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May 1, 2026
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Re: Fake email replies

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

It plays on your sense of guilt that you missed an email, that you rudely ignored an email, that the sender is really interested in helping you – when, in fact, this email is just a pretense.

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Step Away – Find Your Pathway

Bryan Watson5 years ago5 years ago03 mins

perhaps these months away from the job have allowed workers to think about the work they were doing, the pay, the benefits, the responsibilities, the supervision, the hours. Perhaps they took the time to examine the path they were on – to re-imagine the career path that they had once dreamed of, the one they were now too busy – too exhausted – to pursue at the end of the day.

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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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“Our Sacred Honour”

Bryan Watson3 years ago2 years ago01 mins

In 1776, they signed their names to a revolutionary document, pledging “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honour” to defend the radical idea that “all men are created equal “ – that they equally enjoy the natural rights of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” – that governments are needed to protect those…

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U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) during his election night rally in Chicago, November 4, 2008.
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The Primacy of the People

Bryan Watson6 years ago02 mins

We trust in the institution of government, a government that is, in the end, made up of all of us, all of the people, a government that creates the law by which we agree to be governed.

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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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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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Choosing Greatness

Bryan Watson7 years ago1 year ago110 mins

We stumbled in recent days, choosing someone who claimed greatness but delivers fear, weakness, greed, corruption, confusion. Who delivers insult, derision, and mockery to America’s friends, and platitudes, flattery, and encouragement to those who seek to harm America.

In two short years, America has surrendered its standing.

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‘Freedom’s Fray’: Democracy at Work

Bryan Watson5 years ago4 years ago04 mins

Our democracy doesn’t just permit you to speak freely, but it requires it. It’s through the freedoms of speech and press that our democracy defends itself, strengthens itself, and grows itself.

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The Next Generation, and the Next

Bryan Watson7 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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