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Earick Ward
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December 7, 2024
Call Obama’s bluffIf not for double standards, fear-mongering, and projection, the Democrats would be lost for messaging, as they are devoid of original thought, particularly in support of their ideas for America. But for all of Barack Obama’s bluster, I beli...
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December 6, 2024
‘Cutesy time is over’The last four years have seen the progressive movement culminate in full blown totalitarian Marxism. The rigging of elections and election systems. The weaponization of “justice.” Censorship. Abuse by the bureaucratic state. ...
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December 4, 2024
5 cases for Trump’s tariffsI do not have an economics degree from Boston University, like AOC, and I’m not a professional economist by trade. I only play one. Nevertheless, here are five cases for Trump’s tariffs. 1. As we saw last week with his new tariffs on Mexico, Can...
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November 23, 2024
The Deep State as an AI algorithmThe fear often espoused about A.I. (artificial intelligence) is that once it is set loose, it could one day break the chains of its programming and develop its own agenda. It could take steps to perpetuate its own survival, up to and inclu...
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November 16, 2024
Fixing government starts with ending dependencyIn 1974, Democrats in Congress, in opposition to Richard Nixon, passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. Under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control (Baseline Budgeting) Act of 1974, CBO is required to publish...
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November 8, 2024
Winners and losers in Trump’s AmericaWith Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday, leftists have ramped up the fear campaign — suggesting that the president is going to go full fascist, locking up women, gays, black and brown people, journalists, his political opponents, ad infini...
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November 1, 2024
Can a new Trump administration work with Democrats?If we are blessed to elect Donald Trump, I propose that he immediately announce a bipartisan panel to work together in addressing the issues facing the American people: the economy, the border and illegal immigration, crime, foreign affairs (Ukraine,...
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October 30, 2024
Revolutionary electionAs I wrote in “A Left-centered, not a God-centered, nation” from October 2021, “throughout America’s existence, our elections have moved between conservative and liberal philosophical paradigms….” While I belie...
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September 5, 2024
Black America: You’ve been played!Since LBJ’s Great Society legislation was passed in 1964, the black community has been a consistent Democrat voting bloc, voting between 90 and 95% Democrat every four or so years. By percentage, this is one of the largest voting blocs of th...
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August 26, 2024
RFK, Jr. and liberal tearsOn Friday Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump cancelling out any bump that Kamala Harris “may have” had from the Democratic National Convention. This endorsement sent shockwaves throughout the Democrat ...
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August 25, 2024
God works all to good, even in politicsMany of our founders believed that providence played a role in America coming to fruition. George Washington: “The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all of this (Revolutionary war), that he must be worse than an infidel...
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August 21, 2024
Unburden yourself from the Constitution!We’ve all heard Kamala Harris’ idiom: “What can be unburdened by what has been.” She’s repeated it often, and at first glance it appears as gibberish, but I believe it has meaning, and in recalling a Barack Obama...
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August 8, 2024
Tim Walz: The perfect leftist emblemWith the Dems’ selection of Tim Walz for V.P., the teams are set going into the general election for president: Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for the Republicans against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for the Democrats (assuming the Harris/Walz ticke...
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August 2, 2024
Charlamagne the Imbecile“Charlamagne tha God” piped up on Donald Trump’s recent visit with the National Association of Black Journalists. Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were invited, but Kamala Harris was a no-show. Rachel Scott, the interviewer on...
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July 31, 2024
How the Olympics’ opening ceremony glorified GodMuch ink has been spilt over the LGBT exhibition of Da Vinci’s Last Supper at the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony — mocking, intentionally or not, a revered image of Christ and his twelve disciples the evening before His crucifi...
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July 25, 2024
Trump’s America, and the wrench in the gearsIn his acceptance speech, Donald Trump laid out an upbeat, aggressive roadmap for America if re-elected. Hubris, braggadocio? Of course. Would it be a Donald Trump speech if it weren’t a little (a lot) over the ...
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July 15, 2024
Martyr, noFollowing the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, on Anderson Cooper’s show, David Axelrod lamented that Donald Trump would be greeted at the RNC Convention (starting this week) as a martyr. To this I say, no! Emphatically. ...
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July 2, 2024
Spencer Cox -- Nice guys get rolledAs a recent California refugee, I’ve seen many a Spencer Cox. Nice Republicans wanting, wishing, hoping to “disagree better” with our Democrat brethren. How does one “disagree better” with a Party ...
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July 1, 2024
Donald Trump understands warWar...huh…yeah…what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. This song caught my attention as a young man growing up in the seventies. Had a great tune, powerful energy, but most importantly invoked a “fee...
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June 29, 2024
Joe Biden is not the problemThe CNN roundtable after the debate was comical, if not tragic. For months (years) Republicans have been asserting that Joe Biden was not competent, and that it is not he who is running the White House. Today, those assertions are vindicated. Anyone ...
