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By Charles M. Phipps on May 22nd, 2019 
Democrats are salivating at the potential votes they could get from people with student debt. The declared candidates for the 2020 Democrat nomination for president are already falling all over each other trying to stake out the most advantageous position to address what they call the ‘student debt crisis.’ It’s actually anything but a crisis since voluntarily assumed debt is not a crisis.
The latest figures for student loan debt in the U.S. make it easy to see why the Democrats are seeing votes in the issue. According to an article on Forbes, “borrowers in the Class of 2017, on average, owe $28,650, according to the Institute for College Access and Success.”
Forbes: Student Loan Statistics: Overview
Total Student Loan Debt: $1.56 trillion
Total U.S. Borrowers With Student Loan Debt: 44.7 million
Student Loan Delinquency Or Default Rate: 11.4% (90+ days delinquent)
Direct Loans – Cumulative in Default (360+ days delinquent):$101.4 billion (5.1 million borrowers)
Direct Loan In Forbearance: $111.1 […] → Keep reading
By Charles M. Phipps on March 17th, 2016 
With his victory in Florida and most of the other states holding primaries this past Tuesday, Donald Trump’s chances of becoming the Republican nominee for president have only increased. It appears likely that there will be a contested convention this summer as no nominee is likely to receive the necessary number of delegates to get the nomination outright. Naturally, Trump’s supporters believe he should be the one to receive the nomination at a contested convention since he will have the most delegates. History has shown that’s not always the way things go at conventions, so the outcome is still uncertain.
It still seems incredible that Donald Trump is one of four remaining candidates in both parties who have a chance of becoming the next president. Donald. Trump. The candidate who is defined as a vessel of populist anger is milking it for everything he can get. Trump has harvested a gang of supporters from both parties who are more fanatical […] → Keep reading
By Charles M. Phipps on January 12th, 2016 
The White House has announced that there will be an empty seat next to Michelle Obama this evening at the State of the Union speech, to represent victims of gun violence. A White House official said the seat would be for “victims of gun violence who no longer have a voice – because they need the rest of us to speak for them.”
This isn’t all that surprising, considering the continuing war on guns and the 2nd Amendment that has been waged by this administration. Obama’s unconstitutional executive action on guns last week is just another assault on the right of citizens to be armed. The empty seat at tonight’s speech is a blatant appeal to emotion. Liberals have a history of using emotion, rather than pragmatism, to push their agenda and they’ve had success with that in the past. Pragmatism exposes liberal policies for the failures that they are and will never find a place in the liberal playbook.
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By Charles M. Phipps on May 8th, 2015 
Recent events in Garland, Texas have created a media firestorm over the issue of whether or not people should be drawing cartoons of Muhammad. In case you missed it, political activist Pamela Geller organized a “Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest” at which two terrorists opened fire on a security guard before being shot and killed by police. Some say Geller was within her First Amendment rights to have the event and others, mostly leftists and media, say she was wrong to do it, was responsible for the violence and should apologize.
Geller planned for the possibility of violence, allocating “thousands of dollars” for security and police at the event, just in case someone tried to duplicate the massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in France last January. As it turns out, it was money well spent. One security guard was wounded in the ankle before police officers shot and killed the well-armed terrorists. They […] → Keep reading
By Charles M. Phipps on August 29th, 2014 
The Toledo Blade is reporting that former President Jimmy Carter will be giving the keynote speech at the 51st annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) held in Detroit starting today and continuing through the weekend. On Saturday evening at a session called “Generations Rise: Elevating Muslim-American Culture” the outgoing president of ISHA, Imam Mohamed Magid, and four other Muslim speakers will offer ideas for Muslim-American advancement over the next few years. A “secret special guest” is also on the bill but no word yet if it will be Carter.
For a man who claims to be a devout Southern Baptist one would have to wonder why he would be invited and why he would accept the invitation. Perhaps his sympathy for terrorists and terrorist organizations has earned him an invite to speak to the Islamists. I haven’t seen the list of break-out sessions but Carter might want to skip any that are billed as Perfecting Your […] → Keep reading
By Charles M. Phipps on August 27th, 2014 
In West Point, MS, a former U.S. Marine went into a Waffle House late at night with a friend of his. As he went in a white man warned him not to enter because he is black. He went in anyway and was immediately set upon by whites and jeered at. He and his friend left the Waffle House and went down the street to a nearly vacant Huddle House. A crowd of white men followed them to the Huddle House and attacked them in the parking lot while screaming racial slurs. He was kicked in the head numerous times sustaining serious injuries and was rushed to the hospital where he was placed in a medically induced coma. His friend sustained broken bones in his face, a laceration over his left eye and a blood clot in his right eye.
The West Point Chief of Police Tim Brinkley, who is white, said the attack by the mob was not a […] → Keep reading
By Charles M. Phipps on August 13th, 2014 
Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, was speaking at the Christians United for Israel Summit in Washington,D.C. last month and spoke in defense of Israeli military operations in Gaza. “Some are shamelessly accusing Israel of genocide and would put us in the dock for war crimes,” he said. “But the truth is that the Israeli Defense Forces should be given the Nobel Peace Prize… a Nobel Peace Prize for fighting with unimaginable restraint.”
He further said that he would “not tolerate criticism of my country at a time when Israeli soldiers are dying so that innocent Palestinians can live.
Israel sends soldiers into Gaza and areas that are booby-trapped with mines in order to capture and destroy rockets and other weapons used by Hamas to attack Israel. They choose to do this instead of launching aerial attacks because to do so would mean the loss of a great number of innocent Palestinian lives. Israel also drops leaflets, makes […] → Keep reading
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