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Trump Haters

Maybe you can help me understand something. I’m trying to figure out why some people have this irrational compulsion to insult the President of the United States. I follow Liberal “friends” because it helps me better understand what they’re thinking. Most of them are reasonable people. Most, but not all.

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Partly Sunny

I’m going to warn you ahead of time that today’s post is going to require some thinking on your part. I apologize in advance for any discomfort. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the terms “partly cloudy” and “partly sunny” mean exactly the same thing. That is, when between

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Spice Shop

There’s a little spice shop in Ventura, CA. It has been around for years and sells great cinnamon. This past winter, the owners wanted to do something new so they put the shop up for sale. It was purchased by a young couple who took out a loan and used

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Predictable

This year’s election will be the 10th one in which I’ve cast a vote for President. Each election year, I ask myself the same thing, “Are these really the best people that this country has?” It seems to me that with tens of millions of potential candidates, we should be

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Conflicting Thoughts

I’m going to admit something to you. I misled you. I’m not actually a Conservative. It’s true, I have some Conservative views, but I have some Liberal views too. I believe in the right to bear arms and a small Federal government. I believe that that All Lives Matter and

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Voter Fraud

A few weeks ago, someone posted that “there is absolutely no fraud when voting by mail”. Curious. Any time someone claims an absolute number, zero in this case, I tend to be a bit skeptical. So, I politely asked, “If there was mail fraud, how would you detect it?” The

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Patient’s Choice

I like things to make sense. I’m usually able to see the reason behind actions that people take. Not so much these days. This whole COVID-19 thing involves too many things that just don’t make sense to me. Take, for example, the drug hydroxychloroquine. It has become one of the

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Louie Gohmert

Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tested positive for COVID-19, he said today (July 30th). On the advice of his doctor, he plans on starting a regimen of hydroxychloroquine, zinc and azithromycin. Texas is one of the states that doesn’t allow prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine to be filled if the intended purpose is

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Frontline Doctors

You might have seen a video going around recently showing representatives of a group called “America’s Frontline Doctors” giving a news conference on the steps of the Supreme Court building. Or maybe you haven’t. Because the extremely-viral video, viewed over 17 million times in 8 hours, has been removed from

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Useful Idiot

There’s a term I really like. That term is “useful idiot”. According to Webster, a useful idiot is a naïve person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda. In the 1957 book “Planned Chaos”, the author writes that the term “useful innocents” was used

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