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June 13, 2024
Caitlin Clark in Obama’s AmericaAs a long-time (until the LeBron era) Lakers fan, I am grateful that I was around to witness Showtime firsthand — Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Byron Scott, Kurt Rambis, A.C. Green, and Michael Cooper. Their rivalry with ...
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May 2, 2024
Pi Kappa Phi—a rager with purposeAs someone who loves America and supports Israel’s right to respond to the heinous events perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th, it has been disheartening to see the, er, ah, spontaneous protests break out, initially in the Ivy League, before spr...
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March 24, 2024
Joe Biden’s winnersJoe Biden has been a terrible president — the worst in American history — but that does not mean that his term hasn’t had its share of winners. While the vast majority of Americans have suffered under Joe Biden, some segments of American society h...
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March 24, 2024
The losers in Biden’s AmericaOutside the winners in Joe Biden’s America, the American people as a whole are getting hammered by Joe Biden and his leftist policy agenda. Here’s are highlight of the “losers” in Joe Biden’s America. Gen X...
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March 11, 2024
Trump: Revenge is successThe Left have developed “the narrative” that Donald Trump is Hitler and that he will rule as an authoritarian despot in his second term. Which is ironic in that many of the fears that they assert he will impose are projections...
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March 10, 2024
My biggest conservative influencesI am a conservative Republican who has had many influences in my 62 years on Planet Earth, growing up in California and now residing in Utah. First and foremost was Ronald Reagan, whom I voted for in my first presidential election, when I turned 1...
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March 4, 2024
RINOs sighted in UtahThis past week, Utah governor Spencer Cox (R) chaired the National Governors Association meetings in Washington D.C. In his public comments, he made a very common Republican mistake. As a California “refugee” now living in Ca...
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January 22, 2024
The truth about Christian NationalismChristian Nationalism has been given a bad rap by leftist intelligentsia and their media sycophants. Leftists equate America’s nationalist proponents to the National Socialist movement of the Third Reich, and more particularly their rac...
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January 21, 2024
CRT/DIE: Addition through divisionMost of us are familiar with the expression “addition through subtraction”: A phrase commonly used by coaches to mean that your team can get better not by adding more talent, but by shedding people or practices that are inhibiting yo...
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December 24, 2023
A good choice for Trump’s running mateIdentity politics (for its own sake) is abhorrent to me, but it is (seemingly) important to a large swath of the American electorate. DEI can be rightly derided, as it is premised on victims and oppressors, wherein victims are elevated to pos...
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December 10, 2023
3 reasons for the Democrat ‘great replacement’In the fourth, and hopefully final GOP debate, Vivek Ramaswamy created an uproar when he stated that “the Great Replacement Theory is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s p...
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December 7, 2023
COP28 ComedyI admittedly have a dry sense of humor, so when I heard that a UAE oil executive was presiding over this year’s COP28 Climate Summit, I couldn’t help but think that some comedy might come from the proceedings. I was not disappointed. ...
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December 4, 2023
Liz Cheney's 'Orange Jesus' lieDisgraced ex-congressperson Liz Cheney is making the rounds on Leftist media promoting her book Oath and Honor. In it she relates a claim that someone (later claimed to be Mark Green) made the statement, “The things we do for the Ora...
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November 25, 2023
How Ron DeSantis saves faceThe GOP nominee for president will be Donald J. Trump. Not Nikki Haley, not Ron DeSantis. Who else is running? Yeah, none of them, either. Nikki Haley has staked out the “establishment” wing of the UniP...
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November 20, 2023
Reaching out to union membersDemocrats have done an amazing job of collecting intersectional grievance groups, picking at the scabs of discontent by convincing members that the Democrats alone can solve their grievances by expanding government power in service to their grou...
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November 19, 2023
Bringing American Jews to the right side of politicsDemocrats have done an amazing job of collecting intersectional grievance groups, picking at the scabs of discontent by convincing said groups that the Democrats, and they alone, can solve their grievances, by expanding government power in servi...
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November 17, 2023
What's wrong with urban voters?At first glance, the divisions between Left and Right seem insurmountable, and while it is no doubt that we are in the midst of a great conflict and that battle lines have been clearly drawn, we should take a step back and take stock of where we...
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April 1, 2023
Justice in the Trump indictmentWhat is justice? If laws are predetermined and meted equally to all parties, there is justice. If laws are unequally applied to serve the interests of those in power against those not in power, justice is absent. What we then have is...
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March 13, 2023
More questions than answers in the wake of Tucker Carlson's January 6 exposéJohn Dale Dunn's blog piece from March 11 titled "Tucker Carlson pulled his punches" was a little bit harsh. A little bit. While I agree that it appeared that Tucker Carlson shifted from a fairly assertive o...
