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Indigenous
One of my daughters is learning French, but she dislikes reading in French; she finds it boring. So, I’ve started to read books en Français with her – in my bastardized half attempt at French – at night before bed. As a reward she gets to pick out an English book to read, so her…
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Totally Radical, Dude
We are living in unprecedented times. Ideological division has given birth, once again, to extremism. Extremism is as old as belief itself. Look hard enough and you’ll find evidence of it in nearly every complex society that has ever existed, from the first caveman chief who claimed to know the divine secrets of the sky…
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Election Security: Things That Make You Go Hmm
One of the big issues currently making its way through the news cycle is election security. The Republicans would like to pass the SAVE Act. Democrats are fighting hard against it, although why is a contentious topic. The SAVE Act wants to see elections: require proof of US citizenship to vote, remove non-citizens from voter…
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Shut Your _____ Mouth
I haven’t blogged in over ten years and am just coming back to writing again. As such, I’m not yet familiar with all the different places I could cross-post. Substack was recommended, and if you blog WordPress, it’s ridiculously simple to port your content over in a few clicks. I had heard about Medium. I…
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Rules for Thee, Riches for Me
I learned the other day that Donald Trump is the only US president in history to have his net worth go down during his term in office. And that reminded me of something kept very hush hush by the Left in the US. The liberals – champions of open borders, socialism, heavier taxes – are…
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And Justice For All
It is making the news cycle today that Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify before a congressional committee regarding Jeffery Epstein. I can’t see how this is, in any way shape or form, a bad thing. If they have damning evidence, great! If they don’t know anything, well at least we got some…
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The Holy Grail of the Epstein Files
Ah, The Epstein Files. That glorious beacon of hope, guiding the Left – hoping, praying that these documents will prove the president is a pedophile. Can I take a moment here to mention how morally reprehensible that is, to wish for someone to be a pedophile? It’s one of the worst things you can accuse…
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An Open Letter to Western Leftists
I want to take a few minutes of your time to try to connect with you on a more caring level. It’s easy to forget in the hyperbole of today’s society, that we’re all still humans who have much more in common than we do different. We’ve all forgotten that despite political differences, we all…
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To the Extreme
The sociopolitical landscape of Western nations is a bizarre one. A highly polarized far left and a right wing base that doesn’t know what to do about them. This is not normal. Normalizing it is a terrible idea, I don’t care how many “likes” you get or what your engagement KPIs are. It is without…
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How Many Licks Does It Take…
Center. Remember center? A centrist understands that there will never be consensus on how best to govern. Hobbes and Locke are destined to debate forever in the halls of politics. So they learn the art of compromise and understand that a peaceful society can not be a unilateral society. In my mind a true centrist…
