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Were we overreacting in February? (I don’t think so)

Posted on August 11, 2020April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

This isn’t about toilet paper. In February, based on advice I was seeing from early alarm raisers, I bought a bunch of canned food and ramen, and other foods with…

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Get ready to live in Mistborn

Posted on July 2, 2020April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

Listening to a podcast episode discussion McConnell’s judges, and it made me think of the premise of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn. In the world’s backstory, a group of heroes went on…

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Treating the symptom

Posted on June 24, 2020April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

I’ve been saying for years, one of the things that scares me most about President Trump is when liberals focus on him as the problem, rather than the symptom. His…

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Indiana – start asking now for Absentee-by-mail in May

Posted on March 18, 2020April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

In Indiana, absentee voting by mail is limited to a portion of the population – and requiring large numbers of people to stand in a cramped location for hours seems…

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Ok. What’s next?

Posted on March 5, 2020April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

It’s dangerous to be a fan of a politician, but Sen. Warren is the kind of administrator & negotiator I want in my executive branch, and listened & responded to…

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What Kavanaugh means for evangelical/Christian fundamentalist voters

Posted on October 6, 2018April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

You no longer have an excuse. In 2016, evangelical and Christian fundamentalist leaders said it was okay to vote for Trump, because he would give you the courts. You’ve got…

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Oliver North

Posted on May 7, 2018April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

It seems strange that the NRA, chief proponents of the “good guy with a gun” myth, would appoint as president a person most famous for illegally supplying bad folks with…

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Everyone deserves a fair hearing

Posted on April 26, 2018April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

And that a “fair hearing” includes “suffering consequences for the wrongs you have done” And that a “fair hearing” does not include badgering non-white politicians for their birth certificates And…

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Tribalism and Branding Among Groups That Don’t Like Trump

Posted on January 29, 2018April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

“The Resistance” is not the Democratic Party. “The Resistance” is not Indivisible. Indivisible is not the Democratic Party. “The Resistance,” as it’s commonly referred to, is like Anonymous – there’s…

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“A failed state is a political body that has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government no longer function properly”

Posted on January 19, 2018April 19, 2026 by Mike/MJ

I don’t want to believe that we’re at a point where the party in power is saying it’s “playing politics” for the opposition to demand they (those in power) do…

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