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Tennessee’s CD-07 Special Election

A Tale of Polls, Hype, and a Solid GOP Win The dust has settled on Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District special election, held on December 2, 2025, to replace Rep. Mark Green, who resigned earlier this year. The result-Republican Matt Van Epps defeating Democrat Aftyn Behn by a solid 8.9-point margin-stands in stark contrast to the pre-election buzz that painted this race as a potential nail-biter or even a Democratic upset. Polls suggested a razor-thin contest, while media outlets hyped Behn’s progressive candidacy as a midterm bellwether. Yet, the numbers tell a different story: a decisive GOP hold in a Trump +22…

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The Incompatibility of Third World Cultures with the West

A Recipe for Deadly Fraud and Societal Decay in America In the waning days of 2025, as America grapples with the aftermath of a brazen terrorist attack on National Guard members in the heart of Washington, D.C., the harsh reality of unchecked immigration from incompatible cultures has never been clearer. On November 27, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who had been resettled in the U.S. under the guise of being an "ally" from the chaotic Biden-era withdrawal, opened fire near the White House, killing 20-year-old U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and critically wounding another soldier. This act of savagery, described…

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America’s Highways Under Siege

End State-Issued CDLs to Illegal Immigrants Now America’s interstates have become killing fields, and the weapon of choice is an 80,000-pound semi-truck piloted by drivers who should never have been behind the wheel in the first place. In 2025 alone, a string of preventable tragedies has exposed a lethal loophole: a handful of states-chiefly California, but now Pennsylvania and others-are handing commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, and in the most recent case, individuals on international terrorist watchlists. The result is a national crisis measured in body bags. The pattern is undeniable. August 2025: Harjinder Singh, an illegal…

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Make America Affordable Again

Trump’s Urgent War on the Cost-of-Living Donald Trump did not wait for the 2026 midterms to feel the heat. The off-year elections, the 43-day Democrat government shutdown, and the looming Obamacare subsidy cliff all delivered the same message: Americans still can’t afford life. The President responded with an avalanche of initiatives under one banner: Make America Affordable Again. The Urgency Is Real-and Self-Inflicted by Democrats For 43 days this fall, Democrats shut down the government rather than pass clean funding without permanently extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies they themselves had deliberately set to expire on December 31, 2025. It was the…

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A Golden Opportunity

The Subsidy Cliff: Democrats' Gift to Republican Reformers I. The Shutdown Collapse: Democrats' Humiliating Fold What began as a bold filibuster to extract ironclad ACA subsidy extensions devolved into a spectacle of Democrat incompetence. For 43 days, they blocked clean funding bills, inflicting $15 billion in economic pain-delayed wages for 800,000 workers, 6% flight reductions at 40 airports, and cuts to Head Start for 10,000 children and VA services for 900,000 veterans. Polls briefly favored them, with 45-52% blaming Republicans, but as the toll mounted, public fatigue set in. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's "hold the line" crumbled when eight Democrats…

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The ACA Subsidy Cliff

A Democrat Failure from Start to Finish The federal government has been shuttered for over six weeks. Twenty-four million Americans are opening letters that read like ransom notes: “Your $10/month health plan will cost $750 in 2026-unless Congress acts.” Democrats are howling “Republican sabotage!” Republicans are shrugging: “You wrote the expiration date.” Only one side is right. This crisis has a single author: the Democrat Party. They designed the 2025 cliff, chose climate spending over a long-term fix, used COVID as a bailout for a failing Affordable Care Act, "Obamacare", and never once asked Republicans to the table. The evidence is…

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The Perils of Overreach, Part III

The Perils of Overreach: From Warning to Wreckage In my columns earlier last week-"The Perils of Overreach" on November 6 and its sequel, "The Perils of Overreach, Part II," the following day-I issued a stark warning to Democrats amid the then-37th and 38th days of what was already shaping up to be a disastrous government shutdown. Drawing on Harold Macmillan's timeless quip-"Events, dear boy, events"-I cautioned that their stubborn demands for $1.5 trillion in permanent Obamacare subsidy extensions, fueled by favorable early polls and a premature "blue wave" in off-year elections, risked unraveling under the weight of unforeseen chaos. Thanksgiving travel…

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Fisking Wildfire Claims

Analysis: Wildfire Claims in Space.com and Earth System Science Data Part 1: Examining Space.com's "Wildfires Are Getting More Intense" Space.com presents a study claiming that wildfires are burning hotter, spreading faster, and growing larger on a global scale, with human-caused climate change identified as the primary driver. The following evaluates key claims using peer-reviewed observations and satellite records. Article Claim: "Wildfires are burning hotter, spreading faster and growing bigger around the world - and human-caused climate change is the main driver, a new study confirms." Analysis: The referenced study (Bowman et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2025) interprets trends in fire…

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The Perils of Overreach, Part II

Election Wins Are No License for Shutdown Stubbornness In my previous column, "A Warning to Democrats on the Government Shutdown and ACA Subsidies," I cautioned the Democrat Party against the seductive trap of overreach during the ongoing government shutdown-now entering its 38th day. Drawing on historical precedents like the 1995-1996 and 2013 shutdowns, I argued that leveraging public blame against Republicans to demand permanent extensions of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies risks transforming a tactical advantage into a strategic disaster. The ACA's enhanced premium tax credits, set to expire at year's end due to Democrats' own sunset clauses in the 2022…

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The Perils of Overreach

A Warning to Democrats on the Government Shutdown and ACA Subsidies In the annals of political wisdom, few quotes capture the precarious nature of governance as succinctly as British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's reputed response to a question about what posed the greatest challenge to statesmen: "Events, dear boy, events." This adage underscores how unforeseen incidents can derail even the most calculated strategies, turning public opinion on a dime and exposing leaders to unforeseen vulnerabilities. As the United States grapples with the longest government shutdown in history-now entering its 37th day on November 6, 2025-Democrats find themselves in a position of…

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