Summertime Blues” in 1958, a song many Democrats are singing loudly this summer. President Trump has deftly maneuvered Democrats into several untenable positions ahead of the November election. Democrats n...
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July 27, 2020
Are Fake News Polls Hiding a Potential Trump Landslide?Listen to network or cable news and you will hear that the November election is over. Joe Biden has a growing double-digit lead over President Trump, despite the election being over three months away and the issues that may decide the election largel...
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July 13, 2020
NeverTrumpers Out of the Closet as Liberal Democrats in DragNeverTrumpers are like gnats in the summer, annoying but largely irrelevant as they don’t sting or bite. Their movement hatched when Donald Trump was running for president and they became “the resistance” against the unfit candidate...
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June 30, 2020
Media Learned Nothing after their 2016 Polling DisasterHarken back four years ago and recall how the media confidently predicted a Hillary Clinton landslide electoral victory over Donald Trump. They held firm to this prediction even when the election was all but over. At 10:20 PM ET on November 8, 20...
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June 22, 2020
Trump Wars Sequel – Return of the CoronavirusReturn of the Jedi was the sixth episode of the Star Wars saga, either a prequel or sequel to the never-ending story of good versus evil. Although Star Wars is make-believe, it features many interesting characters. The first movie featured a memorabl...
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June 16, 2020
Cancel Culture -- What Happens When Everything Gets Cancelled?Cancel culture refers to the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive. It may be an innocuous word or tweet from years ago, that ...
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June 11, 2020
Why Don’t These #BlackLivesMatter?Black Lives Matter is a political advocacy group, “[f]ounded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer,” according to the group’s website. Never mind that the George Zimmerman trial was a complete fraud...
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June 8, 2020
Desperate FakeNews Media in OverdriveDesperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes. As the presidential election nears, Democrats, the media, and NeverTrumpers realize that President Trump is still popular, incredibly at 40 percent approval among likely black voters ac...
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June 3, 2020
Was it Ever Really About the Virus?For the past four months, Americans have endured a constant barrage of news and fear porn about the Wuhan coronavirus. The country has been locked down as tightly as Anthony Weiner’s infamous laptop computer, now finally starting to slowly reop...
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June 1, 2020
COVID Senicide – The Overlooked TragedySenicide is not a new disinfectant or the latest drug touted as a cure for the Chinese coronavirus, but instead is the systematic killing of the elderly. It’s specific to the elderly, as opposed to genocide, the extermination of entire peoples ...
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May 19, 2020
Media in Panic Mode over Latest Presidential PollsCNN, in their dogged and unending quest to overturn the 2016 presidential election and drive President Trump from office, is in full-on campaign mode. Just as in the last presidential election cycle, opinion polls are a campaign staple of the media a...
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May 15, 2020
Flattening the Curve or Flattening Trump?Flattening the curve is a new term for most of us not steeped in the world of public health or epidemiology. Prior to the Chinese Coronavirus making a mess of lives and economies, this term might have featured in a Saturday morning infomercial on the...
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May 12, 2020
Will There Be an Obamagate Reckoning? You Betcha!Spygate has a new name under the trending Twitter hashtag #ObamaGate. It is being revealed to the public in a slow but systematic fashion, a treasonous plot to undermine a presidential election and subsequent presidency. When that failed, the plot tw...
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May 8, 2020
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joe Biden?The Sound of Music is an iconic movie, the type Hollywood no longer makes, much to the detriment of their financial bottom line. One of the famous songs from the movie is called Maria, sung by the abbey nuns, describing the "flibbertigibbet...
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May 4, 2020
A Tale of Two Governors and Two State Re-openingsThis is a tale, not of two cities, but of two states, and two governors. Both states began reopening their economies last week as the worst of the Chinese flu appears to be over, except for a few isolated hotspots. Both states are reopening in a simi...
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April 20, 2020
What Happens When the Coronavirus Models are Wrong?As we hunker down under social distancing and stay-at-home orders, the Chinese coronavirus continues to extract a human toll in actual illness, as well as under-reported socio-economic costs. Many businesses are closed, people are not working, not ea...
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April 16, 2020
Suppose Trump Had Acted Earlier Against the Wuhan Virus?Petulant propagandists, disguised as journalists, have a new talking point. President Trump was asleep at the wheel earlier this year, eating Big Macs, sipping covfefe, watching Fox and Friends, totally missing the boat on the Chinese Coronavirus out...
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April 7, 2020
Trump vs. the Coronavirus -- What the Polls SayIf you watch cable news, something I have assiduously avoided these past few weeks, you will be told that Barney Fife is in charge of the country, that the President lies, mismanages, exaggerates, and has totally botched America’s response to t...
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April 3, 2020
Threading the Needle Between Public and Economic HealthThe nasty Chinese coronavirus is taking a massive toll, not only in America, but also around the world. While not as deadly as past flu epidemics, the final numbers are not yet known. Most of those who catch the virus have mild symptoms, but a small ...
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March 31, 2020
The Coincidental Chinese VirusWhen everything from professional sports to entertainment award shows have become political forums, it’s no surprise that an infectious disease outbreak moved from the realm of science to politics. In politics there are few coincidences, def...
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March 25, 2020
The curious political path of the Chinese virusIn our hyper-politicized world, where Democrats and the media frame all events, past and future, against a political backdrop and an upcoming presidential election, why shouldn't the all-consuming news event of this year, the Chinese virus, be vi...
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March 19, 2020
Remember When Travel Bans Were Racist and Xenophobic?Travel bans were never an issue or concern until a certain orange man took up residence in the White House. Congress has the Constitutional authority, “To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization.” The executive branch is then tasked wi...
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March 12, 2020
Since When Are Viruses Racist?In the identity politics world of the progressive left, everything is racist. Using the pseudo-concept of intersectionality, all grievance groups overlap, except the groups of white, male, Christian, and heterosexual. The intersectionality of those f...
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March 9, 2020
Coronavirus Codswallop -- By the Numbers"Codswallop" is one of those interesting words that might have been used by Supreme Court justice Anton Scalia in a dissenting opinion, or by conservative intellectual William F. Buckley in describing some liberal policy. It's a...
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March 3, 2020
The Only Thing Dems Have to Offer Is Fear ItselfFranklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 inaugural address contained a phrase, remembered to this day. In the wake of the Great Depression, he told Americans, So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear i...
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February 27, 2020
Berning Down the Democrat PartyA new wildfire has ignited in the US, worse than the recent out-of-control wildfires in Australia. This fire, rather than being fueled by dead trees and mismanaged forests, is instead fueled by Trump hatred and near dead politicians wishing to ...
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February 24, 2020
No Bernie, Denmark is Not a Socialist UtopiaSocialist/communist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders loves to sing the praises of a small Scandinavian country, Denmark. It seems he has fallen out of love with his previous favorite countries, the Soviet Union and Cuba, which he “warmly p...
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February 20, 2020
My Walk on the Wild Side – Attending a Bernie Sanders RallyBernie Sanders came to Denver last weekend and for fun I took my family to his Sunday night rally. Since we are all Republicans, this was a true walk on the wild side in the form of opposition research. As Sun Tzu said, “If you know the enemy a...
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February 17, 2020
Summertime Blues for the OlympicsAlthough we are currently in the dead of winter, summer will be here before we know it. Democrats may be singing the Summertime Blues along with Eddie Cochran, “I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler” when they are force...
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February 14, 2020
#Trump2020Landslide – By the NumbersA popular Twitter hashtag is #Trump2020Landslide. Is this wishful thinking or a real possibility? Let’s look at the electoral landscape over the next 9 months. As an initial caveat, understand the difference between confidence and overconfid...
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February 10, 2020
The Week When Trump Was ReelectedSanta was late coming down the White House chimney, but this week a sack of reelection Christmas presents belatedly arrived under the Trump Christmas tree. Face it, Christmas was a downer for President Trump and his supporters. The House rammed t...
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February 4, 2020
Godspeed, Rush LimbaughAs I was about to begin writing about the sun shining on President Trump's re-election efforts, a dark cloud passed over my Twitter feed announcing that Rush Limbaugh has advanced lung cancer and will be taking time off for medical treatment. ...
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February 3, 2020
The Winter of NeverTrump DiscontentIf the last few weeks have been bad for Democrats, imagine the dyspepsia and insomnia of the NeverTrump brigade. These are the so-called elite conservatives, intellectuals, smarter than your average Republican rube, the voice of reason and wisdom for...
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January 31, 2020
It’s About Corruption – Replacing a Failed and Corrupt Political EstablishmentAmerican presidents have their famous speeches, remembered long after they leave office. JFK said: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and told...
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January 27, 2020
The Deep State Tapestry of Deceit is Beginning to UnravelDeep state players in the Obama administration wove an elaborate tapestry of collusion, subterfuge, and electoral chicanery. While better suited for a Robert Ludlum novel, it played out in real time over the past four years. Stars of the drama inc...
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January 21, 2020
NY Times Beclowns Itself with Double Democrat EndorsementThe New York Times is considered the paper of record, the media pied piper that other newspapers dutifully follow, which provides cable and network news their daily talking points. The N.Y. Times is also the go-to leak site for Deep State ...
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January 20, 2020
POTUS Popping in the PollsWatch cable news, particularly CNN or MSNBC, and hear how the “walls are closing in” on President Trump. Impeachment is underway, a solemn and sober process, celebrated by House Speaker Pelosi handing out autographed pens during the impea...
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January 13, 2020
Hey, GOP! This is What Pushback Looks LikeRepublican voters have lamented for years over the lack of pushback from their elected leaders. Democrats and the media hurl baseless and libelous accusations at Republicans, only to be met with a weak defense at best, or silence at worst. R...
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January 10, 2020
The Fantasy War That Never WasOver the past few weeks, the media have been singing in 100-part harmony that America is headed to war. From Fox News and CNN, to MSNBC and the New York Times, media magpies have been proclaiming that America is going to war with Iran, than...
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January 6, 2020
Svengali Trump Hypnotizing Democrats and the MediaA Svengali is a person who controls another’s mind, usually with sinister intent, based on the 1891 gothic-horror novel Trilby, by George du Maurier. A century later, in the 1950s and 60s, the CIA actually dabbled and experimented in mind contr...
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January 2, 2020
Climate Predictions – Doubling Down on StupidIf the “science is settled” regarding global warming, climate change, extreme weather, or whatever it goes by these days, why are past predictions not more accurate? Weather forecasting, although frequently off the mark, is usually fai...
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December 28, 2019
Fake News at the OK CorralA century and a half ago in 1881, a famous shootout occurred in Tombstone, Arizona at the OK Corral between the Earp brothers and the Clanton-McLaury gang. The OK stood for Old Kindersley, a livery and horse stable. OK today is a variation of okay...
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December 28, 2019
Mayor Pete's Jesus is a figment of his Progressive worldviewPresidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is hanging in there, despite his thin résumé and a mess of a city that he is currently in charge of. He sits at 8.3 percent in the latest Real Clear Politics national average, t...
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December 23, 2019
Hell Hath No Fury Like A President (And His Supporters) ScornedWe’ve all heard the expression, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” and most of us have witnessed it at some point in our lives. It typically refers to betrayal, especially regarding love, when a woman is spurned and replaced b...
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December 16, 2019
Deck the Polls with Boughs of FollyChristmas is rapidly approaching. Traditional Christmas carols have been replaced by insipid pop ballads played incessantly on “holiday” radio stations. As “Deck the Halls” is now politically incorrect and triggering since it ...
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December 9, 2019
No, I Don’t Wish Trump Would Stop TweetingWhen speaking to Republicans casually about news and politics, the conversation eventually winds its way to President Trump. The dialogue is typically civil, unlike when trying to talk to hard left Democrats about politics, which is about as satisfyi...
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December 2, 2019
Trump Turkey Trots Over the DemocratsAnother Thanksgiving has come and gone. Hopefully everyone’s dinner table discussions were polite. Bloomberg News gave turkey eaters advice on how to keep Thanksgiving dinner civil. That’s the same Bloomberg News promising that it won...
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November 29, 2019
Why are Journalists so Humorless?Are humor and satire taught in journalism school? Apparently not, as President Donald Trump continues to reveal how media magpies are completely devoid of humor. They are the epitome of “Bah Humbug” from Ebenezer Scrooge in the upcoming C...
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November 27, 2019
The Trayvon Hoax Shines a Light on the 'Fake News' IndustryBig media balks at the term "fake news," insisting that they honestly and accurately report the news of the day. Those paying attention to the news can cite numerous examples of fake news, either deliberate misinformation or laziness on the...
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November 25, 2019
Are the Pincers Closing on the Deep State?Despite several years living through "the calm before the storm," it now appears that storm clouds are building on the horizon. Many of us are impatient and growing weary of "tick tock" bombshells that turn out to be fi...
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November 18, 2019
Enough Calm, Where’s the Storm?For the past several years, most of us who have been following the seditious Deep State activities against President Trump and many of his close associates have been eagerly awaiting a reckoning. A presidential campaign, then administration, was spie...
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November 12, 2019
The Election is Trump’s to LoseElection season is underway, with less than a year until the mother of all elections in November 2020. Will Americans vote to keep America great or toss 250 years of liberty and prosperity to the wind in favor of socialism? Is President Donald Trump ...
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November 6, 2019
In Politics, everything is Quid Pro Quo“Quid pro quo” is a term being thrown around these days as the latest gambit to “get Trump” after everything else has been tried and failed. It’s a Latin term meaning, "something for something," an exchange of ...
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November 5, 2019
The ‘What Ifs’ of the Trump PresidencyPlaying the game of “What if” has led to some of humankind’s greatest discoveries and achievements. It can also be a sorrowful acknowledgement of the status quo, an exercise of quiet desperation when time and opportunity are floatin...
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October 29, 2019
The Walls are Closing In — but Not on TrumpDemocrats and their media propaganda arm have been telling us since President Trump took office that “The walls are closing in.” First it was the Mueller investigation, then every fake news story from the media, from Trump’s attorne...
