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The State of the Donald Speech
Raging Moderate by Will Durst The State of the Union address, about to be presented by President Donald Trump, is a week late, due to the government being closed for five. In the shutdown showdown, the 45th POTUS blinked. He got stared down by Nancy Pelosi, which has to tick him off not less than…
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Immigration Foils Small Classroom Fantasy in Los Angeles
If any reader can describe a more comic-tragic state than Los Angeles Unified School District teachers demanding smaller classroom sizes when their union, the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), vigorously supports unlimited immigration, please contact me at the email listed below. Last month, striking teachers approved a contract between their union and Los Angeles…
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Why Electing Leftists Is Bad for the Birth Rate
Virginia’s unborn are discovering what can happen when leftists take over state government. Although Democrat’s ‘compassion’ for illegals and murderers knows no bounds, the defenseless unborn take it on the chin. This wouldn’t have happened if Trump…
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Sex Trafficking at the Super Bowl
Super Bowl week isn’t just the biggest, holiest and most publicized event of the year for America’s sports fans. Unfortunately, it’s also a popular event for America’s human sex trafficking industry. It’s a myth that the Super Bowl is the cou…
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Republicans and Democrats Really Do Agree on Immigration
Just when I was convinced that Republicans and Democrats in Congress couldn’t order a pizza without a six-month debate, there’s this. I’ve discovered that members of both parties do agree on some things, such as immigration, though getting them to a…
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Once Upon a Display Mattress
When the holidays have ended and I’ve digested enough homemade snack mix to construct an imposing and delicious wall of heavily seasoned Chex cereal along the entire U. S.-Mexico border, retailers throughout the country often place deep discounts on ex…
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Do You Hate Night Driving, Too?
On a recent Saturday evening, I had the pleasure of picking up my son after his chess tournament. Whether on my quiet country road or in the well-illuminated industrial park, I enjoyed driving through what Louis Armstrong sang of as “the dark sa…
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Donald Trump, the Teflon President
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, New York mob boss John Gotti earned the nickname the “Teflon Don.” Despite numerous attempts to nail him, criminal charges never managed to stick. Years of investigations and attempts to convict Gotti for a litany of organi…
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Kamala Harris Tests CNN’s Campaign
CNN’s “Town Hall” Monday night, featuring fast-rising Senator Kamala Harris, was moderately helpful in assessing the California freshman’s presidential candidacy, but far more useful in evaluating what television must do in the critically important 202…
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Out of a Large Democratic Field, Can a Woman Emerge?
The United States elected its first president in 1789.One hundred seventy-one years elapsed before the nation chose its first Catholic president, another 20 years before voters elected a divorced man, and 28 years passed until the election of the first…
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