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People Over Party: When Presidents Unite US

On this July 4th, as our nation marks 250 years, it's worth pausing to remember something we've had to relearn ...
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A Balance of Power: What You’d Want if the Other Side Wins

In Common Sense, published in January 1776, Thomas Paine wrote that in a free country, "the law ought to be ...
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Unitary Executive Theory: What is it and Why it is Bad for America

There are some promoting the need for fewer restrictions on the President. They say, "He needs the power to break ...
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Executive Powers: How a Theory to Fix a Weak Government is Being Corrupted

In our 250th year as a country, it is a good time to contemplate a question that has largely shaped ...
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Fixing Social Security: Six Options – One Answer (Part 3)

When we look at the looming insolvency of Social Security, we are told that Washington is stuck because the issue ...
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Social Security: Math vs. Myth (Part 2)

Social Security was never designed to be a personal retirement plan or a wealth-building vehicle. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and ...
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Social Security: The Collapse No One Is Talking About (Part 1)

The State-Sponsored Pyramid Scheme Social Security is failing, and no one in Washington is able to talk about it. To ...
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What is a Loyal Opposition? Not an Enemy, Not a Traitor

We have made a dangerous linguistic shift. Political opponents are no longer merely people with different ideas; they are routinely ...
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Don’t be Fooled – Drawing the World’s Top Talent Made America Great

For decades, the United States has maintained its status as the world’s economic superpower by acting as a magnet for ...
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Don’t Hate the “Deep State”: The Unseen Shield of American Continuity

In modern political discourse, few phrases are hurled with as much venom as "the Deep State." Partisans paint an ominous ...
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Trust the Plan: There is No Plan

As we sit and wait with anticipation and hope, like children on Christmas Eve, we keep waiting for everything to ...
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What is Government For: The Role of the State in a Model Democracy

In America, we seem to struggle with this question. For government to serve the people, there needs to be some ...
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AI: When Your Service is No Longer Needed

In April 2026 China hosted its annual Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon. One participant, a robot named Lightning, ran the 13.1 miles ...
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Beyond the Parades: What True Support for Our Military Requires

Support for our military personnel is always important, but near our nation’s 250th Anniversary and on and around Memorial Day, ...
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What was the Democratic-Republican Party? Our Founders’ Shield for the Common Man

When Thomas Jefferson and James Madison founded the Democratic-Republican Party in 1792, they envisioned a society where the average citizen—the ...
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Betraying MAHA

Corporate Profits can’t be placed above the Health of Our Children For years, a quiet but fierce movement had been ...
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US Counterterrorism Strategy 2026 (Part 1)

The 2026 US Counterterrorism Strategy has finally been released, and it was well worth the wait for both Putin and ...
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The 250th Anniversary Test

Tucker Carlson’s recent public admission of 'torment' over his past support of Donald Trump serves as a startling prologue to ...
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Nuclear Power? It’s Time

Climate concerns are finally motivating us to look hard at power generation. The Biden Administration is considering deep water, offshore ...
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Critically Thinking about CRT

Critical Race Theory or CRT is all in the news. It seems to be a call to arms for Ultra ...
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Where’s Your Mask?

We don’t want to be forced to wear a mask, but we didn’t want to be forced to wear a ...
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Republican or Not, How can we Oppose an Infrastructure Bill?

Trump struggled to get an Infrastructure Bill through Congress for four years and couldn’t do it. Now 13 Republicans in ...
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Trade Made America Great

America and Republican Principles have always been about free trade. NAFTA became a rallying cry to the point that a ...
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Presidential Power to Pardon

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who ...
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Forever Wars

Forever Wars? Trump was going to get us out of forever wars, that did not work. It sounded nice, and ...
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Dividing America

Many people, parties, and nations are involved in manipulating the media we are exposed to. In the most innocent case, ...
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• Thank God President Elect Biden is choosing people with some expertise in the job for which they are being ...
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