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Scott S. Powell
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November 4, 2024
With a True Vote Count, Trump Wins in a LandslideEverybody is being implored to get out and vote. We also hear appeals that this year’s November 5 election is the most important election in America’s history. Let us be clear why that statement is true and why every citizen needs to vote...
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October 14, 2024
Why Columbus Day Remains a Foundational American HolidaySeen within the big picture, Columbus Day is worth keeping and honoring as a great American holiday because it remains foundational to the establishment of a new nation by people who largely shared his qualities of character: self-made, adventur...
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September 2, 2024
Labor Day Celebrates American ExceptionalismOther than punctuating the end of summer, Labor Day has for many lacked meaning associated with other holidays. Properly understood, it is the holiday that celebrates not only labor, but also the ideas, job creators, and institutions central to the f...
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April 4, 2024
The Bezmenov Plan: Is America now in the Last Stage?President Joe Biden’s welcoming Easter Sunday message posted on X that, “Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you…” was shocking. Most could not understand how the Pre...
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February 19, 2024
On Presidents’ Day, Washington and Lincoln Speak to Us from Their GravesWith the shock and awakening of Americans that the freedoms, rights, and opportunities they had taken for granted for generations have been brazenly stripped away in the last few years, primarily by the federal government and its administrative state...
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February 12, 2024
Can Florida Halt the Woke Revolution?I was twelve years old when the Cuban missile crisis took place, and from that time I became interested in communism and how its mercurial power works. When I learned that Castro, a dedicated communist with a band of less than 200 followers, too...
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January 15, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr.: More Relevant Today than EverWhy do we celebrate a holiday honoring a man who was arrested and jailed twenty-nine times, and was ultimately assassinated? What lessons can we learn from this man, Martin Luther King, Jr. and from an American society and institutions who seem to ha...
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December 5, 2023
Saving America Starts with Rejecting Digital CurrencyAmerica in the twenty-first century has been on an accelerating descent not unlike what befell ancient Rome. For some four centuries Rome’s Senate and constitution provided continuity which sustained the Roman Republic through various challenge...
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November 23, 2023
Thanksgiving is Just One of Five Pilgrim AchievementsThe Thanksgiving holiday, which commemorates one part of the Pilgrim story, remains the favorite holiday for many Americans. And for good reasons beyond enjoying a feast. With our country passing through troubled times, it is worth revisiting the Pil...
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November 10, 2023
Threats to the United States now at a Whole New LevelIt turns out that nations do not stumble into wars and conflict. Wars are generally the result of globalist forces with ulterior motives or political leaders who seek to shore up and protect their political position by demonizing a target, like ...
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October 20, 2023
Beyond Orwell: The High-tech Lynching of AmericaJust a few generations ago, most Americans understood that George Orwell’s classics Animal Farm and 1984 were written as a warning about how freedom is lost to the tyranny and intolerance of totalitarianism. Animal Farm...
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October 11, 2023
America at the Crossroads: A Free Republic or a Police State?Just when you think it cannot get much worse -- with lawlessness overtaking our cities, our southern border being overrun, and the president of United States declaring half of voting age Americans “a threat to the very soul of this country...
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September 4, 2023
Labor Day: Celebrating the Vision of Human FlourishingFor most people, Labor Day is a rather vague holiday without the clarity and meaning typically associated with other holidays. Yet in its most complete context, Labor Day should be recognized as the holiday that celebrates not only labor, but also th...
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August 18, 2023
Biden's Criminal EnterpriseIn creating a free and open system, the framers of the Constitution recognized that corrupting influence from foreign powers was a real threat. They were particularly concerned about a corruptible American president. In his famous Farewell Address of...
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July 4, 2023
July 4th: A Hollow Celebration?Too many Americans underappreciate the meaning of holidays such as July 4th, also known as Independence Day. While some connect fireworks with the firing of cannons in the Revolutionary War, most forget that when the 56 members of the Continental Con...
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March 31, 2023
Finance and the 'Great Reset'As we connect the dots and put together the puzzle of what is going on in the world and here in the USA, first we must get out of denial, overcome the normalcy bias, and recognize that everything is different now than it has been at any previous time...