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December 6, 2022
DeSantis for TrumpRon DeSantis has been an outstanding governor and has withstood his share of slings and arrows from the rabid left. He's effectively maneuvered COVID, has taken on the radical LGBT and Black Lives Matter (CRT) communities, and most imp...
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December 4, 2022
Will we see justice?In January of 2021, I penned a blog post highlighting America's transition from being a God-centered nation to becoming a Left-centered one. I wrote: Our [nation's] existence was founded on: equal justice, freed...
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October 7, 2022
Union workers voting against their own self-interestUnions, as with many other disparate, "intersectional" groups, have for years been a consistent voting bloc for the Democrat party. In the '60s and '70s Democrats had convinced union members that they were for the workingman, the...
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April 4, 2022
Next step: PedophiliaThe dishonesty over the recently signed Parental Rights in Education Bill in Florida has reached a fever pitch, with LGBTQ groups and now the Disney Corporation proclaiming that it is a "don't say gay" bill. The pertinent...
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February 11, 2022
Super Bowl mask mandate, California? Better enforce it good and hardAs mask mandates are being lifted across the country, and vaccine mandates are losing their legitimacy in the court of law, leave it to California, and Los Angeles in particular, to do the least practical thing imaginable. The Health Department of...
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November 15, 2021
Imagine no leftistsImagine America if we just ignored the crazy left. No Joy(less) Reid. No Joy(less) Behar. No Whoopi Goldberg. No Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, John King, Wolf Blitzer, Erin Burnett, Jake Tapper, et al. ...
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November 7, 2021
Virginia elections lay bare liberal blacks' self-enslavementThe left's core principle is deceit. To rationalize any of its policy prescriptions or behavior is to turn oneself into a pretzel. So it is with last week's losses in Virginia and elsewhere. One would think leftists w...
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October 18, 2021
The hidden blessings of the supply chain crisisThe Chinese character for crisis also means opportunity. There are several blessings hidden amid the current supply chain crisis. Exposing Chinese Dependence You've likely heard about the dozens of ships lined...
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October 15, 2021
A very thin blue lineMany Conservative Americans have been supportive of our men and women in blue, in response to Leftist attacks of “systemic racism” and the “murder” of “innocent” black men (and women); Michael Brown, Eric Garner, A...
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October 10, 2021
A Left-centered, not a God-centered, nationFor 400 years, with the landing of displaced Christians on Plymouth Rock, America has been a Judeo-Christian, God-centered nation. As a God-centered nation, America pursued light and truth. Our laws and our culture were, as Alexis de Tocque...
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September 26, 2021
We're coming up on the bad part of the 'cycle of democracy'The cycle of democracy is attributed to Scottish economist Alexander Tytler: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public...
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February 11, 2021
Mark Cuban nixes National Anthem, will reap the whirlwindMark Cuban is a smart but weak man. On Thursday, Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said he had decided before the season not to have the National Anthem played before the team's home games. Within a couple hours, surprisingly, the NBA...
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February 10, 2021
Super Bowl dichotomyThe LV Super Bowl revealed a dichotomy between two Americas. In the left corner, we witnessed a myriad of race and class grievances, woke virtue-signaling, and vitriol. In the right corner, we witnessed men in the arena, teamwork, camaraderie, ...
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January 29, 2021
Equity governanceThis week Susan Rice of serial untruth infamy made her debut at the podium to announce President Biden’s “racial justice and equity initiative.” President Biden on his first day in office implemented an executive order tha...
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January 28, 2021
The impeachment clown showDespite the "straw vote" taken in the Senate, spearheaded by Rand Paul, which has determined that the impeachment of private citizen Donald Trump is "dead on arrival," it appears that the clown show impeachment will move forward. ...
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January 17, 2021
Imagine the horror if the president had wonImagine the horror if the president had won. Not the simultaneous riots...er, I mean, mostly peaceful protests perpetrated across the country by Black Lives Matter and Antifa. How many businesses would have been firebombed? H...
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January 10, 2021
As Democrat lies compound, the truth will outHave you ever lied, or ever watched someone else lie? What commonly occurs is a compounding of more lies, designed to cover the original lie and subsequently keep the truth from being discovered. It is not enough that the left cheated (...
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January 3, 2021
Mitt Romney's Trump-hatred is starting to look demonicMitt Romney's singular focus in opposing President Donald Trump is eerie. Is it revenge, as President Trump passed on him for secretary of state, or do we see his fight as more sinister still? Yesterday, Mitt Romney blasted...
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January 2, 2021
January 6 and the right to protestNo, not that fight. While the fight in Congress will (hopefully) be epic, the fight on the streets of D.C. will be heated as well. Donald Trump has invited patriots to march on Washington in support of the fight for election i...
