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Can We Dumb Things Down Enough?

December 4th, 2012

By Dan Miller Arguments that appeal to reason rarely appeal to emotion. Nor do they appeal to uninformed voters who are not interested. Can we have better informed and more rational voters? Democrats realize that rational thought does not appeal to many voters and Republicans have yet to understand that emotional appeals beat rational appeals. […]

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Tags: education, election, irrational, Obama, satire, spending, taxes, voters
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Bill Whittle on Republican Rejection of Its Own Philosophy

November 22nd, 2012

By Dan Miller The video takes only fifteen minutes to watch but has many hours worth of excellent ideas. Here is a link to a recent presentation by Bill Whittle. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a way to embed it so if you want to see it, please go to the link. This screen shot is […]

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Tags: Bill Whittle, conservative, election, philosophy, Republican Party
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Those Were the Days

November 15th, 2012

By Dan Miller Will anything of them remain? That’s up to us. On November 8th, the day after the election returns were known, The Mad Jewess posted this 1968 YouTube video. She wrote, “It is the song of the once great America, a nation that is now gone with the wind.” I felt much the […]

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Tags: economy, election, free stuff, Jindal, Obama, Republicans, voters
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We Can Waste Time or Begin to Solve Our Problems

November 12th, 2012

By Dan Miller There are many pleasant actions that can be taken that won’t do any good. There are others that might at least begin to do some good. These won’t do much good beyond diverting attention from our problems and maybe providing a good feeling. Feeling good is comforting, and that’s it. 1. Hit […]

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Tags: Cain, election, Obama, Palin, Republican, secession, third party, West
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Is the Republican Party Dead or Dying? Part II

November 10th, 2012

By Dan Miller We the Opposition Part I can be found here. It provides some of my thinking behind this, Part II. Jim Gourdi at Conservatives on fire wrote yesterday, Obama won and we lost. There are lessons WE must take away from this election. One lesson is that the Republican party is not what […]

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Tags: election, foreign policy, Islam, Petraeus, Republican, terrorism, third party
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