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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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Give people the information they need

Twice in the last week, I found myself in a position where I had information that was not going to be received well by another. In each case, I had to make the decision to either tell them, which would almost certainly make them angry, or hold on to the information and spare them the anger and distraction. In each case, I ended up telling them. Before I told them, I had this very conversation with them. Would you rather I tell you something that is going to anger you, but give you information that will potentially allow you…

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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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Celebrating death, a Democrat hallmark

Rush Limbaugh sadly passed away yesterday, and predictably, many liberals were out celebrating and dancing on his proverbial grave. There’s nothing about this that wasn’t predictable. Many liberals are quick to celebrate when something truly horrible happens to someone they don’t like. We’ve seen it before. But I’m afraid conservatives are going to miss yet another opportunity to capture and utilize a defining Democrat moment. It’s a tough thing to advocate, because I think the appropriate use of our time right now is to mourn, remember, and celebrate the life of Rush Limbaugh through stories, replays, and highlights from…

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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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Losers dictate when the war is over

I wish I could remember where I read this, but it was two years ago and it has resonated ever since: As long as the loser of the war wants to keep fighting, the war is not over. This is where we are in America right now. Conservatives are the clear losers. They lost the presidency. They lost Congress. Based on the Supreme Court’s decisions to avoid taking on any of the election fraud cases, we’ve lost them, too. However, unlike every other conservative loss I’ve ever witnessed, it appears conservatives are fired up and fighting this time around….

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White validation

The premise of the statement, “Black Lives Matter,” which especially applies specifically to those who insist you “say it,” is that black lives don’t matter until whites give them affirmation and validation. Somehow, society has to acknowledge or bless the idea before it becomes true. Whether they know it or not, the way the argument is currently set up, until whites bow down to the premise of the Black Lives Matter movement and give their blessing to the idea that “black lives matter,” black lives don’t matter. It just seems like you’ve devalued the exact people you’re trying to…

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COVID, immigration, and the full circle

When President Trump closed the country to China, and then other countries, as an early response to COVID, Joe Biden said that Trump was xenophobic. Then he criticized Trump’s general response and lack of seriousness regarding the disease. Later, Biden would come to agree with the decision to close the nation’s borders to foreign nationals coming from China. Biden, along with the rest of the world, would go on to support countries restricting their borders as a way to contain the pandemic. Now, in the midst of that very same pandemic, Joe Biden’s administration think it is a good…

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Those who lack religion…

…fill that hole with politics. People are constantly searching for meaning and purpose. In absence of having faith in a higher power, people put their faith in politics. And when you put your faith in politics, you can’t see or acknowledge truth. You can only hear the dogma fed to you by your leadership. When you put your faith in politics, you become the highest power. There is no greater cause than yourself. This is why so many socialists believe in things that are obviously and demonstrably untrue. And yet, look at how far they’ve come. America needs religion….

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