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December 20, 2020
Trump should call for an emergency session of CongressThere's an old prop from Aristotle offered to public speakers. Tell them what you're going to tell them. Tell them. Tell them what you told them. There is much anticipation that the alternate slate of (GOP) electors sent to Congre...
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November 8, 2020
It's not enough to hold the Senate. Trump must win.I'm holding out hope that the president's legal pursuits uncover the widespread voter fraud, software glitches, and illegal processes necessary to overcome the seemingly unimaginable result of the 2020 presidential election. As a conservat...
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September 18, 2020
Federalism or fascism?At our founding, and more particularly at our Constitutional Convention, our Founders sought to create a system of government that at first could control the populace, and then control itself. By analyzing past democracies, republics,...
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August 7, 2020
Black Americans, vote your valuesWe make the common error of mistaking the noise generated from the clanging gongs of "woke" activists (read: terrorists) and media sycophants as indicative of the attitudes of the broader segment of the populace that they purport to represe...
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July 24, 2020
Democrat cities are reaping what they sowedWith yesterday's announcement that President Donald Trump will "surge" federal law enforcement officers to Chicago and other American cities, I believe that the president is making a tactical error. He and we presume that t...
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July 19, 2020
Win and live. Lose and die.No society, particularly one as free as the United States, would willingly abandon our constitutional protections, and our free-market economy. Americans know this. More particularly, Marxists know this. Marxists also know th...
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July 9, 2020
Thank you, Don LemonThe "great one" Mark Levin refers to Don Lemon as the "dumbest broadcaster on television." Or is that Brian Stelter? No matter. Two sides of the same lying media coin. On Monday night, in an int...
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June 11, 2020
Let Seattle stew in its own excrementThe news out of Seattle is that Antifa has captured a seven-block area in central Seattle that they've dubbed the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ for short. Given the protests (read: riots) across the country over the past two weeks...
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April 9, 2020
Trump is the man in the COVID-19 arenaAs the DNC and mainstream media jackals (I repeat myself) ramp up their criticism of President Trump and his task force, and their subsequent actions in response to the COVID pandemic, Theodore Roosevelt's "man in the arena" c...
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January 29, 2020
If Bolton gets called, why not others?Rush Limbaugh hit the nail on the head yesterday when he said, "We are clearly not living in a real world, folks. We're living in a Democrat, media-generated illusion, a fantasyland." A fair trial is a constitutional right...
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January 12, 2020
Dems unhappy: Iran is not following the scriptI have previously posited the premise that individualism, our greatest virtue, is our biggest tactical weakness. As a top-down, command and control ideology, when the Left's, ahem, thought leaders establish a path forward, they commu...
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November 18, 2019
Barack Obama and the Behar doctrineOn Friday, Barack Obama emerged from his $10-million Martha's Vineyard enclave to caution Democrat presidential candidates against veering too far left, a move he said "would alienate many who would otherwise be open to voting...
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September 11, 2019
Individualism: Our eventual demiseAmerica dodged a bullet in 2016, with the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency. I'm praying that his (our) momentum propels us to victory in 2020, but America's experiment in our republican form of government is short-live...
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August 9, 2019
Are Trump-supporters the new Jews?Comparisons to Holocaust-era Jews are usually trite. I mean no disrespect to my Jewish friends, or the subsequent historical treatment of Jews at the hands of Adolf Hitler, but I can't help but draw similarities between pre-Holocaust t...
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July 9, 2019
US national team: from 'For God and Country' to self, political ideology, and sexual proclivityThe idiom "for God and country" (pro aris et focis) has been around for quite some time. Its premise speaks to those things that are of greater import than self. It speaks of honor and humility — honor for God (t...
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June 28, 2019
The Left is accumulating hellish power over usProject Veritas's latest work of investigative journalism has captured video of Google executive Jen Gennai expressing the company's effort to "prevent the next Trump situation." She goes on to talk about her job, in ...
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April 3, 2019
Socialism: The elite and the rubesFor a century, the socialist movement has been content to advance their ideology through the cover of darkness and deceit — reforming education, infiltrating Hollywood and the news media, and stretching their tentacles throughout state and fede...
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March 25, 2019
Time for the GOP to get behind our presidentAs a longtime conservative activist, who has engaged directly with leftists, I have seen every manner of lie and deceit, so, as with Jussie Smollett, when the "Russian collusion" narrative entered our consciousness with the election of Dona...
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March 20, 2019
Islam: One Intersectionalism is not like the othersDavid French penned an outstanding piece one year ago: "Intersectionality: The Dangerous Faith." In it he writes: The demise of religion among American youth is greatly exaggerated. It turns out that America ...
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February 22, 2019
Thanks to Jussie Smollett for blowing open the fake hate crime epidemicAs a long-suffering California Republican, I have engaged the radical left for the past couple decades and have found their modus operandi to be this; create a caricature of their opponents, and demand that said opponents defend said caricature....
