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It’s Not That Trump’s Taxes Should Be Higher, but That Other People’s Should Be Lower

We’re hearing a lot about how during some recent years, Donald Trump paid only about $750 in federal income taxes.  His tax returns weren’t obtained from an official source, so they may or may not be genuine.  But even if they are, and even if he paid only that much, the problem isn’t that he paid so little, but that other people have to pay so much.   In particular, people who are trying to raise children.

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Blogline of the Day – Muttering….

Even some of the pundits on the Left have admitted that Trump’s main opponent in the first Presidential Debate wasn’t the guy across from him but the guy whose back was facing the audience – moderator Chris Wallace, Never Trumper from Fox News.

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Declaration

It’s America That’s Exceptional, Not Americans

I was recently talking to a friend who moved from Israel to America about 30 years ago.  He’s been building a career, raising a family — basically living the American dream. He said that one of the reasons he wanted to come here was that he grew up hearing about ‘American exceptionalism’.

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What Will Biden Do When He Finds Out?

I was reminded, during the first presidential debate, of Emily Litella (a recurring character on Saturday Night Live, portrayed by Gilda Radner).  Emily would appear during the Weekend Update segment of the show to reply to an editorial that she hadn’t quite heard correctly.

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And the winner was…

Last night’s debate was anything but ‘presidential’.  The only candidate who could be characterized as ‘the winner’ wasn’t even on the stage.  It was Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party nominee, who saw a surge in Google searches for information about her.  Apparently, people are realizing that it would be better to have an adult as their president.

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The New Litmus Test for Liberty: Individual Rights Persist in Spite of a State of Emergency

Individual rights are to Popular Sovereignty, as State’s rights are to Federalism; integral and unalienable! Our Federal form of government, a dual sovereignty style of governance, balances States’ rights and National authority in an institutional model that reflects the primordial political relationship between the minority (i.e. individual rights) and the majority (i.e. popular sovereignty).

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