As far as 2020 is concerned, however, good riddance to this year of plagues, despots, and fascist paranoia.
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LOL OK, Boomer
Ignorant, gullible, old, out of touch, and, worst of all, dead weight to the conservative movement.
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The Clearing Skies
It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff in the movement...
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Election 2020
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The Jig is Up
For Trump supporters who have held on for too long, I implore you, it is time to let go.
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A Short Word: The Funeral of Truth
The politics of hysteria has become the norm of politics in the cursed age of mass media and universal suffrage, because hysteria is the easiest of all emotions to appeal.
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The Politicization of Police Violence
I don't have to agree with the economic aims of groups like #BlackLivesMatter in order to support their right to start a meaningful discussion on police violence and criminal justice reform.
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The Economy in Context: July 2020
This is chaos.
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The Legacy of the Disappearing Man
Stalin could only dream of having a country full of people so willing to revise their own memories for him.
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COVID-19: To Mask or Not to Mask?
Only people who don't need to be told to do what is good and noble also don't need to feel the yoke of tyrannical government.
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The Economy in Context: June (and May) 2020
How do we compare these numbers to anything approximating a functioning economy?
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Actually, We Are the Problem
Trump's supporters will turn on Fox News opinion tonight and allow themselves to be told exactly the opposite of the truth.
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The Economy in Context: April 2020
The cause of this economic fiasco is the fault of the incompetence of this administration.
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A Short Word: An Idiot’s Idiot
Now the Trump administration and his cronies have finally begun to take the pandemic seriously, but the reality is that it's far too little and far too late.
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The Economy in Context: March 2020
While the job numbers indicate a fairly normal uptick in jobs created, other key numbers remain weak, and the corvid-19 pandemic threat to international markets continues to grow.
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An Open Question: The World as It Is
...I am resolved to live in the world as it is while continuing to forcefully advocate for the world as it should be, and I have very good reason to believe that it is possible.
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The Economy in Context: February 2020
Donald Trump is on track to be the first US president in American history to oversee an economy that doesn't reach a very modest 4% GDP growth for even a single quarter during his entire term in office.
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A Short Word: Impeachment and the State of the Union
Don't worry, America, because we're inexplicably going back to the Moon, and then on to Mars, for absolutely no reason, whatsoever.
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The Economy in Context: January 2020
...[T]he state of the economy remains very much in question, particularly where the job creation market is concerned.
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What Impeachment says about America
[I]f you are a foreigner looking to America for principled philosophical leadership, do yourself a favor. Stop.
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Merry Christmas: Waxing Theological
This is the day that our GOD entered our world and began His plan to save us from ourselves.
