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December 14, 2024
Better Days for Somerset HouseGreat Britain remains one of our closest allies, as reaffirmed when President Trump met with Prince William at the British embassy in Paris last week. Nevertheless, much has been made in this forum about the deterioration, even downfall, of British t...
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December 14, 2024
Here’s who else should return to the Oval OfficeThere is a biographical opus of Sir Winston Churchill titled The Last Lion. He had the heart of a lion, for sure, but he was not the last. President Trump is also lionhearted. In fact, Sir Winston Churchill and Donald J. Trump share a number of at...
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December 10, 2024
Google Cloud Vision describes the recent Trump-Macron handshakeGoogle’s Photos App has received some criticism. There were concerns that it wasn’t forthcoming about photos being modified by AI tools. Even more disconcerting to those who value their privacy are the intricate and personal ...
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December 7, 2024
Trump effect: In the private sector, animal spirits are frolickingSeveral companies in the consumer discretionary sector just reported robust quarterly earnings. More importantly (for forward-looking markets), they raised their outlooks. It appears their customers are exhibiting animal spirits, and this ri...
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December 6, 2024
Safety First, DEI LastOn most worksites, especially those where something productive is accomplished, the main message is clear: “Safety First!” But under the odious orthodoxy of identity politics, and perpetuated by race-hustling poverty lawyers, DEI, in all ...
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November 30, 2024
In Wisconsin, distraught Dems scream at the lake. They should go jump in the lake insteadThey’re baaack: Loony leftists are disturbing the peace yet again. Following President Trump’s electoral trouncing of Kamala, a bunch of Wisconsin women decided to scream at Lake Michigan. I’ve got a better idea: J...
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November 29, 2024
Here are the WOTY, POTY, SOTY and DOTY for 2024It’s the time of year to recognize the Word of the Year (WOTY), Person of the Year (POTY), Song of the Year (SOTY), and Dance of the Year (DOTY). This can be accomplished quite simply because there is a common theme: @realDonaldTrum...
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November 27, 2024
SAF for AF1There is no doubt about it -- with Trump’s election, our all-American animal spirits have been unleashed. Soon, our energy resources will also be unleashed. Not only “drill, baby, drill,” but export, baby, export, including opening...
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November 22, 2024
MAGA is manifestingIt’s the time of the year when cloistered, lexicographical twits foist their Words of the Year upon us. Often, they are DEI contrivances that seek to normalize peculiar or fringe behaviors. For example, in recent years the American D...
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November 21, 2024
Deport this illegal alien -- nowU.S. immigration laws should be applied as fairly as possible. That includes deporting illegal aliens, and Prince Harry may be one if he lied (which seems feasible given the revelations in his book Spare) about his drug use on his visa application. ...
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November 18, 2024
Dancing with TrumpPresident Trump enjoys dancing. In fact, his arm-swaying, air-punching moves might be considered a more staid, presidential version of the old hand jive. Still, that’s not bad for a septuagenarian. In fact, when people in the audience became...
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November 12, 2024
Where can the leftists go?It’s not surprising that many crying Kamala voters are threatening to relocate -- we’ve heard it all before from the whiners. What is surprising is where they want to move to. Per a Storage Units survey of 1837 of the misguided Harris ...
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November 8, 2024
Lina Khan, Gary Gensler, and Rohit Chopra (for starters): You’re bloody fired!During the next few weeks, president-elect Donald J. Trump will be saying “you’re hired” frequently as his transition team operates with businesslike efficiency. For competency’s sake — not revenge’s sake — I...
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November 5, 2024
Quick thoughts as Election Day unfoldsBelow are my quick thoughts as election day unfolds: There are not yet enough data points to extrapolate a trend, but some early signs are positive for President Trump: Trump “beat” Harris in Dixie Notch, New Hampshire, 3-3....
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November 4, 2024
Mind the (gender) gapAs the presidential campaign climaxes, divisive Kamala is determined to widen the gender gap. By contrast, Trump was, and hopefully will be again, the “builder president.” Adorned in reflective vests that suit him be...
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October 25, 2024
These are a few of our favorite thingsFor some spiteful reason that escapes commonsense, Dems are not too proud of traditional America. Many just want to sabotage our exceptionalism, and fundamentally transform us — into The Americas first, then the United Nations. Not only politically...
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October 23, 2024
Inauguration Day 2025: Should there be time limits on hugs?It’s a question of deep philosophical import: How long should a hug between two consenting people last? New Zealanders have their own idea, which may be a bit exuberant for us, even on Inauguration Day. New Zealanders — onc...
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October 20, 2024
Angry and unstable Kamala seems to need therapyTransference and projection are problematic traits inherent in psychoanalytic theory. In my opinion, Kamala Harris exuberantly exhibits both, and is in dire need of a good … therapy session. It doesn’t take a skilled shrink to diag...
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October 17, 2024
Kamala: Madam Vice President or Madam Cruella?Admittedly, I can’t stand the cruel madam Kamala (there’s nothing young, joyful or new about her), but even forcing myself to assume an undecided, fence-sitter perspective, I wasn’t impressed with the witch’s interview perform...
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October 13, 2024
Kamala’s class is half fullI bet you thought Kamala is from the middle class. Wrong! Turns out she’s from the working class — at least if you’re Hispanic. In a town hall event in Las Vegas, sponsored by Univision, a moderator/facilita...
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October 12, 2024
A suitable job for KamalaOn the rare occasion Kamala does a semi-serious interview, much of the content is edited — not for time, but to portray her in a favorable light by culling her incoherent word salads. No wonder she usually sticks with the gushing syc...
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October 10, 2024
DOJ gets it right (sort of) with GoogleThe DOJ has been the bane of business as it pursues an innovation-suffocating antitrust agenda. Such has been the oppressive regulatory regime that a primary consideration of companies considering synergistic tie-ups is whether doing one w...
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October 9, 2024
Potential new wordsIt’s getting close to that time of year when the lefty lexicographers define their Word of the Year. Entities such as Lake Superior State University will even release their annual banned words and phrases list. Ranker.com offers something more ...
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October 8, 2024
Kamala Harris is good for nothingKamala is a good-for-nothing on at least three levels. First: she is literally “good for nothing.” Her career is littered with failures. Even a distinguished black journalist dared to observe, at great professional peril...
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October 6, 2024
Dealing with podcastsMany of the admirable members of AT are quite seasoned. For us, listening to podcasts, especially conducted by AT’s managing editor, can offer a “unique blend of storytelling, learning, and leisure, making them a perfect companion for dai...
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October 5, 2024
Surprise! Huge job growth reported right before the electionPeople often ask if the Fed is political, and therefore predisposed to lowering interest rates before the election. The Labor Department and Bureau of Labor Statistics deserves equal questioning. Their job growth statistics are untrustwo...
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October 2, 2024
Vance wiped the floor with Knucklehead WalzI thought VP candidates were supposed to balance the ticket. Walz just offers Kamala more of the same — stupidity. He told folksy fibs in last night’s debate about Kamala’s record and Project 2025, among many other things....
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September 30, 2024
Kamala’s idiopathic idiocyKamala Harris is deservedly being ridiculed for her evasive responses to questions about her policies, for example: “I was born [raised] in the middle-class.” Even RFK got in on the act with his audience at a Michigan rally. ...
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September 28, 2024
Trump’s authentic anger versus Kamala’s phony joyHarris's handlers try to portray her as joyful, and Trump as angry. How dumb can they be? How dumb do they think we are? Harris’s supposed joy is sickeningly fake, but Trump’s anger is righteous. Emotions of anger are often viewed negatively; ...
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September 27, 2024
Here’s what to get leftists for ChristmasSome of our high-tech behemoths are developing Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality gizmos. A new Virtual Reality headset from Meta will be available on Oct. 15, just in time for Christmas. Given the virtual nature of leftist’s worldview...
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September 26, 2024
Dogs don’t speak liberal gobbledygookWe don’t need more division, but research does indicate liberals tend to prefer cats over dogs. Maybe it’s because urban areas are more accommodative to cats, and that’s where liberals live. Perhaps one reason is that lib...
