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Best Excuse Ever to Hate Your Country? Migrants.

Last update July 17, 2018Leave a Comment

Democrats got the political crisis they wanted. Except for the president they didn’t have to use a single citizen to get the ball rolling. Instead, they used migrants as the best excuse ever to convince Americans to hate their country and their government. We are getting hit from all sides with disinformation and propaganda about migrants and asylum-seekers. The only thing we can be certain of is that this isn’t about morality. It’s about old fashioned, self-interested politics.

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First Amendment Rights Defined by Football, Cake, Hypocrisy

Last update June 7, 2018

It is ludicrous that First Amendment rights are defined by cake and football. That’s what happened thanks to a Supreme Court case and an overblown White House decision. If we placed our trust in free enterprise none of this would have been necessary, but politicians refused to do that and chose their favorite hot buttons instead.

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Intelligent Life on Other Planets Beware U.S. Space Force

Last update August 12, 2018

There is no way to rationalize or justify the stupid, violent things that mankind does. Years of condemning weapons of mass destruction culminated in another gas attack in Syria that the UN Security Council can’t agree to condemn and is powerless to prevent again. Russia sent a bleak message with the test-firing of a new Satan 2 missile on the eve of an escalating war of threats between the two most dangerous superpowers on Earth. We haven’t destroyed our Earth yet, but that won’t stop us from looking for other worlds to wage war on. The push to militarize the galaxies has already started and just got a big push from Vice President Pence in remarks about the U.S. Space Force. Intelligent life on other planets should stop us the moment we show up on their doorstep.

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Clueless About Politics or Naïve About What Drives Policy?

Last update April 3, 2020

The Internet isn’t our friend. Prescription drugs kill. Gun control is a non-starter on Capitol Hill. These three truisms contradict everything we hear in the media and from lawmakers desperately seeking a bipartisan win. Don’t expect any of the hype to go anywhere. These are issues meant for press releases and Americans who are clueless about politics, not legislation no one will be able to agree on.

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Bulletproof Backpacks, Safe Students and Idealism Go to War

Last update March 7, 2018

Students planning walkouts, visits to state legislators, a talk with the president, and other strategies to finally get our gun laws to wise up and keep kids safe are about to learn a harsh lesson. Government doesn’t jump because we want something. It jumps when the people who run it want something. Federal and state legislatures have been fighting over gun control for a long time. That’s how educating kids created a market for bulletproof backpacks and why “safe students” doesn’t mean what it’s supposed to mean.

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Flu Epidemic: Season Threatens Everyone Except Congress

Last update February 4, 2018

The flu epidemic isn’t very glamorous. It’s difficult to get political traction from an equal opportunity disease that kills children, the fit, and the elderly and doesn’t have a clue about religion or skin color. No matter how bad this season gets, influenza just doesn’t have the appeal of other problems that push our hot buttons.

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Justice for Gun Crime Victims Won’t Come From Democrats

Last update January 2, 2018

It’s true. Republicans didn’t do much last year to stop gun crimes. It’s also true that they never said they would, while Democrats spent 2017 double-dealing over gun violence. If the Democratic Party truly seeks justice for gun crime victims it needs to be fair and just about how it wants the law to be enforced.

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