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Ah yes, another way of what I have been saying for years:

Winning is only a precursor; it is what you do AFTERWARDS that is most important.

To wit, you win only to get something done.  Or, miserably true, to just BE someone. Winning is important but not the end all be all – the moral of both my meme and the RedState post.  It is voting for the person that in persuading me that their beliefs are mine and that I can TRUST that they will honor their pledges once assuming office. Sadly, in many cases, the voters on the Right get duped as “Winning” then turns to be the operative word – and the ONLY operative word. Caruso continues:

As one of the first people to declare that I would never vote for Donald Trump, I am constantly barraged by people telling me there are only two choices in the presidential election. One of them is Donald Trump and the other is Hillary Clinton.

When reminded the election is not a binary choice and other candidates are available, I am almost always met with, “But none of those other candidates can win! Why would you waste a vote?” It is this mindset that reveals a total of lack of understanding of why we vote in the United States.

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WGN reports that just last weekend 67 Chicagoans were shot, 11 died from their wounds.

Apparently, a military-aged American is safer in uniform in Iraq, Libya or Afghanistan fighting ISIS than living in inner-city America. New York, Chicago and Los Angeles also have the strictest gun control in the country reinforcing the old saw that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. And the rest of us can’t protect ourselves from those outlaws.

So when are we going to have a discussion about gun control that highlights these shining examples?

Sorry John but Progressives / Socialist really don’t want a “conversion” about

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How’s that higher minimum wage working out for jobs in DC?

The nation’s capital has been leading the way on the minimum wage front and the Fight for 15 crowd couldn’t be happier. Still, those not invested in the future of the unions and the Social Justice Warrior movement have questions which deserve answers. Just this week we looked at the effects of a $15 minimum wage on one small business owner in Ohio, but how about from the perspective of the workers? In DC there are a lot of food industry employers who hire plenty of lower wage workers, so that should prove to be a leading indicator when addressing the question. The District has already raised their minimum wage once recently and there’s more of the same on the way.

The American Enterprise Institute has run the numbers for us, and the initial results are not promising at all.

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“Everything Trump promises comes with an expiration date,” said Cruz’s former Senate communications director, Amanda Carpenter. “We knew it during the primary, and now it is apparent he has duped his most loyal supporters on the issue they care about most, immigration. Don’t say we didn’t warn them.”
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“It vindicates the speech, it vindicates what Ted Cruz warned would happen during the course of the campaign,” said Chris Wilson, the director of research, analytics and digital strategy on Cruz’s campaign and a top Cruz adviser who has always argued that the RNC speech would be remembered favorably. He went on to add, “I do think, yes, the immigration point is another data point that he was right, it’s another data point that leads people to understand Ted Cruz knew what he was talking about, he was making the right decision.”

While I am not a Trump supporter per se, I have stood up and clapped on a couple of items.  One was excoriating the Media for being biased to the point of being bigoted against Republican. They have decided that they cannot allow Trump to gain the office and it shows – they no longer report the news objectively but have become full-fledged members of the Democrat Party and acting like campaigners-with-bylines.

We on the Right have known this tendency for years but with this campaign, both the mask and any pretense to the contrary have been dropped.  And they wonder why their circulation rates and stock prices are plummeting still?

The other

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The Concord Monitor had this little piece on the rise of gonorrhea in NH.  Now, this was posted by their resident “geek”, David Brooks, and he had a bit of narrative along with his conclusion.

And he’s wrong. No, not about the chart – I’ll take that as a given – but his reasoning doesn’t stand up (reformatted, emphasis mine).

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