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September 23, 2024
Catty DemocratsJD Vance took heat for his observation that many prominent Democrats are “childless cat ladies.” Paraphrasing Shakespeare (Hamlet): “The [cat ladies] doth protest too much, methinks.” “Too much” because it’s true that liberals tend to be cat peop...
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September 22, 2024
A great new ‘inclusive’ Olympic sportFlag football, cricket, lacrosse, and squash are additions to the Olympic program in L.A. in 2028. How about “slow swimming”? One of the Olympic Games slogans is “Faster, Higher, Stronger.” Isn’t...
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September 19, 2024
New Google tools, new leftist biasesDo we really need further confirmation that Google is riddled with leftist bias? Sure, especially when its newer applications are contradicting their professed purpose. Google has some innovative tools, several of which are free —...
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September 18, 2024
Thank goodness Trump has the courage to be ‘dangerous’Hillary just refuses to go away. Normally, her unfounded utterances reflect a lost soul who is occupying an alternate universe -- a misconceived and misguided television concept that was widely panned. But a day -- one short day -- after the failed a...
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September 17, 2024
The second assassination attempt was not 'apparent'Everywhere I look for news updates on the Trump assassination attempt I’m confronted by the word “apparent.” Headlines all over legacy media (my browser’s cache was chockful of them) disseminate variations of ...
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September 16, 2024
Robots vs. HaitiansHaiti qualifies for Temporary Protected Status, a federal immigration designation that allows Haitians to live and work here for up to 18 months. However, it’s likely that status will become indefinite, if not permanent, under leftist ausp...
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September 12, 2024
The markets respond to the debateThe media’s post-debate narrative is evolving from “Harris edged the debate,” to “Harris dominated in the debate.” Curiously, at least one headline may have stumbled on the truth, albeit for the wrong reasons. Mark...
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September 7, 2024
Deport illegals and alleviate housing shortage at same timePresident Trump is such a refreshingly bold and honest candidate compared to Kamala. Regarding illegal aliens, he has made his intentions clear: deport them! Some meek and effete naysayers will immediately question the practicality of dep...
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September 5, 2024
Google’s Gemini AI admits liberal biasAmazon’s Alexa just proved she’s well and truly reflective of the political gender gap. When asked, “Why should I vote for Trump?,” her response was a boilerplate “I cannot provide responses that endorse any p...
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August 31, 2024
The spiel on Peter ThielJ.D. Vance is coaxing entrepreneur Peter Thiel to “get off the sidelines” and back Trump, but it appears Thiel remains noncommittal. Thiel supported Trump in 2016 but says he didn’t anticipate how “crazy” and “dangerous” Trump’s administration wou...
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August 27, 2024
Demure Dames and DemsIt is possible something useful may emerge from TikTok: there’s a trend on the platform that encourages being demure. There was a phrase, which has lost some popularity in today’s censorship milieu, that girls “should be seen, bu...
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August 25, 2024
Dem-dominated professions are untrustworthyKamala referred to Trump sixteen times in her DNC acceptance speech. She didn’t reveal her own policies, but she constantly lied about his. It takes a lot to bring politicians into further disrepute, given their already lo...
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August 22, 2024
Thirty percent confidence in Labor Department figuresHere’s part of a potential job announcement for the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “Data scientists and statisticians with an assessed application score of 70% will be considered.” Why such low standards? Apparently, being “ac...
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August 20, 2024
New themes for the Dem conventionThe dour and joyless Democrat National Convention from dystopian Chicago is being inflicted upon us. Their daily themes are perverted. Below are some alternatives. The DNC’s theme for Monday is “For the people.” Why not name it ...
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August 17, 2024
Kamala’s economic plan: gouge corporate profitsKamala has unveiled her economic plan. Put the veil back on it, please. Under the concocted fabrication of price gouging, she is seeking excuses to justify gouging corporate profits. She has been appropriately labelled as a chameleon, but as she p...
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August 11, 2024
My practical Olympic medal tableThe Olympic Games in Paris are almost over. How did the medal count go? Having identified Olympic events with real-world applications, here’s my summary of the final Olympic Medal Table that shows the top three countries for such ev...
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August 8, 2024
Hug hypocrisy at the Olympic GamesIt’s refreshing to see a bit of camaraderie at the Olympics, but only where appropriate, otherwise it becomes meaningless. Obliging the Olympic values is welcome, but compulsory hugging can contribute to the anxiety that ravishes some Olympians...
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August 6, 2024
Olympics: Summon the nut jobsA musical theme tied to the Olympic Games is “Summon the Heroes,” composed by John Williams. An equally appropriate theme might be, “Summon the Nut Jobs.” While many of the athletes sport astonishing talents, approaching th...
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August 2, 2024
Olympics: Here’s who excels in ‘lying-down’ sportsAustralia is a key member of the AUKUS trilateral security partnership with the U.K. and USA. But in the sporting world, the nation is unfriendly to its military allies. The Aussies’ history of bad sportsmanship continues. As Australia...
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July 28, 2024
Gibraltar is BritishSpain has a very good soccer team — so good that the Spanish dared to beat England 2-1 in the Euro 2024 final. That score seems close, but truth be told, they outclassed England. Unfortunately, they were classless in their...
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July 23, 2024
Here’s the ‘George’ that Joe Biden is most likeIt is utterly unfathomable to anyone occupying the realm of reality, but the liberal intelligentsia and some Dem party leaders are trying to elevate Joe Biden to the exalted status of George Washington. In fact, he has more in common with Georgie Por...
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July 19, 2024
Another problematic ‘top states’ surveyOh, dear -- we have another problematic “top states…”ranking to confront. This one, from CNBC, ranks states for their business climate. While these ranking methodologies are not usually worth the time of day, I mention this one ...
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July 17, 2024
Biden's Bogus Accusations of 'Greedflation'With a Monday theme of “Make America Wealthy Once Again,” the economy remains a top issue at the RNC, and inflation a top economic issue. Joe Biden, trapped in socialist orthodoxy, insists corporate greed is greatly to blame for inflation...
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July 13, 2024
President Trump stands back up — not ‘defiant,’ but heroicI write this very early in the aftermath of the horrific political violence unleashed at President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. However, enough time has lapsed to notice there’s a word that keeps getting repeated by the media...
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July 12, 2024
Joe's senility and the nuclear footballAs I write, Joe Biden’s handlers are prepping for a “big boy” press conference, the latest effort to salvage some reputability. The futility of that endeavor reminds one of the Sisyphus rock rolling odyssey -- a ceaseless stru...
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July 11, 2024
Trump proposes a golf matchBrilliant as ever, President Trump challenged Joe Biden to an 18-hole golf match. This was during a campaign rally yesterday in Doral, Florida, home to the prestigious Trump National Doral Golf Club. Actually, during his ignominious debate display...
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July 6, 2024
Some of the old PIIGS are now working harder than AmericansThe average work week in Greece, the poster child of the PIIGS countries (explained forthwith), is longer than ours, and it’s about to get longer. During the period 2009–2014, there was a European debt crisis that particularly ravaged ...
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July 4, 2024
Myths of the most consequential country in historyBiden’s campaign just released an ad to sow more Dem discord following the reasonable SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling. The mangled message of the “250 Years” ad is that for the first time in nearly 250 years the president is abo...
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July 2, 2024
If Trump is an alley cat, then Biden is an alley ratWallowing in Dem desperation, the Biden camp is incessantly hurling insults at Trump to see what, if anything, resonates. Like a trapped, wounded Demo-rat, Biden hissed and squeaked at a post-debate rally that President Trump has the morals of an all...
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June 28, 2024
Post-debate analysis: Biden has more than six handicapsThe Trump-Biden presidential debate went so badly for Joe Biden that the Dems (and contributors) want a rebate. Rather than their usual Machiavellian machinations, they are openly considering ways to dump the reprobate who’s riddled with ...
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June 25, 2024
Donald J. Trump Lunar South Pole Exclusive Economic ZoneRep. Greg Steube, R-Fla, introduced a bill to rename U.S. coastal waters. Currently called the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), he wants it to be the “Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.” Okay, it’s a ...