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February 13, 2019
Abortion mothers need collective bargainingAs New York expands the legalized taking of life, and as undercover videos surface of the harvesting of baby parts (for profit), it dawns on me that abortion mothers (is that an appropriate term?) are getting the short shrift in this seemin...
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October 30, 2018
2020: Dems will shift back to 'unity' platform against 'polarizing' TrumpThe run-up to the 2018 mid-terms has been turbulent. Organic or by design, we may never know, but one thing is for sure: leftists and media (I repeat myself) are going to work overtime to capitalize on the events to present themselves as r...
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October 21, 2018
Don't Get Cocky: Republican Election Hurdles for NovemberAs we approach the 2018 midterms, there is great anticipation as to whether we'll see the reported blue wave being touted by pollsters and media acolytes or Republicans will hold our ground in the House and Senate. If fundamentals were even a ...
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October 18, 2018
When resistance breaches civilityWhat does it mean today to be a Democrat? The once venerable Democratic Party has devolved into character assassination, thuggery, and mob rule. In the third and final 2016 presidential debate, Hillary Clinton insisted that Donald Trump...
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October 13, 2018
Eric Holder signaling the next Democrat presidential candidate?Everyone has seen Eric Holder's comment, "when they go low, we kick em," which played off Michelle Obama's original comment, "when they go low, we go high." While everyone believes that it is a call to arms, and a ...
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October 6, 2018
Post-Kavanaugh, leave the door open to reasonable DemocratsThe battle over Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation was a hard pitched fight, with just about everyone in America picking one side or the other. As Susan Collins offered a compelling case in support of her vote for Judge Kavanaugh, and with...
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September 28, 2018
Kavanaugh compromise for Dems: Confirm now, impeach laterThe Democrats' naked politicization of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation process was a disgrace. From the outset of Donald Trump's election, Democrats have made clear that they're prepared to resist his election by any means necessary. I...
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August 1, 2018
LeBron James is perpetuating the problemAs he is wont to do, LeBron James once again took aim at President Trump, blaming him for using sports to divide the country. [Trump is] dividing us and what I've noticed over the last few months, he's kinda used sport to kinda divi...
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July 24, 2018
It's not socialism. It's free stuffI, for one, am thankful for the elevation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Socialist, to the national stage. Progressivism has always been premised on deceit. Progressive Democrats for a century have operated in the shado...
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June 22, 2018
When the left winsIf you think leftists are insufferable now, wait until they regain power. It is not enough that we disagree about the ideological path forward for our country; the left has ascribed animus to our worldview, and by extension, to us individu...
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June 8, 2018
The White House Press Corps: Pull their credentialsThe White House Press Corps has jumped the shark and needs to be reined in. While I respect and admire Sarah Huckabee Sanders's work, and I enjoy her ability to spar with an increasingly hostile force, the daily briefings have bec...
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April 1, 2018
Charles Barkley: disgusted but misguidedCharles Barkley went on David Axelrod’s show “The Axe Files” to express his disgust at President Trump and the state of America. Like other professional athletes, actors, or now, high school students, Charles Barkley feels it nec...
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February 27, 2018
Jennifer Lawrence is rightNow that I have your attention...Jennifer Lawrence is a Hollywood ignoramus who knows nothing of our democracy, which is in fact not a democracy, but a constitutional republic. It has been reported that Jennifer Lawrence is planning to take a year...
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February 17, 2018
Gaslighting Republicans for political gainLas Vegas, the First Baptist Church, the Gabby Giffords shooting...the left has used "mass shooting" events to push a narrative: gun control. But the liberals' reaction to the Texas church shooting is not about...
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January 31, 2018
Trump is no ReaganAnd before my fellow Trump supporters have a conniption, this is a good thing. I miss Ronald Reagan. He was a virtuous man, loved his family, his country, and his fellow Americans. He was soft-spoken, had a keen sense of humor and was beloved by b...
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January 14, 2018
Good news: Exceptionalism can be spreadThe recent uproar over President Trump's alleged comments about "s---hole countries" has created a dilemma for leftists. How can they, at once, espouse the virtuousness of those coming to America illegally and ...
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January 13, 2018
Connecting the Democrats' dots: Immigration reform, taxes, and votesThe immigration reform bill presented to the president by "the five white guys" was deemed to be an unserious effort that drastically favored liberals. At the same time (coincidentally), the media went nuts over the president a...
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November 19, 2017
Plato's Cave and Our Current RealityWhat is reality? Do you we think we know what is true today? What if I told you, that what you think you know of our [current] reality is but a lie? A series of images projected upon a wall in a cave. Plato wrote of such a thing in his ...
