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OK, let’s just say racism is rampant

If racism were as rampant as Democrat politicians, school districts, and leftist cultural icons are telling everyone it is, then doesn’t that make the millions of significant accomplishments by black Americans just that much more impressive. If all of our systems are built specifically to hold back black people, and white supremacists are running wild, populating companies and institutions across the country, does that mean the tales of successful black Americans are extraordinary and worth telling. Doesn’t that make those people heroes to be emulated? Barack Obama was elected President not once, but twice. Oprah Winfrey has held an…

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Have we over-corrected?

Given the historical nature of the subzero cold we’ve experienced across the United States over the past few weeks, one has to wonder: Have we over-corrected? A few decades ago, when it was still called “global warming,” we were convinced we only had 5, 10, 12, 18, 25, or 32 years (depending on who was doing the predicting) to get it corrected before the ice caps melted and the world was flooded. The path to solving this problem was to stop using hairspray, stop driving Hummers, start driving a Prius, stop using freon, eat organic foods, install solar panels…

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Proactively afraid

When I was a teenager, my Dad told me this story one night when he arrived home from work. That morning, his boss arrived at work in his downtown Dallas headquarters to find there was scaffolding along the front of the building. “Why is this scaffolding here?” he asked one of the workers. “Oh, no,” the worker thought, “The President wants the scaffolding gone.” That same day, the President walked out of the building at lunch to find the scaffolding had all been torn down. “Where did the scaffolding go?” he asked a worker. “Oh, no,” the worker thought, “he…

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Conservatism: a movement without a leader

President Trump did more for marketing the conservative movement in four years than the Republican Party has done in the last 50 years. And he didn’t even know he was doing it. To my knowledge, President Trump has never considered himself a leader of the conservative movement. Based on listening to hundreds of hours of his speeches, I’m not really sure he even understands the philosophy. More specifically, I think his actions are rooted in conservatism, and I think the things he talks about are conservative points of view, but he does it with a lack of awareness that…

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“Cisgender,” another word for “normal”

I was just reading about a study from 2018, conducted by two Canadian researchers, who spoke to 1000 “cisgender” people about who they’d be willing to date: options including “cisgender” men, “cisgender” women, trans men, trans women, genderqueer, and any of the other 703,503,243 genders that we’ve invented. According to some lazy (read: Wikipedia) research, the word “cisgender” originated from some research work done in 1991 about transsexuals. One definition from the Dictionary from Oxford Languages states “cisgender” means “denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.” In other…

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We’ll miss you, Rush

Today, during a busy work day, my brother told me via text that Rush Limbaugh had passed away. Obviously, we all knew this day was coming, but I didn’t realize it would hurt so much. I felt as close to Rush, a man I had never met, as I do to my family and friends. In fact, it’s quite possible I spent more hours listening to him speak in the last 30 years than any other one person. Some people credit Rush with their move toward conservatism, while others loved him for, as he described it, being the voice…

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This silly notion of electability

Over Valentine’s Day weekend, Mitch McConnell spoke of how he will consider funding Republican Senate candidates during the 2022 mid-term elections. When asked about his willingness to back Trump-endorsed candidates, he indicated he may or may not back them, saying “the only thing I care about is electability.” There’s no such thing as “electability.” It’s a false premise. When one speaks of “electability,” they’re really just saying it’s their opinion that someone is or is not electable. In this case, McConnell is saying he’ll be the final arbiter of who’s electable. I don’t think this gives anyone much comfort,…

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Boycott the media

If we had an effective Republican Party (a massive “if,” to be sure), they would band together with all conservatives, be they public or private citizens, and boycott the media. No interviews. No statements. No leaks. No reactions. No points of view. No acknowledgement. That’s not to say they wouldn’t be making statements or responding to things. It just means they would identify who they consider the mainstream media, i.e. New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, etc. and never give them the time of day. They wouldn’t mention them. They wouldn’t watch them. They wouldn’t…

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The Republican Party is not hapless

Can we stop talking like the Republican Party is full of well-meaning conservatives who, gosh darn it, just don’t know what to do? Can we stop acting like they just don’t know how to win? They can’t get the right words out to defend conservatives and their constituents. They just don’t know how to defeat those clever rascals like Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. Republicans are just like Wile E. Coyote who can’t seem to ever outsmart or win against those pesky Democrats. I’ve been saying this for 30 years, and I’ll say it one more time: The Republican…

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Unity. Diversity. Which is it?

Democrats from Joe Biden on down are all talking about unity. We need to unify the country. We need to come together. We need to heal after the terrible four years we experienced because they made it so unbearable with their four-year nonstop tantrum. But didn’t these same Democrats spend the prior 25 years telling us to “celebrate diversity?” Yard signs. LinkedIn posts. Campaign slogans. Bumper stickers. Billboards. In the workplace. In public schools. Everywhere we turned, we were told to celebrate diversity. Hell, living in Seattle, I was excited to celebrate diversity. Many of the companies here were…

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