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James L. Swofford
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August 22, 2024
Inflation, interest rates, and profitsThe higher interest rates and profit are natural results of the inflation a government created, and ironically those who caused the inflation benefit politically from it.
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March 14, 2024
What the polls say about third partiesWho benefits more from a slew of third-party candidates? Trump or Biden?
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February 7, 2024
Which Generation Has Had It the Toughest?Rather than join the whining, why not look into this?
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September 28, 2023
Face it -- Hunter Biden is already pardonedJoe Biden is not worried something will happen to him before his family’s legal problems are resolved.
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August 9, 2023
Equal justice in a partisan eraWe are at a point in the U.S. that everyone seems to recognize that Republicans cannot get a fair shake in a trial in places like D.C. or Manhattan.
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July 28, 2023
New York needs to do its fair share on immigration'No more room for migrants'? Nonsense, Mayor Adams!
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June 22, 2023
Trump's 'white guys' problemA little known nugget from Trump's 2020 exit polls is important for us to remember.
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June 16, 2023
How to answer the 'Will you pardon Trump?' questionCandidates — especially Republicans — will be getting this one more and more. They'll do well not to answer the way Mike Pence did.
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May 25, 2023
We Are All CapitalistsClearly the members of Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, and BLM are capitalists like the rest of humanity. So what are they up in arms about?
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May 16, 2023
NeverTrumps, I hope you're happyBut then again, maybe you shot yourselves in the foot.
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April 28, 2023
Are people still using polls to determine Trump’s electability?At least some people seem to think polls indicate something about Donald Trump’s electability. Those people must have short memories.
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April 21, 2023
Are you happy now, Libertarians?Did Libertarians in battleground states really have to vote for Joe Biden in 2020?
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April 15, 2023
The American public rallies to underdogsLeftist prosecutors may be accidently performing the magic trick of turning a billionaire ex-president into a sympathetic underdog.
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October 31, 2022
What will the midterm results say?What would constitute a year, a wave, or a tsunami for Republicans?
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July 27, 2022
What beachfront property says about global warmingDoes anyone really believe in this nonsense?
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July 20, 2022
Modern Monetary Theory is a win for the left, even if it doesn't workFrom the point of view of the left, MMT is a win-win situation.
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June 2, 2022
What about packing the House of Representatives?Perhaps congressmen would be more responsive to their constituents if there were fewer constituents and more congressmen.
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April 19, 2022
The greatest opportunity for organized crime in the US since ProhibitionThe large-scale shoplifting and the do-nothing-about-it prosecutors are creating yet another opening for organized crime.
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December 8, 2021
John Roberts and the Dobbs decisionA chance to strike a real blow for representative government.
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October 29, 2020
Trump's paths (plural!) to 270 electoral votes and victoryIt's not as hard as you might think.
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October 19, 2020
The Electoral College did more in 2016 than you might thinkWithout the Electoral College, it would be just three counties.
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October 14, 2020
2020's battleground states are not the ones you thinkSome number-crunching reveals a few surprises.
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May 5, 2020
The government can give you money, but it can't make you toilet paperCongress does not have any special ability to make it possible for you to turn money it gives you into anything.
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April 9, 2020
The Flu, the Coronavirus, and Hospital BedsSome eye-opening data on the number of hospitalizations for a typical flu season as compared to the coronavirus.
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April 3, 2020
Will we have a recession like in 1920–21?History may be repeating itself one hundred years later.
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April 1, 2020
How Can We Obtain Herd Immunity?Until a vaccine is developed, the only way to get herd immunity from the coronavirus is for enough people to have gotten the Wuhan virus and to have recovered from it.
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March 1, 2020
Coronavirus is probably both worse and better than people thinkA look at the numbers.
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February 1, 2020
How the American public sees the impeachment articlesThis is why the public support has not built for removal of President Trump.
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December 20, 2019
Why Russia, kids in cages, etc. in the Impeachment debate?It's less about impeaching Trump. It's more about getting re-elected.
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October 16, 2019
Why impeachment, and why now?Everything you see in the news is a smokescreen. Here is what's really going on.
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October 9, 2018
Radical leftist Justice Kagan fears lack of 'centrists' on the Supreme CourtIf Kagan wants a "solid centrist" on the Court, she's more than welcome to become one.
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July 19, 2018
Democratic tactics and Republican votersThe Democrats have failed to get at President Trump on the economy and other domestic issues.
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May 7, 2018
Meeting with Robert MuellerPresident Trump needs to meet with Robert Mueller as soon as possible.
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March 15, 2018
Ah, it's tariff season in the US again!When a president's fancy turns to midterm politics.
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March 7, 2017
Are the Republicans in Congress forgetting the lessons of 1974 and 1998?This is no time to abandon the president of your party.
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February 3, 2017
The Jeff Sessions I metWith the full Senate vote on Jeff Sessions’s confirmation for attorney general looming, I thought the readers here might be interested a few things I observed about the Jeff Sessions I met.
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August 30, 2016
It’s not the economy, stupid!“It’s the benefits, stupid” can be a reminder for Republican presidential candidates to attract voters away from the Democrats.
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June 25, 2016
Why do Democrats hate the 'Dreamers' so much?The Democrats apparently do not care enough about the “Dreamers” to give an inch on immigration on any front.
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June 9, 2016
Why Even ‘Never Trumpers’ Should Hope He Is ElectedIf he wins, Trump will likely damage the body politic less than another Clinton presidency because the culture of the nation is set up as a check on him.