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Merchants of Addiction – Reliance as a Tool of Tyranny

Beginning with Jamestown (circa 1607), American life has been organized around and dependent upon the notion of rigorous self-reliance. In early America, self-reliance was a given. There wasn't much choice for the early patriots. After all, staying alive was paramount, and there were no grocery ...
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Donald Teel

Is Ron DeSantis Ready?

Politicians evolve. We all know we can expect changes from the time a candidate first announces a run for office, and thereafter forevermore. It is typically our collective and disappointing experience to watch politicians devolve, to go backward, regress, even crash and burn. For sure, ...
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Donald Teel

Five Things that Really Made America Great

No President, standing alone, can lay claim to having made America great. George Washington, our first President and the undisputed Father of America, is the closest person who could remotely lay claim to having made America great. Let's tell the truth. America, as a collective ...
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Donald Teel

America’s Vicious Soft Civil War

War is a hot political topic. For me, growing up in America has always involved the subject of war. For decades I have listened to rants about the war on poverty, the war on crime, the war on the family, and even the cold war ...
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My Pro Life Tribute

Nearly 40 years have raced by since my first exposure to Roe v. Wade, abortion and the slaughter of the innocents. In America alone, tens of millions of unborn babies have had their lives snuffed out in the free-fire zone of the womb. Globally, the body count is astronomical. The United States of America now funds global abortion. Looking back, ...
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BASIS: Academic Self-Esteem

Six years ago my daughter cornered me and stated, "Hey dad, there's a new school opening next year and I want to go there!" My 6th grader's enthusiasm was obvious, and I didn't want to ignore it. We spent the next couple of hours on Google, researching "BASIS schools" which yielded a hefty 20,000,000 instances. That alone got my attention ...
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