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  • Trump’s ‘If By Whiskey’ Speech

    Trump’s ‘If By Whiskey’ Speech0

    In 1952, Mississippi State Senator Noah Sweat famously gave a speech on the subject of prohibition, which was still highly debated in the South. Promising not to shy away from controversy, he spoke: If when you say whiskey you mean the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys

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  • Trump’s Twitter Might Cost Him His Chance At Reelection

    Trump’s Twitter Might Cost Him His Chance At Reelection0

    Politics cannot be divorced from culture. Many people are wedded to the misperception that, in a democratic society, we elect leaders who are somehow better than the ordinary voter. In fact, democratic societies tend to elect leaders who are, in most ways, a reflection of the voters themselves. Since political leadership in a republic is only as strong as

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  • Trump’s Transgender Policy and Its Fashionable Enemies

    Trump’s Transgender Policy and Its Fashionable Enemies0

    The cultural revolutionaries are up in arms over President Trump’s new policy on the admittance of transgendered people in the military. Now the first thing to point out is that there are a lot of things that can result in the military not accepting you. They can reject you because you are too tall; because

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  • Trump’s Rhetoric—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—Won’t Determine His Presidency

    Trump’s Rhetoric—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—Won’t Determine His Presidency0

    • November 3, 2017

    ‘Tis well said again; and it is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.              – King Henry in William Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII   As someone who has spent virtually his whole life in the labor of words, spoken and written, prose and poetry and political commentary,

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  • Trump’s Historic Opportunity with the Federal Reserve

    Trump’s Historic Opportunity with the Federal Reserve0

    Today Stanley Fischer submitted his letter of resignation from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, effective next month, the second such resignation of Donald Trump’s presidency. While Fischer’s term as Vice Chairman of the Fed was set to end next year, he had the ability to serve as a governor through 2020. Along with Trump’s

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  • Trump’s Foreign Policy Legacy

    Trump’s Foreign Policy Legacy0

    Five years ago candidate Donald Trump burst onto the political stage like a breath of fresh air. The first aspirant to America’s highest office since the end of the Cold War to recognize that this country’s political, military, economic, and moral resources were not deployed in a balanced manner, he sought to protect and enhance

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