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June 20, 2024
A Terrifying Combo: Biden and the Nuclear FootballNot Biden’s age, as such, but his cognitive decline renders him disabled. His aiders and abettors discharge most of the duties of the office, with him serving as a useful idiot. He’s just a clueless figurehead. But there is one thing...
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June 18, 2024
Homemakers are where the heart isDitch gender studies. Ditch age-inappropriate sex miseducation classes. Ditch perverse DEI indoctrination. Ditch anti-American history classes. Where possible, ditch public schools that are mismanaged under the dictatorship of Randi Weingarten, the v...
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June 15, 2024
Dems inflicting elder abuseThe 15th of June is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, but Dems aren’t paying heed. Indeed, here are some examples of elder abuse they inflict upon Americans: The DNC is inflicting elder abuse on former (future) president Trump, who just turne...
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June 12, 2024
It’s not MAGA that’s a cultReflecting their typical disdain for intellectual diversity, discordant Dems are shrilling against MAGA. Despite the fifty-state movement attracting increasing numbers of converts, despondent Dems desperately label it a cult. Th...
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June 6, 2024
Trump brings home the baconWhen former (future) president Trump discusses Biden’s inflation, he emphasizes the price of bacon. Sure, milk, eggs, chicken, bread… just about everything is the grocery store is exorbitantly priced, but it’s the price of bacon th...
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June 4, 2024
Trump or Demented Dems: who is really going to prison?Demented Dems are salivating at the perverted idea that Trump could go to prison. They are demented because they are the ones who are mentally imprisoned. It is perverted because they live in an alternate universe where not only the established...
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June 1, 2024
Vote for the convicted felonWould you vote for a convicted felon like Trump? Earlier polls had mixed results, indicating only marginal changes in voting behavior after a conviction. But now it’s a done misdeed, indications are that a vast majority will answer “yes....
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May 31, 2024
A meme for Biden: Let’s go!Desperate to reach disaffected young voters, the Biden campaign is recruiting a meme manager. Good luck with that. The incumbent will have a challenging job, and is likely going to be underpaid. Other than failing lawfare, a bunch of media Mini-Me...
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May 28, 2024
How liberal women frighten the bearsAmong the many women who claim that they’d feel safer encountering a bear in the forest than a man (because “men are scary”) is author and Guggenheim fellow Julia Phillips. Perhaps it is not men or bears that present the most dan...
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May 21, 2024
Charging GOP bull will quash Dem bearNaturally, presidents like to take credit for positive economic developments over which they may have minimal influence. Biden took credit for the Dow recently hitting 40K. He was wrong. Trump has taken credit for a buoyant stock market that co...
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May 16, 2024
Trump should not shake hands with Joe BidenTrump and Biden have agreed to two televised presidential debates. If Trump gets his way, there may be more, but do not shake hands in any of them. Do not feign mutual regard, either before or after the verbal combat. Given t...
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May 13, 2024
State and City livability rankings are askewU.S. News and World Report compiled a rankings list of the best states to live in, 2024. The magazine also compiled a list of the best cities to live in 2023-2024. There are some interesting incongruities between the two. Below I highligh...
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May 8, 2024
Dog lovers: No to NoemAs everyone and their uncle now knows, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem shot her dog, Cricket, about 20 years ago. But only one week ago, Noem strongly suggested that Biden’s dog, Commander, also be shot because he was committed to biting S...
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May 7, 2024
AI can’t become a lazy boy (or girl) jobAI engineers are whining about burnout as they develop the transformative technology. There may be a dark underbelly of AI design, but it is not pressure on, or burnout of, the developers. The dark underbelly is actually leftist-tainte...
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May 2, 2024
The future is female (robots)?The future of robots is mostly female — but not feminist. If algorithms with “the right stuff” are coursing through their circuitry, the fembots will yet be demure and deferential toward their male creators. It’s...
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April 24, 2024
Tree Equity Is TrivialWith so many social ills plaguing our cities, some dyed-in-the-wool liberals are obsessed with tree equity. Their complaint: White neighborhoods have more trees than minority neighborhoods. Constantly looking for something to rumi...
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April 17, 2024
Time for a new ‘awareness month’?There are far more awareness months than there are months, but a deserving one is being missed. May is mental health awareness month. It could also be designated “liberalism is a mental disease awareness month.” If the calen...
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April 12, 2024
More evidence of anti-white bias at GoogleFollowing Google’s anti-white Gemini debacle, no one in their right minds needs convincing of their discriminatory practices anymore. Still, it’s appropriate to document another example of anti-white bias at Google. It’s alm...
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April 10, 2024
Trump’s blackbody eclipseAmong the highfalutin intelligentsia who detest Donald J. Trump -- and American exceptionalism -- there’s much bemusement over the Trump’s solar eclipse campaign ad. In it, Trump’s imposing noggin slides into a superimposed po...
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April 6, 2024
Owl EquityMultitudes of barred owls are scheduled to DIE partly because of anthropocentric notions of DEI, promulgated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which favor spotted owls. There is no natural equity amongst the owls. Some, like barred owls...
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March 28, 2024
Being non compos mentis, Biden is unfit to voteNon compos mentis translates to, “of unsound mind.” In some respects, we have an unsound electoral system: an idiot can run for our highest public office, but be unfit to vote for himself. Joe Biden is de facto unfit to vot...
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March 26, 2024
Crying spaces for NYCIf New Yorkers are supposed to be tough, then why are cry spas popping up in the city? Sob Parlour is an emotive sanctuary, where, for about $20, a sniveling crybaby can howl in privacy and comfort. First, there were safe-space bubbles for college...
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March 21, 2024
Why are American youths so unhappy?The 2024 World Happiness Report from Gallup and partners was released yesterday, March 20. It focuses on the relationship between happiness and age. Overall, the United States dropped from 15th to 23rd in the world rankings. ...
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March 18, 2024
Dems: Roads, Trees, Dogs, Cameras, and the Outdoors are RacistPer recent polls, former President Trump is garnering more support from traditional Democrat constituencies. One way Dems are desperately trying to cement their cobbled coalition is by fostering race-based jealousy and disillusionment. Their dispirit...
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March 13, 2024
Viewer discretion is advisedThe interminable introductions to a typical movie often contain content warnings. For example, “viewer discretion is advised” if the movie contains material that may trigger adverse reactions. Warnings may alert view...
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March 8, 2024
Joe Biden is like Davros from Doctor WhoDems may be breathing a sigh of relief that Joe Biden made it through the SOTU. Congratulations—infused with… whatever energy boost, he proved he can lean on a podium for a couple of hours and mostly recite a practiced speech. H...
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March 7, 2024
The lunatic is in Biden’s headOften, former President Trump triumphantly ascends stairs to the stage at various rallies to the patriotic tune “God Bless the U.S.A.” by Lee Greenwood. It certainly fits as he unapologetically stands on stage clasping hands, waving, e...
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March 5, 2024
Trump keeps winning unanimouslyOn March 2, 2024, former (and, hopefully, future) President Trump won all delegates on offer in the Michigan GOP convention, and the caucuses in Idaho and Missouri. Today, he won a unanimous decision from SCOTUS in the Colorado ballot disqualif...
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February 29, 2024
Double standards at GoogleGoogle engineer James Damore was fired on August 7, 2017 for writing a memo criticizing the company’s diversity initiatives. From Jul 1, 2017 until Sep 1, 2017 (a period covering the pre- and post-kerfuffle over his “insensitivity...
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February 25, 2024
Trump: Enlightenment Now!Recently, an A.T. contributor wrote about “the mystery of Trump-hate.” Even though he admits to disliking what he perceives as Trump’s personality and moral traits, he is perplexed by the level of hatred toward the 45th and (hopeful...
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February 22, 2024
Google's new AI program, Gemini, is racist -- against whitesAlphabet (Google) recently released Gemini, their “largest and most capable AI model.” Unfortunately, it is capable of racism – against whites. According to the Daily Mail: It's one of the most popular...
