United Airlines is a dickwad. By now, just about everyone knows the incident where police, at the request of United Airlines, forcibly dragged a
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Author: An Amrikan Chimaera
Supporting the New England Trumps
I think it’s safe to say that most of you know my political views. I’m fairly liberal on social issues, pro-2nd amendment, pro-free trade/capitalism,
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The Un-Civil States of America
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the death of civil society and what it means to sound right in the course of attempting
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The Significance in Populism, Jihadism and Communism
Why do individuals turn to extreme solutions in their quest for a life of significance? There is a current running through right-wing populism which
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My President was a Third Culture Kid
Although he may not have meant it, Ta-Nehesi Coates’ article on President Obama in The Atlantic pretty much names him a Third Culture Kid (TCK)
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Taking President-elect Trump Seriously
I heard an interesting quote the other day, Donald Trump’s supporters took the man seriously but didn’t take his words seriously. Trump’s opponents took
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Political Parties aren’t Religions
One of the issues I have with the political debates in this country is the misguided notion that political parties’ philosophies are monolithic. They
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Reconciling Drumpf with President Donald Trump
I want to give Donald Trump a chance. I don’t want to turn back the clock or rejigger the electoral college or somehow throw
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Can we talk foreign policy now?
… Or Ya know, Governatoring! Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States of America. Yesterday, I wrote that I disagreed with Hillary
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At Least Hillary Clinton isn’t Donald Trump
Or … She Ain’t That Muchuva Jagoff I’m not all that broken up about Hillary Clinton getting my vote for President on Election Day.
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