The Conservative Soldier

Exploiting a longstanding American legislative loophole, the current 111th Congress lives on regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s pivotal mid-term nationwide elections.
Even if, as fully expected, voters’ thorough rejection of the radical Democrat agenda causes a dramatic shift toward Republican rule in the U.S. House, both the House and U.S. Senate will reconvene in mid-November […]

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In his book entitled Outliers, about why people succeed (Bill Gates gets a chapter) where others fall short, author Malcolm Gladwell provides page after page of intriguing research but arrives at a flawed conclusion.
“To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success … […]

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Manhattan’s Ground Zero is an empty hole but hardly a random scar.
No one can stand at the site and not think about the horrible ways 2,977 people died there, and at The Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field, on Sept. 11, 2001.
Yet, nine years down the road, fewer and fewer talk about the how of […]

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