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February 20, 2024
Gen Z: Zombies or Zoned-in?Mark Bauerlein, renowned professor and former director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, postulated that Millennials are the dumbest generation, and offered much evidence to support his claim. Well, we might be de...
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February 15, 2024
DEI will self-destruct: Elections are comingSoul-destroying and spirit-sapping DEI initiatives, absent ability and talent, sow the seeds of their own destruction. Already, there is widespread backlash in corporate America, where performance and productivity actually matters. DEI as envi...
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February 8, 2024
Make the U.S. citizenship test harderThis year the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is expected to update the citizenship test. With about a 96% passing rate, the current version is almost easy enough for the Cheat-in-Chief to pass—almost! It needs to ...
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February 3, 2024
In Biden’s case, age doesn’t beget wisdom; it begets idiocyWith polls showing that voters across the political spectrum are concerned about Biden’s age, his handlers are spinning that he’s wise. While there can be a correlation between age and wisdom, it’s decoupled in Biden’s case. ...
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January 26, 2024
The Doomsday Clock is still brokenThe Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a science-oriented advocacy group, just released their annual update on their obsolete Doomsday Clock: It remains at ninety seconds to midnight. That’s an arbitrary setting that doesn...
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January 22, 2024
Antitrust law: Stupid is as stupid doesA key characteristic of stupidity is that actions hurt oneself and others. No one benefits. That is exactly what U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston accomplished in blocking the buyout of Spirit Airlines by JetBlue on antitrust grounds....
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January 15, 2024
Take Your Government Job and Shove ItUnder Joe Biden, the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report numbers keep trending downwards; the impactful reports reflect the health of our economy, and hold great sway with the Fed, business community, and bond and stock markets. Given ...
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December 31, 2023
Female referees don’t belong in men’s soccerIn America, the DIE pendulum is starting to swing back: companies are finally pushing back against soul-destroying cancel culture by cutting DIE initiatives. However, the home of the most popular soccer league in the world is still wallowi...
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December 22, 2023
2023’s Man of the YearNotwithstanding the lopsided opinions the editors of Time Magazine foist upon readers, the real Person of the Year is actually Man of the Year: the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. One of the criteria Time Magazine uses for its choice ...
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December 8, 2023
Time for Christie to exit stage leftIn As You Like It, Shakespeare wrote that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” On the fourth Republican presidential debate stage Wednesday night, Governor Christie desperately tried to be a pla...
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December 2, 2023
The human won the DeSantis-Newsom debateSome political observers have said that Republicans are from Mars and Democrats are from Venus. As evidenced by last night’s debate, it’s clear that while Governor Ron DeSantis is from outperforming Florida, Governor Gavin Newsom is...
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November 18, 2023
Where is the loyalty of some of our congressmen?Voters can easily know if a candidate is born outside the U.S., but it is not so easily known if he holds dual citizenship. There is no requirement for members of Congress to publicly disclose that, but with several of them pursuing police...
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November 9, 2023
Send declining America back to the futureUsually in the context of discussing former President Trump’s political “lawfare” battles, the political punditry proffer something banal like, “we can’t go or look back.” As if by osmosis, that sentiment...
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October 28, 2023
Phrases that grateThe lexicographical leftists will soon be bombarding us with their ill-chosen word(s) of the year. Lake Superior State University will even release their annual banned words and phrases list. Since they are suffused with leftist propagand...
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October 19, 2023
It’s 3 AM — Who Gets the Call?Not climate change — nuclear war is humanity’s most immediate threat. During these tumultuous times, we’re burdened with Biden, an obstreperous oaf who has sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. That’s...
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October 9, 2023
Democrats: Americans have 'too much freedom'An old adage is that “the truth will set you free.” Well, many of today’s demented Dems are not particularly fond of the truth or freedom. Indeed, a recent poll released by RealClearPolitics shows that over one-third of ...
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September 29, 2023
Donald Duck ‘Trumps’ Porky PigDuring the Republican presidential debate stage at the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie continued spewing his unbecoming insults toward former President Trump. Christie stands little chance of winning...
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September 21, 2023
A Bogus 'Happiest Places' ListOutside Magazine has just chimed in on the supposed happiest places to live. Their focus on “inclusivity” pays homage to LGBTQ activities and civility, but excludes conservative groups who are subject to discrimination. Even though ...
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September 1, 2023
A kiss is just a kissSpain recently won the Women's World Cup (soccer). It was such a joyful event that during the medal ceremony Luis Rubiales, Spain's soccer federation president, planted a celebratory kiss on the sweaty lips of player Jenni Hermoso....
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August 25, 2023
A government as good as our peopleTurnout among young voters has been robust is recent elections. That’s contributing to a government that is as errant as much of the electorate. During the Republican presidential debate yesterday, a smiling and svelte (contraste...
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August 19, 2023
Toxic Barbie Takes a Road TripI weep for our youth — confoundingly, the movie Barbie did well at the box office. Apparently, the little pink lady goes on a journey of self-discovery, a road trip to the real world. Since Barbie likes road trips, let...
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August 9, 2023
That's a wrap for RapinoeDespite ignominious defeat at the Women's World Cup (soccer), the unpatriotic ingrates of the U.S. team are crying and begging for more moolah. In a self-serving statement to their fans after being humbled by Sweden, they pleaded for...
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August 6, 2023
On a Neurological Level, Can Liberals Adapt?Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to adapt and develop both structure and function in response to sensory experiences. Liberals are lacking this capacity to form new neural connections partly because they have diseased brains; on...
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July 29, 2023
Rapinoe and company: thanks for not singing our national anthemThe U.S. used to be one of the most patriotic countries. Now, only 38% of Americans indicate that patriotism is “very important,” and that drops to 36% of Americans between the ages of 18-29. Still, you’d think any USWNT...
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July 20, 2023
Why Women's Soccer Teams are OverpaidThe Women’s World Cup (soccer) is upon us, and we’re in for weeks of mind-numbing commentary by browbeaten weenies who gloss over the ladies’ athletic inadequacies, but gush over their strategies. The U.S. team still fields Megan...
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July 13, 2023
Musk’s Suffrage Stance is InsufferableIt’s probably worth noting what the richest bloke on the planet (and creator of jobs and markets) thinks, especially when that entails disenfranchising millions of our most productive, wealth-creating citizens. After expressing “the ch...
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July 8, 2023
Fake Media Promote the Bigotry of Low ExpectationsIt's almost laughable, but whenever I turn on my TV, I'm confronted by an alternate reality: white males are dotards, whereas minorities, seemingly the majority in every commercial, are practically perfect. Maybe that's true in...
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June 30, 2023
Biden inflicts elder abuseEven though it is under-reported, elderly people with dementia are particularly vulnerable to abuse. Disturbingly, the demented Elder-in-Chief has turned that on its head: infirm Joe Biden is inflicting abuse on the country, particula...
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June 23, 2023
Conservative women are lovelier than liberal womenA recent artificial intelligence study out of Denmark finds that conservative female politicians are more attractive than liberal politicos. I can absolutely corroborate this. In fact, conservative women in general are...
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June 3, 2023
Neuralink Chips to Thwart Lying PoliticiansA.I. represents a secular technology revolution on a par with computers, smartphones, and the internet. There is another transformative technology based on brain-to-computer interfaces (BCI) that could leverage A.I. to rectify deluded Dems...
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May 24, 2023
Voting age: 25 is the new 18Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is right about increasing the voting age to 25 for those who don't participate in public service or who fail a civics test. Twenty-five also happens to be about the age when irresponsib...
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May 21, 2023
Gen Z Americans are now picking up English accentsIt's cultural appropriation of the snowflake kind that some Gen Z Americans are adopting faux English accents. Whether thought up by Sir Winston Churchill or George Bernard Shaw, someone famous said something like, "England and America ar...
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May 14, 2023
Joe Biden needs a therapy dogRecently, an American Thinker contributor convincingly proposed that Biden receive Eli Lilly's new Alzheimer's treatment. As a complement to his donanemab intravenous infusions, Biden should be assigned a therapy dog. Cl...
