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Contrary to the Left, our Founders were anti-slavery.

Steve has covered Nike’s reversal of distributing their new Betsy Ross Flag draped sneakers simply on the say so of former 49’s quarterback and current SJW-in-residence’s say-so. Slavery he said.  Gaslighting, I say.  Two things are at play here: Continual attack on our history by the Left as being evil (and this should be forgotten …

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Did uber-Obama confident put a pin into the Progressive ballon and made it go “Pop!”?

I know I keep harping on this but one of the main tenets of Progressivism is to bring about the Administrative State – a place in time where expert technocrats “guide” the rest of us through our lives.  These are unelected, unaccountable, and most likely, unapproachable bureaucrats working in a centralized government situation sitting down …

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Turkey Feathers and AR-15s

I’m so very tired of the intellectually empty argument from self-loathing (yet surprisingly haughty) Americans that “the Constitution was written by a bunch of dead, white, slave-owners” and that “the second amendment was written about muskets“. Regarding the first of these two arguments: The Founders were the intellectual superstars of their time.  Most of them …

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CPAC: Daniel Hannan (British MP) – on the unbridled optimism of American Conservatism for Liberty and Freedom

For a Brit, he would make a wonderful American Conservative.  Given that the UK is well down the socialist road that Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Jeanne Shaheen (and the rest of the Progressive movement) wishes the US to follow, he sounds the alarm that this is a road that should not be well trod.  …

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