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On this Thanksgiving weekend (like EVERY minute of our lives), the blessings of being American remain firmly obvious to the honest and rational. However difficult personal or economic circumstances may be, this bustling free marketplace of goods, services and ideas provides each one of us the opportunity to work, to create, to earn, to...
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If a family is a tyranny ruled over by its weakest member (attributed to G.B. Shaw),  a society can just as easily be tyrannized by its losers, naysayers and malcontents. All Americans (and much of the Western world) are granted the fundamentals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but for many, particularly...
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In a very long, wide-ranging conversation, New York Jewish Liberal David Samuels and California Catholic Conservative Angelo Codevilla engage in the ultimate bull session about American politics and the perks & perils of American power. Through it all runs Codevilla’s recurring (and convincing) worldview of an insatiably power-hungry Elite that exists solely to control...
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Is the time far off when the majority of American Jews change course and fully embrace America (and Israel) in all  the rich variety and freedom it has bestowed upon them and to which they have contributed a disproportionate share here and worldwide? To do so, they must cast off the chains of their...
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UPDATE 11/5/19: The sad truth about the Never Trumper pantheon with its trunk in a subversive twist: it’s really about the stock nosedive taken by Conservative.Inc. Playing nice with the establishment, getting invited to the right parties, making serious money as token stooge “Conservatives” in a Leftist world ain’t what it used to be....
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As the Dem Party 2020 wannabes  continue to scramble over one another for the most insane, impossible $MultiTrillion promises to the masses, one can only wonder what has happened to the electorate they’re wooing: Green New Deals that outlaw the fossil fuel energy that runs our modern world;  Universal Guaranteed Income/weekly checks from Uncle...
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  Being Conservative has its challenges. Confronted by today’s Prog Leftists with the inevitable “How can you be a Conservative?! How can you support Donald Trump?!”, the question is really a statement of “settled” science: “If you’re not a Prog, you’re a racist/homophobe/xenophobe/sexist cretin. The simplest response is the rational one: objective reality aka...
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A Liberal friend once responded to this writer’s citing historical evidence of her chosen (Leftist) faith’s failure by saying, “Don’t give me that ‘History tells us’ crap.” In short: “Please, no facts. No real, concrete consequences of bad ideas. Let me make it all up to fit my world view.” Or, to quote the...
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UPDATE 8/12/19: A few facts and figures with regard to guns. The gun-grabbers, immune to facts, will undoubtedly continue to create their own reality surrounding the fundamental rights of Americans to defend themselves. ORIGINAL POST 8/11/19: Liberalism/Socialism/Marxist/Leftism/Progressivism is replete with ideas about controlling people’s lives, taking away their basic Constitutional rights and private property....
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One recurring, reassuring thought about today’s politics is that the Conservative side is focused on swinging wide the doors of opportunity offered ALL Americans while the Left/Progressive/Whatever-It-Calls-Itself-This Week side simply exists to destroy Conservatives. Once their “enemy” is destroyed, the Left’s goal is total government control of our lives, from energy to medical care...
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