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Prison of Beliefs

I like to understand how people think.  Not necessarily what they think but rather, how they come to their conclusions.  Lately, I’ve been working to understand how Liberals think the way they do. A few days ago, I wrote an essay entitled “Willful Ignorance” which described the feedback loop of

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Cultural Assimilation

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  If someone copies or emulates you, then that person is paying you their highest compliment.  America is often called a “melting pot” because we assimilate the cultures brought here by immigrants.  Assimilating cultures is extremely American.  It’s what we do.

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Nothing is Free

I’m always amazed when I hear people talk about free health care or free cell phones or any one of the other government programs designed to give people things they haven’t had to earn.  What many people don’t seem to realize is that nothing is free.  It might be free

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Thoughts on Reparations

A friend of mine has been hinting that I should write something about the topic of paying reparations for slavery.  I think it’s time. This week, Governor Newsom signed into law AB3121 which creates a nine-member task force that will inform Californians about slavery and explore ways the state might

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The Myth of Racial Division in America

At the first Presidential debate, we heard Joe Biden claim that “ANTIFA is an idea, not an organization”.  The next day, a friend of mine said jokingly that “white supremacy is an idea, not an organization”.  Hmm.  Interesting.  While Joe Biden was being disingenuous (i.e. he was lying) when he

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Debate Fail

There were no winners during the first Presidential debate.  There were, however, three losers. I’m going to start off by saying that I really don’t like getting lied to.  It happens all the time and I’m getting tired of it.  But both candidates did it.  President Trump stated that Joe

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Voting Advice

This isn’t advice on how to vote, it’s advice on how to vote. Curse you English Language! Let me try again, this isn’t advice on who you should vote for, it’s advice on the mechanism by which you vote. There. That’s better. There are a few things you should consider.

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Enhanced Performance

A few weeks back an “anonymous source” supposedly told The Atlantic that President Trump called dead military personnel “suckers and losers” at a recent event.  Shortly thereafter, people who had been with the President at the event said that they never heard him utter those words or show disrespect to

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Willful Ignorance

For the longest time I thought that right-wing bloggers were crazy.  More accurately, for the longest time I was told that right-wing bloggers were crazy.  And I believed what I was told. Then, earlier this year, I started listening to the Hodge Twins, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles among others and

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