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Anthony J. Ciani
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September 30, 2021
Are Perceptions of COVID Changing?Mask and vaccine mandates are less politically damaging than they should be. Recent polls show that around 64% of Americans support mask mandates, although less than half view masks as effective. One in four view masks...
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September 26, 2021
Public Bureaucracies’ Deceptions about COVIDAs recently reported by Project Veritas, if vaccines are dangerous, then HHS will not record it. If vaccines are dangerous, then OSHA will tell employers not to record it. In this way, OSHA, FDA, HHS, and the CDC can claim that vacci...
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March 7, 2021
Deprogramming the Trump Voters-SATIRE- How does the Left look at conservatives? We often overlook this, even though it's a critical factor in the "divisive" atmosphere grippingh the county these days. It wouldn't hurt to put ouselves into the mindset of your ...
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February 9, 2021
Why are Democrats Pushing Impeachment?President Trump is now Donald Trump, so why are Democrats demanding another impeachment? Add to that, Trump is already out of office, the Chief Justice will not preside, and 45 senators have already objected to the questionable legality of the ...
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January 11, 2021
The Ghost Who VotesMy house has a ghost, a former resident that moved out in 2009 but still receives mail from unions, political campaigns and the government. On a sneaking suspicion, I contacted my state representative about my ghost. Voting reco...
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November 14, 2020
How Much Fraud Could There Be?Many have dismissed election fraud based on claims that there is no fraud, that the amount is small and incapable of changing results, and that the amount required to change results would necessitate an easily discovered coordinated effort. Thr...
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August 24, 2020
A Pandemic of SocialismIn mid-March of 2020, the United States of America became a socialist country, despite President Trump's promise in his State of the Union address one year prior. To those who lost their non-essential jobs, those who met empty shelves,...
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July 14, 2020
COVID spikes might be the result of bad testsAs soon as Republican-controlled states reopened, Fake News was reporting new infection spikes, while the numbers of new COVID-19 cases were dropping. Three weeks later, as if answering the prayers of the anti-Trump talking heads, 2019...
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July 13, 2020
To Mask or Not to Mask?They acquit the asymptomatic who might spread "WuFlu" and comfort those who fear it. They may be nothing more than a pocket full of posies, as discussed by Drs. Brosseau and Sietsema, but aren't their psychological effects be...
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May 16, 2020
Can America Bounce Back?The shutdown of the American economy was in large part enabled by the belief that it would be short, that the federal government could borrow a large sum of money at a low interest rate to ease the suffering, and that the economy could come bouncing ...
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May 12, 2020
Democrats end democracy amid COVID-19While most everyone was worried about their safety or liberty, the Democrats of Illinois were making certain that the people of Illinois had neither. As were the Democrats of Nevada and New York and California. Using COVID-19 as...
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May 1, 2020
Illinois's Governor Pritzker fails at mathOn April 23, Illinois's Governor Pritzker proclaimed that "the projections are clear. If we lifted the stay at home order tomorrow, we would see our deaths per day shoot into the thousands by the end of May, and that would last we...
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April 30, 2020
Did I Already Have COVID-19?It is an increasingly common statement, in comments sections, in social media posts and from callers on talk radio programs, “I think I had COVID-19 back in [name your month].” This is an important phenomenon for public policy....
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April 6, 2020
Did Trump Ruin Our Economy for Nothing?"Trump ruined our economy and all for naught!" "Trump and his capitalism put millions out of work for nothing!" If you haven't already heard this from the "mainstream media" (AKA "fake news"),...
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March 20, 2020
Super Flu or a Mild Cold?With symptoms ranging from a gasping death to nothing at all, one has to wonder whether COVID-19 is a super flu or a mild cold. Have we ruined our economy over nothing or saved millions of people from death? If COVID-19 is a mild cold, ho...
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March 16, 2020
Did China Panic the World and Steal Our Wealth with a Common Cold?If COVID-19 (scientifically known as SARS-CoV-2) had started in Singapore or Taiwan, it would have traveled the world, infected billions of people, killed millions, and there wouldn't have been a single peep about it. "But it kill...
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March 30, 2017
Will the Swamp Drain Trump?Draining a swamp is a great challenge, especially when others are trying to fill it back up, including your supposed allies. For decades, the American people have increasingly suffered under a growing horde of mosquitoes, leeches, chiggers, and other...
