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Inland Conservative Elites
Since the 2016 election, the prevailing consensus about America’s cultural divide is that there are the educated, wealthy, coastal liberal elites who look down on the poor, rural, conservative Americans who live in flyover states. Many Trump supporters cited this as the reason for their vote in the 2016 election. They were supposedly tired of…
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Around the World
Of Journeys and Apathy Recently, there was a story in the news of an Afghan teenager who fled his troubled homeland eight years ago to seek asylum in London. His extraordinary modern-day odyssey saw him travel illegally in a truck through Moscow, Eastern Europe and Paris en route to his final destination. The fairytale wasn’t…
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How to Set a Trap
Today President Obama will hold his televised health care summit with Congressional leaders, discussing ideas from both Democrats and Republicans about formulating a solution to America’s significant health care problems. If you’re thinking “Republicans talking about ideas? That doesn’t sound right . . .” you may be coming to the same conclusion that many pundits…
