Late last year, over drinks with a long-time veteran southern Republican political operative, he leaned over and fairly shouted: “Heckfire! Donald Trump didn’t even collude with the GOP to get elected in 2016! How could […]
What is “welfare” in the government sense anyway? Merriam-Webster defines it as such: “aid in the form of money or necessities for those in need.” This definition should be clarified with a friendly amendment: “… […]
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the federal government collected a record amount of your money, er, “taxes,” in April 2018 — $515 billion, a new all-time record! Congratulations! Don’t you feel like you […]
If you are despondent about the state of modern American politics and the inability of both parties to engage in serious bipartisan efforts to balance our budget and start to dig out from underneath the […]
Every single tax dollar collected by the U.S. federal government in 2039 will be used to pay for just four things in the budget: Medicare; Medicaid; Social Security; Interest on the national debt. This includes […]
Big-time college athletics is out of control. But should universities lose their historical mission to educate young people as a result? College athletics, primarily football, has been a lucrative way to make money for the […]
Does anyone in North Carolina know how many regulations exist in the North Carolina Administrative Code (NCAC)? More importantly, is there anyone in the state of North Carolina who has read all of them and […]
I, Bowtie, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe. If you become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom we want in America. Not a […]
Michael Gerson wrote “The Last Temptation” in The Atlantic recently where he struggled to understand why, and how, evangelicals in America supported Donald Trump in the last election and have stood by him despite his […]
The great thing about making predictions is that people only remember when it is correct and the vast number of prognosticators were wrong. Unless the prediction is so out-of-bounds proven wrong that it is never […]
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