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Reminder: Progressives do not get to decide what’s right and wrong, and other lessons from Jackson’s handling of the first nullification crisis

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Andrew Jackson

America has already had this argument and it has already been soundly rejected, legally and at the bloody point of a gun during the Civil War.  In fact, three decades before the war itself, President Andrew Jackson confronted this very same thinking during the first nullification crisis. To hear Democrats and their progressive allies tell… Continue reading Reminder: Progressives do not get to decide what’s right and wrong, and other lessons from Jackson’s handling of the first nullification crisis

Democrats in Minnesota and elsewhere desperately need a lesson in the nature of power

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Presidential Power

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, President Trump cannot simply allow his political adversaries to dictate his actions.  No President has ever done so, and none ever will.  Full disclosure:  I wrote most of this post before the second ICE shooting left a man dead in Minneapolis less than a month after the first on Saturday… Continue reading Democrats in Minnesota and elsewhere desperately need a lesson in the nature of power

Minnesota fraud and the true nature of modern progressive governance

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This is the government as a money laundering operation, one hand washing the other on someone else’s dime, and sadly that appears to be the modern progressive way.  If caring for the poor, disadvantaged, and disabled was as important as they claim, none of this would’ve happened.  In principle, every fair minded person should be… Continue reading Minnesota fraud and the true nature of modern progressive governance