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May 4, 2023
Biden needs Lilly's new Alzheimer's treatmentPresident Trump enthusiastically touts his support of the Right to Try law, passed in May 2018. Ironically, it may benefit one of his main political adversaries. In what is a glorious development for elders and their caregivers, Eli Lil...
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April 4, 2023
Beer-battered fishYet another train just derailed. This one happened along the Clark Fork River in Montana, just across from Quinn's Hot Springs Resort. Most of the derailed rail cars are dry, but many cans and bottles of beer spilled....
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April 1, 2023
The Dangers of Hiring Retirees to Drive School BusesThere is a dire shortage of school bus drivers across the nation. In response, school districts are resorting to “creative” solutions, including hiring retirees. Oh, dear, that may -- may -- be a destructive solution. A sta...
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March 24, 2023
Law enforcement, not “self-enforcement,” is needed to curtail traffic accidentsIn recent years, there has been an alarming rise in traffic accidents, including pedestrian deaths, across the nation. Agencies with jurisdiction, from federal to local, and organizations devoted to highway safety, aren’t letting this crisis go...
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March 11, 2023
Politicians and the Problems of AgeIncreased age heightens the risk of developing dementia. Dementia heightens the risk of slips, trips, and falls, resulting in physical incapacitation. Stumbling, bumbling seniors who are physically and mentally incapacitated should probab...
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March 4, 2023
Are These Really the Happiest Cities?WalletHub’s recently released rankings of the happiest cities seems to defy reality. Then again, the psychologists who concocted the rankings seem to defy common sense. The list was conjured by a bunch of homogeneous professors —...
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February 27, 2023
Biden must go gentle into that good nightA popular proverb is that "a bad workman blames his tools." Not only is Biden a bad workman, but his job, as he misunderstands it, is foolhardy. For America to reclaim her greatness, it's not "the job," but...
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February 20, 2023
Tiger's little jokeApparently, it is necessary to reaffirm this: when it comes to golf, and many other sports, there is gender inequality. At a recent golf tournament, Tiger Woods drove farther than his playing partner, Justin Thomas. In an expressio...
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February 14, 2023
Neutralizing the leftist ChatGPTThe conversationalist chatbot ChatGPT generates artificial intelligence in a degenerate fashion. It is infused with a Silicon Valley mindset, complete with leftist censorship. While the malevolent bot doesn't care much for hum...
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February 6, 2023
'Democrat Leadership' is an OxymoronA Gallup poll taken between Jan 2 to 22, 2023, indicates that the most important problem in the U.S. is government and its poor leadership. Since the opinions expressed were formed while Democrats were in control of most of the federal governme...
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January 28, 2023
Smashing the Doomsday ClockThe Doomsday Clock was created in simpler times in 1947, but it serves no useful purpose today. Since 2007, when climate change was added to the calculations, the clock has become an inaccurate metaphor for the advent of human doom. ...
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January 24, 2023
Artificial Intelligence: Scary Good or Bad?The entitled elites at the World Economic Forum, who disproportionately pollute our planet in their private jets, should worry less about environmental, social, and governance issues, and more about artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence...
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January 6, 2023
Porky Politicians Love Their Names Too MuchMany of the egregious earmarks embedded in recent federal spending bills may aptly be described as vanity projects. Indeed, some of the infrastructure and educational facilities will be defiled with the names of narcissistic senators who s...
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December 22, 2022
Orwellian Language and Democrat DoublethinkLake Superior State University has a year-end tradition of issuing its banished words and phrases list. It usually misses some obvious candidates, like “democracy is on the ballot,” and its perverse variations. That sentiment encaps...
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December 10, 2022
Dementia: 2022's Word of the YearThe 2022 Word of the Year is… oh, wait a minute, I forgot. Oh, yeah, it’s “dementia.” Actually, dementia is a devastating condition. Apart from memory loss, symptoms include difficulty communicating, reaso...
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November 12, 2022
The inequality of luckDemagogic Democrats are extremely eager to exaggerate ephemeral evidence of inequality of opportunity. Actually, it’s not privilege they should be harping on, but the inequality of luck. Fortunately, the luckless can overcome their circumstance...
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October 9, 2022
The Worst Places to Live in the USMoney Magazine recently released its list of the best places to live in the U.S. It is riddled with pompous virtue-signaling and plagued by diversity-induced myopia that skews rankings to fit a progressive, multicultural agenda. ...
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September 4, 2022
Soft soccerSoccer is sometimes described as the “beautiful” game. Commentators of English Premier League games, just like some of its players, have gone soft, serving up “beautiful” descriptions that are silly, soppy, and sappy....
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August 31, 2022
Honor the knightsVarious "whom would you like to meet" lists contain luminaries who were knighted. Which would you like to meet? Sir Winston Churchill? Sir Isaac Newton? Sir Paul McCartney? Yes, it'...
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May 8, 2022
The folly of Putin’s conceitsThere has been widespread condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Reflections of our Pale Blue Dot, a resplendent planet floating majestically in the dark void of space, reveals the folly of Putin’s conceits. Not...
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April 9, 2022
Time to Recalibrate the Doomsday ClockThe Doomsday Clock is so broken that it is not even right twice a day. It currently sits at one hundred seconds before midnight, having not ticked since 2020. That's right, despite a sociopath in the Kremlin and an imbecile in the W.H...
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February 24, 2022
Presidential candidates need cognitive testingPresidential candidates are not required to pass mental health exams or psychological and psychiatric evaluations. But at a minimum, they should be strongly encouraged to take them, just as they are presumed to participate in debates....
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February 8, 2022
Democrats live in an alternate universeThere isn't a chasm separating Democrats and Republicans, but an alternate universe. Hillary Clinton, who probably believes she is president in an alternate universe, accused Trump of living in an alternate reality. More rec...
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January 20, 2022
Microsoft Word's spellchecker goes wokeSome of the wayward wussies who indulged their delicate psyches in academia's safe zones are now working at Microsoft — specifically, the Office 365 division. The software twits that tinker with the Office 365 version of Word hav...
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January 5, 2022
The Biden administration won't like a new list of 'Banished Words' put out for 2022Lake Superior State University put together for its famous list of most-detested words and phrases of 2022, called its Banished Words List. That's problematic for the Biden administration, because their minions in part...
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December 12, 2021
Biden’s political mutationsAccording to Dictionary.com, the 2021 word of the year is “allyship,” which is the state or condition of being an ally that involves cooperating with others for a common cause. Merriam-Webster chose “vaccine” as their 2021 WOT...
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November 28, 2021
Woke HR policies are not good for natural sexWe often hear about how academia, Hollywood, and the press are all in for pushing the woke transgender agenda. But actually, the corporations and government agencies, through their human resources (HR) departments, are pretty awful, too. I work fo...
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October 14, 2021
For Investors, There Are Worse Things Than Insider TradingSure, Wall Street is slightly rigged, but that’s better than tired trustees or busybody bureaucrats supplanting current corporate governance. It’s a lot better than Schumer and Sanders attempting to link stock buybacks and div...
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September 22, 2021
Idle hands do the devilish Dems' workThe hardest working states, as measured by WalletHub, are predominantly Republican. The lowest 10 in the rankings are mostly run by Democrats. Probably not a surprise since they were lavish with unemployment benefits and ot...
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September 10, 2021
Identifying unconscious bias is unconscionableIt's unconscionable: at my Washington State Executive Agency, we're supposed to identify our unconscious bias. Curiously, the un-leaders who promulgate this policy poppycock are lacking self-awareness. The trifecta of Go...
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July 27, 2021
Living with the Achievement GapIf you’re average, congratulations! Most of us are mediocre in most of our endeavors, somewhere in the large dome region of the Bell Curve, a graph of a normal distribution of values for a given variable. We might be relieved ...
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June 22, 2021
Word Up: Liberal Linguistic LunacyWord up: research, including numerous brain scans, shows that words can change our brain. Generally, conservatives are happier than liberals, and it’s likely that convoluted liberal linguistics and the mental contortions political co...
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May 23, 2021
Dim Dems Dance with the DemonsGiven their mind-numbing immersion in post-truth indoctrination, I used to think that Dems completely lack self-awareness. Actually, it’s a bit more troubling: their individuality is subsumed by progressive group consciousness that ...
