The solution to problems with people is never "more government".
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Trigger Warning: No, A Wall Won’t Work
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President Chicken Little
Now that Trump has predictably backed off of his empty threat to declare a state of emergency, let's take a moment to decompress this textbook display of impotent stupidity.
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It is Foretold: 2019 Predictions
Happy New Year.
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Refuting the Devil’s Immigration Policy
Whether or not racist/nativist border hawks like it, these people are coming here. The realists reading this will accept this fact.
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No, Precious Metals Aren’t the Answer
How do you operate a national economy, let alone the global economy, on a commodity so small that an errant box fan could conceivably wipe out an individual's wealth?
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas.
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Conservatism: A War Against Ideas, Not People
Conservatives believe all individuals, whether aware of it or not, desire the freedom to pursue their own happiness, and that this is morally good.
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When It Rains, It Pours
The weather hasn't changed, but he tells them it has, so they believe him, even while they're getting drenched.
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Our Age of Tyranny and Scandal
Though we are doubtlessly witnessing the rise and fall of a wannabe tyrant and his morally bankrupt enablers, we are far from the end of Donald Trump's degenerate saga.
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The Chinese Misconnection
When Trump sat down across the table from Xi Jinping, he mistakenly believed that it was an opportunity to do business. Xi let him believe it.
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Remembering George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was the very first president I voted, on November 3rd, 1992. A vote I will never regret.
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Some isn’t Most and Racism isn’t “Right”
As it turns out, weaponizing the government against individuals is what the left does...
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Climate Alarmism Washes Out Again
So can we finally take our foot off of the global warming alarmism pedal, at least for a while, and get back to the serious science?
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Nationalism: Our Shame and Contempt
Nationalism doesn't require any deep intellectual commitment, only an unquestioning loyalty to the partisan nation-state.
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Manifest Hypocrisy: Matthew Whitaker
If we still lived in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we'd toss all of these it out and start anew.
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America’s Napoleon Complex
Donald Trump is the uneducated white, working class American's Napoleon.
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Trumpism: Paranoia Run Rampant
Anyone who has argued with a conspiracy theorist immediately recognizes the disconnect from rational facts that Trump's many supporters exhibit.
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Vampire Slaying: America’s Tax Addiction
As it turns out, the Framers were right. Not being able to afford tyranny is a phenomenal way to ward off the monstrosity.
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But Isn’t Trump Worth It?
Should conservatives of conscience continue to oppose Donald Trump's crony corporatist presidency or, given what Donald Trump has allegedly accomplished over the last two years, accept his glaring character flaws and manifest corruption as simply the price of admission?
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Debt, Deficits, and the American Way
So how do alleged proponents of "limited government" philosophy rectify our political ideology with the government as it exists today?
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Counterfeit Conservatism
Conservatism ... can be summed up in three basic values, each absolutely necessary to the philosophical framework: individualism, capitalism, and limited government.
