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I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.

How to Elect a President

By Byron / July 7, 2020 /

Short answer: NOT the way we are doing it. As I write this, Americans are looking at a choice that many find very unappealing: Donald Trump or Joe Biden will be sworn in on a cold Wednesday in January. This on the heels of the election of 2016, where both candidates were loathed to a…

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It’s Not a Coup

By Byron / November 20, 2019 /

So stop saying it. The impeachment proceedings may be ill-advised, and end up being a political windfall for the Republicans. Time will tell. But it’s not a coup. The Democrats have certainly demonstrated that they want to remove this president from office; this has seemed to be their intent, one way or another, essentially from…

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Why I Would Support a Pro-Choice Justice (In a Heartbeat)

By Byron / July 9, 2018 /

Now that I have your attention… I am completely pro-life (in the real, “historic” sense of term, not the muddied, newfangled, “Christian Left” sense of it, which can be used to pretty much nullify what has always been meant when we say it): I believe that human life, created in and bearing the image of…

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I Don’t Know How to Explain to You that You Should Think

By Byron / July 3, 2017 /

Kayla Chadwick, in an article dated 6/26/17 for Huffington Post, leads with “I Don’t Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People”. I don’t think I am oversimplifying her main thesis to state it thusly: “caring about other people means adopting liberal ‘solutions’ to the problems facing society”, or perhaps,…

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Pragmatism is not Conservatism, or “Not So Fast on this Carrier Deal”

By Byron / December 3, 2016 /

President-elect Trump, as we all know by now, cut a deal with Carrier to keep roughly 1000 jobs in the U.S. that had been scheduled to move to Mexico. First things first: no one with a heart can help but be happy for the families directly affected by this deal, those who stood to lose…

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