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Many people love to concoct grand, elaborate conspiracies to explain the world around them. Instead of realizing they made bad decisions, it must have been some malevolent force out to get them. Instead of recognizing they are surrounded by incompetence, there must be some mysterious force pulling the strings working several steps ahead. Many people sleep better at night convinced of a malevolent...

President Trump has dismal polling. In fact, he has the worst polling of any President in his first nine months in office since Harry Truman. His polling is that bad. But if the election were held today, President Trump would still beat Hillary Clinton. In fact, the data shows the race would be roughly tied in the popular vote, but Trump would still win the Electoral College. This is how bad a...

The problem with the gun control hot take in the United States is that we live in a different place from the rest of the world. When Australia bought up all the guns, they did not have a second amendment to contend with. Britain and Canada are different as well. We live in a country with a second amendment right to private gun ownership where there are 320 million people and 320 million guns in...

In a nutshell, here’s the basics of what is happening in Saudi Arabia. Every single king of Saudi Arabia has been one of the 45 (!!!) sons of Ibn Saud, the first king of the modern House of Saud. King Salman is one of the youngest, replacing dead brothers. Well, now they are out of brothers to replace Salman so he has decided to name his oldest son and set up a dynastic succession within...