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If you haven’t heard, ABC has cancelled the Rosanne show over a comment Rosanne made about Valerie Jarrett: BREAKING: ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ over actress’s ‘racist’ Tweet about former Obama official This provides us with a teachable moment: a teachable moment that I couldn’t have ever dreamed we would…
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all…
Said this for years. Progressives are searching for a religion. During the 60’s they looked for anything other than Christianity or Judaism because those two told them things about themselves and their actions they didn’t want to hear. These forbade them to do the the things they wanted to do (some of which were nothing…
Most polls have shown the mid-term double digit margins the Democrats once enjoyed are now gone – there was even a poll this past week that showed the GOP now with a 4-6 point margin. As we cruise into the election in November, I expect the Democrats to try to pull a rabbit out of…
There seems to be a little “worm turning” going on. I’m beginning to see progressives showing some worry that the dumpster fire they started with the Mueller “Russia Collusion” investigation is getting out of the dumpster and is starting to spread toward the Obama Legacy Forest. The “scandal free” memes are rising once again, polls…
The evidence of malfeasance coming out of the Mueller investigation is stunning in both span and scope. The whole affair is taking on the air of a Monty Python skit – specifically the one in “Quest for the Holy Grail” where the medieval crowd tries to determine if a townswoman is a witch – except…
Sweet emotion Sweet emotion You talk about things that nobody cares You’re wearing out things that nobody wears You’re calling my name but I gotta make clear I can’t say baby where I’ll be in a year… ~ Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion, Toys in the Attic (1975) Something I come back to every so often is…
“A further point should be made here: Collectivism means the end of truth. To make a totalitarian system function efficiently, it is not enough that everybody should be forced to work for the ends selected by those in control; it is essential that the people should come to regard these ends as their own. This…
President Trump promised to “drain the swamp” but that is proving difficult. He can do what he can do but it appears his efforts will result in something akin to an Army field doctor debriding a wound. Debridement involves the removal of necrotic tissue to promote wound healing – except this only keeps the Deep…
Drudge says the Santa Fe shooter was a bullied loner. I can’t get past the idea that these kids are being given permission to kill by a society that has accepted victimhood as a more – a custom or behavior deemed valid in a society. If a sideways glance at a woman can be redefined…
The term “white privilege” is still thrown about as pejorative. It is the progressive’s “Unified Theory of Literally Everything” because for them, it explains racism (pretty much all the “isms”), income inequality, the so-called “alt right” (which apparently is made up of anyone and everyone who is not a committed, doctrinaire leftist in good standing)…
Discrimination has a legitimate role in societies…and by that I don’t mean the evil connotation of discrimination, I mean the denotation of “recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.” In nature – and even in medicine – we see how an organism reacts to a foreign body. In a human, the…
Hang with me here – I’m about attempt the impossible – to connect contemporary politics with a fantastic Warren Zevon song. Don’t try this at home. I am a professional random thinker. It’s too dangerous for amateurs. I’m not a technically a Dark Web Intellectual but the lights were put out last night when I…
Some say President Trump’s policies are isolationist. I must admit I don’t see a lot of commonality between the policies of this president and the proposed policies of true isolationists like Rand Paul and his father, Ron. I don’t think the President’s withdrawal from agreements (or non-agreements) like the Paris Accords, the Iran JPOA (Joint…
And no, I’m not thinking of progressive Democrats. A significant feature that makes capitalism unique is how price serves as the most immediate and effective way to adjust supply to meet demand. It is an immediate and is based on individual transactions. It needs nothing other than a buyer and a seller, both of…
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I have a modest proposal. I propose that we submit and ratify three simple Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. All three are in keeping with the principles of Natural law as laid out in The Declaration of Independence. Furthermore, I believe these three simple Amendments would solve the…
Yesterday, I posted that I think Trump’s support is more pragmatic than populist. In my lexicon, “populism” is more of an emotional term indicating the feeling of people whereas “pragmatism” is more process and results oriented. I was asked to explain that in more detail, so I came up with this example: Say you woke…
There are people still trying to explain how Trump got elected and why the “blue wave” seems to be circling the drain like so much dirty bathwater. I was thinking about something I posted today and what the real endpoint of that thought process really is and it think it has a tie to why…
A friend took the opportunity to help get a guest editorial into the perilously progressive Salt Lake Tribune. They say it might get printed in a few months…which probably means “not at all”. I debated sharing it in advance of any publication in the paper and figured I would go ahead and share rather than…
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I believe that this is one of those rare cases where things actually are black-and-white. Furthermore, I believe that we can tell whether or not a person actually supports America and the rule of law or is trying to destroy this nation based on which side of this…
The Rio Norte Line 
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