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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A Short Word: The Funeral of Truth
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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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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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A Short Word: The Smoke And Mirrors Economy
Trump's economy isn't any better than Obama's was.
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A Short Word: The Trade War is On
The Chinese are no fools.
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A Short Word: On Debts and Deficits
What will it take for Americans to care about the debt?
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A Short Word: America Post-Trump
The fact is, as conservatives, we have to begin thinking about America post-Trump.
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A Short Word: Trump’s Fed Folly
Donald Trump whined about the Federal Reserve doing what it has to do to cut off rising inflation rates...
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A Short Word: The Trump Psychology
If you wonder why Trump tweets constantly to his political base, it's because he seeks to keep them perpetually upset at the things for which he is the solution for.
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A Short Word: Who is the Left Again?
Ironically, red state voters became so focused on the "red scare" that they haven't notice they're every bit as red and every bit as nationalistic as the communists they oppose.
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A Short Word: Choosing Barabbas
Do Americans have the moral courage to do what is right and choose leaders who will refrain from antagonizing their fellow Americans on partisan grounds?
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A Short Word: The Conservative Ethic
At the heart of the conservative ethic, we believe that the truth supersedes opinion, because of this we must also believe that our ideas and political positions are always subject to scrutiny.
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A Short Word: Delousing our Electoral System
Regardless of whether you think this is a good idea or a terrible idea, it's clearly past time for some kind of reform of our broken electoral process.
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A Short Word: Lost In The Crowd
If real conservatism, the kind that would be recognized by Buckley and Reagan, really be worth fighting for, conservatives should fight for it.
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A Short Word: The Limit of Tolerance
Even pluralism, a core virtue of American conservatism, has its limits, and a patriot can not, must not, tolerate the intolerable.
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A Short Word: The Drums of Trade War
With China instituting 25% tariffs on over one hundred American made products, a trade war with China is no longer a mere hypothetical, and with Donald Trump being who he is, he is practically guaranteed to retaliate "ten times harder" (basically another way of saying he'll grossly overreact to this threat to his manhood).
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A Short Word: The Unmaking of America
The cancerous mindset unmaking America has a name, and that name is Trumpism.
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A Short Word: Shutdown 2018 Recap
The path beaten between the two political camps has been so harassed, pounded, and flogged that there isn't so much as a hint of a twig or tuft of grassy compromise growing from the bare and tortured rock.
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A Short Word: Common Ground
[W]hy are you still in a political party that no longer represents you?
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A Short Word: Military Might’s Shadow
We have a standing military because we must, Mr. Trump. It is not beautiful. It is merely necessary.
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A Short Word: Coming to America
America is just as much about what you bring to her as what she brings to you.
Liberty is For The Win 