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October 24, 2019
Of Course President Trump Is Being LynchedPresident Donald Trump once again did the unthinkable: he hit back against the media and their political party, also known as the Democrats, over their contrived efforts to impeach him for the unforgivable sin of beating their chosen 2016 presidentia...
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October 21, 2019
Pew Pushes Polling PropagandaPollsters are at it again, pushing sketchy polls — not to reflect public opinion, but to shape it. This is called propaganda, a popular tool for dictators who want to control the information flow from an all-powerful government to th...
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October 17, 2019
Journalists Have Become HoaxersPresident Trump is castigated for calling out “fake news” as “the enemy of the people.” Yet he is correct, and journalists reinforce Trump's view on an increasingly frequent basis. For the Washington Post, “Democr...
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October 14, 2019
Fox News is Joining the Fake News PollstersThose on the political right believe that Fox News is an ally, while those on the Left criticize Fox as a right-wing echo chamber. Both groups are wrong. Fox News has made a hard turn to the Left in recent years. ...
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October 9, 2019
For Trump It’s About Corruption, Not PoliticsImpeachment fever is in the Washington, D.C. air this fall, despite the Mueller investigation and report fizzling out. The Democratic media can hardly talk about anything else after President Trump released the transcript of his phone call with Ukrai...
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October 7, 2019
Impeachment is Getting BoringIf you watch cable or network news, all you hear about is impeachment. To the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, it’s as if it already happened. Reps Pelosi, Schiff, and Nadler speak as if it’s a foregone conclusion, and shed crocodile tears...
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September 30, 2019
Trump and his Supporters are the Real Whistleblowers“Whistleblower” is the media’s word of the week. They are still working tirelessly to overturn the 2016 election. Unfortunately, it’s the wrong word to describe the deep state operative accusing President Trump of “Collu...
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September 24, 2019
Presidential Polling PropagandaAccording to the latest presidential opinion polls, the 2020 presidential election is over. Newsweek is giddy, having reported, "The latest Fox News poll about the 2020 election shows President Donald Trump losing to every Democr...
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September 21, 2019
London Calling – Anyone Listening?My wife and I had the recent privilege of traveling to London and Germany for business and pleasure. As is my nature, I looked at these wonderful places partially through the lens of politics, chatting up taxi drivers, tour guides, and other locals t...
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September 12, 2019
Fake News, Fake Polls – CNN EditionIt’s been a tough few weeks for CNN. Who knew pushing fake news could be so challenging? First, they tried to turn President Trump into a rube for suggesting that Alabama could be in the path of Hurricane Dorian. It turns out that CNN sugges...
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September 9, 2019
Media Meltdown over Trump’s Hurricane PredictionsSeptember 10, 2019 (American Thinker) — It seems that anything President Trump says or does can trigger the media into a state of stupidity or psychosis, or both. The Trump-hating media has been suffering from post-traumatic stress d...
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September 5, 2019
NeverTrump Nitwits Should Just Go AwayInstead of admitting they were wrong about President Donald Trump, the #NeverTrump nitwit brigade is doubling down on stupid. Is it simply that they are too stubborn to acknowledge that despite their misgivings during campaign season, Trump is turnin...
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September 2, 2019
Hurricane Hysteria SeasonHurricane season actually spans two seasons, summer and fall, beginning June 1 and ending November 30. We are well into the 2019 season with Hurricane Dorian bearing down on mainland US at the time of this writing. Given the left’s penchant ...
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August 26, 2019
Legitimate concerns about Joe Biden’s state of mindMost Democrat primary polls, as summarized by Real Clear Politics, show former Vice-President Joe Biden with a healthy lead over the rest of the pack of socialist wannabes. Many of the polls show Slow Joe with a double-digit lead over his nearest com...
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August 21, 2019
Have Pollsters Learned Nothing since the Last Election?While the moniker “fake news” is typically reserved for cable news and some of the more prominent newspapers in America, the term could also be applied to presidential polls. How many pollsters predicted Hillary Clinton would win the 2016...
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August 19, 2019
Election 2020: It’s the Crowds, Stupid!When Bill Clinton successfully unseated sitting President George H.W. Bush in 1992, Clinton’s campaign manager James Carville coined the phrase, “It's the economy, stupid” as a campaign theme. Despite a 90 percent job approva...
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August 10, 2019
Red Flags and White SupremacistsFor the past two years, the left’s 'go to' words were “Russia,” “Mueller,” and “collusion.” Mueller’s investigation and report were a big swing and a miss and not surprisingly the...
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August 5, 2019
Desperate Democrats Grasping at StrawsDesperate times call for desperate measures. For the Democratic Party, these are desperate times indeed. The 2020 presidential election is 15 months away and Democrats have no serious candidate to challenge President Trump. Instead they have twent...
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July 30, 2019
Dems Rely on Phony Impeachment PollingDespite the embarrassing spectacle of Robert Mueller’s Congressional testimony where he finally learned about the report he supposedly created and wrote, Democrats are doubling down on stupid. They are ignoring the first law of holes, that w...
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July 29, 2019
If Mueller Wasn’t in Charge, Who Was?Special Counsel Robert Mueller had a bad day last week. The build-up to his congressional testimony rivaled that of Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone’s vault. Endless fanfare and hype, but both Mueller and the vault were empty, devoid of tr...
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July 24, 2019
Now Is the Summer of Democrats' DiscontentThere is a line from Shakespeare’s Richard III, “Now is the winter of our discontent” expressing the idea that we have reached the depth, or winter, of our unhappiness and that better times are ahead as winter rolls into spring and ...
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July 22, 2019
For Being Such an Idiot, Trump is Pretty SmartWe have been hearing now for four years, ever since that escalator ride at Trump Tower, how then-candidate, now-President Trump is such an idiot. The media, Democrats, and NeverTrumpers, virtually in lockstep assured us that Trump would never be the ...
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July 16, 2019
Democrats Hold a Terrible Hand of Race CardsName calling is the last refuge for one losing an argument. Much like a roundhouse punch that hits nothing but air, it’s a final effort in a losing fight. But it’s also been the one reliable punch for Democrats, playing the race card agai...
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July 8, 2019
The Democrats’ Situational RacismDemocrats and their media allies are floundering in the face of a covfefe-strength hurricane of great economic news and an incumbent president who is fulfilling his campaign promises. What he hasn’t yet accomplished is not for lack of trying; i...
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July 2, 2019
Democrats Circling the Electoral DrainDemocrats have convinced themselves that they represent the sentiments of a majority of Americans. Watching the recent Democrat presidential debates, one cannot help but conclude the opposite. Rather than looking beyond their liberal coastal encla...
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June 24, 2019
Roll Out Those Lazy, Hazy, SNOWY Days of SummerNat King Cole recorded “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer” way back in 1963. In “Those days of soda and pretzels and beer,” summers were hot, and the only thing frosty was the beer. Not so much this summer. The summer so...
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June 20, 2019
Trump and the Latest Polls: Summertime Blues or More Fake News?Recent polls show President Donald Trump in big trouble, likely to lose in a landslide to many of the 20-plus Democrat contenders. Once again, the media tell their dwindling audience how "the walls are closing in" on Trump and ho...
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June 18, 2019
Coffee will Kill You, Until it Won’t, and Other Fake Health NewsEvery week there is another health pronouncement saying what is now good for you and what is going to kill you. Unfortunately, the “what” is often interchangeable -- what was supposed to kill you last week is now suddenly good for you or ...
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June 12, 2019
California Says: ‘Go West, Young Illegals, Go West’Doctors and hospitals are in the gunsights of many Democrats who want Medicare-for-all as a draconian price control scheme by government over all medical care in the US. Hospitals are told they charge too much and doctors are vilified for earning too...
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June 11, 2019
The Left's Latest Obsession: Buying a CakeLeftists in America have managed to turn buying a cake into the modern version of the Selma march. For one Colorado baker, this has become a march to the courthouse, over and over again. Militant LGBT activists are once again picking on Jack Phill...
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June 5, 2019
The Summer of Climate Change DiscontentTrump Derangement Syndrome is reaching new levels of insanity. The Left is increasingly frustrated over all things Trump, with the next three months set to be the Democrats' summer of discontent. From Trump's rising poll numbers...
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May 30, 2019
Trump Finally Has the Wind at his BackPresident Donald Trump has been sailing into the wind, against the tide, dragging an anchor, for the first two years of his presidency. And despite these hindrances, he is presiding over a booming economy and record low unemployment, circumstances th...
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May 24, 2019
Democrats Toss Women Athletes Under the BusDemocrats love to portray themselves as the party of women. The Democrats.org website proclaims proudly, “We are committed to ensuring full equality for women.” Yet this past week, House Democrats voted unanimously to, appropriating a ...
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May 20, 2019
Abortion Meets Newton’s Laws of MotionNewton’s third law of motion states, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Although Newton was describing the movement of physical objects, it turns out his laws are also predictive of political issues, the lat...
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May 13, 2019
Why the Media Suddenly Lost Interest in the Latest School ShootingSchool shootings are terrible events -- except for the left where they represent opportunities, as in Rahm Emanuel’s “Never let a crisis go to waste” modus operandi. CNN, for example, wasted no time in politicizing the latest sch...
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May 6, 2019
Mueller Rewrites Jurisprudence – Guilty Until Proven InnocentAmerican jurisprudence is based on the presumption of innocence -- in other words, innocent until proven guilty. The accused remains innocent unless and until the prosecution can convince a judge or jury that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable...
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April 29, 2019
Global Warming Going the way of Russia CollusionThe last thing we expect mid-spring is snow. Yet that’s just what we have. As the Weather Channel reports, “It may be late April, but Winter Storm Xyler will make you forget that it is spring in the Midwest this weekend as it is exp...
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April 24, 2019
Trump's Righteous Indignation over His InnocenceThe American judicial system, based on British Common Law, presumes accused people innocent until they are proven guilty. The burden is on the accuser or prosecutor to prove guilt, rather than mandating the accused prove their innocence. English j...
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April 16, 2019
The Left's Overreach on AbortionOne thing the left is adept at is overreaching. Not content with a small victory, they prefer to double down, going double-or-nothing, and usually ending up closer to nothing than double. Some call this, “Perfect is the enemy of the good”...
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April 12, 2019
Sicko, Southern Border-StyleSicko is one of Michael Moore’s many movies, focusing on the U.S. health care system, costs, the uninsured, and the usual liberal talking points. Despite his many criticisms of U.S. health care, when Moore was sick with pneumonia, he chose hosp...
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April 8, 2019
Trump is Popping in the PollsWatch most cable or network news shows and the message is clear -- President Donald Trump is unpopular, especially compared to the dozens of fresh faces attempting to challenge him for the White House in 2020. Some of the faces are not so fresh...
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April 4, 2019
Are the Dems about to Step in a Big Steaming Pile of Covfefe?After overreaching on the Trump-Russia collusion attempted coup, rather than admitting they were wrong, humbling apologizing and moving on, Democrats (and I include the media here) are doubling down. They are hellbent on seeing the entire Mueller rep...
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April 1, 2019
Hands Up, Don’t ColludeIf there had been any question as to the corruption of the mainstream media, their response in the aftermath of the Mueller report release should dispel any remaining doubt. After endlessly pushing the narrative that President Donald Trump colluded w...
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March 28, 2019
The Vainglorious NeverTrumpersVainglorious is a rich, multi-syllabic word that actually describes something well, unlike the similar big words the left uses to confuse and obscure their social justice agenda, such as intersectionality. Vainglorious means to be boastfully vain and...
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March 25, 2019
The Left is Not Letting the New Zealand Crisis Go to Waste“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” These are the words of Rahm Emanuel, advisor and fixer in both the Clinton and Obama admin...
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March 21, 2019
The Left's New Favorite Multisyllable Buzzword: IntersectionalityLearning is a lifelong process, continuing long after we leave formal educational institutions. Consider it brain exercise, keeping your cerebral cortex well-toned and muscular, with synapses firing as fast as Maxine Waters’ gums when she is in...
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March 18, 2019
Is More Gun Control the Answer for New Zealand?New Zealand had a rude awakening last week, transitioning from an idyllic paradise to full membership in the politically charged and violent western world. The 2018 Global Peace Index had rated NZ as the second safest country in the world, behind Ice...
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March 11, 2019
Trump Is an Army of OnePresidents typically have the backing and support of their political party. Although all presidents have the bully pulpit to broadcast their messages, the presidency is a busy job, and the president must delegate messaging and branding to surrogates,...
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March 4, 2019
Global Warming Faceplant on the Left CoastCalifornia is the land of endless summer. The Beach Boys are catching a wave in front of bikini-clad girls with bushy, bushy blonde hairdos under the warm California sun. The Beach Boys were writing music long before global warming became a thing. In...
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February 26, 2019
Boys Will Be Boys, Except When They Are GirlsThere are two sexes, male and female, depending on whether one possesses two X chromosomes or an X and a Y chromosome. There are rare exceptions, where someone had a third chromosome, and his sex is indeterminate. Today, "gender,...
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February 23, 2019
Look What CNN Is Outraged Over NowBig media have had plenty to be outraged over during the tough times they have been living through in the age of Trump the Terrible. When the New York Times writes its version of the history of Western civilization, today will be at the ep...
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February 19, 2019
Crime and Punishment for the Deep StateCrime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, published in 1866, explored the theme of morally justifying crime for its greater good and benefit to society. Fast forward 150 years from Russia to the American political deep state, where similar righteou...
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February 13, 2019
Abortion and the Politics of Self-DestructionIt’s odd that large groups of people often take political stands seemingly against their best interests. In the age of Trump, these oddities have become readily apparent. President Trump has been a strong friend of Israel and has moved the U...
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February 7, 2019
Fake News about Holes in Antarctic GlaciersCNN is breathless over a "Gigantic hole two-thirds the size of Manhattan discovered in Antarctic glacier." I'm sure the reporters wish the hole actually were in Manhattan and included Trump Tower, but alas, the hole is f...
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February 4, 2019
Infanticide Abortion May Be Only the BeginningOnce upon a time, leading Democrats, such as Bill Clinton, wanted abortion to be "safe, legal, and rare." Given the reality of Roe v. Wade and the unlikely prospect of it ever being repealed, this stance on abortion had been the ...