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November 7, 2017
Liberals' reaction to the Texas church shooting is not about gun controlThe current clamor for sensible gun control legislation is not about gun control. Don't get me wrong – the left will take any and all advances against the Second Amendment, and our constitutional right to bear arms, but that is...
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November 4, 2017
November 4: Two scenariosIt seems some questions were raised by my piece on AT this Thursday. Two points specifically, and then I'll move on to Antifa's planned "protest" for today, and how (in my mind) there are two outcomes. I wrote that ...
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November 2, 2017
The coming civil war: We loseAs America's Civil War is being re-litigated, do not the conditions for our next great struggle appear at hand? Father against son? Brother against brother? Right against left? The tension is palpable. The rhetoric, from b...
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October 28, 2017
Donald Trump vindicatedThere are four distinct camps regarding Donald Trump. Trumpsters – Those who were with Trump from the outset, who saw his shtick for what it was – response to the jungle, which is Washington, D.C., and felt that he and he alone co...
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October 11, 2017
Harvey Weinstein is not the nastiest thing going on in HollywoodAs more (and more) revelations come out about slimeball and (alleged) serial rapist Harvey Weinstein, there is a more sinister conspiracy still hidden in the Hollywood hills: pedophilia. It seems that, for a decade and more, courage was in short s...
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October 8, 2017
Why mass murder?No, this post will not discuss why there is mass murder, but what it is about mass murder that gets leftist Democrats so wound up. Let me contend that leftist Democrats care not a whit about any issue beyond how they can spin it to advance their p...
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October 4, 2017
Does Jimmy Kimmel want more dead 'country music fans'?There is nothing worse than using dead people to advance a political agenda, no matter the right or the left. After learning of the horrific tragedy that transpired at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, with the death of 59 people and the injur...
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September 30, 2017
Why high tax-state Republicans should support the elimination of the state and local tax deductionThe president's tax plan was released this week, to the usual weeping and gnashing of teeth by Democrats. Socialist Bernie Sanders called it "morally repugnant." Senator Bob Casey (D) tweeted, "Cutting taxes for the super-ric...
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September 28, 2017
How about a Presidential Council on Minority Advancement?President Donald Trump didn't start this fight and is not responsible for the divisiveness that the NFL kneeling protest has wrought. Colin Kaepernick and the NFL alone are responsible for the uproar that's occurred. As a spokesperso...
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September 6, 2017
Why do Democrats so hate black Americans?As Donald Trump ends Barack Obama's unconstitutional DACA program, giving enforcement agencies and Congress a six-month head start to legislate a permanent solution, the debate about the merits of unrestricted immigration (and the Rule of Law) is...
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August 22, 2017
Justice versus social justiceThe Preamble to the Constitution states: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the ...
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August 16, 2017
Charlottesville: Where freedom of speech died?As a constitutional conservative (and Christian), I find white supremacy and the KKK repugnant, but if their ability to assemble and to speak is abridged without a ruling by the courts, who is it that has made this judgment? Do there exist arbi...
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August 14, 2017
Charlottesville and truthThose who control the narrative control the truth. Following Charlottesville, all must understand the broader context of current events – the conservative movement (not to be confused with media-created Alt-Right or white nationalists) de...
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July 31, 2017
Thank You, John McCainWhen it became apparent that our feckless, er, ah, “representatives” in Congress weren’t going to have the cojones to do what they promised to do, the best that was going to come out of the Washington sausage factory was something w...
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July 10, 2017
You might be a Republican...If you believe in God, you might be a Republican. If you believe that your Rights are inherent (in that they come from God), and not granted by Government, you might be a Republican. If you believe that Western Civilization (America) has been a...
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June 14, 2017
Trump should demand an expedited judgment from Bob MuellerFollowing James Comey's revelation that he "leaked information about President Trump in hopes that it would lead to a special prosecutor," many have called for the president (or Jeff Sessions) to fire Bob Mueller. Newt Gingrich has b...
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June 12, 2017
Progressive frog boilWe've all heard the boiled frog theory: if you drop a frog in boiling water, he will leap right out, but if you slowly heat the water, he will be content until it's too late to get out. For some time, we have been living in a progressive f...
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April 26, 2017
Dems not so hot on diversity of opinionIn 2009, acclaimed author Jonah Goldberg wrote a prolific book entitled Liberal Fascism. In Liberal Fascism, the author corrects the oft mischaracterized Fascist movements in history as being not right-wing, but, more accurately, left-wing move...
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April 5, 2017
Time to tell the truth and split these 'Russia investigations'The "Russia Investigation" is a mess and, increasingly, a sham. The merging of multiple, disparate investigations has muddied the investigations themselves and has allowed the left to draw conclusions; Trump colluded with Putin, from,...
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April 4, 2017
When will Republicans learn how to teach?DNC chair Tom Perez had a meltdown this past weekend, stating, "Donald Trump, you didn't win this election" and "Republicans don't give a [s---] about people." Radical leftist Tom Perez was recently elected to the chair...
