* We can all feel better about ourselves. Many Americans enjoy watching reality TV because the characters tend to be slightly insane people with an amazing lack of self-awareness. Well, cheer up, America: Watching the presidential debates will be just like that! …
* We can buy stock in the survivalist industry. See above reference to backyard shelters and “prepper” magazines. It’s a business sure to flourish! …
* Limited government types might finally realize that they’re the weirdos, not everyone else. For years, fans of limited government—I include myself here, by the way—have soldiered on, complaining incessantly about the GOP, all while secretly believing that almost everyone else agrees with them, at least deep down, on things like tax cuts and abolishing the Department of Education and occasionally reading F.A. Hayek. Well, if this election doesn’t cure that illusion, nothing will.
The current GOP front-runner is an enthusiastic statist; the Democrat side of the aisle, meanwhile, boasts a hyper-statist front-runner and an unapologetic socialist also-ran who literally spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union. To put it mildly, limited government, free markets, and individual liberty are clearly not all the rage. Perhaps a Trump vs. Clinton matchup, for all its faults, would inspire some serious introspection as to why—and how to fix the problem. Kidding aside, that would be a real upside to this current mess. Can we count on it? We shall see.
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Wandering Views 
For a laugh — the “up sides” of this crazy election year.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/04/28/the_upsides_of_an_insane_election_130415.html
Among them:
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* We can all feel better about ourselves. Many Americans enjoy watching reality TV because the characters tend to be slightly insane people with an amazing lack of self-awareness. Well, cheer up, America: Watching the presidential debates will be just like that! …
* We can buy stock in the survivalist industry. See above reference to backyard shelters and “prepper” magazines. It’s a business sure to flourish! …
* Limited government types might finally realize that they’re the weirdos, not everyone else. For years, fans of limited government—I include myself here, by the way—have soldiered on, complaining incessantly about the GOP, all while secretly believing that almost everyone else agrees with them, at least deep down, on things like tax cuts and abolishing the Department of Education and occasionally reading F.A. Hayek. Well, if this election doesn’t cure that illusion, nothing will.
The current GOP front-runner is an enthusiastic statist; the Democrat side of the aisle, meanwhile, boasts a hyper-statist front-runner and an unapologetic socialist also-ran who literally spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union. To put it mildly, limited government, free markets, and individual liberty are clearly not all the rage. Perhaps a Trump vs. Clinton matchup, for all its faults, would inspire some serious introspection as to why—and how to fix the problem. Kidding aside, that would be a real upside to this current mess. Can we count on it? We shall see.
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As if we didn’t know – someone lied to protect Hillary.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/04/27/judge-napolitano-hillary-clinton-email-scandal-judicial-watch-state-department-revelation
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How awkward…
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/worst_hillary_introduction_ever.html
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Tychicus – That was painful to watch.
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Indeed.
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You see the weirdest things on Twitter
Ted Cruz fires back at John Boehner for “Lucifer” comment
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