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The last time I wrote an op-ed for publishing other than on my own blog was more than ten years ago.  Certainly hasn’t been for lack of wanting to.  This is a kind of writing that I first attempted on the cusp of my senior year of high school and it’s a craft I devoted myself to developing further in college and beyond.  Then all of the general wackiness of the past decade transpired and that threw everything out of kilter.  Especially being able to engage all the gears required to really feel like I could be the writer that I needed to be to give this my very best.  And now, well… maybe this is an indication that the time for that has come at last.

American Thinker is a commentary site that I’ve come to appreciate and visit often, and I am very grateful that it has published
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So this is not only the first video blog post I’ve made in… well a VERY long time.  It’s also the absolutely FIRST blog post that I’ve made about now-President Donald Trump ever!


To be fair though, it’s not about Trump himself.  It’s about what I’ve seen waaaaay too much of in the way of hatred toward the guy.  It’s not warranted and it’s not worth it.  Anyhoo, roll the clip!

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In the past few days I’ve seen a lot of commotion about the first Republican presidential “debate”, set for a few months from now.  The biggest deal is about the number of candidates who may appear on the stage: some are counting as many as 19.  And there’s the mess going on right now with George Stephanopoulos: the ABC whateverhedoes and how he donated $75,000 to the Clintons: common sense would be that no “journalist” that blatantly compromised would serve as moderator for any debate, much less a Republican one.

Then again, I haven’t been impressed by any moderator of presidential politics in recent years.  Don’t even get me started on the Fox News guy who blatantly asked Ron Paul during one of the early debates if he seriously thought he was a presidential contender.  If that wasn’t biased journalism, then I don’t know what is.

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Some musings on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act now on the books in Indiana and that so many are in a tizzy about…

The act does not discriminate.

The act is not “anti-gay, anti-lesbian, anti-bisexual, anti-transexual” or anti-anything at all. Nowhere in the text of the legislation is there found a clause stipulating that any one or any group in particular is to be given any less protection under the law.

The act simply reasserts something that Amendment One of the Bill of Rights has codified for well over two hundred years: that there is a right to assembly and association. This also means that there is just as much a right to NON-association.

The act simply does as its title indicates: it allows for individuals and businesses to not provide a service if doing so violates the religious beliefs of that individual or business.

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Let me preface this by saying this: that I’ve been watching Ted Cruz for a long time and though we may not agree on everything, I believe that he is an exceptional leader.  Dare I say even “statesman”?  Among other things he and I are on the same level when it comes to repealing Obamacare.  It’s broken, it has been broken from its inception, and it will continue to be the most enormous disaster of American government ever if it persists.  The only sane thing to do is to roll it back completely.  Anyone who is enthusiastic about doing that, has gone a long way in earning my vote.

I would certainly consider casting a vote for Ted Cruz (with my usual caveat that I will under no circumstance mark a ballot for any candidate who runs even a single negative ad against an opponent).

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I’m going to say something right now, and I don’t care if it offends
ANY body.  If it happens to offend you, good: maybe you NEED offending
to open your eyes…

There is NO difference at all between the
Democrat and Republican parties and anyone who puts the SLIGHTEST amount
of trust in one party or the other… and I’m going to single out those
who support the Republican party especially… are worse than fools and
idiots.

For the past few days I’ve watched the Republicans, AKA
the party that was just elected to “fix things” in the House and
Senate, PISS AWAY their alleged ideals and principles by caving-in to
Obama and everything he’s demanded, especially in the way of the
“amnesty” for the ILLEGAL aliens who have BROKEN THE LAW and are STILL
breaking the law in being here.


The elections last month mean NOTHING.  Think I’m
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What I’m about to say is going to get me in a whole lotta trouble with some people. But it’s way past time that it be said…

There are two groups of people in America who have been taken for a
ride by either of the two major parties. They have been taken advantage
of at practically every turn. They have been promised everything and
have been given nothing.

I speak of Christians being held captive by the Republican party and of those of African descent by the Democrats.

Both of those groups have become the battered housewives of the
Democrats and Republicans. They’ve been beaten and told “where else are
you gonna go baby?”

People like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
have kept their brethren beholden to the Democrats only because it feeds
their own egos. Booker T. Washington warned against such when he said
“There is another class

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Here comes something that I haven’t done in… what, at least six years?  To be honest I can’t remember.  I think the total amount of times that I’ve endorsed a candidate has been less than three.

(Okay, I guess I kinda endorsed myself during that very wacky school board race in 2006, but that mostly came during the process of chronicling that process here on the blog.  I didn’t actually come out and say “I endorse myself!” although that would be kinda funny…)

For many years I have had a policy and I have kept strictly to it, without any exceptions.  It is this: I will not vote for any candidate whose campaign runs a single negative ad against an opponent.  If a candidate cannot win on her or her own merit, then that candidate doesn’t deserve my vote.  All a negative ad demonstrates is that the candidate running ...

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 Earlier this morning, following some comments on Facebook, I posted a status articulating some thoughts about politics, government, and my take on respecting law enforcement.  Subsequently I’ve been feeling led to post it here as well.  It could be because I really haven’t written anything here for quite a while about my beliefs on some things.

Anyway, here it is…


There
are some people on Facebook who the better angels of my nature are
struggling to keep me from referring to as “blithering idiots”.
Specifically, the ones demanding to know if I am “left or right”.

Those who know me best know that I’m neither, and that I have long been
above such… at least what I consider to be… an immature, inaccurate
and childish paradigm.

I may be fiscally conservative, but I’m
not a be-all, end-all “conservative”. Neither have I ever thought of
myself as “liberal”. “Libertarian” doesn’t fit

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Gowron, not David Waddell
(but Gowron should have
resigned too, when you
think about it…)

That does it: if I ever run for office again and win, I’m going to give my acceptance speech in High-Elvish Sindarin!

Indian Trail is a nice town near Charlotte here in North Carolina.  And one of its city councilmmembers – one David Waddell – had decided that “enough was enough” about the way the officials of Indian Trail were handling what he considers to be development run amok, among other things.  Exasperated by it all, David Waddell decided to resign his seat.

Except that he did it using the Klingon language: the tongue spoken by the proud warrior race from the Star Trek franchise.

Here’s the story from The Charlotte Observer:

An Indian Trail councilman decided to boldly go where no
politician has gone before – and tendered his resignation this week

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