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Sedition is a somewhat esoteric word. Seldom used, it means “conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state.” Depending on what side you are, you could be considered a patriot or a villain. Rebels like Ho Chi Minh, Mao, and Pol Pot were considered villains. Those who rebelled against King George III and King Louis XVI were considered patriots. The rabid “resistance” to President Trump also bizarrely consider themselves patriots, so they applaud acts of sedition as justified. Hoping to curry favor with the resistance...
President Trump’s second State of the Union address was magnificent! Although not an orator, his delivery was excellent and his speech writers crafted a great speech. Of course Democrats and their henchmen in the mainstream media again trashed Trump, but a CBS poll of its viewers recorded an astonishing 76% positive reception. So tune out Democrat demagoguery, tedious media sniping, and fallacious vacuous pseudo intellectual distortions by liberal pundits; average Americans loved it! Democrats claimed it was unmemorable, complained it lacked s...
On the 46th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Roe Versus Wade making abortion legal throughout the land, the New York legislature marked the occasion by passing a state law to allow abortion right up until the moment before live birth. The abortion debate has raged since that fateful shameful day, but it seemed we at least at consensus that late term abortions were extremely brutal and unnecessary. Most states ban abortion in the third trimester when the baby is considered viable outside the womb. But once again we suddenly find...
Fake news is certainly detrimental to our body politic and civil discourse, but it’s apparently also dangerous. On a recent field trip to Washington DC for the “Right To Life” march, Covington Catholic High School students from Kentucky experienced firsthand the hate and weirdness of various activist groups, but they also learned that hatred stoked by fake news is vicious and quite possibly violent. The vulgar insults hurled at them were disturbing, but the death threats resulting from the media feeding frenzy and social media lynch mob were...
Around since the 1980s, the concept of “toxic masculinity” only gained any traction the last few years as the denigration of anything male became hip in pop culture. Toxic masculinity is the idea that raw manliness or man in his natural state is dangerous to society or simply toxic. The term “masculinity” used here is confusing or probably misplaced. An uncivilized man without the constraints of morality indulging his primal instincts is certainly prone to hedonism which can lead to bad behavior by misusing intrinsic aggression and natural...
With the longest ever shutdown of the federal government, some people are amused, some are enraged, and many are completely unaware. A few may be wondering how did we get here and what is really going on? Sadly, the press is no help; modern media is so biased and tainted, they don’t even know what objective reporting is anymore – journalism is dead. So Americans are left to fend for themselves to try and make sense of all the vitriolic intrigue spewing out of Washington like a broken sewer. The boisterous bickering to assign blame for the gov...
Watching Democrats wrestle with presidential losers who just won’t go away has been amusing, but to the consternation of most Republicans, they have one now too. Failed 2012 Republican Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, is trying to stage some kind of awkward comeback to the national scene by maligning his party’s president. Apparently since John McCain is gone, the job was open. But first an aside, where did this garbage concept of American aristocracy come from where our self-anointed nobility scour the nation for open royal titles? Until n...
Illegal immigration has been a political football for decades. Kicked around by one side wanting cheap labor and the other seeking votes, the dirty secret is neither side particularly wanted to score a solution. Those interests still exist, but the dangers of almost nonexistent border security are overshadowing both. The practically free flow of drugs and criminal elements across our southern border has reached epidemic proportions. Americans are fed up with the chaos; they want this whole mess solved! For years, we have witnessed a steady...
All aboard the polarization express! Fueled by an unscrupulous media, this is a runaway train driving a wedge into the American electorate. Whatever you are experiencing or witnessing, there are experts to deny it. Whatever events have occurred, there are propagandists pretending to be journalists ready to spin and twist it. Whatever you believe, there are commentators and politicians to deride you and your values. The dichotomy of 2018 was primarily unbiased objectivity verses “fake news.” There are certainly different perspectives with var...
Most folks look forward to the holidays. It’s supposed be a festive time for family and friends, but with each passing year there seems to be growing levels of angst, consternation, or even disdain. Pretty much everyone in America celebrates Christmas because it’s a few days off work and even people with little knowledge of the origins of Christmas or even those that reject the whole premise of Christmas still indulge all the gifts and shopping. People have probably always had to remind themselves each year about the reason for the season. We...
Bombarded daily with incessant sniping and salacious allegations, Americans are weary of the high drama constantly spinning out of Washington, so we have little interest or patience for all the bickering and nonsense from Europe. Who cares if Germany’s Angela Merkel survives yet another no confidence vote or settles another million migrants in the Fatherland? Who cares if Britain obtains an amicable equitable divorce from the European Union? And who cares if French protestors burn Paris to the ground? Perhaps we should. While Europe is a v...
The past few decades the United States inexplicably has been unable to control our borders. Illegal immigration has been the driving factor and focus, but it’s not unreasonable to expect the most powerful nation on earth to have some modicum of border security. We literally don’t know who is coming into our country and even when we catch them, we release them with a court summons and they promptly disappear into the shadows. Recently, organized migrations of thousands dubbed caravans have been making the trek together; and they are inc...