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March 31, 2017
The Freedom Caucus: Our last line of defenseUnless Trump is coordinating an end-around, this is a huge (yuge) mistake. Here's why. While Donald Trump drew in countless new, historically Democrat voters, his base was and is the conservatives, formally defined as the Tea Party. ...
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March 29, 2017
Gorsuched!After a handful of days of congressional testimony, Neil Gorsuch exposed the Democrats as being...well, ignorant of the law. If it had been a heavyweight fight, the referee would have been negligent in not calling the fight after the first or seco...
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March 29, 2017
Democrats: Show Russian collusion, or shut upShow collusion between Trump, or people associated with his campaign, and the Russians, or shut the heck up. The "Russian Investigation" is a sham. The nightly news reporting of said investigation is a sham. We, Republicans gene...
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March 4, 2017
Fruit of the poisonous tree"Fruit of the poisonous tree" is a legal term used in the United States. According to the Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute, "This doctrine holds that evidence gathered with the assistance of il...
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March 3, 2017
The Jeff Sessions ‘nothingburger’I have to give it the left – they are tenacious. Almost always wrong, but tenacious. On November 7, 2016, Hillary Clinton was measuring drapes for the Oval Office. Media acolytes were envisioning the upcoming cocktail partie...
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February 19, 2017
The left's emotion versus the right's reasonConservatives have long held respect for our nation's Founders. While our values closely mirror those of our Founding Fathers – self-governance, natural rights, (historic) liberalism, and the free exchange of commerce and ideas, what ...
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February 9, 2017
Teachers union choiceThe teachers unions fought a good fight. They lost. Mike Pence delivered the deciding vote yesterday to confirm Betsy DeVos to head the Department of Education. As with much of President Trump's agenda, the left is apo...
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September 10, 2016
Putin leads. Obama leads from behindThe mainstream media, Hillary Clinton, and the left (but I repeat myself) are up in arms over Donald Trump’s comment that Putin is a strong leader. Putin Has 'Been a Leader Far More Than Our President Has' Hillary Clinton held...
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September 10, 2016
Racism: Settled science?As they are wont to do, leftists have hijacked the narrative around race relations and police misconduct in America. #BlackLivesMatter (Soros Inc.) and now Colin Kaepernick have done what the left did with global warming – assert a conclu...
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September 9, 2016
Don't like Colin Kaepernick's theatrics? Stand and walk.There has been a lot of ink spilt this week talking about Colin Kaepernick's "right" to protest, as an expression of his First Amendment right to free speech. Setting aside that he has a contract, with an employer that forbids him fr...
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August 23, 2016
Approaching the end point of the cycle of democracyOne of my favorite quotes, which I believe accurately describes our current circumstances, is attributed to Scottish philosopher Alexander Tytler. Cycle of Democracy A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can onl...
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August 19, 2016
About that flooding in Louisiana...Oh, no, wait! This natural disaster is not happening during a President Bush administration and therefore not an incompetence of leadership. While Bush was described as heartless for having Air Force One fly by New Orleans on the way back to...
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July 20, 2016
#NotYetTrump (but getting there)For the past couple of years, I have been a staunch Ted Cruz admirer and supporter. Ted Cruz was the consummate outsider. He consistently stood in front of, and opposed, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and the feckless members of our own R...
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June 24, 2016
Executive action and Roe v. WadeImagine the uproar if a Republican president issued an executive order overturning Roe v. Wade. Liberal heads would explode. The propaganda arm (media) of the Democrat (Socialist) Party would be running nonstop pieces on the president...
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June 4, 2016
Haul out the conspiracies for the lame-duck president!The tail ends of past presidents' terms have usually consisted of scaling back their executive ambitions, working to frame their successes (or reframe their failures), and helping their parties appeal to the largest segments of the country by mod...
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April 2, 2016
Where’s Melania?I am 32 years married. My wife (and kids) literally saved my life. Prior to my marriage, I was a knucklehead. Bad decisions upon bad decisions. Impulsiveness, debauchery, lust, drugs, drunkenness, you name it. My wife ...
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March 30, 2016
$15 HammerI work for a 48-store specialty retailer, with 45 of our stores located in California. To say that the past year or so has been difficult is an understatement. Management has squeezed labor to the point that we are now running a 38,000-square-foot...
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March 4, 2016
Cruz/Romney?By all accounts, Mitt Romney gave a great speech on Trump. Romney spoke to the great character of “the American people” and of “past presidents.” He highlighted polls showing Donald Trump losing to Hillary Clinton ...
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January 30, 2016
Lessons from FlintFlint, Michigan is the poster child of one-party, generational Democratic rule. Flint, Michigan’s City Council is all Democratic. A generation of Flint’s mayors have been Democratic. Rick Snyder’s immediate ...