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January 30, 2019
Frigid in Chicago Must Mean Global WarmingChicago is chilly these days, with a low predicted for Wednesday of this week of minus 21 degrees Fahrenheit. Add a 20 mile-per-hour breeze with a wind chill of minus 55 degrees and the Windy City will become the Arctic City. That’s cold, but n...
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January 29, 2019
Who's in Charge of the Executive Branch?An organizational chart of the executive branch of the federal government clearly shows one person at the top, the president. Beneath him are cabinet departments, including the department of justice. Within the DOJ, another organizational chart demon...
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January 25, 2019
'Settled Science' Is Going the Way of BuzzFeed"Settled science" and BuzzFeed share a fatal commonality. Both are driven by an agenda rather than facts. BuzzFeed learned that lesson yet another time last week. Two years ago, the publication pushed...
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January 21, 2019
Gillette Conveniently Overlooked the Real Toxic MasculinityMost everyone has seen, or at least heard about, Gillette’s new ad targeting the ill-defined term “toxic masculinity.” As with all of these new terms and causes, the best place to try to make sense of these new tenets of socia...
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January 16, 2019
Trump Firing Comey Is No Obstruction of JusticeAs the Mueller special counsel investigation is rumored to be winding down, the media are furiously spinning tall tales about President Donald Trump as a hedge against the Mueller report being a nothingburger. Politico is wa...
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January 12, 2019
Who Fact-Checks the Fact-Checkers?American media have abandoned their primary job of reporting the news. Gone are the days of telling readers and viewers the who, what, where, when, and why. Now it's telling the audience what to think, after filtering the ne...
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January 9, 2019
Democrats Can Fund the World, but Not the WallThere is nothing like a government shutdown to illustrate clearly the priorities of the two opposing sides to the standoff. On one side is President Trump, keeping a campaign promise to build a wall, to keep crime, sex-trafficking, drugs, ...
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January 7, 2019
Trump and the Character QuestionAt the midpoint of Donald Trump's presidency, those in his party who seemingly should be supporting him are as critical as ever. Now it's the issue of his character. NeverTrump Jonah Goldberg recently penned an article, ...
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January 2, 2019
It's not about the Wall -- it's about TrumpAs the New Year begins, the federal government is without a budget. Not that a budget matters to Congressional spendthrifts. If we really had a budget, we wouldn’t be $20 trillion in debt. With no signs of fiscal sanity or responsibility return...
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January 1, 2019
The Absurdity of an Open BorderDemocrats heatedly deny being in favor of open borders, but their actions and even their own words say otherwise. Much the same could be said about many Republicans. Both parties want an unrestricted flood of immigrants to America, but for diff...
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December 24, 2018
Justice Ginsburg’s Failing HealthJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg continues to be in the news as questions mount over her health and ability to serve on the US Supreme Court. Most recently, she underwent, “Surgery to remove two malignant nodules from her left lung, the Supreme Cour...
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December 23, 2018
The Swamp Is Growing DeeperPresident Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 with two simple promises: draining the swamp and building the wall. Last I looked, the wall isn't being built, based on Friday evening's Senate vote, and the swamp waters are rising...
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December 18, 2018
O Little Poll of Washington...A popular Christmas carol is “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” In keeping with the Christmas season, and the ongoing efforts by the Washington, D.C. elites and ruling classes to destroy anything and everything related to President Trump, it...
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December 14, 2018
When Does Trump Say, 'Enough Is Enough!'?President Donald Trump is an army of one. At least in Washington, DC and other elite enclaves. Sure, he has his base of deplorables, those who wait on mile-long lines to attend his rallies and those who voted for him two years ago. Yet look at the...
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December 11, 2018
Trump Derangement Syndrome Down UnderMost of the US media loathes President Donald Trump, never expecting him to be elected, and after he surprised everyone, they did everything in their power to discredit his presidency, turn public opinion against him, and drive him from office, eithe...
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December 6, 2018
Time for an Ellis Island Approach to ImmigrationAs migrants stream from Central America, through Mexico, toward the southern U.S. border, media coverage focuses only on plight of poor refugees seeking a better life in America. The health of the refugees is never discussed. Are any of them carrying...
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December 3, 2018
So What if Trump Wanted to Build a Tower in Moscow?Media madness surrounds us. Like a three-ring circus, Big Media has three main themes. The middle ring is Trump Derangement Syndrome. Everything and anything Trump does or says is outrageous, uncouth, unpresidential, ...
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November 28, 2018
The Migrant Caravan of DiseasesThe Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently announced the formation of a task force to investigate a new mysterious illness afflicting primarily children. Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a polio-like illness believed to be caused by a virus. But i...
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November 27, 2018
Global Warming Alarmism Meets a Blizzard of RealityIn a bit of irony lost on big media, the government, on the eve of winter and during a slew of recent snowstorms, released a doomsday report on global warming. As reported in the New York Times, A major scientific report issued by 13 federal age...
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November 19, 2018
Global Warming Snowed UnderGlobal warming is settled science, according to Barack Obama, Al Gore, and the rest of the progressive smart set in Washington, DC. Their only solution is more government – taxes, regulations, mandates – all throttling the American engine...
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November 15, 2018
Thanks, NeverTrumpers. Are You Happy Now?NeverTrump Republicans have been rabidly obsessed since 2015 to prevent Donald Trump’s nomination, election, and having failed, to join the left in nonstop criticism and condemnation of President Trump. They may be succeeding, but to what end? ...
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November 12, 2018
Will Trump be the Last Republican President?I believe that Donald Trump will be the last Republican president many of us will ever see in our lifetimes. We hope that he will serve two terms, but even that is not a given, despite his popularity both personally and of his MAGA agenda. I...
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November 8, 2018
Midterm Silver LiningsWith the 2018 midterm elections in the rear-view mirror, what are the postmortem results? Was it a blue wave or a red wave? Was it somewhere in between, perhaps a purple haze? The weeks ahead will provide ample time for analysis, blame, excuses, and ...
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November 5, 2018
Global Warming Propaganda in the Election SeasonThe Washington Post is right on schedule, turning weather into politics, with Election Day forecasts, “This year’s midterm election features an intensity usually reserved for a presidential race. In parts of central and eastern Unite...
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November 3, 2018
Is Trump the Only Republican Out There?In just a few days, the 2018 congressional midterm elections will determine which party controls Congress for the next two years. This is arguably one of the most important elections of recent times, given how much is riding on the outcome...
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October 29, 2018
Democrats Using Cloward-Piven as their Midterm Hail Mary PassCloward-Piven is a political strategy first described in 1966, by two Columbia University sociologists, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. This was published appropriately in the far-left The Nation, the oldest continuously published news magazin...
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October 26, 2018
BernieCare for All Means Medicare for NoneSenator Bernie Sanders, in keeping with his socialist proclivities, wants single-payer government run healthcare for everyone. As he describes it on his website, Health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. Every man, woman and ch...
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October 24, 2018
Follow the Money on Climate Caterwauling“Follow the money” is an expression popularized in the Watergate movie All the President’s Men as a means of tracing a path of corruption, often within the upper echelons of politics. This movie from the 1970s represented the heyday...
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October 22, 2018
Migrant Caravan Points Way to GOP Midterm SuccessCaravan refers to, “A group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts or hostile territory.” Conjuring up images dating back to biblical days of people braving hardship during their ...
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October 15, 2018
The Second Most Important ElectionWith the 2018 midterm elections only weeks away, many think this is the most important election of recent times. Much is riding on the Republicans maintaining control of Congress. If the Democrats win the House, all current investigations into the De...
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October 11, 2018
Another Hurricane Means More Climate Change HysteriaHurricane Michaelis the first category four storm to make landfall in the panhandle. It’s hurricane season after all, so it’s no big surprise that another storm developed a month after Hurricane Florence battered the Carolinas. In the ...
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October 8, 2018
Polling Pain for DemocratsIt’s been a tough few weeks for Democrats and the media. Grasping at straws and serial gang rapes, Democrats have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, only to have everything bounce off him, hitting t...
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October 6, 2018
When Is the Reckoning?An archaic definition of “reckoning” is “a bill or account, or it’s settlement.” It’s the settling of scores, or how Michael Corleone in The Godfather “settled all family business”. A reckoning restores...
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September 30, 2018
Healthy Shame Woefully Absent in Washington, DCRighteous and appropriate indignation was on full display at last week's Senate hearing over sexual assault allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. From the Democrats, it was the usual outrage they have had since Donald Trump won the pre...
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September 27, 2018
Russia and Kavanaugh: Evidence, schmevidenceNormally, when someone is accused of doing something wrong or nefarious, the accusers have evidence to back up their charges. Such accusations can damage a person's job, family, reputation, and future. Laws exist to protect ...
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September 23, 2018
With the Kavanaugh Charade, Do Polls Now Replace the Constitution?The Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus closed its tents last year after a hundred-plus year run. The new circus, replacing the last generation of clowns and freaks, is called the United States Senate. Dubbed the “greatest delibera...
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September 21, 2018
J'accuse as the New Legal StandardTwo and a half centuries of legal precedent in the United States is based on the assumption of "innocent until proven guilty." The law provides for due process, protection against unreasonable search and seizure, trial by a jury ...
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September 17, 2018
Let’s Blame Every Death on President TrumpFake News is a term popularized by President Donald Trump to characterize the mainstream media. Not all journalists, as the President notes, but the major American media outlets such as CNN, NBC, and the New York Times. While the media objects to...
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September 14, 2018
The Media's Latest Poll DanceWith the midterms less than two months away and the economy firing on all cylinders, the Democrats, and their handlers, also known as the American media, are entering the panic zone. The midterms are the last chance for the left to stop th...
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September 10, 2018
Fall Madness – Hurricanes and Global WarmingFall is officially upon us with the passing of Labor Day. After this seasonal landmark, we are not supposed to wear white. I’m surprised CNN’s Don Lemon hasn’t found something racist in this tradition. Football season has started...
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September 2, 2018
McCain resurrects the Wellstone memorial disasterLeave it to the Democrats, and anti-Trump Republicans, two groups that can certainly be lumped together, to use two separate memorials to hold a political rally, to criticize the sitting president of the United States. Two well known and important...
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September 1, 2018
Desperate times call for yet another poll"Desperate times call for desperate measures," as the old saying goes. The media and their patrons on the left are becoming desperate over their electoral prospects in November. The midterms are two months away, and th...
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August 31, 2018
Who Really Started the Trump-McCain Feud?With Senator John McCain's recent passing, the Trump-McCain feud has heated up. It's really a manufactured kerfuffle, as one party is saying little, and the other party has departed from the living, no longer able to participate in...
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August 30, 2018
China and Clinton Emails: Hack or Invitation?A Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington, D.C. area hacked Hillary Clinton's private email server, gaining real-time access to her emails during her term as U.S. secretary of state. The Daily Caller reported this bombshell, ...
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August 28, 2018
Polls Are Just More Media PropagandaElection season is upon us again, two years after one of the wildest roller-coaster political campaigns in recent memory. This time, it's Congress on the ballot, not Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton. Yet President Trump i...
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August 23, 2018
Yahoo scraping the bottom of the news barrelYahoo can't seem to find any news these days. The outlet's reporters have nothing to say about the economy, low unemployment, and strong economic growth. Instead, they are waiting breathlessly for the Paul Manafort trial...
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August 20, 2018
CNN Takes the Bait on DiversityCNN, famous for fake news, focuses their 24-7 news cycle on anything damaging to President Trump, even if they have to provoke it or make it up. Their low television ratings reflect the lack of public interest in their incessant Trump bashing. In lat...
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August 17, 2018
Trump and OmarosaIt may be the dog days of summer for most of us, but not for the media. Chasing the latest outrage, which they for the most part create, they are like a pack of dogs chasing a car down the street. Once they catch the car, they a...
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August 14, 2018
Trump-Haters Meet the Sorcerer's ApprenticeHollywood's Walk of Fame started in the late 1950s to honor accomplished members of the entertainment industry. On average, they add two new stars each month. As Hollywood is a bastion of political correctness and ...
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August 10, 2018
A Tale of Three CitiesCharles Dickens wrote the classic A Tale of Two Cities a century and a half ago. It's a story about two famous cities of the times, Paris and London, around the time of the French Revolution. These cities were the ...
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August 6, 2018
Summertime Blues for the LeftDog days of summer doesn’t actually have anything to do with dogs, instead the expression refers to the time when the dog star Sirius rises just before the sun, in late July. And we are currently in the dog days of summer. Temperatures are h...
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August 5, 2018
Can’t wait for the next NY Times editorial board meetingThe Gray Lady, also known as the New York Times, is the “paper of record” for the smart set in America. News rooms from CNN to MSNBC follow the lead of the Times in preparing their daily news reports. In a departure from reporting the ...
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July 30, 2018
Michael Cohen Already Exonerated President TrumpScores of Democrat activists disguised as journalists have had their hair on fire since Donald Trump won the election. Every week brings another outrage, from the travel ban to separated illegal immigrant families. From Stormy Daniels to Robert Muell...
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July 28, 2018
If You're Going To San Francisco...Think AgainA few decades ago, Scott McKenzie sang one of the classic hippie anthems, “San Francisco,” back in 1967. It was sung during the heyday of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Flower power was the rage. Peace, love, and understanding were the ma...
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July 24, 2018
Is Carter Page Really a Russian Agent?Back in the early sixties, Sam Cooke sang about dull Saturday nights. "Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody." This past Saturday night, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was singing the same song, having foun...
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July 20, 2018
Democrat Ladies of the Lie"Oh! What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive," warned Sir Walter Scott. That's a good warning that falls on deaf ears among the leading ladies of the Democrats who have a penchant for tel...
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July 19, 2018
Walk a Mile in Trump's ShoesPresident Donald Trump is not a figure many feel empathetic toward. Nearly half the country hates him. Hate may be too mild a word. They despise him and equate him with the worst of human history, Hitler and the Nazis...
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July 13, 2018
Don't You Wish NeverTrumps Would Just Go Away?We are quite accustomed to the media and the left ginning up phony outrage as a means of virtue-signaling and attacking President Trump. Russian collusion is the standard, but it hasn't panned out as planned. Next in line ar...
