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Cory Manento2022/10/192 min read

Petty Penny for Your Thoughts

You know that person who just loves to argue with you about politics, and you engage because you are definitely going to change their mind one day with all your impressive facts ...
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Brendon Ellis2022/10/051 min read

Trumped Up Charges

In recent months, investigators have dialed up their (public) legal scrutiny of former President Donald Trump. In early August, federal agents executed a search warrant at Trump’s ...
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Cory Manento2022/09/212 min read

Does a Party Bus Need Three Wheels?

Channeling their inner college students, just 27% of Americans say we have an adequate number of parties. Political parties, that is. That’s why unsuccessful Democratic ...
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Cory Manento2022/09/081 min read

If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say About People with Student Debt…

Last month, President Biden announced up to $10,000 in student loan forgiveness for individual borrowers. In a previous edition, we took stock of Americans’ student debt burden ...
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Jordan Boeder2022/08/171 min read

No Pinching Pennies for Politicians

Everyone loves politicians because they are so down to earth and do their best to make our lives better. Oops. Did we say politicians? We meant plants; plants are grounded and ...
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Brendon Ellis2022/08/031 min read

Celebrity-in-Chief

In a short two years’ time, American voters’ attention will be forcibly trained on the 2024 Presidential election (thrust upon them by obnoxious SMS campaigns and equally ...
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Kyle Block2022/07/211 min read

Forgive Me, Forgive Me Not

While getting a college degree once was the surest way to a white picket fence and second freezer in the garage, the college educated among us are questioning the value of robbing ...
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Cory Manento2022/07/071 min read

You’re Not Stupid, but it Is the Economy

Despite the pervasive feeling that America is in and out of hospice, the 2022 midterm elections are just four excruciatingly long short months away. The airwaves will soon be ...
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Kyle Block2022/06/081 min read

Gun Control Is Out of Control

You know your society is (not even Nordstrom returnable) broken when lethal violence is as common as going to your mom’s house for dinner every Sunday. Despite the illusion that ...
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