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  • Jonathan Gillispie

Star Wars: The Force Awakens film review (UPDATED WITH MAJOR SPOILERS) Dec 19, 2015

Short answer for my thoughts on the film: I LOVED IT!!!! I now put it up as my favorite Star Wars film of all time just right above Empire. It brought the feeling of Star Wars and soul which for as much as I appreciate the Prequel Trilogy (especially Revenge of the Sith) seriously lacked. The film is about the First Order trying to find Luke Skywalker who's been in hiding for years by this point to finally destroy the last of the Jedi. The First Order is led by a very powerful bean named Snoke (who I still think...

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Why open and free immigration is bad idea (in this current state of affairs) UPDATED Dec 12, 2015

I've this before, but I felt this should be getting its own column. Free and open immigration works - when there's no welfare state or military industrial complex present like a hundred years ago when we last officially had open borders (though we've had de facto open borders since 1965 thanks to the late Ted Kennedy's immigration bill which opened up third world immigration). Ever since then, the State has quadrupled in size and power (though LBJ's War on Poverty and Nixon's War on Drugs are obviously to blame). Though immigration coming in from the third world had a significant...

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Why Islam and libertarianism are incompatible Dec 8, 2015

Some libertarians may disagree with this. And no I'm not necessarily advocating banning ALL Muslims from the country like what Donald Trump suggested (though I do think there should a moratorium on Muslim immigration from certain countries). Islam for the past 1,400 years it's existed has been all about conquering and waging war. And despite what Barack Obama and the left say about the crusades, it was in fact a response Islam's conquest of Europe. They had pretty much controlled Spain and southern Europe in the 1oth and 11th centuries if I'm correct (I'll make sure to amend this if...

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Star Wars Theories: Rey is Luke Skywalker’s daughter Dec 8, 2015

For awhile now, internet gurus have speculated that Rey in The Force Awakens is the daughter of Han Solo and Leia Organa (not a princess anymore; waaaaay past that). And that Kylo Ren is their son too which would them the proto Jacen and Jaina Solo of the new canon. Except I don't think she's necessarily Han and Leia's daughter. I thinking 50-50 (better than that actually) that she's Luke Skywalker's daughter.While Kylo Ren could easily turn out to be Luke's kid instead, I'm leaning towards Rey for a couple of reasons. She's seen on a desert planet. Hmmm, hadn't...

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Star Wars Theories: Is Supreme Leader Snoke Darth Plagueis? Nov 27, 2015

My immediate answer YES YES YES YES, but I'm getting ahead of myself. For over a year now, it's been circulating around the web that the main villain for Star Wars: The Force Awakens Supreme Leader Snoke (played by the ever talented Andy Serkis) is in fact Sith Lord Darth Plagueis. For those of you who don't know who he is, Plagueis (who masqueraded as Hugo Damask of the Intergalactic Banking Clan or IBC) was the Sith master to Darth Sidious  Sidious speaks of him to Anakin during the Opera House scene in Revenge of the Sith (which while I...

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Should we consider creating a Prime Ministership to replace the Presidency? Nov 16, 2015

The US Presidency has gotten so powerful and so out of control over the course of over a century starting with Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (Lincoln too, but it was a very unique period that was the Civil War). First it was TR who expanded Presidential powers by starting up the FBI without congressional authorization and started the national park system by outright stealing land from that was owned either privately or by the states especially in the West. When Woodrow Wilson was President, he was a key figure in getting the 16th amendment and Federal Reserve Act passed....

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@Salon Stupidity – Saturday 11/7/2015 Nov 7, 2015

Well it's that time of the week again where I just pick random stupid shit from the intelligence black hole that is Salon.com. Don't why I started this, guess I'm just bored and have nothing better to do on the weekends (other than collecting eggs from my chickens). So here we go I guess. First up is Scary lessons of Matt Bevin. Matt Bevin of course was elected as the new Governor of Kentucky who previously had challenged Mitch McConnell for the US Senate nomination last year getting 35% of the vote in the primary. Polls likewise here were predicting...

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This week in @Salon stupidity – Saturday 10/31/2015 Oct 31, 2015

Well there's much stupid as always with Salon.com. Finding stupidity at Salon is like finding shit in a shit pile. Though finding something that's interestingly stupid is bit of a challenge. Lot of what the left shits out of their anuses nowadays are pretty predictable. So finding something interesting is harder. But I've found a couple columns that qualify for this. First one up is The Uber-economy f**ks us all: How "permalancers" and "sharer" gigs gut the middle class. Somehow the column's author isn't aware of other things that actually gut the middle class. *coughs* Federal Reserve *coughs* But I...

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This week in @Salon stupidity as of Saturday 10/24/2015 Oct 24, 2015

This'll be a new regular thing I'll try doing as Salon.com offers up many great things of pure stupid. I'll try doing at least 3 stories per column every week and I'll try picking out the most outrageous ones which could be a challenge as most of what Salon writes by this point is pure predictability. So here we go. First off is climate change. When it comes to the environment and weather, the left is totally out of touch with reality and this is no exception. Basically the writer is trying to make a point that government action is...

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Why Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party had a horrible night Oct 20, 2015

As I'm writing this, Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party has won 184 seats, Stephen Harper's Tories are down by 60 to under a hundred and Thomas Mulcair's NDP are in third party status once again. What's incredible is that the Liberal Party started out with only 36 seats and managed to win almost 150 by the end. Liberal Party leader and incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the son of former PM Pierre Trudeau who was a radical socialist who sympathized with the communist Sandinistas in Central America and was friends with Fidel Castro in Cuba. Justin just like his father...

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