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January 16, 2023
What Wokists Can Learn from Martin Luther King Jr.Martin Luther King Jr. was more than a great pastor and civil rights leader. He had a deeply discerning mind that focused on timeless truths. The holiday in his commemoration is not only the time to celebrate his depth, character, and accomplishments...
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December 31, 2022
A Mandate for the GOP HouseMany think of Christmas and New Year’s Day as sister holidays. Historically, New Year’s Day is believed to be the world’s oldest holiday, predating the birth of Christ, which is the essence of Christmas. New Year rites of many pre-C...
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December 7, 2022
The 'China Model' and the WEFFor decades Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) has been recruiting and cultivating corporate and political leaders from all over the world to embrace a vision and plan for a complete social, political, and economic transformation -- a ...
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November 17, 2022
Why the Red Tsunami Turned into a RippleA recurring topic of discussion among some three hundred people from all over America who gathered to listen to and discuss presentations by U.S. national security experts after the November 8th election revolved around disbelief that the anticipated...
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November 10, 2022
China, Elite Capture, and America’s FutureWhen people wonder why America is in such rapid decline with the woke normalization of censorship, cancel culture, division, unequal justice, and depravity, they need to understand the theory of “elite capture,” and how it has played such...
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September 17, 2022
Constitution Day: Liberty Once Lost May be Lost ForeverConstitution Day, which falls on September 17, is the national observance holiday that most Americans have never heard of. Yet this year, 2022, it may well be our most important holiday to understand, for almost all our most pressing national problem...
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July 22, 2022
The United States is Already in World War IVSince war is universally understood as a military engagement between two opposing nations or groups of nations in alliance with each other, few realize that the United States is already in a war -- a world war. It’s not a shooting war like Worl...
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June 23, 2022
Finding our Way Through a Wilderness of MirrorsWith the Biden administration we are truly in a wilderness of curved mirrors, where people don’t trust what they see and what government says. The people behind Joe Biden don’t even try to hide the fact that their agenda constitutes what ...
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May 30, 2022
Memorial Day: Connecting the Present with the PastMemorial Day is a profound American holiday because it connects the present with so many different points of our past. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was a day set aside to honor those who lost their lives in the Civil War -- America’s ...
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May 11, 2022
American Matrix: Biden's Disinformation Governance BoardThe Biden administration’s announcement of creating a new ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ reveals desperation in the face of Americans waking up to overwhelming evidence of coverup and deceit by mainstream and social media on life...
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April 28, 2022
Mounting U.S. Debt and Misguided Foreign Policy Risk a Dollar DoomsdayThe U.S. dollar is getting perilously close to losing its status as the world’s reserve currency, and there is less room than ever for error on the international stage. Blunders in U.S. foreign policy are likely to have more harmful effects on ...
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February 21, 2022
Washington and Lincoln Call the American People to Reclaim their Rights from GovernmentWith the shock and awakening of Americans that the freedoms, rights, and opportunities they had taken for granted for generations have been brazenly stripped away in the last few years, this President’s Day 2022 may well be one of our most sign...
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December 25, 2021
The Advent of Christ Changed the World ForeverFor Christians, Christmas is a unique time of joy associated with the birth of the savior Jesus Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection make possible a personal and intimate relationship with God. Jesus was born a Jew, and his teachings were buil...
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November 25, 2021
Why the 400th Anniversary of Thanksgiving Matters TodayThe Thanksgiving holiday, which commemorates one part of the Pilgrim story, remains the favorite holiday for many Americans. And for good reasons beyond enjoying a feast. With 2021 being the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, it is worth re...
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October 11, 2021
Why Columbus Day is Worth DefendingAmong the federal holidays, Columbus Day has become one of the least honored, partially due to controversy about misdeeds associated with colonization. In fact, Columbus never set foot on or came close to any territory that later became part of...
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August 20, 2021
CRT: America's Cultural RevolutionNowhere is the abuse of power in directing government manpower and spending more blatant than in the Biden administration’s promotion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) training throughout all federal government agencies. The Department of Defense (...
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July 3, 2021
The Ideas Behind July 4thMost Americans celebrating the July 4th holiday today underappreciate or have forgotten that it was the sheer power of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence that was the determining factor for the Americans in winning the War of Independence. ...
