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Pinkerton: What the Tech Tycoon Space Race Means for the Rest of Us

The future of space exploration will likely be some sort of public-private partnership. If space-bound billionaires are willing to do their part for the nation and if American political leaders have the vision to see space travel as a 1492-like opportunity, then this could be the beginning of a new epoch of American Greatness. 

Photo by: Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx 2021 7/11/21 Richard Branson takes flight today wit

Pinkerton: A Bad Romance — How Republicans Fell Out of Love with Big Tech

The Republican romance with Big Tech didn’t work out as planned. The Big Techsters, confident of kneejerk Republican support for low taxes and deregulation, were free to follow their bliss on avant-garde woke social issues. In other words, the GOP was safeguarding Big Tech, while the Techsters, taking Republicans for granted, acted like good Democrats.  

Silicon Valley Masters Of Universe

Pinkerton: Barack Obama Is a Machiavellian Fox in ‘A Promised Land’

The irony of Obama is that for all his “Yes, we can” rhetoric, he was content to say, “No, we can’t.” In this, he fit Machiavelli’s definition of the fox-like politician who is shrewd enough to avoid traps. And while the life of a fox might be long, it is unlikely to be consequential because the ability to avoid traps is not the test of greatness.

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Pinkerton – Democrats Tell AOC: Woke Doesn’t Work

It’s not Democrats’ first choice to go criticizing other Democrats—they’d rather, of course, be blasting Republicans—and yet the disappointment of the 2020 election has convinced them that they had better speak up.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capi

Pinkerton: October Surprises in U.S. History

Drastic turns can, and do, happen at any time, and yet now, in October 2020, as so many eyes are glued to political events, we realize how much effect they can have.  

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 02: U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the White House for Walter

Pinkerton: The Crime Election — Trump vs. Biden 

We’re having an election over rioting, violence—and law and order. On August 25, CNN’s Don Lemon said of the riot issue, “It is the only thing right now that is sticking.”

In this combination of file photos, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington,

Pinkerton: The Real Battle of 2020: Who Votes, and Who Counts

On the front page of the August 24 edition of The Washington Post, the headline was, “More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall.” 

In this May 17, 2016, file photo, ballots are prepared for counting at Multnomah County el

Pinkerton: Riot Reality Is Biting the Democrats  

The fact is, Joe Biden is going to have to speak for himself on the key issue of keeping the streets of America safe. And that’s a reality that threatens to really bite the Democrats over the next ten weeks. 

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