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Across Lafayette Square from the White House sits St. John’s Episcopal Church. Long known as The President’s Church, this one building perfectly illustrates our relationship with Christianity in America. Given our penchant for poverty and prisons, it seems an odd choice of religious touchstones, but I’m a fan of cognitive dissonance as much […]

Religion & Politics

This entry was tagged Constitution Religion and posted on June 2, 2015 by Jason Everett Miller

I am registering as a republican again to remake the local tea party into something Teddy or Ike might recognize. The history of the GOP in Oregon is one of moderate conservatism, which makes the task easier but still not a given based on current primary trends. The one thing […]

Bull Moose Unite

This entry was tagged Alaska Bull Moose District at Large GOP Republicans and posted on March 18, 2015 by Jason Everett Miller

Another midterm election cycle completed and the republican party solidified their control over Congress. The media cried, “America has spoken!” Turnout for the 2014 general election was thirty-six percent. Party primaries reached half that pathetic number. Less than half in some districts. The voters have definitely spoken. They said, “We […]

A Primer on Primaries

This entry was tagged Common Sense Governing Majority Primary Elections Voters We The People and posted on February 15, 2015 by Jason Everett Miller

When the Tea Party flipped numerous “moderate” republican seats in the 2010 primary elections, America took an even harder turn to the right than it was already suffering under when ignorant, anti-government candidates made it through the fait accompli general election in November to become the largest freshman class in […]

Voting Doesn’t Matter

This entry was tagged Change Primary Elections Voting We The People and posted on June 10, 2014 by Jason Everett Miller

I am sure the actions of the republican party (and their more vocal supporters) since President Obama took office comes as little surprise to the democratic faithful. “Liberals” constantly have their worst opinions of “conservatives” confirmed by those at the highest levels of the party apparatus as well as those […]

Grand (dad’s) Old Party

This entry was tagged Change Progressive Republican Party and posted on November 19, 2013 by Jason Everett Miller

It took nearly 200 years after the words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” were penned to assure everyone in the United States had the right to vote, yet the only thing that has changed since the Voting Rights Act was signed in […]

Mitigating the Disaster

This entry was tagged Civics Voting We The People and posted on October 17, 2013 by Jason Everett Miller

My political awakening didn’t arrive until my 34th year when a young state senator from Illinois blew the roof off the Democratic National Convention, went on to capture a US Senate seat a mere two years later and the Oval Office two years after that. That he was the first […]

Stopping a Broken Record

This entry was tagged Primary Elections Voting We The People and posted on October 17, 2013 by Jason Everett Miller

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We all have very high ideals and are desperate to see this country live up to its potential. That feeling is felt to the left and right of the spectrum. We want a sense of safety and security and sanity back, yesterday. ...

Another Defining Moment

This entry was tagged Apathy Barack Obama Centrism Change Democratic Party Governing Majority Incumbents Partisan Republican Party Turnout and posted on February 19, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller