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Rick McDowell
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June 23, 2025
Midnight Hammer vs. midnight yammerLess than 12 hours after a well-conceived, incredibly successful strike to destroy Iran’s nuclear ambition, the heretofore silent-on-the-issue Dems somehow found what they took to be an opening, and the yammering began. You’d hope that...
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May 15, 2025
The culture of a free peopleAmerica has always depended on shared ideas: liberty, merit, opportunity. What we are witnessing now is not just a breakdown in those values, but a reshaping of how they are discussed, taught, and understood. The problem is not ...
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May 5, 2025
Tariffs, truth, and strategic survivalIf you’ve read the headlines lately, you’d think the United States just declared war on its own consumers. That’s the message being peddled by much of the mainstream media in response to the new tariffs on Chinese goods. We’re...
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April 23, 2025
Four Years, Five Fiascos: The Toll of Government OverreachMany Americans believe the Biden administration brought four of the worst years we have encountered in the past half century, if not longer, for the nation and the American spirit. The purpose of presenting here the most damaging actions of those fou...
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February 15, 2025
‘The Last of the Democrats’Like the Mohicans of 1757, the woke Democrats of 2025 are on the verge of extinction. Who is the voice of the once powerful Democrat party? Jasmin Crockett? The weekly humiliated governor of constantly-on-fire California, Gav...
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January 21, 2025
The new dawn is hereThe inauguration speech was far-reaching, multifaceted, only slightly retrospective, and emphasized what an opportunity we have before us. After the obligatory humbling of the current state of the federal government, the rest was optimism and America...
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November 16, 2024
Morning Again (Again) in AmericaProuder, stronger, better. That was the message from the most iconic political ad in history, called “Morning in America,” that was used during the Reagan campaign in 1984. The message is resonating again in late 202...
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August 6, 2024
The Presidential Campaign Through the Wisdom of Sun TzuSun Tzu, the Chinese military strategist from around (historians are uncertain) the 6th century BC, is famous for the (still studied at West Point) book The Art of War. There are 13 short chapters, each on a different aspect of warfare. The...
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June 10, 2024
Character and CompetitionYou might have watched the French Open final, maybe earlier matches. The final went five sets ultimately to the wunderkind, Carlos Alcaraz. This is Alcaraz’ best surface, and he is a phenomenal talent. He has a huge fan base everywhere, incl...
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March 20, 2024
Moving On from the Racism DistractionYou can find racism in the United States if you undertake a mission to look for it. Maybe at some Black barbershop, a middle-aged White businessman would encounter racism. But do not despair: there is always another barbershop. No need to set that on...
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February 17, 2024
The Feminization of AmericaPew Research succinctly states that American society sums up the genders as, “Strong men; caring women.” Here is a composite of research studies that address not just perceptions, but psychological profiling of thousands of Amer...
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March 24, 2022
A little less foreign adventuring would do our country goodCOVID is yesterday's news. Ho, hum. Fauci's tenure in charge of our lives is over, at least for now. While we wait for the next, new and improved man-made virus to hit, likely corresponding with our response t...
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January 8, 2022
Fear is the Mind KillerFrank Herbert wrote in Dune, “Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death...” Indeed, fear is the more dangerous virus infecting us. Witness the fearfulness engulfing Americans: Fear of the virus. ...
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November 3, 2021
The one thing Republicans must do to save the nationRepublicans do not need to adjust Trump administration policies. The policies worked. They do not need to rely on focus groups to inform them on what message to send. Freedom, opportunity, and a meritocracy work just fine....
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October 13, 2021
The Jon Gruden Dinosaur HuntJon Gruden is a dinosaur. The heretofore Raiders coach is very old school, unrepentant, and of the toxic masculinity persuasion, no less. As was swiftly evidenced, the world today has no place for such creatures. He is another sp...
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January 4, 2019
Nancy the Great returnsThe party of the future and equality, the Progressives, present not so much proudly as deferentially, for speaker of the House, the master legislator, Nancy Pelosi, unopposed. This, the party of social justice and the ideology that diversi...