Let's sum up the Democrat candidates for their presidential nomination stance on the major issues: Iran having a nuclear weapon is good but Americans having guns is bad. Killing unborn babies, even after they're born, is OK but children in cages is not. At what age is it OK to put them in a cage just so we're clear? Going to college is good; paying for college yourself is bad. The rest of the world is perfect; America is broken and evil. Everything that Obama and Bill Clinton did is good, but when Trump does the same thing it's bad. Government run health care in the rest of the world is excellent, and our health care system is the worst. Just ask the veterans and Native Americans who get free government health care. We love tolerance unless you disagree with us, then you must be silenced.

There is currently an asteroid passing through space between Jupiter and Mars. The huge rock is solid metal and NASA is sending a probe to confirm what they believe; there is enough gold, copper, iron and other minerals to make the asteroid worth about $10,000 quadrillion. For you public school graduates, that’s a lot more than a trillion. NASA wants to figure out how to mine the minerals. Proving we don’t teach consequential thinking skills in school anymore, if those metals were brought back to Earth in almost any quantity, that would create a glut in the market and prices of precious metals would drop. The only benefit to that is killing Facebook’s currency, the Libra, which is likely to be based upon the gold standard.

Why do seagulls fly over the sea? Because if they flew over the bay, they’d be called bagels.

This is America! Chatom Ford in Chatom AL has a sale going on for the 4th of July holiday. If you purchase any new or used vehicle from the dealership you will also be given a 12-gauge shotgun, a Bible and an American flag. I don't need a new truck, but I'm thinking about it now.

We have been told that deporting illegal aliens is inhumane. Which president deported more illegal aliens than any other president in the history of the United States? President Barack Obama deported just under 3 million illegal immigrants during his two terms in office. That's more than George Bush the second by about 400,000. President trump doesn't even come close because of course we're not allowed to deport illegal aliens, even though that's what the law says we should be doing. I think he'll make up for it soon. That cacophony you just heard; liberal heads exploding as they scream fake news.

One of the undeniable truths of life is that every news report is biased in some way shape or form. Even if the author or talking head tries to be as unbiased as possible it still happens. So it should come as no surprise that a insider at Google has leaked information proving that the management of the search engine company wants to filter results from searches to favor liberal news sources and silence conservative sources.

Some days my train of thought leaves the station without me. Some days that's a good thing because it keeps other people alive.

Just a reminder to some of my friends on the left side of the aisle; If you are going to criticize my opinions please be sure that you read the column accurately and understand what I actually said. Especially when I say that I specifically had no problem with the final score. Remember I am responsible for what I said not what you think I said.

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