Private Property/Eminent Domain

  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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Guilt-free, proud Americans (known in some parts as “conservatives”) gratefully celebrate the myriad benefits that come our way daily: work, money, property, security, comfort, free association, mobility, choices, choices, choices.  Those bitter scolds on the Left feel free to deplore and bash this very same country and its bounty while still taking full advantage...
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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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There was a time when even avowed communists had a startling recognition among their utopian, delusional Soviet dreams that there was undeniable greatness at the heart of America. Take the case of Abel Meeropol, writing under the pen name Lewis Allan, who crafted the lyrics to the inspiring Frank Sinatra wartime movie short “The...
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The Obama legacy is one of the Democratic Party hurtling toward a one-party, totalitarian America. Welcome to the U.S.S.A…unless. Trump appears to be the one obstacle in their way: can-do street smarts vs. “progressive” street walking, pandering, trawling for the bitterly entitled, perpetually disgruntled voter here, there, anywhere. The Marx-inspired Party of lawlessness, erasure...
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Thanks to the miraculous election of  boisterous, outrageous businessman Donald Trump in welcome reaction to grim, grim, grim ObamaNation, the battle lines in the war for America’s soul are drawn: a nation of ID Politics victims, permanently dependent wards of a “Democratic Socialist” state permanently embroiled in civil war vs.  a nation of free,...
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Bernie The Red! Pocahontas! Kamala-Mala-Bing-Bang! Booker T-Bone! Creepy Uncle Joe! Butt-A-Bum! The charlatans have rolled into town, outbarking one another with the same old promises of snake oil socialism.The answered prayers for the Faithful Left, dreaming of that endless gravy train, the masses of the perpetually dependent, the resentful, the nihilists, the uneasy prosperous...
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How fortunate we are to have a President who loves America, recognizes the rare, precious opportunity it has afforded him and hundreds and hundreds of millions of us over the brief 250 years of our free land’s existence. There would very possibly not be an America without the dramatic daring, heroism and ultimate sacrifice...
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