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Someone asked me what do I think about it now coming out that Barack Obama, in the closing days of his presidency, conspired with several others to sabotage the incoming administration of Donald Trump.  There is a lot of evidence now that this indeed happened and if it did, then a lot of people including Obama deserve to go to jail.

It won’t happen.

I’m old enough to recognize a rigged game when I see it.  And that is what the Trump Administration is facing.  Nobody is going to be arrested.  There may be indictments but they won’t go anywhere.  And even if they did, there is going to never be a “guilty” verdict from a jury from the District of Columbia.  Washington is a company town, practically everyone there is on the payroll of that company.  The corruption has long taken too much root.

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Since three readers have asked me this afternoon what I think about the Republican National Convention going on right now in Tampa… and about the crazy rules changes that the Romney camp seems to be hellbent on implementing… maybe that means I’m supposed to post something.

So here it is:

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the Republican party were to split apart after this election, and maybe even before then.

If so, I can’t see how that would be anything but a good thing.

I’ve seen this coming for a long time. So have a lot of other observers. Those among the Republicans who genuinely desire less government, slashed taxes and cut spending believe – with no small amount of evidence supporting their claim – that they have been incrementally squeezed out of having influence within their own party. The “old boys network” of party elites can’t ...

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…and you wanna know why?

Because today I just don’t feel like I want to eat chicken.

It has nothing to do at all with the recent statements by the company’s president, Dan Cathy, regarding his beliefs on homosexuality and “gay marriage”. It was a statement of his personal opinion and he’s entitled to have them. Personally, I’m inclined to agree with him, but that’s not the point of this post.

So today has been declared “Let’s Go To Chick-fil-A And Buy Their Food And Show We Support Traditional Families For God And Country Day Hurrah For Us!” or something. It’s in response to the boycott that some “gay rights” groups (I never understood the concept of “gay rights” either: what rights exactly do some homosexuals believe they’re being deprived of? I’ve never seen a “Straights Only” lunch counter in all my years of living in the South of all ...

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Louisiana College, a private Baptist school, is suing the federal government over the requirement that religious-affiliated hospitals and organizations must fund contraceptives as part of health care, even in spite of strong beliefs against such measures. Louisiana College and other religious organizations are quick to note that Obama’s “healthcare” mandate violates their constitutional rights.

Doug Powers notes that the mainstream media is giving President Obama a “free ride” about the ridiculous price of gasoline, when it blamed George W. Bush for it at every opportunity.

(Longtime readers will know that I have never been a fan of either Obama or Bush. They’re the two worst Presidents in American history, in my book…)

I juxtapose these two seemingly unrelated items before you, good readers, because I remember plenty of times during Bush’s presidency when too many Christians simply “rolled over and took it” when he and his administration violated ...

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One of the most defining moments in my life as a thinker came courtesy of Matt Mittan, waaaay back when I first went to work for him at that newspaper in Asheville. Matt proceeded to draw a diagram on a dry-erase board about how most people think of government and politics as being “left versus right”. But that’s not how it really is at all, he went on. Instead of a horizontal line depicting a tug-of-war between self-proclaimed “liberals” and “conservatives”, the line should actually be vertical: between the individual and the collective masses.

It was like an instant of enlightenment for me. Something I had known, but didn’t know how to express it, suddenly became crystal clear. Matt didn’t have to go any further, I could see it so vividly: the “conflict” between left and right, in reality, always takes away from individual liberty and gives more ...

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I cannot be convinced otherwise: that America will NEVER grow into her fullest potential until her people GIVE UP and GET OVER this fraudulent divide between “conservatism” and “liberalism”.

Seriously. “Democrats” vs. “Republicans”? Don’t MOST adults grow up past such childish behavior?

In an honorable nation there would have been NO mention at all of politics or labels in the aftermath of what happened in Tuscon, Arizona this weekend. Instead I have watched TOO MANY of us still fixated on “US vs THEM”.

What a crock of crap that is!! Some of us seemed even oblivious to the fact that innocent people DIED in this senseless act. And we’re supposed to be the most “enlightened” nation on Earth?!

Like %&@# we are!!

I don’t care what the victims believed in. I don’t care what the assailant believed in. This was a CRIMINAL ACT. It does not require explanation. It ...

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I’ve a number of criteria for judging whether a news agency is reputable or not. Usually it’s a long-term process of determination but lately it’s become much, much easier for me.

Wanna know why?

It’s real simple: any news outlet that cites the Southern Poverty Law Center as a reputable source of information, gets a honkin’ HUGE demerit and damn near an unforgivable one.

I first heard of ethnic warfare whore Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center fifteen years ago, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Dees was pimpin’ himself on most of the news channels, claiming his Southern Poverty Law Center was warning the feds way in advance about “the militias movement”. ‘Twas enough to make me wonder who this twit was. Since then I’ve discovered that he’s not much more than the worst sort of perpetual pest: the kind that demands everyone see a ...

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A few days ago my friend and fellow blogger Matthew Federico addressed the situation with history education in the state of Texas. In case you missed that bit of news, last week the Texas State Board of Education voted 10 to 5 to make drastic changes to the history, social studies and economics curricula being taught in that state’s schools.

The vote occurred along split partisan lines. The ten Republicans on the board voted for the curriculum changes and the five Democrats opposed it. The results have been both hailed and condemned as giving the teaching materials a “conservative” and “right-leaning” slant, as opposed to what some construe is a “liberal” one.

The reason this is going to be a big deal for the rest of the country is because Texas is one of the biggest consumers in the highly lucrative business of school textbooks. So if textbook publishers ...

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One of the people that in the long run has most influenced and impacted my political beliefs is, without a doubt, Matt Mittan: host of the extremely popular show Take A Stand! on the radio and streaming on the Internet every Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. I count myself as a very fortunate person for getting to work under Matt when he was the editor of The Asheville Tribune. And I’ll never forget the first time I came into his office and he showed me what his weekly newsmagazine was all about…

“Most people think of the political spectrum like this,” he said, drawing a horizontal line on a dry erase board and labeling the ends “liberal” and “conservative”. “But that’s wrong,” Matt went on. “It’s really like this!” And he then drew another line: this one going up and down, with the state/government ...

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