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June 26, 2021
Election Integrity: The Firewall That Keeps America FreeDuring the last year and a half, it’s become obvious to anyone whose head is not in the sand that America has been under assault on multiple levels from within. There is no denying that the COVID-19 viral invasion was a catalyst for so much of ...
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March 3, 2021
Cancel Culture: Its Origins and Implications for AmericaAs Americans we have had it good for so long that we often take important things for granted until they are about to be taken away. As recently as five or six years ago, who would have thought that America’s dominant social media platforms, suc...
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January 18, 2021
Our 1776/Red Sea MomentAll of us want to figure things out and understand what is going down. Everything in America’s capitol is now surreal and yet real. The facts of Joe Biden’s family corruption involving large payments resulting from questionabl...
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December 27, 2020
Trump: The American DavidOne of President Trump’s most prescient statements to the American electorate leading up to the November vote was, “They’re not after me, they’re after you, I’m just in the way.” The question that everyone sh...
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December 5, 2020
The Supreme Court and the Electoral CoupIt’s out in the open for everyone with eyes and ears, not only here in the United States but around the world. The November U.S. Presidential election produced a fraudulent result -- appearing to deliver a defeat for extraordinarily popul...
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October 31, 2020
Biden's Laptop ProblemOh, those pesky laptop computers, and the problems they create for corrupt politicians in election years! Just two or three weeks prior to the Presidential election in 2016, it was files on the Anthony Weiner laptop that became public as the subje...
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August 14, 2020
Crushing the Barbarians Inside the GatesMore and more Americans in denial are being forced to face the reality that their country is on verge of being lost, with the barbarians not only inside the gates, but driving policy for the rest of us. When Democrat mayor after mayor bends to ...
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June 27, 2020
Washington’s Prophetic WarningPresident Trump paid tribute to George Washington when he recently delivered the 2020 convocation speech at West Point. While congratulating the cadet graduates and reminding the world of the success of his defense modernization program that gi...
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May 25, 2020
Memorial Day: Connecting the Past with the PresentThe Civil War was America’s most costly war with some 360,222 Union and 258,000 Confederate lives lost. Many historians put the death toll higher, but regardless, the number of Civil War casualties exceeds the nation’s loss in all its oth...
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April 4, 2020
America needs a New Declaration of Equal Justice under the LawIn prior times of war, crisis, suffering, and loss of life from causes outside the U.S., Americans of both parties would pull together and focus on what can be done to quickly help, alleviate, and solve the problem. No longer. The COVID-1...
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December 4, 2019
Will America Go the Way of the Banana Republic?Who would have ever thought the United States could lose its way and find itself on a slippery slope to becoming a banana republic in which political power is typically determined by coups rather than elections? But it appears that many in the ...
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October 21, 2019
Like Him or Not, Trump is Uniquely Suited for Such a Time as ThisWith the constant drumbeat from the mainstream media, Democrats now hope that the whirlwind in Washington of the so-called impeachment investigation will spread so much smoke that people won’t be able to see what’s going on, except to sub...
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August 14, 2019
Woodstock 50 Years Later: An Eyewitness AccountThe 50th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival prompts many to reminisce about the extraordinary gathering of musical talent and idealism associated with that event. It more than lived up to its promotional billing as “three days of ...
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February 18, 2019
Celebrating Presidents DayPresidents Day is unique among American holidays in providing the opportunity to remember and appreciate why George Washington and Abraham Lincoln -- whose birthdays fall in February -- were the two greatest U.S. presidents. While Washington...
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November 22, 2018
Thanksgiving: The First and Essential American HolidayMany Americans -- Christian, Jewish and secular -- find Thanksgiving to be their favorite holiday of the year. And for good reason beyond the joy of a feast. Thanksgiving was the first holiday of the Pilgrim forefathers, who spoke of thei...
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November 5, 2018
Why this Midterm Election is CriticalAmerica’s representative form of Constitutional democracy is on the verge of breaking down because of political corruption at the highest levels and the concurrent decline in civility and growing mob behavior. Fundamental and dee...
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October 11, 2018
Con job or hit job?Was Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against Judge Brett Kavanaugh a total con job? It had all the earmarks of an 11th-hour ambush, facilitated by the dismissal of the lack of corroborating evidence, a predictable presumption of guilt...
