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America Chose Disruption

Analysis: For years, Americans watched Washington operate like a machine designed to protect itself instead of the people it serves. Career politicians promised reform, then governed exactly the same way as their predecessors. Endless bureaucracy, weak leadership abroad, economic uncertainty, and cultural chaos became the accepted status quo.

The American people finally said enough.

That is why Donald J. Trump was elected again.

“Bosses of the Senate” was created by Joseph Keppler and published in The Puck on January 23, 1889. It depicts large, overindulgent businessmen representing their special interests as they loom over tiny senators.
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When Are Republicans Not Republican?

Updated: The Tulsa Republican Club (TRC) has been dissociated from the Republican Party of Oklahoma (OKGOP) by the State Executive Committee, the governing body of the party with all 77 Counties represented. They took this unusual formal action based on TRC’s public and private acts and statements asserted to be contrary to Republican principles.

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Praying for Persia, America, and Peace

Analysis: The death cult named “Islamic Republic of Iran” declared war on the world. Never a republic, some argue it is a heresy of all Islam. Regardless, the drive to destroy the world in Armageddon is anti-civilization. Christians, among others, have fought their own heresies. Scholars of Islam have corrected their own, but without much media notice.

Photo: https://www.worldhistory.org/Persia/
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Bitcoin: Settlement Layer for Digital Future

Analysis: We all see the same problem: endless money printing destroys purchasing power, debt-based systems eventually collapse, and you cannot print your way to prosperity. The disagreement has always been over the solution.

For 5,000 years, gold was the best money humanity ever had in the physical world. It was durable, divisible, and scarce. But even gold had practical limits. As global trade exploded and the pace of communication and innovation accelerated, physical gold simply could not keep up. Moving heavy bars across borders was too slow for the demands of an ever-increasing global economy. So, humanity built trust layers on top of it: vaults, custodians, paper IOUs, and bank promises. Those layers were a practical solution to scale commerce and match the speed of a rapidly expanding world.

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