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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

    Virginia's Governor Ralph Northam and Delegate Kathy Tran want to allow the unborn to be executed right up until the moment of birth.

    Why electing leftists is bad for the birth rate

    Michael Shannon - February 5, 2019
    As an even larger illegal immigrant caravan moves north, we should ask Congress: Are they representing U.S. citizens or Latin America?

    Another illegal immigrant caravan moves north

    Michael Shannon - January 26, 2019
    The long winter at Valley Shutdown grows more "dire" for federal employees. I'm waiting to read of belt-tightening at Dean & DeLuca as truffle sales wither.

    That long winter at Valley Shutdown

    Michael Shannon - January 20, 2019
    Ranked-choice voting should be disqualified not for relying upon the whims of the incompetent to choose the winner but because it's unconstitutional.

    Why term limits lost and ranked-choice voting will succeed

    Michael Shannon - January 15, 2019
    The chargemaster is a list of services and procedures a hospital provides and the cost for each item. Unfortunately, what we have is confusionmaster.

    Hospitals guard prices like the CIA guards secrets

    Michael Shannon - January 7, 2019
    Illegal immigration matters to some of us. If only Ivanka chokes up again, maybe her father will stop choking on the border wall.

    Bipartisanship is another word for ignoring the base

    Michael Shannon - December 22, 2018
    Os Guinness believes the philosophies between the two sides are so divergent and the gulf between them so deep that America is at a Rubicon moment.

    America is at a Rubicon moment and MAGA isn’t enough

    Michael Shannon - December 16, 2018
    District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, issued a temporary injunction ordering the return of Acosta's pass.

    CNN’s Jim Acosta elbows Trump out of the way

    Michael Shannon - December 4, 2018
    As the lame duck session in the GOP Congress approaches, it's no wonder many conservatives were guided to the polls by muscle memory rather than enthusiasm.

    Four weeks from oblivion, GOP Congress slumbers on

    Michael Shannon - November 17, 2018
    A lot of America seems to be about supporting Trump. If McConnell can't grasp that fact, he needs to get out of the way.

    Mitch McConnell: How to win without doing anything

    Michael Shannon - November 10, 2018
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