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Born this week, four decades apart: Winston Churchill and Samuel Langhorne Clemons (aka, Mark Twain). The most fitting observation by either of these two

Great things are simple and often expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. Churchill
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. . . Loyalty to the nation all the time – loyalty to the government when it deserves it. Twain
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When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off...via the ballot box. Twain
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The vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Churchill
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As Americans gather around the table for their Thanksgiving feast, let us give thanks for

A society bountiful in harvest and rich in its freedoms
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Friends and love ones Covid-resistant or on the mend
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Turkey’s iron and zinc for adults – and tryptophan for kids
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A long weekend to recover from gastric/shopping overindulging
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Fifty-five years ago this week, Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. The most relevant quote from his Sacramento years

The time has come for us to decide whether collectively we can afford everything and anything we can think of
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When government decides to solve something, we have learned to be wary
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If you want to know which way to go in the future, you have to know which paths worked the past
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If we lived by the Golden Rule, there would be no need for other laws
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This week marks 105 years since of the end of WWI’s Battle of Somme – four months of attritional fighting that failed to break the Western Front's stalemate. Today’s exercise in futility

Global climate-change pacts absent China's and India’s buy-in
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Federal fiscal discipline amidst multi-trillion dollar spending plans
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Balance of power between Congress, Executive, and Judicial branches
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Preventing hording during the pandemic, supply-chain concerns
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Convincing Americans to honor mask and vaccine mandates
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This week in 1783, George Washington bid a farewell address to his troops -- followed 13 years later by a farewell address to the nation. His most telling “farewell” passage

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government
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One of the expedients of a party to influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions of other districts
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Overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are hostile to liberty
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The name of America, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations
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This week in 1854, the ill-fated British “Charge of the Light Brigade,” happened amidst the Crimean War, which was later immortalized by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Today, which of the following is akin to riding into “the valley of death?”

The $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill
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Both parties’ centrists/moderates policies and ideas
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Facebook’s social-media dominance
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Harmonious US-China relations
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Holiday shopping for imported goods
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This week in 1767, the Mason-Dixon Line was established to settle a boundary dispute between then-British colonies. The dividing line in today’s America

Culture
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Geography
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Income
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Education
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Politics
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Race
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This week in 1964, news broke that Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev had been ousted as premier of the Soviet Union. The current world leader skating on thin ice

Australian P.M. Scott Morrison (May 2022 federal election)
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U.K. P.M. Boris Johnson (possible 2023 general election)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (March 2024 election)
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U.S. President Joe Biden (November 2024 election)
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Chinese “President For Life” Xi Jinping
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All of them are skating on thin ice and might be ousted in the next election
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In election years, October is known for the unexpected to occur. This year’s “October surprise”

A market correction/downturn/crash ala 1929 and 1987
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Facebook and Tesla’s third-quarter earnings reports
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Iran revealing that it has fuel for more than one nuclear warhead
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Another Taiwan “strait crisis” that involves US naval forces
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MLB’s winningest teams – Giants, Dodgers – fail to reach World Series
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How should Americans assess the recent chaos in Afghanistan?

The Afghan self-inflicted disaster is the greatest American strategic, political, and military defeat of the past 50 years.
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An American contingent in Afghanistan was still viable to deter the Taliban and to facilitate U.S. air operations.
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The staying or leaving is not the problem; the terrible manner in which we left is.
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Despite the chaos, making a clean break now from Afghanistan is better than a costly one later on.
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Ignore the media: the U.S. was right to leave—and did so in the best way given the circumstances.
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Total votes: 162
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