America is divided because Americans, on both sides of the aisle, care more about their delusions of "rightness" than they do about their countrymen.
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Rediscovering Sobriety in America
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Economy In Context: The March 2018 Jobs Numbers
This simply isn't good news for the Trump economy.
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Tyranny Actual: Trump’s Border War
Once upon a time in America, conservatives believed our borders should be "open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here", but that time seems to have passed.
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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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In Context: “The Perfect Before the Good”
If doing the "wrong things" for the "right reasons" was good enough for God, then Easter would be about fruit in a basket not the Lamb on the cross.
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Through the Wall: The Price of Liberty
It is clear for those living in constant fear and hopelessness, trapped in a ceaseless procession of funerals for young male victims of violence both by their peers and the very men and women sworn to protect them, that something has to change.
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“Braking” the March for Our Lives Narrative
Even using conservative estimates, more people would be saved every single year by implementing this safety standard than if firearm related homicide was somehow made physically impossible.
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America Descending: The Reality TV Presidency
Remember when Trump's handlers and supporters claimed that the Republican Party would work with Trump to keep him focused on "making America great again", doubling down on the promise that the men and women around Donald Trump would be capable of driving Trump's agenda while allowing "Trump to be Trump"?
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Rational Liberalism: Self-Evident Truths
This principle that rights are derived from a superlative moral authority is necessary to the entire idea of rights preexisting a constitution or a nation state to begin with.
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The Generation Gap Will End The GOP
In less than 4 years, the Republicans destroyed what it'd taken them 8 years to build.
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The Economy in Context
[D]espite the bump in the stock market from the positive preliminary jobs numbers, it's important to keep in mind the greater perspective.
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Salvaging the Conservative Movement
The legacies of Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman are simply too precious to sacrifice them for a party of cowards and political charlatans.
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Rustbelt Politics & The Death of America
The only rational path to solving America's Rustbelt isn't going to be punishing the rest of the world for not adopting the same bad policies that have put millions of American workers, largely minorities, out of the workforce for generations and seriously damaged our ability to compete in an increasingly global economy.
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The GOP: All-In on the Wild Card
For better or worse, the Republican Party has placed its bet on Donald Trump, and the fate of the party is inextricably linked with his.
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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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America’s Mass Shooting Problem
Every time something like this happens, gun control advocates trot out the same hysterical arguments, the same debunked statistics, the same untenable simplistic solutions, and then, after refusing to defend their indefensible arguments or to seek a compromise, they have the gall to be shocked when they fail to get support.
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The Sinkhole of Freedom: Politics and Social Media
Abandoning all pretense of holding political ideals of freedom and equality, Trump's supporters have dragged American politics down into the ideological sinkhole of Trump's "say anything about anyone" populist nationalist politics.
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What is Socialism & Why Doesn’t It Work?
If only Venezuela were freed of the dogmatic delusions of their Marxist leadership, the solution to the economic crisis would be obvious, though not painless.
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DOW Shudders as Fed Chair Empties
There is no arguing that the drop on Friday was anything other than a rout, and it remains to be seen if the weekend will be long enough to cool the white hot fears of inflation that drove the market stampede in the first place.
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Did You Get the Memo?
So let's deal with the most ridiculous of political melodramas presently unfolding, being crumpled up, and unfolding again on the national stage.
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The Economic Pulse
The main barrier to hiring an employee isn’t tax policy, regulatory policy, or even a recession...
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