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22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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Culture

Political Exhaustion Is the Carryover Balance From 2025

Posted on January 1, 2026January 2, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Happy New Year The calendar flipped. That was the clean part. Everything else came with us — the noise, the backlog, the unresolved messes that never quite ended, they just lost their headline slot and waited to reappear. Political exhaustion isn’t something that suddenly arrived in 2025. It accumulated. Day…

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America’s Not Working—And Neither Is Congress

Posted on November 4, 2025November 3, 2025 By Don MacLeod

We’ve hit that point again. Government shutdown season. Cue the outrage, the speeches, the finger-pointing. One side blames the other, and somewhere between “fiscal responsibility” and “moral outrage,” the actual governing stops. Let’s be clear — both parties built this mess. Chuck Schumer and Mike Johnson are just the faces…

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USAA Missed the Easiest Win in Marketing — Standing by Their Own Members

Posted on October 18, 2025October 12, 2025 By Don MacLeod

I’ve been a USAA customer for years — checking, auto, insurance, the works. And like most of their members, I joined because USAA wasn’t just a bank. It was our bank thanks to my father’s service in the United States Air Force.  This is built for people who serve, for…

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