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July 9, 2018
Summertime Heat Must Mean Global WarmingSummertime brings hot days at least as long as I can remember. Currently it has been hotter than normal, whatever “normal” really is. The media is panting, not from the heat, but over another chance to push the global warming narrative. A...
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July 5, 2018
Another Hail Mary Attempt from the Left to Deny Trump His SCOTUS PickJune was a tough month for the left. It began with a successful North Korean summit, followed by news that the economy is hotter than even the current heat wave embracing much of the country. The Supreme Court handed President Trump a win on the trav...
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July 1, 2018
NeverTrumpers and a 5-4 VoteJune has been quite a month for President Trump. From the North Korea summit to a similar sit-down with Vladimir Putin next month. Four percent economic growth, statistical full employment, and high consumer confidence. A successful round of primary ...
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June 25, 2018
Remember When it was Fashionable to be Tough on Immigration?Fashion goes in and out of style, from bell bottoms to wide neck ties. Once upon a time it was cool to wear a powder blue leisure suit and sport long side burns and a mustache. Now it’s a silly look, except for a 70s themed party. Being toug...
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June 21, 2018
On Immigration Congress Snoozes, Trump CruisesAfter a week of nonstop media cacophony about how President Trump is a Nazi, putting kids in cages, separating parents from their children, and being an all-around ogre, he acted. The immigration mess is one of Congress’s making, passing vague ...
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June 19, 2018
Trump-haters dragging out the Nazi canard againPresident Donald Trump is celebrating 500 days in office with a smile on his face and a spring in his step. If there was any doubt, watch his recent impromptu drop-in interview on the White House lawn with Steve Doocy from Fox and Friends ...
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June 15, 2018
NeverTrump Chickens Coming Home to RoostNoted farmer and poultry expert, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, once said in a sermon, that Barack Obama may or may not have been present for, that “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” Such is the way of nature, with an ord...
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June 13, 2018
The Down-Under View of Donald TrumpNew Zealand is one of those exotic countries on everyone's bucket list of places to visit. It has friendly people, beautiful scenery, and a mystique made famous through Peter Jackson's movies – The Lord of the Rings...
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June 8, 2018
Ireland Opens the Door to Demographic Disaster"When Irish Eyes are Smiling" is an Irish tribute song written in the 1940s. Its opening line goes, "There's a tear in your eye, and I'm wondering why, for it never should be there at all." Are any te...
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June 7, 2018
Why is Melania's health more important than Hillary's?First Lady Melania Trump had a hospital-based kidney procedure last month, described as "[a]n embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition." Embolization is a minimally invasive surgical technique that deliberat...
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June 2, 2018
Ambien: The new 'assault drug'?Roseanne Barr stepped in a steaming pile of political correctness this week. She lost her hit television show after a derogatory tweet about Barack Obama's co-president, Valerie Jarrett. ABC wasted no time in canceling the s...
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May 30, 2018
What's Hillary Hiding about Her Health?Hillary Clinton is either the gift that keeps on giving or else like houseguests who overstayed their welcome, depending on your perspective. For Republicans, her continued presence in the public eye, whining and complaining about the elec...
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May 24, 2018
Suppose we protected airports as badly as we do schoolsAnother school shooting, this time in Santa Fe, Texas, with ten dead and even more injured. Like clockwork, the virtue-signalers are out in force. Self-proclaimed school safety czar David Hogg is back in front a microp...
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May 21, 2018
The Latest Whopper -- The FBI Was Actually Trying to ‘Protect Trump’“Oh, what a tangled web we weave... when first we practice to deceive.” This quote is attributed to Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish historian and novelist. Too bad he wasn’t available for a sermon at the royal wedding this past week...
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May 19, 2018
Trump Is Going Full Alinsky – and His Opponents Are FlummoxedSaul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is considered a bible to the left, a how-to guide for community organizing and activism. Barack Obama was an Alinsky protégé before, during, and after his presidency. Obama use...
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May 9, 2018
Republicans Joining the Virtue-Signaling CrowdVirtue-signaling is all the rage, especially on the left. In simple terms, it means taking a public position on a seemingly well meaning cause and then telling everyone how wonderful and caring you are for taking a stand. Never ...
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May 6, 2018
The Vicar of Virtue-Signaling"Vicar of Christ" is a historic description of bishops and popes, originally representing the "earthly manifestation of Christ." The bishop of Rome, or the pope, is the modern-day example of the vicar of Christ. ...
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May 2, 2018
The Silence of the Republican Lambs on Ronny Jackson, the Roaring Economy, and MoreWhat a week for President Trump! We have North and South Korea making peace, with the North promising to give up its nukes – something unimaginable for past administrations, those filled with diplomatic wizards like Barack Obama, Hil...
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April 25, 2018
Are There Any Adults Left in Washington, D.C.?As America approaches her 250th birthday, her instruction manual, the U.S. Constitution, is under assault as never before. The First Amendment is under attack by campus speech police and social media, censoring and deciding which poli...
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April 21, 2018
Comey is a Pink-Hatted Women's-MarcherRemember a recent stop in India on Hillary Clinton's "Excuse Tour", blaming everyone and everything except the family dog for her surprising (at least to her and her supporters) electoral loss to Donald Trump? Two things stan...
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April 19, 2018
Despite a Deluge of Negativity, Trump Is Still PopularIf you watch cable news or read virtually any newspaper in the world, the only conclusion you can reach is that America has gone crazy. The most powerful country in the world, Ronald Reagan's "shining city upon a hill," has lost h...
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April 12, 2018
Shifting Tactics to Take Down TrumpSince Election Day, when the entire Washington, D.C. establishment was expecting a Hillary Clinton landslide victory, the establishment's goal has been to get rid of Donald Trump. It began the day after the election. Once Mrs. Clinton...
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April 8, 2018
Illegal Immigration: Lies, Damned Lies, and StatisticsThe quote in the title has been attributed to Mark Twain, Benjamin Disraeli, and others, but its true source remains unknown. Let's call it an anonymous source, which these days forms the basis of numerous stories in the New ...
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April 4, 2018
Is the Migrant Caravan a Trojan Horse?'Trojan horse' refers to a clever trick to hide and sneak foes across enemy lines. It is the story of a large hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks, to hide and hold Greek warriors. The horse was offered to Troy by the Greeks as a tri...
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April 1, 2018
Want to Make Trump Even More Popular? Keep Attacking HimTrump Derangement Syndrome has become a full-fledged disease, now an epidemic in liberal enclaves along the east and west coasts. Perhaps the medical establishment could create an ICD-10 code, adding to the growing number of currently reco...
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March 29, 2018
Riders on the Storm(y)"Riders on the Storm" was a hit for The Doors in 1970, a psychedelic rock ballad from the drug-addled Jim Morrison. A portion of the lyrics goes, "Like a dog without a bone, an actor out alone." Fla...
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March 24, 2018
Once Again, I Ask: Why Vote Republican?Every few months, Republicans behave stupidly, causing their voters to again ask themselves, "Why vote Republican?" Supporting congressional Republicans seems an exercise in futility – Lucy holding the football for Charlie ...
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March 20, 2018
Media using phony polls to force narrative of Trump failureBig media is confused these days. Their go-to story about Trump-Russia collusion is a dead end. The House Intelligence Committee wrapped up their investigation finding, “No evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump ca...
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March 16, 2018
Democrats Win by Running as Trump, not ClintonOne of the few beneficial legacies of the Barack Obama presidency is the electoral decimation of the Democratic Party. Over a thousand seats, national and statewide, flipped from Democrat to Republican control during the fu...
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March 14, 2018
Congress: Representing Everyone but the ConstituentsArticle 1 of the U.S. Constitution, just after the Preamble, describes the Congress. The House of Representatives "[s]hall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States." Note...
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March 8, 2018
A dark and stormy night for Trump with Stormy DanielsThe dark and stormy night is one of those classic Victorian opening lines to the next great melodramatic novel. It's become a caricature and a joke – appropriately, based on its overly dramatic style. What else recently has be...
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March 5, 2018
Jeff Sessions -- Ninja or Nincompoop?Conventional wisdom, as shaped by the mainstream media, is becoming more and more schizophrenic. President Trump is a Russian stooge, doing Putin’s bidding, yet he is reigniting the cold war via new Russian sanctions. His White House is in chao...
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February 28, 2018
Parkland Shooting: Questions the Left Can't AnswerNow a week out from the tragic Parkland Florida shooting, emotions are still running high. Stories and explanations change by the day. Answers should be forthcoming, but instead, we are left with only questions. Rather than answering these...
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February 26, 2018
Virtue-signaling Olympics 2018: Big ratings dudAfter just over two weeks, the 2018 Olympic games are thankfully over. The U.S. finished fourth in total medals but paced first in virtue-signaling and politics. Too bad no medals are awarded for social justice, or else the U.S....
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February 23, 2018
I Thought America Hated Donald TrumpWatch any cable or network news station or read the newspaper, and you will be told that President Trump is unpopular. That Americans don't like him. The Washington Post proclaims that "Trump is historically unpopular....
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February 22, 2018
What Constitutes Treason?"Treason" is a term occasionally bandied about but rarely discussed seriously. President Trump, in a recent speech, joked about it. Referring to the catatonic Democrats during the State of the Union address, ...
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February 20, 2018
Chasing Windmills with Deadly ConsequencesThe FBI’s mission is, “To protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States.” How is that working out lately? Seems they are doing the opposite. Protecting its own corrupt players and undermining the Const...
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February 15, 2018
Global Warming Causing Record Cold Temps at Winter OlympicsNo one should be surprised that the Winter Olympics, just like the NFL, is no longer primarily a sporting event. Instead of ice-skating and skiing, the major sport in the Olympics is media virtue-signaling over race, gender, and climate. ...
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February 11, 2018
That Didn't Take Long: #BlackLivesMatter Goes to the OlympicsWhen everything is about race, nothing is about race. The left plays the race card as often as it plays the Nazi or gender card, its hackneyed alternative to any substantive discussion about issues and policy. It's much like those pul...
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February 8, 2018
Up Schiff’s Creek Without a PaddleSchadenfreude is pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune. Not wishing such on anyone, but instead enjoying a smile or a laugh when karma returns to bite someone on the rear end. Today schadenfreude is in the midwinter air, blowing br...
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February 5, 2018
Carter Page was the Camel's Nose in Trump's TentThere is an old Arab proverb, "If the camel gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow." A metaphor for a small, insignificant action opening the door to something much larger and more nefarious. Overlooked in this past weekend...
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January 29, 2018
Italy's Population is Sinking Faster Than the Tower of PisaThe Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of Italy’s famous landmarks. Recognized the world over. The tower actually does lean, beginning during construction in the 12th century. The tilt is due to an, “inadequate foundation on ground to...
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January 18, 2018
Trump moves from 'very stable genius' to cognitive whizWhat a week for the media. Coming off a sugar high from the myriad accusations in Michael Wolff's book that President Trump lacks the mental capacity for the presidency, they made a quick pivot from "Trump is mentally deficient or...
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January 15, 2018
DACA Will Be a Wall around the White HouseWalls have a variety of purposes. In the Soviet Union and East Germany, walls and fences were designed to keep people in, not to keep people out. Few chose to go "Back to the USSR," as The Beatles sang, other than newl...
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January 13, 2018
Trump is right about HaitiBig media, still breathless after endlessly discussing and dissecting Michael Wolff's new book, have another shiny object to chase: President Trump's supposed comments on Haiti. In a meeting with lawmakers, the president was report...
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January 10, 2018
Michael Wolff's book throws cold water on Trump-Russia collusionThe new year has given the left several new shiny pennies to chase around the room. Michael Wolff's book. Oprah's campaign speech at the Golden Globe Awards. President Trump supposedly not knowing the words to...
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January 8, 2018
Jeff Sessions's Reefer MadnessAttorney General Jeff Sessions, someone whom many of us consider asleep at the wheel concerning high level corruption at the FBI and DOJ, has woken up. No longer lurking in the weeds while Congressional committees and intrepid bloggers are peeling ba...
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January 2, 2018
NeverTrumps Renamed: AlwaysDemocratsPresident Donald Trump is approaching the end of his first year in the White House with an impressive list of accomplishments: a big tax cut, repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate, huge regulatory rollback, judicial appointments including N...
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December 31, 2017
The DOJ and FBI rot from the head down. So who's the head?There is an old expression, "a fish rots from the head down," meaning that in any organization, leadership sets the tone. For better or for worse. Where does the DOJ-FBI rot begin? The Trump-Russia collusion investigation is ...
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December 31, 2017
Donald Trump and the white supremacy hand jiveIt was a tough week for the fakestream media. President Trump and the Republicans passed a huge tax cut. The economy is humming along. Consumer confidence, Christmas spending, employment, and the stock market are at big-league level...
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December 26, 2017
Have Republicans finally found their groove?After almost a year of shooting blanks, Republicans, specifically Congress, finally have a major legislative achievement under their belts. Senate Republicans, unified and in a party line vote, passed a major tax overhaul. In the House, the bill pass...
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December 21, 2017
NY Times eating GDP crow for Christmas dinnerCongress passed a major tax cut – a Christmas miracle, given their lack of legislative accomplishment this year. The bill is en route to the White House for President Trump's signature and a celebratory tweet. Maybe a Diet Coke,...
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December 19, 2017
Democrats Have a New Party Symbol: The BoomerangHistory has a way of coming full circle. When Democrat Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828, he was called a jackass for his populist views. Today’s populist is a Republican. Yet the jackass, or donkey, has remained associated with the Demo...
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December 19, 2017
Could the Seattle train wreck be terrorism?News broke this morning of a train wreck near Seattle. Specifically, it was an Amtrak train derailment along Interstate 5 between Tacoma and Olympia. TV news and internet news sites are all over the story. The number of fatalit...
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December 15, 2017
Stranger Things and the Deep State“Stranger Things” is a popular Netflix television series set in the 1980s, starring a bunch of enchanting preteens contending with an alternate dimension called the “Upside Down.” This alternate world is dark and scary, filled...
