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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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Never Trumpers and Progs notwithstanding, their feet planted firmly in the air 8 miles high, Trump is proving to be “the perfect President for these times.” With Bill Clinton’s dour bride on the brink of slamming the last nail into America’s coffin, we were faced with what was truly a life-and-death decision. For those...
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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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Breathes there a Conservative who has not had to deal with the hatred and irrationality of a Leftist friend, neighbor or relative when confronted with the choice of individual liberty vs. one-size-fits-all, Big Gov collectivism? So entrenched are millions in the dark hoaxes of Global Warming (planet extinction) and Identity Politics (permanent civil war)...
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Are Greta The Grinch and reality taking some of the fun out of being a Democratic Socialist paradise? In addition to Climate Change madness, Europe is reaping the vicious whirlwind of Open Borders, most specifically millions of Muslims walking right in and cannily gaming the social welfare system to near bankrupt overload. The attendant...
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10/5/19: Surprise, surprise. Solar plants increase pollution. A little problem about the chicken and egg: one needs energy to operate these “energy-savers.” ORIGINAL POST 9/22/19: Hoax Folks, Installment #1173. Cynical Liberal/Leftist loons now run the entire Democratic Party with the eager cooperation of a willfully ignorant electorate.  No lie is too outlandish or ridiculous...
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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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