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April 11, 2021
Philip: A precious prince consortThe British royal family has dysfunctional elements, but Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip have been stalwarts. In this milieu of moral relativism and post-modern claptrap they represent compassionate conservatism. Indeed, when con...
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March 6, 2021
Washington State mollycoddles workers who refuse to learn EnglishDespite a hiring freeze in Washington State agencies, a preposterous position was recently concocted called Provider Navigator. One shudders at the H.R. groupthink behind defining the P.N.'s purpose: to increase access to quality h...
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January 29, 2021
Blue-staters flee blue-state policies...and then vote for them againSeveral data sources show the exodus of residents from blue states to traditionally red states. The recent U-Haul ranking of states by migration growth is one of the most compelling; after all, that's where the rubber meets the road....
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January 11, 2021
Verily I say unto thee: Cancel Amen and AWomanNot that long ago, it seemed a stretch to refer to the men and women of something, like the military (especially combat) or police, for example. Now it just rolls off the tongue; indeed, it is natural and proper as we recognize the great c...
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December 28, 2020
Jay Inslee's Diversity DogmaIn November 2019, Washington state voters repudiated the Dem-controlled legislature by rejecting, via veto Referendum 88, their I-1000 Initiative to impose Affirmative Action imperatives in public education and employment. Despite an onslaught ...
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November 9, 2020
Republican unity will breed successEven with legal challenges pending, one thing about the 2020 elections is clear: Republicans are unified, Dems are in discord. Republican diversity is healthy, with commitment to an uplifting and affirming agenda; Democrats are getting ...
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September 25, 2020
It's time to update hurricane namesHurricanes are often assigned unsuitable names. Katrina, Camille, Josephine, Eloise, Fabian...Noel (my name, for heaven's sake) wrought much havoc; some have even been forced into ignominious retirement, essentially thrown onto the sto...
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September 6, 2020
Dismal Liberal DiversityAs several links to maps and indexes herein demonstrate, there is overwhelming evidence of an inverse relationship between divisive diversity mandates and happiness, the pursuit of which is one of our unalienable rights. As evidenced at the ...
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August 13, 2020
Why socialism is the pursuit of unhappinessWhere are the happy socialists? The socialists I spot are either snarling with anger or shrieking with hubris. In fact, they seem intent on pursuing unhappiness as their misguided dictums controvert nature — human and phys...
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July 18, 2020
Don't Cancel Our National AnthemNothing wholesome or all-American can escape the toxic tentacles of the cancel culture monster. Even our venerated national anthem is being sucked into its grotesque grip as a shrieking mob of disaffected fiends feed the bilious beas...
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June 16, 2020
Facts Matter, TooIn 2016, Oxford Dictionaries declared "post-truth" the word of the year. The definition: "Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and persona...
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April 19, 2020
Zombie stimulus checksThanks to the Trump administration’s business-like efficiency, I already received my stimulus check courtesy of the CARES Act stimulus bill. I’m grateful, but not overjoyed; along with millions upon millions of other Americans, dead...
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March 30, 2020
Should the US call retired health care workers back into service to fight COVID-19?Congratulations: you're a retired medical professional enjoying relief from the emotional and physical demands of caring for the sick. Few deserve the relaxation, and gratification of a life well served, more; however, if some of the c...
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February 29, 2020
Impermanent aliens?In spite of Justice Sonia Sotomayor's intemperate and injudicious political activism, the Supreme Court voted to remove the last nationwide injunction against the Trump administration's stricter guidelines for immigrants who use public b...
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January 24, 2020
Feminists May Succeed Where Blofeld Failed – Killing James BondI didn’t think it possible, but James Bond movies are becoming even more fanciful – casting a female 00 agent who is disrespectful to Commander Bond. If movies succumb to the loony Left’s cultural misappropriation, then Bond may soo...
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January 6, 2020
Guess Who Runs the Rudest Cities in AmericaRecently, an oft-cited Business Insider survey ranked the rudest cities in America. The top 10 are all bastions of misguided liberalism. They are sanctuaries to illegal aliens and often hostile towards law-abiding citizens by im...
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December 18, 2019
Illegals and the American BirthrightPete Buttigieg, supposedly one of the more moderate Democrat candidates for president, believes that illegal aliens are just reclaiming stolen land. I can picture him toting one of those mischievous banners popular with the Open Borders m...
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December 1, 2019
How the Democrats failThroughout the Dems’ impeachment inquisition, Republicans have reminded us what their elected representatives could be doing: USMCA, prescription drug pricing, the National Defense Authorization Act, gun safety, transportation, infrastruc...
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November 3, 2019
Latin loving quid-pro-quo lefties need to be fair to TrumpOur founding fathers were well versed in Latin. In fact, Latin phrases and mottoes adorn our national treasures and pepper our corpus of political discourse and jurisprudence. Today, one stands out above all as the Dems, despera...
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October 11, 2019
Republican Versus Democratic OccupationsThere are some predictable correlations between a person’s occupation and their political party affiliation. A majority of doctors are registered Democrats, and shrinks are overwhelmingly so. Surgeons are much more aligned with the ...
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July 17, 2019
The best places to retire tend conservativeBankrate.com just published its renowned ranking of the best and worst states for retirement. The categories rated, in order of weightings (in parentheses), include affordability (40%), wellness (25%), culture (15%), weather (15%), an...
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June 25, 2019
June ‘Pride Month’ in government officesVisitors to a major Washington State government agency during the month of June are bombarded by an array of flamboyant symbols. The otherwise impressive rotunda of this key facility is festooned with flags and other paraphernalia invoking LTGB...
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June 15, 2019
At the Women's World Cup in France, toxic femininity is on displaySoccer, mostly outside our shores, has been described as the beautiful game. At the Women's World Cup 2019, hosted by France, the U.S. players have also injected plenty of toxic femininity (cue the sexism cudgel...). Against Thailan...
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May 28, 2019
Dumb and Mean Democrats Lack American ConsciousnessAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez is disturbingly dumb, and the likes of Schumer, Schiff, and Sanders are mean-spirited. Indeed, Dems led by the progressive instigators are devoid of American consciousness, making them the dumbest and meanest inter...
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April 26, 2019
Obstructionist Dems are like zombiesWhat distinguishes obstructionist Dems from zombies? Not much! They both struggle with self-awareness and have minimal consciousness. The lights are on (barely), but nobody's home. They both have some automatic...
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March 25, 2019
For Good Times, Abolish Socialism, Not BillionairesWhy be a billionaire when you can be a millionaire? Beyond a threshold that provides creature comforts, more money doesn't buy happiness, but it can induce stress. Indeed, billionaires are rarely satisfied as they constantly...
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January 24, 2019
The American Psychological Association and Toxic FemininityThe American Psychological Association's hallucination-cum-epiphany that traditional masculinity is harmful to society proves that its members need their heads examined. It's bewildering that they even contemplate, let alone expres...
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December 23, 2018
The 2018 Word of the YearA strong candidate for 2018 Word of the Year is "Russophobia." It's partially deserved, as Russia's nationalist hubris and hegemony provoke geopolitical instability. However, much of the prevailing anti-Russian sentiment ...
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November 24, 2018
Liberals Have Gone MentalModern liberalism is diseased. It is wrought by mental maladies exacerbated by postmodernism’s delusional insistence that empirical facts are figments of white male rule. This warped view subverts reality if it doesn’t conform...
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September 6, 2018
Mindfulness and Mindless LiberalsWe are told that Trump-haters are seeking solace in mindfulness meditation, using faddish apps of dubious efficacy. They may bring fleeting respite from anti-Trump hysteria, but upon returning to reality, they're again seized...
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June 26, 2018
The Greatest Anthem is Not Being Played at the World CupThirty-two proud countries are strutting their soccer stars at World Cup 2018, hosted by Russia. A riveting feature of the pre-match aura is each team's national anthem and the robust pride it engenders amongst players and rambunctious...
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May 27, 2018
Leave the Olympic National Park's Mountain Goats AloneThis summer, the National Park Service, the Forest Service, and the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife plan to capture many mountain goats from the Olympic National Park, and relocate them to the North Cascades. Ravaging the ...
