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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The Dawn of the 9/11/2001 Generation
Is America a place where our laws and politics reflect our highest virtues or our lowest bigotries?
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Faux Individualism Is Just Collectivism
Individualism is the philosophical position that, since only individuals are capable of possessing rights, only individual rights exist.
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If You’re Not Bothered, You Should Be
If you live in any country that depends on the United States being an stable ally against malignant Asian regimes, then I'd view the future with real trepidation.
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The Realism Rebuttal to Socialism
By getting rid of capitalist markets, socialists merely push the pathological monsters into political careers.
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Snowflakes: The Politics of Hysteria
So both parties are, in fact, out to ruin the country, and it's time to be done with them.
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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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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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Red State of Denial: Paul Manafort Rolls
Paul Manafort, long time confidant and 2016 campaign manager for president Donald Trump, has finally rolled.
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The Conservative Creed: Freedom, Egalitarianism, Liberalism
If there’s any hope to rehabilitate Conservatism, then we have got to get back to basics.
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Rediscovering Sobriety in America
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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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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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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Cleaning Up Both Sides of the Aisle
If there's any chance of a civil political discourse at all, it's critical for conservatives and progressives to be on the same page as far as the definitions of the very terms we are debating.
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Solemnity
It is said that "to everything there is a season", and for all things, there is a proper time.
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Lighting Caves, Popping Bubbles
It's time to burst everyone's bubble and force them into the sunlight, even if they run shrieking back into the comfortable captivity of their caves and safe spaces of their bubbles.
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The Tyranny of Silence
If we lived in such a land where men and women were bound by a necessity of fear and anxiety of one another, how could they ever build a community, let alone a nation?
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Trigger Warning: The Line of Succession
If, by grace or by glory, Donald Trump is relieved of his office, it would not be Hillary Clinton's voice we hear next addressing the nation as president, but Mike Pence's.
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An Epidemic of Cowardice
Like all emotions, fear clouds judgment, but fear, from its seat deep within the brain stem, has more power to simply turn off rational thought than any other human emotion.
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The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q2
GDP GROWTH DATA The GDP Growth Rate for 2017 Quarter 1 was officially 1.4%, considerably below the 15-year mean, which includes the 2007-2008 recession that makes that number considerably easier to beat. The 4-year trend …