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December 15, 2017
What if Jeff Sessions is not asleep, but instead playing possum?Conventional wisdom is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asleep at the wheel – from recusing himself unnecessarily from the Trump-Russia collusion investigation to doing nothing about the politicization and weaponization of the Department ...
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December 7, 2017
What's next for tax reform? A congressional conundrum...After almost a year of congressional legislative lassitude, both houses of Congress passed a tax bill, the Senate most recently last week. While the two versions are similar, there are minor differences that must be reconciled before sending a ...
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December 2, 2017
Mueller's new restaurant chain: NothingburgersChristmas came early for ABC's Brian Ross on Friday. He breathlessly reported what the left has been wishing for under its tree on Christmas morning: "[Michael Flynn] is prepared to testify ... against President Trump, against mem...
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December 1, 2017
#NeverTrumps Stuck on Style over SubstanceTen months into the Trump presidency, #NeverTrumpers are still stuck in denial and anger, a long way from acceptance, the final step of grieving. Despite endless predictions that he wouldn’t be the nominee or that he wouldn’t win the elec...
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November 28, 2017
Health Care Could Take a Lesson from the AirlinesDespite endless promises from Republican members of Congress over the past seven years to repeal and replace Obamacare, our mess of a healthcare payment and delivery system remains the law of the land. It’s afflicted with a terminal illness in ...
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November 22, 2017
Why Roy Moore and Tax Cuts MatterTurn on the news to hear about the latest powerful man, almost to a man Democrats, accused of sexual misconduct. Hollywood moguls and actors, media political commentators, and now elected officials. The sole accused Republican, however, seems to be g...
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November 19, 2017
Guess what party Roy Moore and Donald Trump belonged to during their indiscretionsSex scandals are the news item du jour, even pushing Robert Mueller's Russian collusion fantasy to the back pages. The latest bad boy is Senator Al Franken, grinning in a photograph while groping a female journalist. The irony is rich. ...
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November 17, 2017
Sex Scandals: Who's Really to Blame?After months of an incessant drumbeat of Trump-Russia collusion, big media is taking a break, having a new bone to chew, specifically the Judge Roy Moore story. Another of a string of famous men and past sex scandals ranging from boorish behavior to ...
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November 10, 2017
Is the GOP establishment behind the Roy Moore hit?Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore is the latest famous guy to be accused of sexual assault. The Washington Post reported that Moore initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl, at a time when Moore was 32 years old. Is this a hi...
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November 6, 2017
The Fatal Folly of DiversityDiversity is one of those feel-good, virtual signaling words that the left loves to throw around. Along with tolerance, inclusiveness, and sustainability. Words which make the person using them feel good, functioning as stirrups to keep them firmly p...
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November 2, 2017
A Simple Way for Trump to Slow the Tide of Illegal ImmigrantsIllegal immigration has temporarily taken a back seat to the latest social justice and #NeverTrump campaigns of NFL kneelers and rodeo clown congresswomen listening in on the president’s calls to the families of fallen soldiers. Lots can sti...
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October 29, 2017
GOP Would Rather Lose than FightAmerica is at war. Not with a particular country, in spite of our endless entanglements in the Middle East. Instead the war is against a more nebulous enemy. One that goes by many names. The status quo. The deep state. The establishment. The elites. ...
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October 25, 2017
George W. Finally Found His VoiceGeorge W. Bush stayed mum during most of his presidency. He started with a strong voice in his first year as president, after 9/11, when gave a rousing and uplifting speech to the nation and the world, standing atop the rubble left behind b...
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October 22, 2017
'Me Too': Thirty Years Too LateWe now live in a hashtag world. Hashtags are used not simply to identify social media messages regarding a particular topic, but also as a means of virtue-signaling, of calling attention to the latest social justice cause. Many of these c...
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October 19, 2017
When liberals mock the disabledThe virtue-signaling, moralizing, holier-than-thou political left is quick to jump all over any political opponent, particularly President Donald Trump. Catching Trump in a politically incorrect act is a golden opportunity for the left, and the...
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October 16, 2017
Silence of the Republican LambsAmerica’s culture war is on full display and the left is losing badly. Public opinion is not on the side of left-wing social justice causes and moral preening. Where to begin? NFL players disrespecting law enforcement and the national a...
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October 11, 2017
Trump talked the talk; Weinstein and Clinton walked the walkWhat a week! The media don't know what to cover first. President Trump starting World War 3, according to irrelevant Senator Bob Corker. Vice President Mike Pence walking out of an NFL game after players kneeled for the National...
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October 9, 2017
Another Climate Prediction Gone off the RailsWinter started early this year. The first blizzard of the season in Montana broke a snow record with 30 inches during the first week of October, barely a few weeks into fall. In my state of Colorado too, with 11 inches of snow in Grand Mesa. Promptin...
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October 5, 2017
Don't Tell the Left: More Guns Means Fewer HomicidesAnother mass shooting this week. Prayers and emotion from President Trump. Attempts to understand means and motives by those trying to make sense of such tragedy and loss. And as predictable as sunrise and sunset, politicization of ...
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October 3, 2017
Crocodile Tears and Excuses from Puerto Rico and CNNThe media, having found a successful play to cripple a Republican president, is trying to run the same play against President Trump. They forget that their entire playbook has been thrown at Trump since he announced his candidacy in 2015, without any...
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October 2, 2017
Enough Already with 'Pay Your Fair Share'Congressional Republicans fresh upon the heels of victory after defeating the latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare are gearing up for their next project: tax reform. Yes, I am being facetious. As the majority party, who for the p...
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September 27, 2017
GOP is dead, Obamacare is aliveRemember back in 2012 when then-vice president Joe Biden told us, "Bin Laden is dead; General Motors is alive"? The good old days. That was also around the time Senators John McCain and Lisa Murkowski promised to ...
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September 25, 2017
Fighting Fire with Fire: A Republican Finally Co-opts Alinsky's Rules for RadicalsSaul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is considered the bible for the left, the Democrat Party playbook. Hillary Clinton wrote her college thesis on Alinsky’s book. Barack Obama is a disciple of this guide for community organizing. The realit...
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September 24, 2017
NFL may lose bigly with social justice anticsSee also: A modest proposal for NFL fans: Be a flash mob It's DEFCON 1 this weekend – not between the U.S. and North Korea, despite the battle of insults between "Dotard" President Donald Trump and "Rocket Man" Kim Jo...
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September 19, 2017
The Clock Is Ticking on Obamacare RepealRepealing and replacing ObamaCare, a popular Republican campaign issue for the past seven years, has been far less urgent as a legislative issue. Just goes to show that talk is cheap. Empty promises from Republican congressional candidates running fo...
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September 16, 2017
Thinking the Unthinkable about HurricanesHurricane season runs from June through November, with September 10 as the peak of hurricane activity in the Atlantic. Right on schedule, Hurricane Irma blasted Florida on this very day, the season peak. Why are we cursed with such massive and destru...
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September 10, 2017
Now here's a real hurricaneWhen it rains, it pours. And blows. Hurricane season is in full swing: first Harvey, now Irma. Jose is lurking in the Caribbean. Others are incubating off the western coast of Africa. Hurricanes are nothing new, including m...
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September 8, 2017
Hurricanes, Climate Models, and Wild GuessesHurricane season is upon us. Harvey last week and Irma this week. Both monster storms and long overdue if one looks at the pattern of hurricanes throughout history. After a hurricane drought, Harvey was the first major hurricane, meaning Category 3 o...
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September 6, 2017
Trump's Truckin' BaseElectoral prognosticators failed miserably last November. The smart set in the media establishment predicted a landslide win for Hillary Clinton. For an amusing review, here is a video montage of their smug certainty. On what did they base their cert...
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August 30, 2017
Media playing footsie with first lady's shoesLeave it to the modern media to create a Trump mountain out of a molehill. They focus on how quickly, or slowly, President Trump denounced KKK protesters and neo-Nazis – and whether he was sincere enough. This while ISIS soldiers mo...
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August 28, 2017
Why are only college students allowed to complain about feeling uncomfortable?Call it “uncomfortable privilege.” The same sort of complaint that gets college students complimented and coddled just got a highly regarded sports writer canned. The story begins just as every American summer does, on Memorial Day. Me...
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August 24, 2017
When liberals get smacked by reality: Trudeau editionBorders are an area where liberals stumble into the swamp of hypocrisy. Walls and fences are fine around their homes, but not around their country. Armed security can keep troublemakers away from their personal space, but similar measures...
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August 20, 2017
If Nazis and KKK are Trump's base, how did he win the election?Big media is in a feeding frenzy this week over Charlottesville and President Trump. So much so that they seem to have forgotten about Russian collusion and North Korea threatening to nuke America. No surprise as most media talking heads have the att...
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August 20, 2017
Remember what the wizards of smart said about Trump's budget?The big media are full of smart boys and girls. They have the educational pedigrees from Ivy League schools or similar elite institutions. As the wizards of smart, they proclaim themselves all-knowing. In their reporting, they tell ...
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August 15, 2017
Hot Air from Al Gore Is the Only Global WarmingThe Nobel Peace Prize is awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.” ...
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August 15, 2017
The left steps in it again: Calling Trump un-AmericanThe New York Times, the "paper of record" for America, has become the New Fake Times, especially regarding anything and everything President Trump. Trump could cure cancer and invent a flying car and the Times would find his actions r...
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August 13, 2017
Mitch McConnell: Great Expectations or Great Ineptitude?Great Expectations is more than a Charles Dickens novel from the 19th century. It is also one of the primary reasons 63 million Americans cast their votes for Donald Trump last November. Americans also had great expectations for Barack Ob...
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August 7, 2017
Let's Treat College Admissions like ImmigrationLast week, President Donald Trump endorsed an immigration bill put forth by Senators David Perdue and Tom Cotton. The reaction was swift yet predictable. A so-called Republican strategist, Ana Navaro, called it “un-American,” Unsurp...
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August 4, 2017
Are Climate Warriors Giving Up?Climate change warriors have transitioned from being motivated and enthusiastic to despondent and fatalistic. A Washington Post article this week headlined, “We only have a 5 percent chance of avoiding ‘dangerous’ global warming....
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August 1, 2017
Is Trump-Russia collusion Drumbeat Pushing US into Another Cold War?Incessant carping from the media, the left and NeverTrump Republicans about still unproven Trump Russia collusion fills the pages of national newspapers and the endless hours of cable news panel discussions. We now have a special counsel with his tea...
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July 29, 2017
GOP flip-floppers were in favor of repeal before they were against itJohn Kerry, during his ill fated presidential run in 2004, defined himself as a flip-flopper through this comment: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." Incumbent President George W. Bush used Kerry'...
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July 27, 2017
What if the Trump-Sessions feud is one big charade?President Donald Trump has been attacking his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, daily. There have been brutal attacks on Twitter, in media interviews, and during speeches. Conventional wisdom is that Trump is getting ready to fire Sessions...
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July 26, 2017
Deep State confirms: It's all about 'We the government'Deep in the Colorado mountains each year is the Aspen Security Forum, a Washington, D.C. establishment gab-fest for discussing "critical issues" of national security and intelligence. Trump Russian collusion and Russian hacking of the...
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July 24, 2017
Who Should 'Die with Dignity': Charlie Gard or Obamacare?Obamacare is dying, afflicted with a terminal illness not curable by current medical technology. The system is plagued with ever rising premiums and deductibles, reduced choice of physicians and hospitals, and fewer options for insurance. ...
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July 20, 2017
John McCain's unfortunate news: What does it mean?By now, most readers already know that Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with a brain tumor – specifically, a glioblastoma. I take no pleasure is suspecting such a diagnosis, as I wrote a few days ago, based on a bit of medical ...
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July 18, 2017
John McCain's 'blood clot' may explain his recent behaviorSenator John McCain recently had surgery to "remove a blood clot above his left eye," according to a CNN report. CNN fortunately didn't have a chance to wade into its familiar territory of fake news because it had a prac...
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July 17, 2017
Make Donald Jr.’s troubles disappearWhile watching the Sunday morning talk shows, I was not surprised to hear little else aside from Donald Trump Jr.'s now famous meetings with a few Russians. Rabid "Trumpophobes," breathlessly speculating over impeachment, res...
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July 17, 2017
'Junk Insurance' vs. 'Junk News' at the NY TimesTaking a short break from Russian collusion stories, the New York Times is pivoting from Trump bashing to hitting Senate Republicans over their efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare. In a recent article, the NY Times criticizes Ted Cruz’...
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July 15, 2017
Media Chewing on a Russian Collusion 'Wish Sandwich'1980 was a very good year. Ronald Reagan was elected President, replacing Jimmy “Malaise” Carter. The Blues Brothers movie was released in 1980, featuring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Both were funny guys, featured on Saturday Night Live...
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July 13, 2017
Is the GOP serious about governing?We are now almost six months into the new administration with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress and the White House. There is plenty of activity at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. A conservative Supreme Court justice. Regulation roll backs. R...
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July 8, 2017
Clooney Tunes on open bordersGeorge Clooney, actor and political soothsayer, who last year inaccurately predicted that "[t]here's not going to be a President Donald Trump," is back in the news. Not for another Ocean's 25, or whatever number they are up to...
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July 6, 2017
Republicans Are Spinning Their Wheels on Repeal and ReplaceRepeal and replace. Simple enough on the campaign trail. We heard this promise in 2010, when voters gave the House to Republicans. We heard it again in 2012, when voters gave them the Senate. Despite controlling Congress, Obam...
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July 2, 2017
Trump the Junkyard Dog: Poke Him and Expect to Be BittenRemember Bad, Bad Leroy Brown? He was "Badder than old King Kong and meaner than a junkyard dog." Junkyard dogs are good in a fight, mean and nasty when provoked. They're often docile when treated decently, with respec...
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June 30, 2017
More Fake News from the Climate Change WarriorsPresident Trump and his campaign colluding with the Russians is the fake news story of the day, week, month and year. CNN is chasing phantom sources, turning journalism into confabulation, showing no sign of slowing down, despite having to fire repor...