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October 5, 2018
The Whirlwind Is Already HereIn Judge Brett Kavanaugh's defense before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he charged the Democratic senators on the committee with sowing "the wind for decades to come[, and] the whole country will reap the whirlwind." The whirlwind ...
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September 17, 2018
Constitution Day -- the Most Important Commemoration of 2018Constitution Day, which falls on September 17, is the national observance holiday that most Americans have never heard of. Yet this year, 2018, it may well be our most important holiday. For the Constitution is threatened more now than at any t...
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September 3, 2018
Labor Day, the Holiday in Need of an UpdateAmong American holidays, Labor Day is probably the one in most need of an update. The idea of a “labor day holiday” was conceived in the 1880s by union labor leaders who sought recognition for the social and economic achievements of Ameri...
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July 25, 2018
Back to the Future by Connecting with the PastIn the 1985 classic American science fiction film Back to the Future, Marty McFly travels back in time in a DeLorean time machine, and with the help of its inventor, the eccentric scientist "Doc," history gets repaired so that when McFly re...
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July 4, 2018
Times Change, but the Ideas Behind Independence Day EndureJuly 4th is a generally more festive American holiday -- with cookouts, parades, parties, and fireworks -- than other patriotic holidays, such as Memorial Day or Veterans Day. Most people forget that when the Declaration of Independence was drafte...
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May 27, 2018
The Big Picture behind Memorial DayMemorial Day had its origin as Decoration Day following the Civil War, but it became an official federal holiday to honor those who lost their lives while serving in the armed forces of the United States only in 1971. Memorial Day is also an occas...
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May 11, 2018
Results and Substance Trump Form and AppearancePreoccupation with form over substance combined with denial and avoidance behavior are the chief causal factors for human failure -- from the individual and family right up to the national level. World War II became inevitable be...
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April 1, 2018
The Day that Transformed the World ForeverOf all holidays, Easter is the one that celebrates a single event that transformed the world forever. There are many religions with different founders, prophets, and teachers going back thousands of years, but only one of them has a founde...
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March 7, 2018
Valentine's Day Wake-Up Call from ParklandThe Valentine’s Day massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was the latest in a series of mass school shootings dating back to the Columbine, Colorado shooting in 1999. Evoking shock, these crimes inevitab...
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January 31, 2018
Subverting the Electoral ProcessIn his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln reminded Americans that they were uniquely privileged to have a new birth of freedom that was contingent on “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” That was then. What about now? ...
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January 17, 2018
2018 Comes In like a LionIf there is one thing most economists understand, about which they agree, it's the law of supply and demand. A derivative of that law is that demand and velocity of transactions tend to diminish as costs increase. While few ...
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December 25, 2017
What Would the World Look Like if Christ had Never Been Born?For Christians, Christmas is a unique time of joy associated with the birth of the savior Jesus, whose life, death and resurrection makes possible a personal and intimate relationship with God. Jesus was born a Jew, and his teachings were built ...
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December 3, 2017
Making the Clintons PayFew would deny that the ascendance of the United States from colonial poverty to the world’s top economic and military superpower in just 200 years is largely attributable to principles and rule of law in our founding documents enshrined in the...
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October 31, 2017
The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation and What It Means TodayWhen Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517, 500 years ago this week, he probably had no idea what forces he was unleashing. Although his intention was to spur reform within the Catholic Church rather tha...
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October 7, 2017
Reassessing Orwell to Understand Our TimesJust two or three generations ago, most Americans understood that George Orwell’s classics Animal Farm and 1984 were written to explain how freedom is lost to totalitarianism and the intolerance that accompanies it. “Big Brother,...
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September 1, 2017
Saving the Country from Its Own GovernmentMake no mistake. Removing statues and monuments related to the Confederacy, which is driven by the left, is not about redressing the legacy of slavery and racism, but rather it’s to advance the agenda to takedown the United States. There is, af...
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August 21, 2017
A Warning to Trump and the NationThe coup against President Trump has been developing for months and can be seen on the nightly news. Yet few talk about what it really means for the country and what can be done to avert this fate. Fortunately, we have the bulwark of the Constitution...
