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Reflections on turning 50, when you’re not exactly Dante from the Inferno in a dark wood
If you don’t want more and aren’t worried about losing what you have, either you have nothing and aren’t aware there is anything, you have everything and there’s nothing left to achieve, or you’re dead. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” So…
Democrats are doubling down on illegal immigration to their own detriment because they are terrified of their own voters
For a savvy politician, the disconnect between what voters want on illegal immigration and how the President is addressing that want is an opportunity to agree with the principle while bemoaning the practice, but Democrats cannot bring themselves to take advantage. To a rational adult, two things can be true simultaneously. It is possible to…
Iran: Comparisons to Iraq are only helpful to a point when the world has changed
Less than 20 years ago, the phrase “Arab Street” generally meant a collection of countries that were both anti-Israel and largely opposed to the United States. Mainly thanks to President Trump himself, the region has flipped from adversary to ally and that might be enough. President Donald Trump’s bold, risky, some would say reckless decision…
Trump’s State of the Union and the two things that might matter in the days ahead
While this speech, nor any speech, is likely to be remembered in an age of short attention spans, the President did two things that could matter by tying his policies to individual people and positioning the Democrats as anti-American rather than merely anti-Trump. On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered an effective if not truly…
The Olympics, the progressive obsession with politics above all else, and my own obsession with Bruce Springsteen
Pride in America has fallen to staggeringly low levels among Democrats, who lash out at everything including the gold-winning USA hockey team because politics has become their one and only obsession. For me at least, there has to be another way. On Sunday, the US men’s hockey team won the Olympic gold medal for the…
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Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 