Most Americans are still decent kind folks, but it seems only our worst examples make the news or social media. The people Christmas shopping largely seem to be rude and even the products are crude. Shoppers are literally brawling and cursing one another; and there are more than a few games and toys about defecation and flatulence. It’s bad enough too many people lack manners, but now we even offer vulgar games for kids. It has been incremental, but these are all signs of our coarsening culture. People once were patient and polite because o...
Despite the best economic times in at least a generation, it seems America is spinning out of control. No matter how much the people clamor, the federal government just can't or won't control the border. California has lost control of wildfires again with horrific consequences. Our big cities exemplified by Chicago have lost control of crime to the point it seems they have given up. And once again, Florida has lost control of their elections. Politics have always been crazy, but the country is reeling from more than two years of out of control...
The president’s party historically loses an average 25 House seats in midterm elections. Republicans lost about 30 plus House seats and counting, but gained seats in the Senate. Despite constant hype that the electorate would rise up to repudiate Trump almost since he was elected two years ago, it was not really a blue wave, but Democrats did beat the average to regain the House. Did the split decision expose a bit of schizophrenia in the electorate? How was it that House races across the country were trending to Democrats while Senate races w...
By the time you read this, the tumultuous 2018 midterm elections will be over. We will know if Democrats were successful in their anti-Trump crusade to retake the House. This is dangerous ground for a columnist to write a column before a watershed event to be published right after it. Never the less, even without a crystal ball, it is fairly safe to predict Republicans kept the Senate and even gained seats. But what happened in the raging battle for the House? Whatever happened, it was the will of the people. They freely voted and whatever outc...
This midterm election has been particularly punctuated by high drama and marred by egregious allegations. Certainly rough and tumble, there are always dirty tricks in politics. Seeking to gain advantage or win votes is one thing, but demonizing opponents is more destructive to our system of self-government than any damage to the intended target. Partisanship is often fiercely passionate, but it should never be hateful. Unfortunately, there will always be some hateful partisans and even worse there are some completely crazy people who act out...
From the very moment President Trump won the election two years ago, Democrats have been sternly and somewhat spasmodically warning voter outrage would send the Republicans packing in the next election. Here we are just weeks from Trump’s first midterm elections and it’s the Republicans with building outrage and the Democrats with growing derangement. Every election is a choice, but exactly what is the choice this election? Under the brilliant courageous leadership of President Trump, deleterious Obama policies have been reversed and a tre...
Imagine for a moment a world where reality is relentlessly blurred by constant complaining and whining about irrelevant, trivial, and even fake news. A place where facts are ignored or hidden. A place where an overwhelming obnoxious media echo chamber ferociously repeats nonsensical propaganda until the people can barely get their bearings on what is real and what is fake. That place ladies and gentlemen is America in the 21st century where partisan virtual news is desperately trying to create an alternate reality. Many may be aghast at the tho...
The intensely acrimonious Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation aggravated and frustrated the nation with for weeks. Appalled at the vicious last minute smear of a good man, most Americans were stunned when the allegations could not be corroborated and even found to be largely false, leftists still insisted Brett Kavanaugh was a serial rapist! Committed to the fraud, they took to the streets and elevators to intimidate Republicans and protest the incredible misogynist injustice of not believing their hollow allegations. While this pathetic...
Like a southern preacher admonishing the congregation to repentance and offering redemption, President Trump gave a no nonsense stem winding speech in his second address to the United Nations. Though often conciliatory, he pulled no punches and even named names. Standing deep in hostile territory, Trump flatly rejected globalism and firmly reaffirmed that the only path to world peace is with responsible sovereign nations. Though the media will never report the numerous nations applauding Trump’s message, this was a hard lesson for the United Na...
Unable to stop the inevitable confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court through the legitimate Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats threw a Hail Mary stink bomb to derail the whole process. Yes, they are trying to smear Kavanaugh, but their real targets are public opinion, the Senate process, and the rule of law. Democrats don’t really care about the alleged sexual misconduct or Christine Blasey Ford, but every day they impede the confirmation with salacious high drama is another day the tremendous successes of President...
There is nothing more dangerous, unpredictable, and vicious than a cornered wild animal; and we are now learning there is nothing more desperate and dangerous than Democrats losing political power. Democrats have been extreme in their rhetoric for quite a while, but the past couple years they have become unhinged and even downright violent. Exuberance in your cause can be commendable, but the radical tactics endorsed and employed by Democrats are becoming increasingly concerning. Democrats and liberals will scoff that they are only exercising...
It's hard to watch human beings drift away into certain danger. Our society has surely become coarse, but we still have compassion for our fellow man. We don't like to see anyone hurt especially the innocent. Physical danger to another is frightening, but spiritual danger not only scares us - it saddens us. Those that willingly choose their poison are the most pathetic. Too many families have endured the gut wrenching self-destruction of loved ones sinking into addiction and slowly succumbing to alcohol, drugs, gambling, or sex. The Drag Queen...
America is a very diverse nation with plenty of strange folks and different strokes. Pretty much anything goes and can be found to scratch whatever itch, but until lately overt weirdness resided in late night clubs, various entertainment venues, or online. Though thriving and spreading, alternate lifestyles are typically considered adult subject matter and therefore only appropriate for adults. However, as alternate lifestyles try to force their way into the mainstream, the boundary of acceptable public behavior pushes deeper into perversion....