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June 27, 2017
Senate Health Care Fix or Folly?Despite campaign promises from then candidate Donald Trump as well as from incumbent and new members of Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, now almost six months into the Trump presidency, Obamacare is still the law of the land. Progress, albei...
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June 20, 2017
The Jihad of the American LeftJihad means “struggle” in Arabic. It is a central duty of every Muslim, as described by Robert Spencer on his webpage Jihad Watch. While Islamic theologians emphasize jihad as nonviolent, a struggle within the soul, there is also a compon...
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June 17, 2017
Navy destroyer in Sea of Japan: A sideways collision or more fake news?Yesterday's news, aside from the usual Trump obstructing, colluding, and making money on his investments, included a ship collision. As described by ABC, a "Navy destroyer collides with container ship off coast of Japan." ...
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June 14, 2017
If Not Trump, Then Who?When the country is safe and the economy strong, anyone can be president. The converse is not true and the wrong president at the wrong time can inflict great damage on not only the country but also the world. Some examples from history: Reagan in...
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June 9, 2017
Fake News over Millions Losing their InsuranceFake news has replaced responsible journalism. It’s hard to know what to believe. It wasn’t long ago that supermarket tabloids like National Enquirer were considered fake news. Now it seems the Enquirer and TMZ may be more reliable source...
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June 3, 2017
Why Vote Republican? Part 3I ask myself this question regularly these days. The only answer that makes sense to me is that it’s better than the alternative. I can’t imagine voting for the lunacy represented by Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Cherokee Liz Warren, Crazy...
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May 31, 2017
NATO and 'Paying Your Fair Share'One of the great Democrat talking points, along with “Russia hacked the election” or “Trump is an illegitimate president” is their defense of high taxes, “Pay your fair share”. Skillful Democrat orators can we...
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May 28, 2017
A Tale of Two First Couples’ AffectionsNegative coverage of President Trump has become as predictable as sunrise and sunset. Confirmed by a recent Harvard study showing 80 to 90 percent negative coverage from big media of Trump’s first hundred days. Typical Trump-bashing topics incl...
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May 25, 2017
Single-Payer Ready for Strike Three and You're OutSingle-payer healthcare remains the holy grail for Democrats seeking the ultimate in command and control government. Wealth redistribution on a previously unimaginable scale. The nanny state government controlling all aspects of everyone’s life...
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May 23, 2017
Who is the real enemy within the Trump administration?A 1994 movie, The Enemy Within, described a White House coup orchestrated by several high-level cabinet officials to remove the sitting president, replacing him with the vice president. The plot was foiled with the help of some Russians. How prescien...
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May 18, 2017
New York Times: Time to 'let it go' on Trump, Russians, and hackingAnother day, another fake news story – this time from one of the fake news all-stars, the New York Times. In their never-ending quest to destroy Donald Trump's presidency and either drive him insane or goad his fair-weather fellow GOPers...
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May 12, 2017
What the Media Still Doesn’t Get about Plain-Talking Donald TrumpDonald Trump’s success, as a candidate and now as President, continues to confuse and befuddle the left. He was unfit as a candidate, a knuckle-dragging troglodyte, mentally ill, uncouth, clownish and inarticulate. Such a perception continues t...
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May 11, 2017
Is Australia’s Health Care Better than Ours?President Donald Trump in a recent press briefing with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced, “Of course the Australians have better healthcare than we do - everybody does.” On the heels of the House narrowly passing the fi...
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May 6, 2017
Jimmy Kimmel left out some important bits about ObamacareLate-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, in a recent opening monologue, spoke tearfully of his newborn son Billy, born with a serious congenital heart defect. Heart defects in newborns, while uncommon, occur in 1 in 100 births. The more serious ...
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May 2, 2017
Who Really Torpedoed Hillary's Campaign?Big media, Democrats, and the rest of the Trump-hating world continue pushing the false narrative that the Russians hacked the election. Never mind that there is no evidence of such a hack, despite over a year of investigation by U.S. intelligence ag...
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May 2, 2017
Why bother voting for Republicans?Once again, congressional Republicans delivered a swift kick to the crotch of their voters, in the form of their proposed budget this week. Congressional big spenders reached a deal Sunday, with a bill over 1,600 pages in length. ...
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April 25, 2017
Who Really Controls the Modern Democratic Party?Politically, the Democratic Party is the home of progressivism, or liberalism. At least today’s Democratic Party. JFK, a Democrat from fifty years ago, would be politically to the right of many current Republicans. Compared to today’s Dem...
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April 18, 2017
Why Were Foreign Intelligence Agencies Spying on Trump?Last month, Fox News regular Judge Andrew Napolitano claimed that President Obama and his cronies used British intelligence to spy on then candidate Donald Trump. That certainly caused a stir among the higher-ups at Fox News. A week later the outspok...
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April 14, 2017
What if Trump’s missile salvo wasn’t really about Syria?More than a hundred years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt described his foreign policy as, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Which to him meant, "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far i...
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April 11, 2017
How to determine the political affiliation of a criminal or predatorNot infrequently, politicians get in trouble with the law – for a host of reasons, including corruption and sexual harassment. While the political affiliation of the accused may be interesting, it is often unstated, unless you know what t...
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April 3, 2017
When climate change warriors can’t keep their stories straightMark Twain, author of the now politically incorrect Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, once said, “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” Good advice, especially for those who play fast and loose with facts and trut...
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March 29, 2017
Is There Anything Climate Change Can’t Do?We are treated daily with news stories of all the things President Trump can do. Trump causes terror attacks. Trump causes nightmares, insomnia, and eating binges. Trump caused Babs Streisand to gain weight. Trump is omnipotent. Yet he has competitio...
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March 28, 2017
What Now for Obamacare?After chasing the Obamacare car for years, Republican dogs finally caught it and have no idea what to do next. Seven years of anticipation and endless promises of “repeal and replace” have been replaced with “remain and recrim...
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March 21, 2017
A Health Care Reform Compromise That Just Might WorkHealthcare reform is stalled, so says Politifact. Fake news or the truth? Hard to know these days. President Trump and Speaker Ryan both sounded optimistic in recent public appearances. The Tweeter-in-Chief this week tweeted, “Great progress on...
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March 13, 2017
How Trump Can Gut Obamacare Without CongressCancer is a devious and devastating disease. All it takes are a few bad cells to grow uncontrollably, first destroying organs, then an entire person. It can also lie dormant for years after supposedly being cured, then at some moment awaken f...
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March 8, 2017
Trump's New Immigration Order Is Still Not a 'Muslim Ban'Among many of Donald Trump’s campaign promises was a plan to reform a chaotic immigration system with better methods of vetting immigrants. Those who do not support the U.S. Constitution, American values or who desire to bring violence to our s...
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March 8, 2017
Is the House Obamacare replacement bill an early April Fool’s joke?The long national health care nightmare is over. As promised for years by congressional Republicans and by President Donald Trump, Obamacare is in its final season. No next season. Only reruns playing on a continuous loop in the fut...
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March 5, 2017
Trump Hatred: Is It The Message or the Messenger?Trump derangement syndrome is the new political disease afflicting not only Democrats, but also much of the political establishment, including Republicans and the #NeverTrump crowd. Some of this is natural when a Republican is in the White Hous...
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February 27, 2017
Trump is Smoking out Fake ConservativesDonald Trump is one month into his presidency. For his supporters, every day is Christmas. Cabinet picks under the Christmas tree. Executive orders in the stockings hung by the chimney with care on Nov. 8. Smiles on the face...
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February 16, 2017
GOP Missing the Real Elephant in the RoomTaking a walk on the wild side, I happened upon MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" during my morning drive. Not my first choice in news, but my other favorite radio stations were on commercial break. Senator Bob Corker was being interviewed over t...
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February 13, 2017
Fake News: Global Warming EditionFake news has become part of the daily lexicon due to efforts of once respected news outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN to destroy the candidacy and now the presidency of Donald Trump. Fake news is produced with the si...
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February 7, 2017
Trump Is Redefining Newton’s Laws of MotionRemember physics class, either in high school or college? Calculators or slide rules, depending on your age. And Newton’s laws of motion. All stemming from a fortuitous apple falling from a tree. What does physics have to do with Donald Trum...
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January 27, 2017
Trump Playing Rope-a-Dope with the MediaRope-a-dope is a boxing strategy originally used by Muhammad Ali and his famous Rumble in the Jungle fight against George Foreman. Ali purposely put himself into a seemingly disadvantageous position, letting Foreman tire himself out and eventually lo...
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January 24, 2017
An Unhealthy Obsession with Irrelevant NumbersDespite acceptance being the final stage of the five-step grieving process, the media and much of the political left remains stuck on the first step, denial. Having lost the battle of ideas as evidenced by Donald Trump solidly beating Hillary Clinton...
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January 16, 2017
Finally, a Republican Leader Playing OffenseIn politics, as in sports, there is an offense and defense. In some sports the same players assume both roles, as in basketball and hockey, where a team may shift roles back and forth quickly as the game proceeds. In other sports, such as football, t...
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January 9, 2017
Did Russian ‘Hacking’ Give Obama Two Election Victories?If you are convinced that Russians “hacked” the 2016 presidential election to put Donald Trump in the Oval Office, then you need to consider the possibility that they also equally influenced the last two election cycles. Director of Na...
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January 3, 2017
A President Willing to Roll Up His Sleeves and WorkNo one would deny that the job of President of the United States is one of the toughest in the world. Just ask Hillary Clinton, who thankfully will never know this from firsthand experience, but who described it in exactly those terms. Fact checkers ...
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December 28, 2016
The Media That Cried Wolf“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is one of many of Aesop’s fables. A shepherd boy tricks villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock of sheep. The villagers run up the hill breathlessly only to find no wolf and the boy laughing at...
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December 19, 2016
Mrs. Obama's Hope Is in the Eye of the BeholderFirst Lady Michele Obama is not feeling the Christmas spirit this year. She had a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey, who, by the way, is the left's version of Donald Trump: self-made, successful in business, wealthy, and influential. ...
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December 16, 2016
Anyone Else Getting Hacked Off about the Russian Hacking Story?Post-Donald Trump's landslide electoral victory, the media are in overdrive talking about "fake news." What they mean by fake news is anything favorable to Donald Trump – not blatantly false news stories like the Benghazi vi...
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December 11, 2016
Will Obamacare Repeal Really Leave 30 Million without Insurance?Repeal and replace. That was and still is the Donald Trump promise for Obamacare. Congressional Republicans are ready to join in. Not that they haven't been trying for the past six years, with over 60 attempts at repeal at the c...
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December 10, 2016
Trump as the ‘Carrier’ of American ProsperityPresident-elect Donald Trump, still weeks away from the Oval Office, is already carrying out one of his campaign promises to make America prosperous again. First Ford Motor Company, now most recently Carrier, both agreeing to keep their factories in ...
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November 30, 2016
Trump and the Climate Change Clown ShowClimate change is back in the news as President-Elect Donald Trump threatens to roll back much of the Obama climate agenda. The Obama administration added 229 major regulations at an additional annual cost of $108 billion, many of which involve...
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November 27, 2016
After Trump University, Why Not Sue All Colleges?Trump University was one of Donald Trump’s entrepreneurial ventures, a real estate educational program in operation from 2005 to 2010. Live events and in-field mentorships promising to teach students Donald Trump’s real estate techniques,...
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November 20, 2016
Hey, Hamilton cast: The left has its own problems with ‘diversity’Vice-President-elect Mike Pence took the opportunity of being in New York City this week to attend the Broadway hit musical “Hamilton”. Ruining what might have been an enjoyable night out at the theater, the show cast lectured and harasse...
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November 17, 2016
Hey, media: He’s just not that into youTuesday evening, President-Elect Donald Trump snuck out of Trump Tower with his family for dinner at Manhattan steakhouse 21 Club. He left his press entourage behind, fuming over the protocol snub. This brings to mind a yuppie romantic film ...
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November 15, 2016
Why Did Trump Win? ObamaDonald Trump's upset victory is being attributed to many factors, from Hillary Clinton being a corrupt and flawed candidate to the rise of the angry white male. Never mind that Trump secured more white women support than...
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November 6, 2016
Fair-weather Republicans Finally Getting Onboard?Republicans, particularly those of the establishment ilk, cozy with the big donors and other party elites, have been reluctant to join the Donald Trump train. Fearing a landslide defeat on election day, these Republicans felt it in their best politic...
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October 31, 2016
An October surprise shoe on the other footSuch a delicious irony that the predictable pre-election October surprise stink bomb blew up on the Democrat candidate rather than the Republican. After all, the Democrats are masters of pulling some controversial revelation out of the hat days...
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October 31, 2016
Final Countdown for the GOP?As the election is only days away, one could say this is “The Final Countdown” not only for the country, but for the Republican Party. A popular 1980s song by the same name, now featured in a Geico commercial, warned, “We're lea...
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October 24, 2016
Have the Russians hacked Hillary Clinton’s eyes?Hillary Clinton’s health has become a campaign issue, not due to conspiracy theorists but based on troubling videos of her bizarre facial tics, difficulty ascending a set of stairs, lengthy coughing fits, and her collapse after the 9/11 anniver...
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October 17, 2016
Rigged Elections and Professional WrestlingMonday Night Raw is a professional wrestling television program. Leaked documents from the show "[i]ndicate that professional wrestling is a rigged spectacle in which match outcomes are predetermined." Many will say ho hum; this...
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October 12, 2016
Saving Private Ryan and His Republican QuislingsImagine it’s winter, the skies cloud over, and a few snowflakes begin falling. The schools immediately close and send students home. Businesses shut down for the day dismissing all employees. The local airport cancels all flights in and out. Ju...
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October 8, 2016
How to Prevent a Hurricane...No, ReallyHurricanes, similar to tornados, volcanos, and earthquakes, are natural disasters which have plagued the planet long before humans drove gas guzzling SUVs or used air conditioning. The earliest recorded hurricane in Florida occurred in 1523. Note the...
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September 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Lyin’ EyesLong ago in 1976, Bill Clinton was elected Arkansas attorney general, launching his political career and that of his ambitious wife. One year earlier, The Eagles released their hit song “Lyin’ Eyes”. Little did Don Henley and Glenn ...
