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September 5, 2026
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2020’s Woke Population

Bryan Watson6 years ago6 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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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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Message-Making: The Biden Speech

Bryan Watson4 years ago04 mins

The speech is a lesson in the tactics, large and small, that hold a message together and burn your ideas into your audience’s consciousness. Repetition. Litanies. Framing. Promoting your Values, naming the Villain, holding out a Vision.

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When A Liar Admits He Lied…

Bryan Watson9 years ago01 mins

was Trump Jr. lying when he denied having a meeting or is he lying now when he claims he did have a meeting?

If you were Trump, Sr., how would you discredit all of your critics? How would you prove that the press is lying? Here’s what I would do…

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The Next Generation, and the Next

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

Everyone has something to contribute and everyone contributes more than their share. So many people talked about stepping outside their comfort zone, going one step further, trying something for the first time – and feeling exhilarated by it.

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Mars Insight, Earth Insight

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

Almost 50 years ago, I was transfixed as a NASA astronaut climbed down a ladder and pressed his boot into the grainy surface of the moon. A week ago, I sat transfixed as NASA guided a vehicle to a soft landing in Elysium Planitia, a “flat, boring equatorial plain” on a planet 300 million miles…

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Article III

Bryan Watson7 years ago03 mins

Contempt of Congress and obstruction of congressional investigaton is the crucial charge in the impeachment litany. It ask the simple but central question: Does Congress matter?

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Imprison People Because Jobs and Taxes: Michigan Value?

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

There’s money to be made, and there are jobs to be created, by imprisoning people. And there are many private, for-profit companies feeding at that trough.

Is that a Michigan Value?

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A Teaching Moment, Squandered

Bryan Watson8 years ago6 years ago02 mins

Give 30 minutes to walk out and return, then give an hour to study of these basic tenets of being a citizen in the US, their history, the difficulties of conflicts between rights and safety, how bills become law, and how protests change (or don’t change) law, how courts decide conflicts.

Basic civics education.

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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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