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Personal Essays

Where Is The Tea Party On The Left?

As a conservative, there is nothing I want more than a loyal and respectable opposition. I want an opposition that stands up for what it wants, as opposed to settling for whatever it gets. That is where the Democratic party is right now. Grappling for every inch of power, and getting it in many cases. But it all seems like a power grab with not intellectual foundation.

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Write What You Want To, Then What You Have To

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As a writer, I’m still getting my sea legs under me. But I have the luxury of blogging which means that I don’t have the displeasure of having to deal with an editor telling me what to write. To be sure, I lament this fact sometimes, especially when I don’t feel particularly strongly about writing anything at all. I am not the kind of person who cannot do what I am supposed to do, and be OK with it. No. When I don’t write, I suffer. No matter how much else I might have going on at the time, I was put here to write. When I don’t write, I tear myself apart.

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What It Feels Like To Be a Creator

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I had a nagging feeling tugging at me last night as I attended a performance of August Strindberg’s 1888 play, “The Creditors.” I almost feel bad admitting that I wasn’t entirely present for the performance. Instead, I was led astray by a single thought that popped into my head shortly after the play started. That thought was simply that I cannot simply enjoy art for art’s sake any longer.

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The 21st Century Needs to Retire Some Things

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This antiquated exercise in self-aggrandizement just doesn’t fit into our world anymore, a world where half of Wall Street was bailed out by the Federal Government (willingly or not) and where the nation is still grappling with a nasty recession. Even as glimmers of an economic recovery begin to perk through the muck and mire of this terrible and long-lasting recession, it hardly feels like a recovery now does it? Must be one of those “jobless recoveries” that the media is always going on about.

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The Tea Party Is a Reaction Against Decay

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The Tea Party will grow appreciably over the next few years. Irrespective of who is the White House, the Tea Party has the makings of a real and true revolution, exactly the kind of revolution that this country needs. The Tea Party, though often ridiculed as being staffed by ignoramus’, is actually prescient in its animating motivations.

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A Million New Novelists

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We are on the verge of seeing a creative explosion in our culture. There is one reason for this: the advent and adoption of self-publishing. In particular, I am speaking of the future outlook for the novel. Although self-publishing effects all artistic forms, photography, video, audio, visual art; the art form that is most immediately affected by self-publishing is creative writing. By a wide margin, most blogs are dedicated to the written word in one form or another.

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