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September 24, 2016
Hillary's Two Medical MinefieldsSome of Hillary Clinton's health and medical issues are well known: a previous fall and concussion, blood clot, chronic anticoagulation, and underactive thyroid. Then there is speculation about other problems – neurologic disease incl...
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September 18, 2016
Obama Was the Original BirtherBarack Obama’s life story is back in the news after Donald Trump played rope-a-dope with the dopey media once again. Brilliantly he duped the major networks into giving him 30 minutes of free airtime culminating in a few sentences ending his in...
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September 12, 2016
Hillary’s Health no Longer just a Conspiracy TheoryHillary Clinton attended the 9/11 tributes and remembrances Sunday morning in New York City. Donald Trump was there too along with thousands of 9/11 family members, memorializing the fallen and showing American fortitude 15 years after that tragic da...
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September 5, 2016
Hey #NeverTrumps: This Could Be Your Last Relevant ElectionLabor Day weekend is here, marking the end of summer and the beginning of the real election season. Donald Trump finds himself up by one point in the latest Rasmussen poll, while other polls show a rapidly shrinking Hillary Clinton lead. ...
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August 30, 2016
The Real Racist in the 2016 Presidential RaceAs the polls tighten with Donald Trump pulling even or ahead of Hillary Clinton, the left is getting frantic. Mrs. Clinton is reaching into the Democrat playbook, pulling out their go-to and typically successful Hail Mary fourth down play: the ...
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August 23, 2016
Ryan Lochte, Hillary Clinton, and ApologiesDespite some epic athletic performances by superhuman athletes, one of the biggest stories to come out of the 2016 Rio Olympics is the saga of Ryan Lochte and his three teammates being robbed at gunpoint. Was the story plausible? Sure. Rio de Janeiro...
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August 11, 2016
Crooked Hillary or Unhealthy Hillary?Donald Trump, shortly after securing the GOP nomination, attached a name to Hillary Clinton, just as he did to his opponents throughout the primary process. She was Crooked Hillary, based on a lifetime of playing fast and loose with finances, e...
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August 8, 2016
GOP Goes Full DemocratDonald Trump has had an uphill battle since the day, over a year ago, when he announced his candidacy for the Republican Party presidential nomination. Against long odds and endless naysayers in the media and in his own party, he secured the party no...
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July 25, 2016
Trump's Speech: Optimistic, Not DarkThe Republican Convention last week was certainly not boring, from Melania Trump's speech borrowing a few phrases from Michelle Obama's speech eight years ago to Ted Cruz's non-endorsement of Donald Trump followed by a chorus of boos. ...
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July 19, 2016
Obamacare Is Failing from BehindLeading from behind is a business concept where leaders steer their organizations much as shepherds guiding their flocks, from behind. It is contingent on a basic reality, “One can lead from behind only if one knows what lies ahead and what it ...
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July 13, 2016
Why Don’t These #BlackLivesMatter?As expected, the police and whites are being blamed for this summer’s urban unrest, including the recent police shootings in Dallas. The accusation is that white cops are doing nothing but running around hunting and shooting upstanding, law-abi...
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July 7, 2016
Supreme Court Sanctions Back-Alley AbortionsAbortion remains a sacred cow to a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices. The Supremes just gave abortion advocates a major victory by overturning a couple of provisions in a Texas law that had placed safety limitations on abortion. Thi...
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June 28, 2016
Opinion Polls or Propaganda?Summer is upon us, with three big events waiting to make news headlines. Two political conventions and the Rio Olympics. Both presumptive presidential nominees, especially Donald Trump, will be facing opposition at their respective nominating co...
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June 27, 2016
The GOP's Death WishConventional wisdom in June is that Donald Trump will not only lose the White House, but also cause the loss of the GOP-controlled House and Senate. Never mind that conventional wisdom over the past year has been the imminent implosion of Trump...
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June 20, 2016
Alligators and IslamistsA few days after the horrific Orlando terrorist attack, another tragic incident, this time involving a toddler, occurred at nearby Disney World. A two-year-old boy was wading along the shore of a lagoon at the Grand Floridian Resort when an alligator...
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June 14, 2016
Mitt Romney, Sore LoserMitt Romney, after two unsuccessful bids for the US presidency in 2008 and 2012, is on the campaign trail again. This time not for himself, but instead for some hypothetical candidate to usurp the presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. At this point, Tru...
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June 7, 2016
Trump and the judge - It’s not about race, but the rule of lawWatch any cable new show panel discussing Donald Trump, including MSNBC this week, and quite predictably you will hear that Trump is a racist. The latest flap is over the judge overseeing the Trump University lawsuit. The judge is of Mexican heritage...
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May 29, 2016
Why is only Bill Clinton’s ‘Dirty Laundry’ Off Limits?Now that the presidential primary process is winding down with two presumptive nominees, the real presidential campaign is ramping up. Especially for the Democrat base, including major media organizations such CNN. While CNN handled several Republica...
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May 17, 2016
Trump to the GOP: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the WayDonald Trump is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. As the last of 17 candidates still standing after a spirited and harsh primary season, he is well on his way to securing the necessary 1237 delegates for a first ballot nomination t...
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May 9, 2016
The Republican Party Died Long Before TrumpDonald Trump all but clinched the Republican Party nomination after his decisive win in Indiana. The post mortems have begun. Blame, recrimination, and threats, particularly from those who failed to secure the nomination for themselves or their favor...
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May 1, 2016
The Inconvenient Economics of ObamacareUnited Healthcare announced last week that it plans on exiting most of the Obamacare insurance plans by 2017. Not their traditional commercial insurance plans or Medicare supplements, but specifically the insurance plans offered through the state exc...
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April 26, 2016
Minimum Wage, Maximum StupidityCalifornia is the latest state to dive headfirst into the shallow waters of raising the minimum wage. Predictably they are about to suffer, not a broken neck, but instead further injury to their already lackluster economy. Governor Jerry Brown recent...
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April 14, 2016
Trump’s Winning Colorado GambitColorado held its delegate convention last weekend. When the sweet smelling smoke cleared from Colorado Springs, Ted Cruz walked away with all 34 delegates. A real Rocky Mountain High for Ted’s campaign. Not so much for Colorado Republicans who...
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April 4, 2016
The New GOP Establishment Playbook: Scorch the EarthAsk any member of the GOP establishment what their goal is for the upcoming presidential election. He will undoubtedly say it's to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House. But as the old saying goes, watch what they do, not what t...
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March 31, 2016
Doubling Down on Stupid: Islamic Terrorism at Home and AbroadIn the wake of the tragic Brussels bombing last week, just a few months after a similar attack in Paris and our own American shooting spree in San Bernardino, one would think the attacked countries, including the United States, would be seriously ret...
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March 20, 2016
Leftists don't hate Donald Trump. They are afraid of him.Now that Marco Rubio has suspended his campaign, Donald Trump may have an open path to the magic number of 1,237 delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination. Delusional thinking on my part? Actually, this was a recent headline in...
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March 7, 2016
#Never Drumpf UniversityPanic and despair permeate the air at the Republican National Committee headquarters and throughout enclaves of the Republican establishment and donor class. Donald Trump did well on Super Tuesday, winning most of the states. Trump and Cr...
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March 1, 2016
The Republican Party is already dead – they just don’t know it yetValium and Tums are on the menu for the Republican Party establishment these days. Anxiety and GI tracts in overdrive over Donald Trump and an insurgent electorate. In the now smoke-free back rooms of the Republican National Committee, party elders a...
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February 24, 2016
What if both establishments give their voters the finger?Most will agree that this has been an election season unlike any other. The standard rules have been tossed aside. Reaching for a wrecking ball has replaced reaching across the aisle. Political incorrectness has replaced genuflection before the party...
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February 21, 2016
Trump-mentumDonald Trump won a resounding victory Saturday in South Carolina, beating his two rivals by 10 percentage points. Coming on the heals of a double digit win in New Hampshire and leading the Real Clear Politics Average poll for Nevada by 22 points...
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February 11, 2016
Who said big money buys elections?A standard liberal canard is “Get big money out of politics.” This is one of Bernie Sander’s big campaign issues. He bemoans the fact that, “a handful of very wealthy people and special interests will determine who gets electe...
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February 7, 2016
Can the Super Bowl be just about football?Super Bowl 50 is upon us, an annual sporting event captivating much of the world. Two great teams battling it out for the Vince Lombardi trophy and title of NFL champion. Typically, in sporting contests such as this, we say, "May the...
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January 30, 2016
Nature Abhors a Vacuum and Trump is Filling ItAristotle once postulated, “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Meaning that any empty space must be filled with something, even if that something is hot air. Donald Trump, with his pronouncements, promises, and pomp, is filling the vacuum created b...
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January 26, 2016
Is Hillary Clinton a compulsive liar?Compulsive liars lie with ease and without guilt. Often they are so caught up in their lies that they don't realize the distinction between fact and fiction. Their lies may be plausible on the surface, requiring some effort to disprove. ...
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January 20, 2016
Medicaid Expansion -- Bait and SwitchMedicaid expansion was heralded as “one of the biggest milestones in health care reform” by the ObamaCare website. The goal was to provide insurance coverage to low-income Americans, expanding the pool of insured. States choosing to ex...
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December 24, 2015
Huffington Post inciting violence against GOP?Imagine my surprise when the Huffington Post, bastion of liberal and politically correct thought, posted this image on their home page. A meat cleaver. With reference to GOP presidential candidates on the chopping block. U.S. congress...
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December 19, 2015
RIP Republican PartyIf there was any question about the relevance of the Republican Party, this week’s budget deal removes all doubt. The Republican Party might as well close up shop and merge with the Democrats. Not as a merger of equals, but more of a capitulati...
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December 16, 2015
If You Find Yourself in an Immigration Hole, Stop DiggingThis old saw is called the “Law of holes.” Meaning if you find yourself in an unstainable position, change course rather than pushing on and making the situation worse. At first glance, this advice could be directed toward Donald Trump. E...
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December 8, 2015
Political Correctness More Deadly than ISISWhich is a bigger threat to America? Terrorists or political correctness? Seems like an easy answer. PC is just an idea, whereas terrorists shoot people and blow things up. But which is easier to stop or contain? I contend that if the PC movement ...
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December 3, 2015
What's So Bad About CO2?Paris is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference this week where world leaders and other climate do-gooders gather to wring their hands about the impending end of the world. Pope Francis tells us, “The world is near suicide.” French Pres...
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November 24, 2015
If it's freezing, it must be warmingEven more predictable than the actual weather is Mother Nature once again having fun with climate alarmists. As winter approaches, we see true climate change, also known as changing seasons. The United Nations conference on climate change...
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November 19, 2015
ISIS and Brain TumorsWhat in the world do brain tumors have to do with ISIS? Be patient and I will explain. The similarities make defeating either foe extremely challenging. Skeptical? Ask brain surgeon Ben Carson who has managed a lifetime of brain tumors. Glioblasto...
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November 12, 2015
Bush and Kasich double down on amnestyThe GOP Debate this week was finally a true debate – substantive and about the candidates, not a selfie show for the debate moderators. It was also instructive to confirm where some of the candidates stand on illegal immigration. No...
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November 2, 2015
PC Police Ruining HalloweenAnother Halloween has come and gone. A fun day for kids and adults alike dressing up in costumes and having some fun. This year, however, Halloween became less fun, more on the order of a college diversity and tolerance seminar. If the political corr...
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October 28, 2015
Beating Up on Ben CarsonBen Carson's poll numbers have been steadily climbing. He is now in a tie with Donald Trump in Iowa. Like Trump, Carson is an outsider candidate. Not part of the political establishment. Not a member of the Washington, D.C. Belt...
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October 14, 2015
The Climate Is Indeed Changing: Cooling AheadGlobal warming became climate change in response to the inconvenient truth that there has been no warming over the past 17 years. This is called a "pause," with the expectation and anticipation that any day now temperatures will begin...
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October 2, 2015
Can't Predict a Hurricane but Global Warming is a Certainty?Weather and climate are not the same. According to NASA, weather represents atmospheric conditions over a short period of time compared to climate which is measured over relatively long periods of time. Both however use computer models attempting to ...
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September 22, 2015
If You See Something, (think hard before you) Say SomethingThe Department of Homeland Security created a national campaign called, “If you see something, say something.” The purpose is to, “raise public awareness of the indicators of terrorism and terrorism-related crime, as well as the imp...
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September 17, 2015
Donald Trump's Secret Sauce? OptimismDonald Trump continues to lead in national polls, confounding the political and media establishment that has been predicting his imminent implosion and demise. Whether it was his comments on illegal immigrants, or John McCain’s POW status, his ...
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September 2, 2015
Minimum Wage for Thee, But Not for MeRaising the minimum wage is a popular issue, especially among progressives who believe the laws of economics apply only in an alternate universe. There is even a web page devoted to raising the minimum wage, noting that, “Across the country, th...
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August 18, 2015
Risky Business for Republicans Trashing TrumpDonald Trump has drawn the wrath of the Republican establishment, not to mention Fox News. The establishment wants a candidate supportive of robust immigration and amnesty, one who is happy to preside over government expansion, as long as the Chamber...
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August 7, 2015
Quit Apologizing!What is it with Republicans and apologies? Presidential contender Jeb Bush is the latest apologizer, hoping his gesture will win enough praise to get him elected to groveler-in-chief. Jeb is old enough to remember John Wayne, the ultimate tough-guy c...
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July 27, 2015
#BlackLivesMatter but not at Planned Parenthood#BlackLivesMatter is the mantra of the modern civil rights movement, a conversation around how, “Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the state.” It is also a key platform of todays Democrat party, as presidential...
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July 16, 2015
Trump and the Hispanic VoteDonald Trump continues to rail about illegal immigration, much to the consternation of the Republican establishment. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus warned Trump to tone down his rhetoric to avoid, “jeopardizing the party...
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July 10, 2015
Immigration Policy, Mexican StyleDonald Trump remains front and center in the news over his outspoken criticism of ongoing illegal immigration into the U.S. Predictably, other Republican presidential hopefuls are quickly piling on against him. While not refuting any of T...