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April 8, 2018
The Diversity Umbrella Is Full. Illegal Aliens Can't Fit.Fully qualified applicants for employment with Washington State government agencies are being clobbered by the diversity cudgel. Even if they congenially comply with most diversity principles, they may conscientiously object to the state's ...
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March 18, 2018
US Paralympians exemplify America's greatnessWith the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games drawing to a close, it's time to reflect upon the final medal count. While some countries underperformed relative to the regular Olympics, one thing is obvious: the USA will top the table. ...
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March 5, 2018
The Democrats as Russian Dupes, 2018 EditionNo wonder the Russian meddlers are laughing – the Dems are wittingly colluding in sowing discord through sleazy identity politics and by fostering extreme multiculturalism. Lacking substantive policy ideas, their main hope for electo...
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January 21, 2018
Politics: It's a mad, mad, mad, mad worldThe pathological repetition of words, gestures, and acts to obsessively obstruct President Trump is the epitome of perseveration. It is a distinguishing feature of madness, such as incessantly insisting, without regard for reality, that Tr...
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January 2, 2018
Anti-Trump Zealots Require More Than a Calmness AppThe 2017 iPhone App of the Year is "Calm." The co-CEO of the company that makes the meditation app observed that downloads doubled in the months following president Trump's election. While meditation apps may cushi...
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December 19, 2017
The 2017 Acronym of the Year: COVFEFEThe 2017 acronym of the year is COVFEFE, with an honorable mention to MAGA. Choosing a Word of the Year is a popular pastime. The lexicographers and sociolinguists have proffered "complicit," "populism," "...
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December 12, 2017
Forget the rest: Here's the best candidate for 'Word of the Year'Dictionary.com chose "complicit," Cambridge Dictionary chose "populism," and Collins went with "fake news" as the 2017 word of the year. "Collusion" would also have been a good choice; after all, it provi...
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November 21, 2017
Time to Give Thanks to White MalesWhile every other demographic group is coddled by the media, it is still PC to ridicule white males, partly because they are a benign majority who don’t complain much. This Thanksgiving seems an opportune time to give them thanks for forging a ...
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September 20, 2017
Best places to live tend conservativeJust as conservative values are more conducive to lasting happiness, and promote a deeper sense of satisfaction and well-being, it appears that our best places to live thrive in a conservative ethos. Money Magazine just published its 2...
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September 13, 2017
The Left Has Corrupted and Weaponized Academic ResearchLiberals try to compensate for the weakness of their ideas by craftily manipulating the narrative of the debate. They are supported by liberal academicians who manipulate their research methodologies to predispose results that are amenable to their l...
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August 19, 2017
How Workplace Zero Tolerance FailsZero tolerance policies in the workplace are problematic. Their imposition upon job applicants is imperious when the offense is no longer on official records, or there is no correlation with the job’s requirements. The “one size fits all...
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July 21, 2017
Sick of your Congressman? Elect a VeteranOur dysfunctional Congress is riddled with self-serving politicians who resist for the sake of resisting. It needs disciplined problem solvers who embody the spirit of public service. The most unproductive Congress in 164 years needs more...
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July 2, 2017
Make America poetic againPolitical discourse in our polarized polity would benefit from less emotionally expressive language in the form of tweets and more in the form of poetry. Balancing individual freedoms against the imperatives of governance in an open society can be...
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June 14, 2017
Google Doodles: Don't be white or too famousI rarely bother to click Google's interactive doodles, but yesterday's (June 13, 2017) confounded me. Why did Atom Ant replace his cool suit with a striped cape, and why is he swatting away a cannonball before it squashes a fence? ...
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May 21, 2017
You've got to know when to bowPresident Trump did not bow when greeted by the Saudi king after touching down in Saudi Arabia. That he stood tall and proud was entirely proper, but a probable state visit to the U.K. later this year may present an opportunity to bow to one of...
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April 14, 2017
Student Tests Should Recognize the Plasticity of GiftednessGifted education is often rife with elitism: test results used to identify gifted students tend to reflect the social strata of the students' families and reinforce the achievement gap. This is partly because wealthy and pushy parents are m...
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February 22, 2017
Protecting Jury ImpartialityThe brilliant Sixth Amendment, among other things, establishes the right to a fair and impartial jury. That impartiality begins with the construction of a master juror list with names chosen randomly by computers from voter registration lists and dri...
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January 9, 2017
Presidential politics: 60 is the new 35It has been said that 50 is the new 30; 60 is the new 40; 70 is the new 50. What, then, is 35? It’s the constitutional age requirement to serve as president of the United States. Since the framers’ 35 would be much ol...
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December 28, 2016
The 2016 word of the year: And the winner is...The Merriam-Webster 2016 word of the year (WOTY) is "surreal." The Oxford English Dictionary 2016 WOTY is "post-truth." "Xenophobia" is the top word on dictionary.com. If these words are recogn...
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December 20, 2016
An antidote to Post-Election Stress TraumaMany celebrities are still wallowing in Post-Election Stress Trauma (PEST). It started with their impetuous threats to leave our shores and continues with their futile attempts to delegitimize our President-Elect. Even though Canada put out ...
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November 9, 2016
For the sake of change, block 'burrowing' civil servantsOne of the most lopsided exit poll results from the presidential election is that voters who wanted change voted overwhelmingly for Trump. His clarion call to “Drain the Swamp” reverberated across America’s great hinterlands l...
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October 26, 2016
Usurping democracyRussia’s offer to send monitors to U.S. polling stations was rebuked by the U.S. State Department. Nevertheless, given that most Americans are not confident that their votes will be counted correctly, it was a devilishly clever propaganda...
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September 27, 2016
Lights, Camera... Romance!Despite the prevalence of androgynous behaviors in our society, there are startling differences -- beyond the voluptuously visual of the fairer sex -- between men and women. One way this manifests itself is in movie reviews. There’s a trend,...
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September 6, 2016
Conservative Values Lead to HappinessConservative values are more conducive to lasting happiness; liberal values tend to engender fleeting pleasure. Liberals pursue happiness, but for conservatives it naturally ensues. Ever wonder why so many liberal Democrats are seething in discont...
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August 20, 2016
The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of defeat, and Just Showing Up at the OlympicsThe official Olympic medals table doesn’t fully capture participation, which is more reflective of the spirit of the Olympic Games. While it’s natural to celebrate winners, the pathos of losing can be more compelling, and some ...
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August 2, 2016
Hillary's AbsurdismHillary can’t find inherent meaning in her campaign for president. This is evidenced by her continual makeovers and attempts to fool the public; by her futile attempts for a campaign slogan that will stick; and her dissonance between change and...
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July 6, 2016
No Laughing Matter: Commit HillaryHillary Clinton's campaign propagated a prominent web-based banner that urges voters to "Commit to vote for Hillary." Remove the middle three words, and they're on to something. Like the pot calling the kettle black, Hillar...
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June 2, 2016
Google Assistant and PCAlphabet, the parent company of Google, recently revealed a new personal assistant to accompany its Google Home voice-activated system that allows users to stream music, get answers about the weather or traffic, and manage everyday tasks. They didn...
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May 12, 2016
Google Doodles: Redrawing American HistoryDoodle means to scribble absentmindedly. But Google Doodles are intentional iconography that attempt to redraw America’s great history. They elevate peripheral figures to iconic status and relegate religious holidays to amorphous gr...
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April 23, 2016
Celebrate Earned InequalityEvery election, we’re told, is pivotal. This time they’re right because Calvin Coolidge’s cherished maxim that “The business of America is business” is under as much threat as Andrew Jackson’s portrait ...
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March 27, 2016
Soccer Clichés: Game On, Mute OnSoccer commentary is so full of inane clichés that my fingers have memorized the location of the remote's mute button for when a game comes on my television. I recently arose in the wee hours to watch a live English Premier League game....
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January 13, 2016
Capitalism: the Worst System -- Except for all the RestThe only capital democrat presidential candidates respect is political capital wrought from pandering. Newsflash: capitalism is still the best system for organizing economic life in a free society. Liberals talk about the anger of the right, ...
