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Winning an election is not the victory. Shrinking government is the victory. We don't advance by getting a Republican in office. That can help, but it's a bit like getting soldiers into place on the battlefield. The war hasn't yet started... you're just positioning the troops so...
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The best part about President Trump's campaigns and elections is that we see the corrupt problems in our government. One of those problems is the Republican delegation in our Senate, most of whom have no intention of putting America first. We have a very long fight in front of...
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Software development is a hell of a discipline. I have to be a comprehensively, architectural geek who can model reality and a people person who puts the complex into a simple interface. I fail a lot - which is actually a good thing. It makes me test things constantly. Code that...
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If you haven't read I Samuel 8 in a while, you might want to revisit it. I am greatly bothered by people who look for some political savior to rise up from among us and fight our battles for us. That's not to say that we don't need or can't have political leaders... but whatever...
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I told this story last night when I spoke... about a strange restaurant experience I had. Upon hearing of these amazing steaks, I thought I would mosey in and try their cuisine, so I drove it, went it, and was seated. My waiter, dapper from head to toe, was a perfect gentleman...
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So this is my new home, where I will permanently house my thoughts. I've been using Facebook, but ol' Facebook's admins decided to start changing the way things are viewed and even whether content is viewed at all. It's my website on my server, where no one can edit me :) I've...
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I can boil my political philosophy down to a single sentence: I believe that everyone has the right to choose the direction of their own life, so long as they aren't stepping on the liberties of others. God gave me my rights. A right, very simply, is anything I can do or provide...
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A few years back during Stovall's initial run for the Senate, I told people that word of mouth is the best advertising there is. I mentioned a phrase of mine: "Talk is cheap - so do a lot of it." Our most powerful tool is always our mouth. Our words, shared with those we know...
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We've spent decades allowing people like Sheila Jackson Lee to get elected. As a politician, she has no wisdom. She has no love for the Constitution or its precepts. No wiser is Paul Ryan. A self-appointed problem-solver for all of society, his machinations are as insidious as...
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It's not hard to spot a bad idea. It's usually presented by someone who can easily play the victim card - and almost instantaneously does when criticized. When Obama presented socialism to America, immediately he suggested that such criticism was born out of the fact that he...
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There's an idea floating out there that police officers should carry liability insurance. That's the dumbest idea ever. It's like trying to hire a babysitter to watch over the bad babysitter who occasionally hurts your children. The right thing to do is just fire the bad...
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Mr. Rogers became famous for his message of treasuring uniqueness. His show, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, started the late 60's and finished in the 90's. That's also about the time that conformity began to trump individualism. The irony is that the 90's saw the rise of the...
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As society dumbs itself downward (re: Idiocracy) and artificial intelligence (AI) asserts itself as an alternative to the inconsistency of humans, humans are understandably concerned. Whether it's driving for us or manufacturing for us or making hamburgers for us, AI threatens...
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