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Nearly two years ago, I wrote a  blog  titled “Advantages of Living in the Swamp,” explaining the reasoning behind my three-month long absence from this blog; namely, my life-changing internship with the National Journalism Center in Reston, Virginia.  I closed the blog by noting that “I remain optimistic about a possible return to the Swamp in the near future.” I can now report that my long-desired return to the Swamp has finally become a reality.  I have spent the past couple of weeks getting acclimated to my new surroundings as I wait to begin my new job, which will involve a lot of writing and policy research involving one of the most important political issues facing the country, next week. Living in the Swamp has presented me with a new set of challenges; after all, living independently means big changes for someone who has spent all but three months of his life living with his parents. After considering Wi-Fi a given at my parents’ house, I ha...

The number of presidential candidates in the 2020 Presidential Election decreased this week as one of President Trump’s primary challengers, Mark Sanford, decided to end his candidacy .   However, it looks like the number of candidates in the Democratic primary continues to grow; even though the number of candidates usually drops as the Iowa Caucuses approach. Billionaire former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg has filed to run in Alabama and Arkansas, which will hold their presidential primaries on “Super Tuesday,” March 3.   Bloomberg appears confident that he can bypass the early states that normally have an enormous impact on the outcome of the race.   Over the past several election cycles, no candidate has gone on to win the Democratic nomination without winning Iowa, New Hampshire, and/or South Carolina.   All of those primaries will take place in February this year; before Super Tuesday. In the modern Democratic Party, only two types of c...

Following the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton last weekend, liberals immediately took the advice of President Obama’s former Chief of Staff and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who once said “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Believe it or not, calls for gun control have not dominated the conversation this week. Instead, demonization of President Trump has. Many on the left took glee in the fact that the El Paso shooter had posted a manifesto on social media echoing President Trump’s commentary about an “invasion” at the southern border. The shooter also mentioned that his views predate President Trump’s election and indicated that he subscribed to a Malthusian ideology that has more in common with the beliefs of the Earth Liberation Front than anything that comes out of the Republican Party platform. The mainstream media spent the days following the shooting attempting to blame President Trump for the tragedy in El Paso. Jonathan Karl of ABC News asked White House Chi...

President Trump has found himself under attack from the PC police and the mainstream media for referring to the district of Congressman Elijah Cummings as “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” The President also claimed that “no human being would want to live there.” His critics tried to paint him as a racist, as his tweet directed at the African-American Cummings came just two weeks after suggesting that the four progressive, minorit Democratic Congresswomen known as “the Squad” to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”   While all four Congresswomen belong to minority groups, only one of them came to the United States from another country (Ilhan Omar).   President Trump’s tweet towards Cummings came as a counterpunch following Cummings’s behavior during a Congressional hearing on the situation at the border. In addition to representing one of the most Democratic districts in the United States and the state of Maryl...

One of my very first blogs on this site, from October 2017, labelled former President Jimmy Carter as “the Democrats’ voice of reason.” I decided to give that moniker to America’s 39 th President after he correctly stated during an interview with The New York Times that the media had not treated any previous President as unfairly as they have treated President Trump in addition to expressing reservations about the theory that Russia had a significant impact on the results of the 2016 Presidential Election. However, Carter’s public appearance last week has forced me to dethrone him as “the Democrats’ voice of reason.” During an interview with Trump-hating historian Jon Meacham, the 94-year-old Carter appeared to reverse the position he espoused in his New York Times interview nearly two years ago.  After previously questioning the Russia conspiracy theory, Carter appears to have fully bought into it.  Carter told Meacham that “a full investigation would show that Tru...