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Having mused upon it, now a week since the election, I think that there were three things involving President Donald Trump that impacted voting not going his way…

First, there is Trump’s behavior. Since being inaugurated for his second term he hasn’t been acting as presidential as he did during his first. He’s been too determined to put his name on as much as he can this time around. Trump 1.0 wasn’t like that. Trump 2.0 is acting more like a pharaoh of old. Perhaps he’s fearful of the mortality that he is facing as much as any of us do. Truly great men are simply good men, they are content to let history judge them and let the chips fall where they may. Trump in the past couple of years has not been doing that. That more than anything else of the man himself might be what brought about ...

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Take this for what it’s worth folks…

I am starting to hear, from “the little birds”, that there are allegations of some voting fraud that took place with this past week’s election.

There are at least a couple of “conspiracy theories” that I’ve been told about since yesterday. To be honest I’m surprised that there haven’t been more than those few by now. But it’s still early so far as these sorts of things go.

One statistic that I have seen a few times in the past twelve hours or so: the number of votes that Republican House of Representatives candidates received during the last mid-term election in 2022, 54.2 million, is close to the 55.6 million that Republican candidates received this year.

The Democratic candidates for the House in 2022 got 51.3 million. This year the votes for the Dems in the House soared to 70.4 million… almost TWENTY ...

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Today is Election Day here in the United States. As it’s often being called, “the mid-terms”. Because it’s coming at the halfway point in the four-year term of the president.

I’ve never liked calling these elections “mid-terms”. Every election is supposed to be of grave import, not just those that might swing political power away from or (more rarely) toward whoever the President of the United States is. But for most of this country’s history we have made the president the focal point of American temporal presence. The person most empowered to define the country’s identity. And barring some drastic dislodgment from so-called conventional wisdom, that does not look to change anytime soon.

I’ve been asked quite a few times about what I think about this year’s elections. That I’m in South Carolina has made some especially interested, given the U.S. Senate race here.

What do I think is going ...

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Phil Berger (left), Sam Page (right)
Image courtesy WRAL.com

Look, I really don’t have much of a dog in this hunt.  I don’t even live in North Carolina anymore, much less live back in the state senate’s 26th district.  But I did spend most of my life in Rockingham County and I maintain strong connections there.  I visit back there every so often.  And I’ve met Phil Berger and Sam Page at various times over the past two decades.  All of that, and the political commentator that’s been inside me for well over thirty years now is just aching to weigh in on this mess.  So that being said, here it goes…

For those who haven’t known, the 2026 race for North Carolina State Senate District 26 has been thrown into beyond the singularity: a place where future events cannot be estimated.  What happened is that Phil Berger, who has ...

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I wasn’t surprised at all by the results of yesterday’s elections.  Decades of watching this sort of thing have deeply impressed this upon me: that people in densely populated areas almost always vote for the candidates who will cause the most harm.  I’ve heard various reasons why this is so.  It all pretty much comes down to stupidity in numbers.  People in big cities like New York and Chicago have itching ears for the candidates who can smooth-talk them with promises of good times and never-ending benefits.

Zohran Mamdani is going to be mayor of New York City for the next four years.  I have never seen an American candidate so ill-fitted to be put in charge of a major metropolitan area.  It seems that New York has already forgotten the lessons of 9/11.  Mamdani is a Muslim extremist who cavorts around those who cheered on Osama Bin Laden.  Mamdani ...

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For the past few days I’ve been working on an op-ed piece focusing on the current race for mayor in New York City.  And narrowing that focus down on Zohran Mandani – the radical Islamic communist who is among other things threatening to raise taxes on white people – in particular.

I’ve wound up with bits and pieces of material worth making at least two essays of.  There is soooo much that I am feeling led to say about this race.  About how the people of the Big Apple are poised to make the biggest mistake they have ever collectively done as a community.  About how most of them have blinded themselves because of party loyalty.
Recently I heard someone describe “democracy” as “the political theory that the common people know what they want and that they deserve to get it good and hard.”  Well, that’s what the citizens of
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Folks, this one was almost too easy to get behind. Why?  Because I’ve known Kevin Suthard since we were in seventh grade and he has always been someone who I admire and respect and he’s ever abounded in wisdom and vision.  I’ll admit, I was a bit shocked around 1994 or so when I heard that Kevin was going into law enforcement.  But he spent thirty years working at the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Department and those were decades that were laden in public service.  Kevin has a true heart for the people of the county and that hasn’t stopped at all since his retirement.  Now Kevin is moving forward and upward to the next level…

A few days ago Kevin announced that he is running for Rockingham County Board of Commissioners in the 2026 election.  And though I no longer live in Rockingham County, North Carolina, I am declaring for ...

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To be honest, I had never heard of Zohran Mamdani until this week.  But what I’ve learned in the past few days scares me and it should scare you too.

For anyone reading this who doesn’t know yet, Mamdani just became the Democratic nominee for the office of mayor of New York City.

Here is what Zohran Mamdani is about (partial listing)…

– He is openly Marxist

– He hates Jews

– He sympathizes with the same mentality that brought about 9/11 and a lot of other acts of terrorism

– He wants to fund illegal aliens and provide them with sanctuary (as if that’s not bad enough already)

– He wants a $30 minimum wage by 2030 (which would DESTROY many if not most small businesses)

– He wants to channel funding that SHOULD go to the police department and instead pay for “social workers”, the result of which ...

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Well, I’ll be darned.

After months of believing that the election would go otherwise, Donald Trump has won indeed.

I’ve rarely been so glad to have been so wrong.  Harris would have been an unprecedented disaster for America.  There would have been no end to inflation.  In fact, her policies would have made it much worse.  She didn’t see that.  She basically ran on one issue only – abortion, which is ridiculous to believe Trump is going to pass a law banning it nationwide – and that wasn’t enough to persuade enough Americans that she was going to be a competent leader.

Congratulations, Mr. Trump.  You and Melania are headed to the White House, again!  Just try to pick a better staff this time, ‘kay?...

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