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June 27, 2015
Physician Competency, But What About Politicians?Physician competency is coming under increasing scrutiny. All medical specialties require maintenance of certification by their various specialty boards as a means of demonstrating competency and life long learning. The American Medical Association i...
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June 7, 2015
Police Practicing Defensive MedicineDefensive medicine is how physicians protect themselves from lawsuits. Whether ordering extra and unnecessary tests or avoiding high-risk patients, these measures reduce the chance of physicians facing a malpractice lawsuit for a bad outcome or misse...
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June 1, 2015
Minimum Wages: Oh, When Will They Ever Learn?Pete Seeger, folk singer and liberal mouthpiece of the ’50s and ’60s, wrote “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” in 1955. Progressive folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary sang their version in 1962. The chorus line of ...
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May 19, 2015
Stephanopoulos's Long History of Mixing Journalism and PoliticsABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is the latest journalist caught in a web of lies and deceit. While NBC News anchor Brian Williams exaggerated and fabricated his own exploits; Stephanopoulos maintained political connections to the Clintons throu...
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May 16, 2015
Trains, blame, and infrastructureNot more than a few days after the tragic Amtrak train wreck, the predictable caterwauling about Republicans and infrastructure is loud and clear. Led by the NY Times, a tragic event is now a campaign issue. “One Day After Wreck, In...
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April 20, 2015
Media Ignoring ISIS in MexicoISIS is operating training bases just across the US southern border according to a report last week in Judicial Watch. Specifically the base is about 8 miles from the Texas border near Ciujad Juaraz in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Mexican official...
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March 31, 2015
Selective Outrage over Religious FreedomLiberals are in a lather over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act signed into law by Indiana Governor Mike Pence. The bill was passed by the people’s representatives in the state legislature by a vote of 63-31, and then signed into law by the...
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March 24, 2015
Starbucks -- Practice What You PreachStarbucks’ latest offering, after the recently introduced flat white, is their Race Together initiative. “As racially charged events unfolded across our country, we felt a responsibility to act,” says Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. W...
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March 13, 2015
Hillary's scandals - deja vu all over againHillary Clinton is not even officially running for president, yet we are being treated to a preview of what her campaign and potential presidency might look like. In just the past few weeks, she finds herself in the middle of two scandals....
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March 4, 2015
Why Vote Republican?Every two years before the midterm elections, we hear Republican candidates promise that if elected they will rein in the Obama administration excesses – Obamacare, amnesty, trillion-dollar deficits, increasing government regulation, legislativ...
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February 27, 2015
The Fine Print of ObamaCareDemocrats are in a lather over the Obamacare tax penalties soon hitting their constituents. According to the fine print in the law, “ObamaCare’s individual mandate requires that most Americans obtain health insurance by 2014 or pay a...
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February 20, 2015
Bill Nye and the Gore EffectFar more predictable than the weather is the irony of another global warming alarmist speaking out during a record-breaking cold snap. Remember in 2009 when “the biggest global warming protest in history” set to take place in Washington, ...
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February 5, 2015
Vaccinations are a Red HerringPredictably, the measles epidemic is morphing onto a political hot potato, much like global warming. Prospective Republican presidential candidates are being quizzed about vaccinations and whether or not they should be mandatory. The assumption is th...
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January 28, 2015
The end of snow? Not this weekThis week the NY Times reported, “Officials braced for as much as three feet of snow and high winds that could cause widespread power failures.” This could eclipse the snow record from 2006, which was just a few flakes short of 27 i...
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January 16, 2015
Death Panels -- Alive and WellBoth here and across the pond in the UK, government agencies ration healthcare. In the UK, the rationing board is ironically called NICE, or National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Under ObamaCare, the comparable agency is IPAB, the Indepe...
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December 30, 2014
A Tale of Two Presidential Vacations“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking” is an aphorism from author H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Much of the life of an American president is public, yet much is not. The true character of the president may be re...
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December 28, 2014
Single-Payer Strikes Out in VermontSingle-payer government funded healthcare-for-all struck out in grand fashion in Vermont. The irony is that Vermont is an extremely liberal state, and to the political left, single-payer is the Holy Grail of healthcare reform. To borrow from Frank Si...
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December 14, 2014
I'm a Doctor...I was 'Tortured'Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its “CIA Torture Report.” The media, eager for another shot at Bush, Cheney, and their policies, went all out dredging up “torture” stories from ten years ago, includ...
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November 30, 2014
Foregone Conclusions of Global WarmingA foregone conclusion is, “A result that is obvious to everyone even before it happens.” Who cares about data, evidence, or thoughtful analysis? Saddam Hussein winning reelection in 2002 was a foregone conclusion. We were told that with 1...
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November 11, 2014
Pay for Performance: Doctors Yes, Teachers No?Just north of Denver, Jefferson County has become a battleground in the fight over performance-based pay for teachers. The recently elected school board plans on implementing “[a] compensation system that recognizes and rewards our great ...
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October 24, 2014
Ebola in the Big Apple and Common Sense in Short SupplySo much for Ebola being under control, limited to Western Africa, and not a threat to the American homeland. There is now a new confirmed case in New York City, with three others in quarantine. Doctor Craig Spencer, recently confirmed with Ebola, wor...
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October 14, 2014
Ebola Government MalfeasanceWhen I see patients with serious eye diseases, they want confidence that I will do my best in treating them, relying on my training, experience, and judgment. They expect my best efforts regardless of their race, gender, political views, or insurance...
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October 8, 2014
Airborne Ebola? More Settled Science?As the number of Ebola cases continues to grow, many of us are asking whether we are safe. How easily is it transmitted? The answer will determine whether this is a small outbreak in a few isolated areas or a pandemic worthy of a science ...
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October 1, 2014
Why America Tuned Out the President on 60 MinutesPresident Obama gave an interview on 60 Minutes this past weekend. It seems that few people were watching. Deadline Hollywood, self-described as “[t]he definitive choice for industry insiders,” noted that 60 Minutes ratings were ...
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September 18, 2014
The Pretzel Logic of Global WarmingScientific inquiry is challenging. One must make observations, then create a hypothesis to explain these observations. Once the hypothesis predicts future observations, conclusions are reached about cause and effect of the aforementioned observations...
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August 20, 2014
Selective Character Assassination by the MediaBackground information about Michael Brown, the dead 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, has been trickling out. The National Journal is upset with this “character assassination by the police and by the media.” Character assassina...
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August 6, 2014
Ebola and the Consequences of Crying WolfAn American physician and his coworker arrived at Emory University Hospital this week for treatment for Ebola after contracting this potentially fatal disease. A patient returning to New York City from Sierra Leone with symptoms consistent with...
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July 31, 2014
The Bullies Wake Up as America Goes to SleepRemember what it was like in high school, or middle school, with roving school bullies. They had a knack for identifying the weakest kids and picking on them, sometimes mercilessly, supplanting learning for survival for the kids getting bullied. Fort...
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July 22, 2014
Timely Malaysian Airliner Investigation, But Not for BenghaziSamantha Power, US Ambassador to the United Nations, gave an impassioned speech to the UN after passage of Security Council Resolution 2166 on the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. She is justifiably “horrified and enraged” by the ...
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July 10, 2014
New 'Privacy Rights' for Immigrant ChildrenSenator John McCain is livid over being told that he cannot visit border facilities housing illegal immigrants, including immigrant minors. Displaying passion and anger that would have been useful in the 2008 presidential campaign, Senator McCa...
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July 4, 2014
Democrats were in favor of religious freedom before they were against itDemocrats and their allies in the mainstream media are in a dither over the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision. And driven by either agenda or ignorance, they don’t even remember that at one time they were all champions of the same religi...
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June 27, 2014
Diseases are Crossing the Border, TooOur southern border is leaking like a sieve, with thousands of illegal immigrants, including unaccompanied children, streaming into Texas and other border states. Texas Governor Rick Perry, in the thick of the border surge, calls it a “national...
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June 25, 2014
Iraq Follies -- What Possibly Could Go Wrong?Megyn Kelly, on her Fox News show, interviewed former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz in response to their op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Ms. Kelly went on attack early, critical of the former VP over the WMD issue, “But time...
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June 18, 2014
ISIS and an Open Border: A Perfect StormAs the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) marches through Iraq, leaving slaughter and mass graves in its wake, the obvious concern is the eventual creation of a terrorist state in the Middle East. Far across the world on the U.S. southern border,...
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June 13, 2014
Cantor's Defeat: Polls and SpinEric Cantor’s primary defeat sent shock waves throughout the political world, particularly within the Beltway establishment. The establishment of both political parties did not see this coming. The DC media were similarly shocked, yet those of ...
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June 8, 2014
Let's Move, But Not in Denver ParksForbes Magazine and the Travel Channel both rank Denver as the 5th healthiest US city. The mountains, sunshine, and healthy lifestyle attract many newcomers to Denver. Taking advantage of the climate and beautiful natural surroundings, outdoor fitnes...
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May 30, 2014
The Hidden Cost Chickens in Obamacare Coming Home to RoostLabor unions have been reliable supporters of President Obama and his policies. Their support for Obamacare was critical to its passage in 2010. Yet they are continuing to learn that their members will be paying more for their healthcare, not less. ...
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May 19, 2014
Out of Network, Out of LuckAs we behold the continued wonders of ObamaCare, we receive another reminder of the president’s empty promise, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” The New York Times, late to the party as usual, observed this ...
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May 14, 2014
Settled and Unsettled SciencePresident Obama declared “global warming” to be settled science. Or maybe he meant “climate change.” Or is it “climate disruption”? Whatever. It’s settled as fact. No more discussion or disagreement. This is ...
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May 6, 2014
Time to Resurrect the Misery IndexEnding a bad week for the administration dealing with the tangled and deceitful web of Benghazi revelations was the news last week of a drop in the unemployment rate. “Economy adds 288,000 jobs in April, unemployment rate falls to 6.3 percent,...
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April 30, 2014
Misplaced OutrageRecent news coverage of Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling illustrate the obsessive focus on boorish racial comments and stereotypes. Are these individuals an appropriate focus for a discussion of racial discrimination or merely a distraction from the ...
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April 29, 2014
Rocky Mountain High and Unintended ConsequencesColorado and Washington are the first states to legalize recreational marijuana. In my state of Colorado, Amendment 64 was passed by 55 percent of voters by ballot referendum last year and took effect on January 1 of this year. State gove...
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April 23, 2014
Sorry, But Bull Connor was a Democrat“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” This quote has been attributed to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister. It is a good political tactic. Say something that i...
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April 20, 2014
Polls or Proclamations?Phony Obamacare polls are in vogue these days. Several weeks ago, an ABC News/Washington Post poll told us that “[p]ublic support for the Affordable Care Act narrowly notched a new high.” Based on a vaguely worded poll questio...
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April 17, 2014
Income Inequality for Thee, But Not for MePaul Krugman is a distinguished economist, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, a NY Times columnist, and a Nobel Laureate. As a frequent commentator on cable news shows, he speaks passionately about income inequa...
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April 11, 2014
How Physician Payment Scrutiny Leads to Health Care RationingMedicare released the most comprehensive ever look at how Medicare dollars are paid out to physicians across the United States. In the name of transparency, this data drop will “[p]rovide consumers with an ability to compare doctors and t...
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April 3, 2014
Another Phony Obamacare PollThis week brought news of Obamacare securing 7.1 million enrollees and the expected jubilation from the White House. “This law is doing what’s it’s supposed to do,” a buoyant Obama said in late-afternoon remarks in the Wh...
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March 30, 2014
Obamacare Goes to HollywoodPresidential advisor Valerie Jarrett is in Los Angeles “nagging," to use her words, Hollywood to insert Obamacare into TV and movie scripts. Plenty of actors and actresses are already promoting Obamacare, including Jennifer Hudson, Lady Ga...
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March 28, 2014
The October Surprise that Could Cripple the Practice of MedicineYou won’t read about the International Classification of Disease (ICD) on TMZ or hear it discussed on The View, but it has the potential to be an unpleasant October surprise in the health care world. It is a list of codes that physicians ...
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March 21, 2014
Modern Journalism: We Report, We DecidePeeling back the curtain hiding the incestuous relationship between the mainstream media and the White House, Arizona reporter Catherine Anaya revealed that “President Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, receives questions from the press i...
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March 13, 2014
Obama: Forget Your Cable TV and Cell Phone, Buy Insurance InsteadAt a recent Spanish language media town hall meeting, President Obama was asked a question by a man trying to buy health insurance for his family of three, but who could not afford it. The questioner, with an income of $36,000 per year, could not fin...
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March 5, 2014
Putin Teaches Kerry and Obama How to Play ChessSecretary of State John Kerry, interviewed on “Face the Nation”, demonstrated his silver-tongued diplomacy by setting Russian President Putin straight on the recent invasion of Ukraine. ”You just don’t in the 21st century beha...
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March 1, 2014
Let Them Eat Cake...but Not Have to Bake ItArizona is a hotbed of controversy over a bill that would legally protect businesses that choose to deny services to customers based on religious beliefs. After clearing the Arizona legislature last week, the bill is now before Governor Jan Bre...
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February 25, 2014
ObamaCare KnuckleheadsFirst Lady Michelle Obama, appearing on "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon, thanked one of the demographic groups that made her First Lady by calling them "knuckleheads." Discussing ObamaCare, Mrs. Obama opined, "A lot of young people think they're...
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February 18, 2014
Olympics Without BordersWatching the Olympic ice dancing competition this past weekend, I was surprised to see Chris and Cathy Reed representing Japan. I know little about ice dancing, but I do recognize the national origins of names. Their teammate Yazuru Hanyu, with a dis...
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February 8, 2014
Lose Your Job and Feel LiberatedThis week, a report from the Congressional Budget Office acknowledged that ObamaCare would reduce full-time employment by 2.5 million over the next ten years. And that is on top of news that 92 million Americans who could be working are not. What a d...
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January 18, 2014
Sliding Toward Single Payer?Now that the budget and debt ceiling battles are safely kicked down the road for a few months, the news is filled with stories of glitches and snafus in the rollout of the Obamacare exchanges. From dysfunctional websites to finger pointing over ...