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Gated Communities, Immigration and Riffraff

When we lived in Florida, we lived in a gated community called “Embassy Lakes”.  For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a gated community, I’ll explain it to you.  There’s a bunch of houses in a nice neighborhood.  The nice neighborhood also has a bunch of nice amenities

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Burden of Proof

One of the key principles in the American criminal justice system is that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty.  That is, unless someone can prove otherwise, we must assume that the defendant isn’t guilty of the crime they’re accused of committing. That’s all well and good.  But what if

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Building Better People

A couple of days ago, I posted a quote of mine.  Maybe someone said it before I did but I don’t remember hearing it.  It looked like this: I started thinking some more about it and decided that I should give it some additional attention. We’ve all heard (and some

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Political Correctness and Divisive Politics

I can tell you exactly why there is such division in the United States these days.  It all started in the 1970’s when the Left began using the term “political correctness”. Last night, I was using my Ninja Foodi multi-cooker as a slow cooker for the first time.  It turns

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Call Me Crazy

Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! If today I said that I identified as a woman, those who know me would believe I was joking.  They would think that it’s just another one of those things I do to see if I can get a

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Great Expectations

I ran into a friend of mine earlier this week.  Let’s call her “Jessica”.  She was all excited about the possibility of getting a COVID-19 vaccine.  The conversation went something like this. Jessica: My whole family is planning on getting the vaccine as soon as possible. Me: Why? Jessica: Because

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I’m Not Harris

I hope that Donald Trump doesn’t run for president in 2024.  Because, I don’t want to have to vote for him.  In 2024 he’ll be 78 years old which, in my opinion, is too old to be president.  I believe that about Joe Biden and I’ll believe that about Donald

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