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February 21, 2017
The Rise of the TEAR PartiesOrganized protesters are disrupting the public events of Republican congressmen, and media commentators have widely proclaimed them the new TEA Party. Are these protest groups truly similar to the TEA parties? Will they become a lasting movement that...
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August 19, 2016
Why Would Russians Hack Democrats?The series of unflattering and damning E-mails released just before the 2016 Democratic National Convention, were hacked from a Democratic National Committee (DNC) server. A few weeks later, a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (...
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June 26, 2015
When Erasing Symbols of Slavery, Don't Forget the Democratic PartyIn the aftermath of the mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC, there are increasing and ever louder calls for the removal of all symbols, objects and persons connected to slavery or the Confederate States o...
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June 1, 2015
Does Homosexual Marriage Truly Exist?Is government discriminating against homosexual couples when it denies them marriage, just as it discriminated against African Americans with segregation? The arguments assume that government creates and defines marriage. That assumption ...
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June 11, 2014
Winning With Fake OutrageDemocrats are poised to lose big this November. Since 2009, nearly all Democrats have embraced Barack Obama like a medal about their necks, but his chickens have come home to roost. Their proud Obama medal has turned into a rotting albatross, and its...
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May 5, 2014
What Difference at this point Does It Make?At a hearing on the Benghazi attack and assassination of Ambassador Stevens, Secretary of State Clinton asked, "at this point, what difference at this point does it make?" The various scandals of President Obama's White House conti...
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April 9, 2014
Science and PanicWe are bombarded with dire warnings about our environment, but nearly all of the research purported to support those claims was funded by the political powers advocating them. Political powers will pick-and-choose scientists who provide useful ...
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March 13, 2014
Follow ObamaCare Delays at Your PerilDespite being “the law of the land”, President Obama is telling a lot of people to ignore ObamaCare; but does that absolve you from following it? The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as ObamaCare, is now in full effect, or it i...
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January 9, 2014
ObamaCare Is a Losing Bet"Aim for the heart, Ramon," the Man With No Name taunted. In the movie For a Few Dollars More, Clint Eastwood's character covered his heart with an iron plate hidden beneath his poncho, knowing that Ramon would stubbornly aim for his heart and run ou...
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November 30, 2013
Six Months to DoomsdayThe normal news programs were suspended, and President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry occupied our TV sets. The news was stupendous: Iran has agreed to back down from the nuclear weapons program it had previously claimed it was not engaged in. Bu...
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November 13, 2013
Obamacare's Gruesome Fiscal LogicAccording to President Obama, "health care is the single most important thing we can do for America's long-term fiscal health." In a gruesome way, he is right. The explosion in entitlement caused debt is the greatest challenge facing the United...
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March 11, 2013
Winning the MessageRepublicans lost the presidential election by a hairs breadth, and the echo chambers rang with cries of fixing the message. Republicans were beaten up over the Obama tax hikes, and once again, the echo chambers rang with cries of fixing the message. ...
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February 12, 2013
Why Leftists Should Fully Support the Second AmendmentThe point on the political spectrum most frequently associated with gun control is the extreme left. They tell us to trust in government, and that no one needs a machine gun, assault rifle, or handgun. Deer rifles and skeet guns should be more ...
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January 25, 2013
Why We Have GunsYou never miss something until it's gone. The anti-gun advocates are varied in their purposes, but are uniform in their message: there is no reason to own a gun, or guns with certain attributes. When Mayor Bloomberg says, "we just don't need assault ...
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December 26, 2012
Keeping Sight of the CliffA problem can never be solved unless both it and the desired outcome are clearly defined. The worst possible thing to do in any negotiation is to lose sight of what you are negotiating for; unfortunately, losing sight may be exactly what is happening...
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November 13, 2012
On the EdgeThe election is over and the fiscal cliff is looming. It is time to get back to Washington, roll up the sleeves, find some common ground, and fix the problem. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX, retiring) has assured us that both Democrats and Republ...
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November 4, 2012
The First Cabela's to CloseCabela's is self-described as the "World's foremost outfitter", and one look at any of their stores would add an exclamation point to that claim. This author was even told how "lucky" he was to live near a Cabela's. Two stories of anything you might ...
