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  • How Barack Obama Ushered in a Donald Trump Presidency

    How Barack Obama Ushered in a Donald Trump Presidency0

    • November 9, 2016

    In November 2008, Americans elected a relatively unknown U.S. Senator from Illinois president of the United States by a wide margin. What Barack Obama lacked in experience and substance he made up for in charisma and newness. He gave beautiful, inspiring speeches. He sounded not just intelligent, but wise and reasonable. His biracial heritage—his father

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  • Election Pundits: Clueless, Spectacularly Clueless

    Election Pundits: Clueless, Spectacularly Clueless0

    Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States, in a victory which gobsmacked the media and pundits. Trump overcame sex scandals, bad debates, a shambolic organisation, hostility from the grandees of his own party and a relentlessly hostile media. It was a smashing success. Instead of dragging the Republicans into infighting, irrelevance and

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  • 5 Things That Explain Trump’s Shocking Victory

    5 Things That Explain Trump’s Shocking Victory0

    A populist wave that began with Brexit in June reached the United States in stunning fashion on Tuesday night. In one of the biggest upsets in American political history, Donald Trump won a truly historic victory in the U.S. presidential election. Trump’s remarkably decisive win stunned most political pundits, myself included. Throughout the campaign, Trump

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  • 5 Surprising Numbers from Election Night

    5 Surprising Numbers from Election Night0

    The election is over and we’re all digging out from a rather surprising night. Here are five interesting facts you may have missed in all the hubbub: 1. Trump May Lose the Popular Vote As of this writing, over 119 million votes have been counted, showing a gain in turnout from the 2012 election. In

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  • ‘You Want Racial Politics? We’ll Give You Racial Politics!’

    ‘You Want Racial Politics? We’ll Give You Racial Politics!’0

    Get out the Doritos. Pop the top on your Bud Light. Go down to your man cave, plop down on your La-Z-Boy, invite your friends over and turn on the Packers game. Here come the White people. CNN commentator Van Jones, clearly upset by the results coming in last night, claimed that Democrats got “White-lashed.”

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  • Unfortunately, Most Voters Are ‘Idiots’

    Unfortunately, Most Voters Are ‘Idiots’0

    On the first Tuesday of November millions of Americans will turn out to cast their ballots. Unfortunately, most of them are probably idiots. Now, I don’t mean that as an insult based on the modern sense of the word “idiot”, i.e., someone who is simple and stupid. It’s more of a lament based on the ancient

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  • The Last Hurrah of Old, White America?

    The Last Hurrah of Old, White America?0

    I’ve been told that once an approaching tsunami is sensed, many animals move inland to escape destruction. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. What is true is that old, white America – the America that remembers apple pie and Jesus Christ – senses its impending, cultural doom.   In this line of work, I have

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  • Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go

    Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go0

    There’s a growing narrative on college campuses that today’s students are oppressed and victims of insensitivity. Such a feeling seems to be particularly held by female students, who believe that their oppression is exacerbated by their gender. But according to scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, these young women need to get over their sensitivity and ditch

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  • Family’s College Savings Raided by the Government

    Family’s College Savings Raided by the Government0

    James Slatic was sitting in a breakfast meeting when he heard the news. An employee who worked for him and his medical marijuana business, Med-West Distribution, called to tell him he arrived at Med-West’s facility in San Diego, California, to find “25 police cars” outside. It was Jan. 28, and on that day, an estimated

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