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In a fair election, my best estimate is that Donald Trump would win in a landslide. But this election will not be fair. In fact, few of them are. For Trump’s part, there is no doubt that he has been this year’s sensation. A newcomer to politics, he has thrown …
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“We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.”— A Face in the Crowd (1957) Politics is entertainment. It is a heavily scripted, tightly …
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Remember, the lesser of two evils is still evil.
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If establishment Republican elites joining with prominent conservative leaders to create a Super PAC in an effort to thwart Donald Trump wasn’t enough to fuel an already rising frustration and anger level among the public, the announcement that the delegates at the convention could ignore the voters’ choice from the …
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In all honesty, the interaction between the GOP presidential candidate nominees has been deplorable with the mud-slinging insults and accusations. This election cycle is shaping up to be a comedic kitsch of characters worthy of featuring on Saturday Night Live. While this is an embarrassment to the nation, one can …
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The compact for a National Popular Vote seeks to evade the 12th Amendment to our Constitution (where the States elect the President); and substitutes a national popular vote where inhabitants of major metropolitan areas elect the President.
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Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah claimed that he would bring people together and fix things. In truth, he fixed nothing. He broke everything.
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“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Adding yet …
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Our Constitution is under constant attack.1   One of the most pernicious attacks is being waged by those who seek to override the constitutional provisions under which The States, as political entities, elect the President; and to replace it with a national popular vote (NPV) under which inhabitants of major metropolitan …
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This speech was presented to Campaign For Liberty – Memphis on March 24, 2014. It exposes some of the false claims made by those pushing for the so-called “convention of states”. 1 Below are hyperlinks to the exhibits referred to in the speech. Additional resources are also included. The one …
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