Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As part of my membership in the Watcher’s Council, I get the opportunity to contribute to the weekly council forum, the most recent of which concerned President Trump’s inaugural speech. I’ve written about the speech already (twice, actually), but I took yet another approach in the forum and would like
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I don’t know about you, but I thought Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was excellent. It was short, direct, and outwardly focused. By “outwardly focused” I mean that President Trump, unlike President Obama, did not anoint himself as a godhead through endless self-references. Instead, Trump made the American people the stars
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This short video of the existential anguish a Hillary supporter experienced at Trump’s inauguration is too good not to share: An anti-Trump protester screams ‘no’ as Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th US President pic.twitter.com/qmsaFmMSkr — ITV News (@itvnews) January 20, 2017
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I’m back on the day of President Trump’s inauguration. I’m also jet-lagged and still regrouping — but how could I remain silent on this exquisite, significant day? So, sort of as a warm-up, may I present the Inauguration Day illustrated edition:
Continue readingI’ve been running around like a headless chicken today, so I did not tune in to any part of the Obama inauguration. Did you?
Continue reading(The following is the full text of Obama’s speech. I’ve interlineated a few comments at points I thought especially deserving of comment. Stuff that was ordinary political blah-blah, whether gracious, smart or stupid, I left untouched.) My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful
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