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December 14, 2015
Radical Terrorism is not a Fairy TaleWords Matter. They help make thought incisive and enable us to conceive of reality. Use the wrong ones and you’ll wander into never-never land, oblivious to the threat from radical Islamic terrorism. Our State Department is entrapped in this im...
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November 30, 2015
How to Be a Racist in Health ResearchThere's a trend in health research organizations to uncover subtle and unconscious racism. Their zealotry makes me wonder: who are the real racialists? The American Public Health Association (APHA) sometimes seems more like a Chicago-bas...
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October 13, 2015
Thanks for the Last Best Hope on EarthIt’s no coincidence that those who exhibit humility and give thanks for America are more likely to achieve the American Dream. Bernie Sanders’ assertion that America was founded on racist principles is demagoguery, something socialists...
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August 27, 2015
Tech Jobs and Female PrivilegeWomen, who outnumber men in college and are more likely to graduate, are underrepresented in computer science fields. That’s female privilege, unless we condescendingly presume they are making the wrong choices in college. Overal...
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August 3, 2015
Psychopathy in the White HouseIt’s clear that Barack Obama is a narcissist, so I wasn’t surprised when he paraded around the White House making faces to his selfie stick then stopping to admire his gaunt profile in the mirror the way an insecure teenager might. ...
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July 4, 2015
America: Shining City upon a HillAmid foreign and domestic policy conundrums, President Obama recently found solace in overseas popularity polls showing America is viewed more favorably than under his predecessor. A pyrrhic victory, reflecting foreigners’ umbrage in American e...
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June 22, 2015
Pro golfers hate on Chambers BayNow I know why Obama likes golf so much: golfers are prone to whine amidst challenging conditions outside their comfort zone. Like a bad artisan who blames his tools, they are inclined to shun personal responsibility and loathe to concede their...
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April 25, 2015
Youth Won't be Wasted on the OldGeorge Bernard Shaw proffered the brilliant insight that “Youth is wasted on the young.” Thankfully, the old are becoming increasingly youthful, and this bodes well for civil society because wiser citizens will remain vigorous enoug...
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March 27, 2015
Submit collective bargaining for government worker unions to public scrutinyThere are several egregious exhibits that clamor for more scrutiny of union contract negotiations with governments: vacant jails awaiting unionized staffing; ill-timed, even illegal teacher strikes; funding for salaries of union officers and bogus bo...
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February 21, 2015
Lies, Damn Lies, and Obama LiesMost presidents lie. Some go a step further and craftily construct damnable lies. But the most pernicious are the Obama lies. Like statistics, they’re often used to bolster weak arguments and obfuscate reality when it dares infiltrate preconcei...
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January 12, 2015
Renew the Patriot ActKey sections of the Patriot Act are set to expire on June 1, 2015. President Obama may have concluded the war on terrorism is over, but as events in France clearly demonstrate, we are actually in as much danger as at any time since 9/11. W...
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December 16, 2014
American PrivilegeLimousine liberals are peddling the convoluted construct of “white privilege” to explain unequal achievement. This misguided notion fosters complacency and exacerbates inequality, preventing pursuit of something much more powerful ...
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November 7, 2014
Obama: An Insufferable PESTPresident Obama addressed his party’s most recent shellacking in a White House press conference Wednesday. Even to the novice, it was clear Obama exhibited symptoms of Post-Election Stress Trauma. It was painful to watch the petulant l...
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September 9, 2014
Immigrants Need Official EnglishAmerica is inherently multilingual, but for the sake of unity and equal protection of the laws, we must make English the official language for all U.S. Government business. If New York’s Times Square is The Crossroads of the Worl...
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July 8, 2014
Sex and Politics in the WorkplaceWashington State government employees are counseled to keep sex and politics out of the workplace -- unless one is an LGBT practitioner. Sex: June was officially designated as LGBT pride month, which includes conspicuous workplace displays and ...
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May 26, 2014
Parking among the LiberalsWashington State employees must be circumspect in their political activities, but they sure compensate by indoctrinating their cars in intolerant political dogma. Results Washington is a reform plan that reflects Gov. Inslee’s imperati...
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February 15, 2014
Oblige Government to Control ItselfThe Constitutional rights of politically-active citizens across our country are being shredded. As corrupt politicians are engorging on power while trampling over individual rights, it is time to reassert the notion that government's legitimacy deriv...
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November 9, 2013
Abusing Equal Opportunity in the MilitaryThe military's equal opportunity training manual could morph into a guidebook for community organizers, or even a corollary to black liberation theology sermons. Published by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI), the Equal Oppor...
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October 5, 2013
The Tea Party is ColorblindDespite repeated attempts in the media to portray the Tea Party as racist, their recruitment and polices actually benefit minorities. Ironically, the MSM turns a color-blind eye towards President Obama, who may be the most racially divisive president...
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September 7, 2013
Monsieur KerryJohn Kerry recently dropped a French faux pas. Even as he disrespected our greatest ally, Great Britain, he contrived to praise the French. In justifying swift retribution against Syria, Kerry referred to the French as "our oldest ally,...
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August 10, 2013
Barred versus Spotted Owls: Humans in No Position to Contradict NaturePrudent intervention in nature is tolerable if it remedies the dire consequences of injudicious human activities. What is intolerable is killing one animal to save another when there is no proof that the strategy will work. This fall, federal...
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July 5, 2013
To Profile, or Not to ProfileOne reason Congress isn't popular is because it reeks of hypocrisy...and Jim McDermott stinks. Though we might disagree on issues, voters generally respect politicians who take principled stands. McDermott seems to be principled, but on the i...
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March 8, 2013
The Virtues of CompromisePolitical extremism has usurped compromise. This is unfortunate because in the absence of a universally accepted hierarchy of principles, the choice is: compromise forged in the crucible of Congress, or dictatorship by a superior person who thinks he...
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November 14, 2012
Ideas and Demographics Favor RepublicansThe 2012 presidential election was pivotal to the future of America -- the most important in our lifetimes, if not longer. As long as I can remember, they have all been described like that, but rarely are the effects irreversible. In Rep...
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October 8, 2012
Political Yard Signs Tell More Than a Candidate's NamePolitical signs on private residential property are unlikely to sway undecided voters, but they do say something about the owners' personal values. Lawn maintenance and general property upkeep also reflect one's values. After casually surveying...
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August 13, 2012
London Olympics now a memoryRecently, NASA landed its latest Mars rover, Curiosity, on the red planet. Its primary objectives: detect the chemical building blocks of life, measure radiation, and search for evidence water, the crucial catalyst for life. Meanwh...
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July 4, 2012
British on the 4th of JulyAmerica's 4th of July celebrations are deservedly extravagant. As for me, one of the things I celebrate is that England founded the original thirteen colonies and buttressed what became known as "the shining city on a hill." While the majority ...
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February 18, 2012
Sexy SportsFeminists are getting their panties in a twist because women's sports garner more attention by costuming beautiful athletes in sexy garb. The problem, as it turns out, is that most of the fans are men. Consider the wildly popular Lingerie...
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August 29, 2011
Tighten the Web on Flash MobsWe sometimes need to give up a bit of freedom for security, including restricting social networking sites that facilitate violence and general mayhem. When online or cell phone communications such as tweets and instant messages point to imminen...
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March 5, 2011
A Requiem for MulticulturalismStop the presses! The British, French and German heads of state agree on something: Cameron, Sarkozy and Merkel have all recently declared multiculturalism a failure.Like the related dogma of diversity, multiculturalism is so deeply...
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May 16, 2010
The Genesis MachineIs a revolution in science and religion underway?On 30 March 2010, momentous experiments restarted at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. In one of the coldest places in the universe -- a liquid hydrogen-cooled tunnel 17 miles...
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October 19, 2005
Across the pond, they're flying over the cuckoo's nestRegrettably, here in the United States political correctness has gone mad; but in Britain they've gone absolutely cuckoo. Few sounds get a babies attention more than adults 'cooing.' With slight variations it's done almost universally, leading ...