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October 28, 2012
Osama Martyred, GM Dying, Al-Qaeda AliveAmong its top successes the Obama administration counts the death of Osama Bin Laden, saving GM and Chrysler, pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and passing ObamaCare and the stimulus. There were a handful of other minor accomplishments, but these ...
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October 24, 2012
Environmental Protection: The Enemy of GreenMost people would be surprised to discover that the laws, regulations, and mandates designed to protect our environment may actually be harming it instead. Long gone are the days of sooty smog, acid rain, brown sunsets, leaded children, and rivers on...
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October 3, 2012
A Shot at What?Over the last few weeks, the differences in social and economic policy between Governor Romney and President Obama have become clear. Romney has consistently promoted a more laissez-faire or freedom-driven society with reduced government control, whi...
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July 1, 2012
The Constitutionality of the ObamaCare TaxIt comes as a surprise that one of the Supreme Court's liberty-leaning justices sided with the authoritarians to find that ObamaCare is constitutional. He made the expected finding that the mandate to purchase insurance was unconstitutional, bu...
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May 26, 2012
Replacing ObamaCareAfter two years, the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (aka ObamaCare) is still gray and uncertain. No matter what the Supreme Court does, this Schrödinger's cat will end up back in Congress's lap. Whether...
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March 12, 2012
The Predestined Failure of Obama's Energy PolicyOne of the greatest failings in leftist thinking stems from the mistaken belief that societies can be easily manipulated. President Obama's adopted energy policy makes for a wonderful example of this failure in thought. The entirety of "g...
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February 2, 2012
Digital Piracy MadnessHow does reality become stranger than fiction? Gooders and government. One of the greatest failings of the statist mentality is the belief that society can be easily controlled. Combine that flawed belief with the desire to correct ever...
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December 4, 2011
The Lessons of CainPolitics and news are dirty. Herman Cain is not the first political candidate slandered and libeled by the drive-by media, and he will certainly not be the last. Why "drive-by"? Because they report and spin unverified information, without any regard ...
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October 27, 2011
Demystifying 9-9-9 and Other Fair TaxesOur tax system is a source of mystery and headache for many, filled with confusing benefits and detriments, depending on whether the payer did what his political masters wanted him to do. Even more disturbing is that most revenues have been hid...
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September 9, 2011
When Government Investment is Bad InvestmentUnder the Keynesian model of government investment, government investments are a means to lead the way and break the ice, in a stalled market, where private investors have become squirrelly about investing. However, this Keynesian model assumes...
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August 27, 2011
Getting HiredWatching pre-1990s movies, you will often see managers finding or making jobs for their friends and new acquaintances. The older the movie, the truer the statement. Most new hires still are brought in by someone they know, but in today's ...
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July 21, 2011
How fast can spending be cut?Dear Editor, I have been reading some of the comments on my article, "Can We Afford Not Borrowing?", and feel that there are several points of vitriol which need to be addressed, not as a comment, but as a published letter to the Editor. First, there...
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July 20, 2011
Can We Afford Not Borrowing?The amount of road between us and the can is getting short, and we still haven't figured out what to do with the can, whether we kick it further down the road, stand and stare at it, or stop kicking it and go home. Some people (President Obama)...
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July 3, 2011
The Real Threat of the Debt CeilingThe days are counting down and the dollars are counting up to the point that the Treasury of the United States of America will no longer be able to borrow money. Some "experts" (perhaps expert politicians) are claiming that if this point is rea...
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April 28, 2011
What We Learn From the Obama Birth Certificate?President Obama, after almost 4 years of controversy, has finally released his birth certificate. This will settle the question of where he was born for a great many people; however, it is not the only thing we have learned from the certificate...
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April 19, 2010
Don't Fall for Simple Slogans"Throw the bums out" may sound good, but it's not an effective strategy to fix what's wrong with politics.At the Tea Party in Bel Air, MD, there was only one "infiltrator": a man who tried to shout over the speakers, "Let the...
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February 25, 2010
America's Health Care OptionsThe current health insurance reform bill seems to be the new Schroedinger's cat; it is in a simultaneous state of being both dead and alive. The president wants to have a meeting with both sides in an attempt to stabilize the health of the bill. What...