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a threat to our nation and all the civilized world

The Washington Post obituary read, "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.""(A)ustere religious scholar"? How about terrorist?!After Twitter world went...

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Wasn't a $4.4 Trillion Federal Government Big Enough?

The leaders of both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate proved again this week that they favor a bigger federal government that spends and borrows more money.Their timing...

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The US Military's Power Is Overall 'Marginal': Report

In the Heritage Foundation's annual report on the state of the U.S. military, they found the overall condition of the country's armed forces to be "marginal" in their ranking system.The findings of the...

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Wisconsin and Habermas

PodcastHabermas and Communication Theory. Communication is a central concept in the philosophy of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas is in my hometown and the University of Wisconsin River Falls. I...

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More Democrats want Trump removed than wanted Nixon out

Eighty-nine percent of Democrats currently say Trump should be impeached and removed from office. That compares with 71% of Democrats who in 1974 said the charges against Nixon warranted his removal...

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House GOP Will Call Adam Schiff as Their First Witness, and There’s a Precedent

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), currently the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, spoke to Sean Hannity on Monday night and confirmed that House Republicans will call Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)...

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Bernie And His 'Outrageous' Quid Pro Quo

Stop the presses! This week Bernie Sanders shockingly announced that if he is elected president, he will demand a quid pro quo of Israel. In order for it to continue receiving U.S. military aid, the...

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Trump Is Derailing The Elite’s Gravy Train

Like the garbage French elite of long ago, our American garbage elite of today has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. For four years, it has been focused entirely on deep sixing Donald Trump for...

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Mexico close to being a Failed State

After the murder of nine American women and children in Mexico by vicious drug cartels yesterday, Republican Senator Ben Sasse is sending a warning about the state of the country and its government....

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Election 2020: One year out, predicting winners and losers

Overall, Republicans are more united as a party but face uncertainty and unease with the looming impeachment in the House. Democrats are in disarray because of an identity crisis of who and what they...

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Impeachment About Ideology, Not the Constitution

Two diametrically opposed views about America (Republican vs. Democratic Party).This clash of worldviews helps us to understand that what is going on in our nation is not a legitimate impeachment...

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More than a third of millennials polled approve of communism

Somewhere, Bernie Sanders is smiling.A new survey released by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation reflects that, if the younger generation gets out and votes in...

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Stay with the Republican Party if you don't know what Socialism means. Yes, I...

This year’s centennial anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution has caused many to reflect on communism’s place in our collective memory. It has been a full century since Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks...

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Rand Paul declares Tea Party dead, and he’s absolutely right

In 2011, I had the honor of helping Sen. Rand Paul write The Tea Party Goes to Washington, a blueprint for the burgeoning fiscally conservative grassroots movement that had began to define the right....

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Major League Baseball: Less is More when Stadiums are Aging and Almost Always...

 they build a new stadium within Maricopa County; the team gained that right by agreeing to drop a lawsuit claiming the county owed $187 million in repair and renovations to Chase Field, which opened...

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Major League Soccer is replacing Major League Baseball

The sport is experiencing its lowest levels of support since 1937. The reasons are obvious, but owners and executives have no incentive to look for answers. Baseball attendance Major League Baseball's...

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Is a Hot War between Democrats and Republicans possible in 21st century? Hope...

Next to a nuclear strike, foreign invasion, or global pandemic, it’s hard to imagine something as bone-chillingly terrifying as a second hot Civil War. The first one was bad enough, what with the...

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How America Ends A tectonic demographic shift is under way

Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. For most of the 20th century, parties and candidates in the United States have competed in elections with the understanding that electoral defeats are...

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Civil War Begins When the Constitutional Order Breaks Down

Georgetown Institute poll finds that two-thirds of us believe we are edging closer “to the brink of a civil war.” Yet Americans cannot properly analyze this “gathering storm.” We lack a framework, a...

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What Impeachment Exposed About Trump and 2020

For those who got stuck watching the past two weeks of testimony in the circus inquiry into impeaching President Trump there is a bit of news that has been uncovered.Let face it only about 3 percent of...

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