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We Deserve This.

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on January 4, 2021January 4, 2021
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The French philosopher Joseph de Maistre once said, “Every nation gets the government it deserves.” His quote has been attributed to dozens of people over the years including President Harry Truman among others, but this […]

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A Path Forward

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on November 6, 2020November 6, 2020
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If the last four years under the Trump Presidency helped me realize anything, I realize now I still want to feel proud that I am an American. That part of my identity is being an […]

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Sending our Kids to Classrooms this Fall is as Terrible as our Country’s Response to the Pandemic

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on August 2, 2020August 3, 2020
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American exceptionalism is over. It is. We are the stupid country now. I’m not stupid. But you are. Well, at least that’s what I see every single day on social media. No matter what the […]

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“Woke Capitalism” is Capitalism

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on September 4, 2019
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I have been meaning to write this blog about Woke Capitalism for some time but David French’s latest piece here in the National Review inspired me today to respond. Woke Capitalism is the idea that […]

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Some Gun Violence Could be Curbed if we Spent more Time Interacting with our Local Community.

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on August 4, 2019
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I woke up this morning to the news that nine of my fellow Americans were murdered at a Bar in Dayton, OH while I slept peacefully in my bed last night. The Dayton shooting comes […]

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Congresswoman Omar and Republican Rot

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on July 18, 2019July 18, 2019
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I am on vacation in Hawaii but I made the mistake of checking Twitter periodically and now I am writing this blog. I am so disgusted and appalled by Trump’s latest tweets about Congresswomen Omar, […]

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Nike, the Flag and more Insanity

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on July 3, 2019July 3, 2019
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Several years ago, Colin Kaepernick took a knee on a football field somewhere before a game in what seemed like an act of defiance to bring awareness to police shootings of young black men. His […]

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Kyle Kashuv and Harvard Admissions

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on June 18, 2019June 18, 2019
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In the last several days, former Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv was denied admissions into Harvard because he apparently used the N-Word flippantly in a sort of continuing chat with classmates through Google Docs. Many conservatives […]

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My Son Starts Kindergarten in the Fall and I am Afraid of Something for the First Time

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on May 12, 2019
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If you only get your information from cable news stations such as Fox or MSNBC, you’d probably be scared of many things. Among the things that pundits tell us our scary include illegal immigrants, white […]

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Strawmen and Socialism

  • by Michael Licari
  • Posted on March 11, 2019March 20, 2019
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The Democrats are really dumb. I mean like the dumbest collection of people in leadership positions of any organization maybe ever. The Republican Party is a dumpster fire of shit and the second Democrats kick […]

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