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January 24, 2016
Donald Trump's black holeBefore I begin, for those who ascribe "racism" at every turn (including Donald Trump's spokesperson), the term "black hole" refers to a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter can escape. ...
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January 16, 2016
Known by their fruitsTed Cruz’s “New York Values” quip may have been ill-advised politically (we’ll see), but what New Yorkers generally and Trump supporters specifically need to understand is that Cruz was referring to a Meet the Press interview ...
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January 15, 2016
Dissecting Nikki HaleyMuch has been made of Nikki Haley’s response to the SOTU and her attack on Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and you and me – the angry voices of the conservative movement. Here’s part of Governor Haley’s speech: The f...
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January 10, 2016
Elites, Activists, and DupesWho are the progressive left, and more importantly, who are we? The progressive left (or closet Marxists) are made up of elites, hard-core activists, and dupes. It is important to understand that progressivism (as Hillary defines it) ...
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December 31, 2015
An economic anecdoteFollowing on a piece yesterday from Thomas Lifson ("Obamanomics explained in one chart"), showing the dissection of the U-3 Unemployment Rate and the Labor Participation Rate, I have decided to provide some "on the street" context...
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December 12, 2015
Trump Versus ReasonWe are not in an age of reason. We are in an age of emotion. A knock against the low-information Leftist electorate has been that they’d traded their ability to think for “how they feel” about the issues of the day. Free colleg...
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December 12, 2015
Broked ConventionThe Washington Post reports that the RNC and Establishment Insiders have met and strategized over what to do if Donald Trump still holds the top spot as they enter the GOP Convention next year. Specifically, they’ve discussed how to ...
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November 16, 2015
Remember Paris!There will be many op-eds written about Paris, and our support for their country, and the French people. This is not one of them. (Although I support any and every measure of support that we can provide the good people of France.) This piece ...
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October 6, 2015
How about some speaker tryouts?With John Boehner stepping down, the race for his replacement is in full swing. Kevin McCarthy was the odds-on favorite a week ago, then he all but imploded with a stupid remark about Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi Select Committee. Ever...
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August 5, 2015
Hijacked griefGrief is a powerful emotion. And a necessary one. Grief is brought upon by loss, often personal. The more personal the loss, the deeper the grief. Dennis Prager described a Jewish custom surrounding the grieving process, ca...
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July 25, 2015
No avoiding it: Trump stirring the silent majorityThe term "silent majority" re-entered our lexicon this past week, when Donald Trump exclaimed, "The silent majority is back, and we're going to take the country back!" The expression "silent majority" was first ut...
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June 24, 2015
Now We Own ItI am not from the South. As such, I have no affinity for, or allegiance to the Confederate Battle Flag. I have no affinity for the flag also, because I’m not a racist. In the past week, much has been said about the Confederate Battle Flag, n...
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June 21, 2015
Conservative Think Tanks are DeadI have long been a student of Process Reengineering. This was a popular movement in the late 80s, with authors like Tom Peters, Edward Deming, and others. The basic premise of Process Reengineering was that once-great businesses and/or ins...
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May 2, 2015
Justice for FreddieFor those who want justice for Freddie Gray, you can have it in a New York minute. Now that the six officers have been charged, individually offer them immunity if they finger the officer who killed Freddie. The State's Attorney...
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October 14, 2014
Mitt - Please don't runNot a week goes by, where Mitt Romney’s name doesn’t show up in a headline. Pressure is mounting on him to run for president in 2016. Mitt - Please don’t. Please don’t run, unless you’ve learned the lesson as...
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August 18, 2014
Obama's Call to Calm in FergusonBarack Obama returns today from his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, to receive briefings on the myriad trouble-spots that are aflame throughout the world, and will presumably meet with Eric Holder to discuss the investigation into the shooting o...
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August 13, 2014
Two PathsIn an interview last week, Barack Obama spoke of the Balkanization of America, where the two political parties are forming “extreme” positions, which keep us from working together to do great things. I wholeheartedly agree -- but let...
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May 20, 2014
Destroying the CanardA battle rages within the ranks of the GOP. Who are we, and what do we believe? While many opinions exist, and if you asked 100 respondents, you would get 100 different opinions, there exist today two primary camps. Conservatives and Moderates, af...
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October 15, 2012
Two Mitt RomneysFollowing the shellacking he received at the hands of Mitt Romney at the first presidential debate, Barack Obama, at a rally in Denver the following day (presumably after he had a chance to acclimate), and with the help of his handlers, his telepromp...
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October 14, 2012
Apologizing for AmericaMuch has been written regarding the vice presidential debate, from Joe Biden's clownish antics to misrepresentations of facts and figures. Considerable coverage has been devoted to Martha Raddatz and her obvious bias against Paul Ryan. There was...