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Did you get your flu shot?

Since when is getting a flu shot so cool? I can’t remember a time when everyone talked with such pride about getting their flu shot. No one talked about it. No one cared. It was just one of those things we took for granted was out there and available. But it seems like every other conversation I hear or am part of includes someone talking about getting their COVID vaccine: Did you get it? Which one are you on? Which brand? How was your reaction to the first one? How was your reaction to the second one? What symptoms…

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Imitation and the Constitution

The United States Constitution was the first of its kind, bringing about an entirely different perspective on the role of government. One of it’s most revolutionary features was the concept of negative rights. It clearly articulates what the government cannot do to citizens. It can’t silence you. It can’t take away your guns. They can’t just show up and search through your home, and you can’t just be put away in jail without a speedy trial (unless you were involved in the “insurrection”). Though probably the most critical concept is that human rights come from God, or a higher…

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Who would you rather have in charge?

Leftists have an unquenchable thirst for power. They always have. It’s the nature of their personality. Leftists aren’t content to let people make the choices they think best for them. They’re not happy to leave things to chance. Leftists aren’t comfortable not knowing what people will do when left to their own devices. To get the power they crave, they’ll aggressively go to any lengths necessary. They’ll demonize half the country. They’ll destroy people’s lives. They’ll pit friends, genders, races, and even family members against each other. Anything it takes to win power and take control of the country….

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Choosing sides

Everything the left touches becomes political, which means everything the left touches is divisive. Wherever people are minding their own businesses and living their lives the way they know best, inevitably the left will move in and insist they make a choice. Where people used to use a men’s or women’s restroom, the left had to make people choose whether or not they were for transgender people using one versus the other. Most people didn’t care. But now they had to make a choice. Where people used to just get along with their neighbors, regardless of skin color, the…

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Why do some people want others to experience pain?

I’ve lived an extraordinary and exciting life. When the inevitable last days arrives, I feel pretty prepared to look back at a full life, generally satisfied with what I did with it. Sure, there are regrets, and a few things I’d do differently. But I’ve had no shortage of experiences, and have learned quite a bit, along the way. One thing I’ve observed throughout the course of my life, certainly more that I would have hoped or expected, is the number of people who’ve looked at my life and hoped that I would experience some the pain and suffering…

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BIPOC is the new n*gg*r

When n*gg*r, or “the N-word” first appeared, it was used to describe black people. (The root word, “niger” is the Latin word for black.) There’s some debate about how derogatory it was intended at first, but it certainly ended that way before becoming a word not said. But the connotations of the word now live on in words and acronyms like BIPOC, or “black, indigenous, and people of color.” Either word, on its face, simply describes one’s physical characteristics. They’re basically talking about skin color. However, whereas “n*gg*r” speaks specifically about black people, BIPOC encompasses a wider demographic –…

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The myth of the federal government

Thanks to poor (or sinister) leftist public school education, we’ve finally reached the tipping point when the majority of this country’s citizens no longer have a proper understanding of what the federal government truly is. Too many believe that we were all meant to be governed by the federal government. That the federal government was meant to enact laws, or sign dictatorial executive orders, that would apply to all of us. That’s not how it’s supposed to work. In our republic, the states were intended to have the bulk of the power. State’s rights. This is the idea that…

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If I were Dr. Fauci

It’s a good thing that I’m not Dr. Fauci. I’m way too fascinated with the human psyche. If I were Dr. Fauci, I’d keep making stuff up and seeing just how far I could push people. I’d come up with all of these random edicts and rules, just to see what I could make people do. I probably wouldn’t even have to support my contentions or share any scientific rationale. But if I did, I think that would be even more fun. I’d just see how absurd of a claim I could make. I’d say things that run counter…

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Grammarly nation

Every day, the race to digitize ourselves just picks up steam. A commercial for Grammarly, the writing assistant program, just caught my eye. It’s just one person after another talking about their inability to write a coherent email, paper, or note, and how without Grammarly downloaded on their machine, correcting all of their mistakes as they made them, they’d be lost. People don’t know phone numbers. They don’t learn history. They can’t do math. And they certainly can’t write (despite, ironically, all of the texting they do to each other). Why would anyone learn all those things when we…

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You don’t put people to work

Joe Biden and pro-government elitists often use the phrase “putting people to work.” The problem is, you don’t put people to work. You don’t make them work. It’s not like they’re just out there waiting for someone to tell them what to do. In America, people go to work. They self-motivate. They get up out of the chair and get to work. They get busy. They move. They make things happen. They create. They generate. They motivate. Americans create jobs and opportunities, and when they’re successful, more jobs are created. And if others want those jobs, they step up,…

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