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July 23, 2017
No Substitute for VictoryWho would have ever thought that the United States could face a coup attempt against its duly elected President? But for all intents and purposes that’s what’s going down. It’s a derivative of an old-fashioned third-world banana rep...
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July 3, 2017
The Little Known Story of the Declaration of IndependenceJuly 4th, also known as Independence Day, is a much more lighthearted and festive American holiday -- with cookouts, parades, beach and boating parties and fireworks -- than other patriotic holidays such Memorial Day or Veterans Day. Most people forg...
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June 17, 2017
Dispensing with the FilibusterThe Senate Republicans had the good sense to vote through the nomination of Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court justice with a simple majority, instead of a 60-vote majority required to overcome a filibuster. Now it’s time for Republicans to abandon...
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March 3, 2017
Obama, Organizing for Action, and the Death Throes of the Democratic PartyIf you think you’re going crazy from nonstop news coverage of unruly behavior and disruptive protests across the country since Donald Trump was elected president, rest assured there are veiled reasons for the current madness. Pulitzer Prize-win...
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February 9, 2017
Trump’s Push for DeregulationOn day one President Trump surprised business leaders gathered at the White House, declaring U.S. regulations “out of control” and “in need of 75% or more reduction.” A week later, he boldly signed an executive order requiring...
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November 20, 2016
2016: The Year of RevolutionRemarkably 2016 has become the year of Revolution. It started in June with citizens of the United Kingdom voting in the affirmative for “Brexit,” a national referendum to separate from the European Union and the long reach of its Bru...
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November 5, 2016
Calamity Impending for the ClintonsAs presidential campaigns go, the 2016 election will be remembered as one the filthiest and coarsest ever. Donald Trump’s direct and unrestrained manner of speaking has brought on sharp criticism by the establishment and its surrogates in the m...
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September 24, 2016
Two Candidates, One Shot at Turning the Economy and the NationWhen thinking about critical issues defining this November’s presidential election, most Americans identify foreign policy concerns, growing Islamist terror threats, and Supreme Court appointments as being the high stakes issues. And while most...
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August 19, 2016
Defeating Terrorism Overseas and Civilization Jihad at HomeWith regard to foreign policy and issues of war and peace, it’s important to reflect on history to understand how the fighting of wars has changed and what is at stake today for all Americans. Looking back over the last century, World War I and...
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June 27, 2016
Political Correctness puts Americans in Grave DangerIf Americans were shocked by the recent terrorist massacre in Orlando committed by Omar Mateen in the name of ISIS and other Islamist jihadis, they should be even more alarmed by the Obama administration’s response, which once again sought to o...
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May 27, 2016
James Comey: Enforcing the Law Requires Indicting Hillary ClintonWhen James Comey was appointed FBI Director by President Obama, he became the “hands on” chief law enforcement officer of the U.S. As he laid his hand on the Bible and recited his oath of office on September 4, 2013, swearing to “fa...
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May 11, 2016
Trump: Unexpected and Unconventional but Suited for Our TimesOne of the most extraordinary things about Donald Trump’s primary victory in the Republican Party is that he received more votes from people identifying as Christian than his closest competitor Ted Cruz -- the son of an evangelical pastor and o...
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March 19, 2016
P.C. – R.I.P.There should be no surprise that former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, who played a role in launching the political career of Barack Obama, was found among the street demonstrators in Chicago who succeeded in forcefully disrupting and shut...
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February 19, 2016
A Government We Deserve -- or One We Need?A critic of the French Revolution, Joseph de Maistre, is said to be first to proclaim that “a country gets the government it deserves.” The same observation actually was made much earlier by numerous figures in the Bible. And what was tru...
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September 19, 2015
The Quiet Counter-Revolution Gets Louder: Essential Lessons for the GOPFor some years, below the surface, a quiet counter-revolution has been advancing in the base of the Republican Party and in the country in general, while the party’s establishment elites in Washington have continued on with business ...
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August 23, 2015
The Quiet Revolution: How the New Left Took Over the Democratic PartyFrustration with division and gridlock in Washington leads many Americans to impugn both political parties for the current broken and ineffective state of government. There is plenty of blame to go around, but below the surface there has been a quiet...