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Buyers and Sellers of Bitter Butter
The Bitter Butter Award of early 2017 goes to … drum roll, please … Georgia Representative John Lewis. Why?
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Not All Interests Are Conflicts
There's a difference between an interest and a conflict of interest, and between the appearance of a conflict of interest and an actual conflict of interest. Remembering those distinctions, understanding them, and keeping them in mind is the key to making sense of the ongoing political uproar over
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Donald Trump’s Worst Idea
Hillary Clinton didn't just run such a bad campaign that she made Donald Trump president. She ran such a bad campaign that it has effectively disarmed her party from its ability to challenge President-elect Trump's worst idea.
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We’re About To Become Great Again … Maybe
Donald J. Trump, Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America, New York: Simon and Schuster Threshold Trade Paperback Editions, 2016 (originally published in 2015 as Crippled America), with a new foreword by President-Elect Donald J. Trump. Donald J. Trump, who is scheduled to take the oath of office as
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Can U2 Save America from Donald Trump?
Suit and tie comes up to me His face red Like a rose on a thorn bush Like all the colours of a royal flush And he's peeling off those dollar bills — "Bullet the Blue Sky," 1987 U2's angry, angst-driven anthem was meant to
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Hillbillies ‘R Us
If you care about the collapse of the culture in America today, Hillbilly Elegy is a must-read. The author, J.D. Vance, has written an honest and penetrating portrait about growing up in Appalachia in a white, working-class family. An utterly dysfunctional family!
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Pro-Life Is Pro-Choice
A counter-protestor at a pro-life rally in New Hampshire this past weekend held a sign saying "I was a choice." In a way, she's right. God willed her, and she existed.
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Do Parents Matter? Questions Senators Should Ask Education Nominee Betsy DeVos
Who are the most powerful influences on students' academic achievement? Teachers? School administrators? D.C. Beltway policy wonks? Foundation officials? Civil rights organizations? Most people with common sense would point to children's parents. Whether or not they grew up in a family (i.e., not in an
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