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    Confession: I Was Wrong About the Great Pandemic Panic

    Michael Shannon - November 28, 2020
    Institutional Racism

    Liz Cheney Bites Off Less Than She Can Chew

    Coronavirus Con

    Christians Stop Believing the Coronavirus Con

    Washington Redskins

    Redskins’ Owner Could End Up Having The Last Laugh

    Sen. Mike Braun has taken a step toward healthcare reform, lowering insurance costs and removing the dead hand of Obamacare from the nation's throat.

    Republican Senator’s backwards healthcare reform

    Michael Shannon - April 17, 2019
    Sen. Mike Braun's True Price Act is backwards because the insurance companies can't predict what hospitals charge for a procedure.

    The True Price Act: A Republican Senator’s backwards healthcare reform

    Michael Shannon - April 12, 2019
    Arlandria is a sanctuary neighborhood in a sanctuary city next to a sanctuary county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Residents there are worried about a caravan of Prius-driving invaders who threaten to change the culture of the neighborhood.

    Sanctuary neighborhood prepares to repel invaders

    Michael Shannon - April 2, 2019
    Instead of overturning instruction regarding homosexuality, Methodist delegates voted to return to following Christ and stop following the culture.

    Methodists decide to believe the Bible

    Michael Shannon - March 24, 2019
    Don't judge a “conservative” by his cover. Many “conservative” voters don't believe in real conservatism any more than the politicians do.

    Don’t judge a “conservative” by his cover

    Michael Shannon - March 16, 2019
    Voters like Trump in spite of his failures because he is impulsive and funny and he loves our country. He has a genuine personal connection with his base.

    Why voters like Trump in spite of his failures

    Michael Shannon - March 9, 2019
    What Nixon and Trump have in common is an unaccountable administrative state that makes its own law and flies in the face of consent of the governed.

    What Nixon and Trump have in common

    Michael Shannon - March 2, 2019
    In Tulsa, city council member Vanessa Hall-Harper is attacking the greatest gift to parents since the invention of the disposal diaper: the Dollar Store.

    No business is safe from the left’s ignorance and envy

    Michael Shannon - February 23, 2019
    Howard Schultz's presidential run could be enough to guarantee that whatever Commissar gets the Democrat nod will be our next president.

    Howard Schultz could use a little caffeine

    Michael Shannon - February 16, 2019
    Social justice warriors will have to flush Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam out a culvert before he will surrender the governor’s office.

    Virginia Democrats play Last Man Standing

    Michael Shannon - February 9, 2019
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