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July 18, 2026
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Facts and Emotions: Battling A Culture of Lies

Bryan Watson2 years ago02 mins

We need to answer emotion with counter-emotion. If we don’t trigger an emotional response, our facts won’t matter because they won’t be heard.

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Review: ‘Gunfight, My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America’

Lisa Pruitt3 years ago3 years ago020 mins

But guns have long signaled something different in rural places than in urban ones.  Just as significant, guns now signify something radically different than they did a few decades ago.  In short, guns have become highly politicized, both a cause and a symbol of our nation’s accelerating polarization

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Does a Liar Tell the Truth?

Bryan Watson3 years ago02 mins

He’s a liar – a known liar, a fraud, a grifter, a thief. What is the point of asking him a question?

If he’s talking, he’s lying.

He’s a liar.

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“There Is No Accurate Information”

Bryan Watson5 years ago5 years ago04 mins

Because Republicans have such a long history of “voter-phobia”, they were particularly susceptible to claims of “voter fraud”. Since that claim has been popular among Republican spokespeople for decades, Republican voters were easy pickings in 2020.

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Politics Never Stops – That’s Good!

Bryan Watson8 years ago04 mins

But there’s no need to stop canvassing. Perhaps it’ll be less formal than a campaign might canvass – no mobile app, no careful selection of which doors to knock and which to skip, no glossy door-hangers to leave behind. But canvassing is a formalized version of that most basic political act – talking.

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Nobody Likes a Sore Loser

Bryan Watson3 years ago3 years ago06 mins

We all remember that kid — the one on the playground who threw a tantrum when he lost. You called him a “Sore Loser”. And even though you were just kids, you knew — everyone knew — that nobody likes a sore loser. The Republican Party is the party of sore losers.

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Yes, he’s guilty, but I don’t care!

Bryan Watson5 years ago5 years ago03 mins

As we await the trial phase of the impeachment proceedings, it’s apparent that many members of the U.S. Senate are jumping past the first question – the question of fact – and starting on the question of punishment.

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CHANNELLING Behavior : Rewards and Punishments through the Tax System

Bryan Watson9 years ago01 mins

Channelling is an important element of the tax system. We have no other way of rewarding – therefore, encouraging – good behavior. And we can’t punish – therefore, discourage – bad behavior except by making it illegal, and our Constitution and other rights often prevent us from doing that.

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2020’s Woke Population

Bryan Watson6 years ago5 years ago02 mins

“I am not sure how we parse out how much of [the result] might have been related to reaction to Clinton and how much of it is motivated by the panic so many Democratic voters seem to be expressing in their desperate search to decide which candidate will beat President Trump,” University of Wisconsin political…

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Results AND Resistance

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

What do we resist? We resist job losses. We resist wage stagnation. We resist corporate welfare. We resist corruption. We resist cruelty. We resist dictators.

We resist Republicans.

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