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Truth, Justice or the American Way

According to his bio, Superman fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way.  Until recently, I didn’t think you had to chose one over the others.  But I do now.  When I looked at what happened with the 2020 election, I came to see that truth and

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President Trump’s Mute Point

There’s a term that a lot of people mispronounce.  I don’t think they’re misusing it, because the context is generally correct, but the pronunciation is sometimes wrong.  That term is “moot”.  You’ll hear a lot of people pronounce it “mute”.  As an adjective, the word “moot” means doubtful or irrelevant. 

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The Opposite of Gaslighting

There’s a term that I hadn’t heard much before this year, and then I started hearing it a lot.  That term is “gaslighting”.  I didn’t understand what it meant so I did a little poking around.  The term “gaslighting” comes from a 1938 play (and subsequent film adaptations) titled “Gaslight”. 

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MICE and the Corruption of Joe Biden

“MICE” is an acronym used to understand the motives behind why someone would betray their country.  It stands for Money, Ideology, Coercion and Ego.  Ultimately, the cause of someone committing treason will boil down to one or more of those four reasons. Unless you’re purposely trying to stay ignorant, you

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The Grand Delusion

It seems that every issue in the country today is black and white with no room in the middle for compromise.  Here are some examples: All Lives Matter.  Black Lives Matter. The election was stolen.  The election was fair. Biden is losing his mind.  Biden will be an excellent president.

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Appearance of Guilt

For just a bit, let’s ignore things like statistical anomalies, voting machines connected to the Internet, truckloads of ballots shipped across state lines, ineligible people voting, broken chains of custody, ballot stuffing and the thousands of people who have sworn that they witnessed election fraud.  Let’s put all that aside

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California Conservatives and the Texas Lawsuit

I know, I know.  The term California Conservatives sounds like an oxymoron.  I assure you it’s not.  People think of California and they think “freaking Liberals”.  But while we may be on the left side of the country, we’re definitely not all on the Left. According to the somewhat dubious

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Blind Faith

Let me see a show of hands…how many of you reading this were at child at one point or another in your life?  Hold them high…good…1,2,3…OK.  That looks like just about everyone. I want you to remember back to a conversation I’m sure we all had with our parents at

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