I confess–this morning I feel like one of my students that’s just sitting down at the computer @ 11p.m. and they have a seven page paper due the next day, and they really don’t know know where to begin. My problem is I am really still struggling to process and understand some things that on […]
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Sometimes the news is so swirling, it’s hard to focus. Carlson, Candace, Fuentes and the Heritage Foundation
14 Nov 2025
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First up is the results of off cycle elections last week. In short, they are are warning to Mr. Trump and the Republicans. While the outcomes were not surprising (as NJ and VA are very blue) the magnitude of the victory was quite a statement. For sure the government shutdown helped pad the margins in […]
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Ever since the Fall, humans constantly compare ourselves to others. Now that we are “naked and ashamed” and have to cover ourselves with fig leaves, we compare ourselves to others almost constantly. If we’re “better” than those we compare to (in some sense) we feel prideful. If we are inferior, we feel shame or envy. […]
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“Russia is never as strong, or as weak as she appears.” This quote, variations of it attributed to Otto Von Bismarck*, Winston Churchill and others, seems surely to be true. Putin himself put out a variation of it, “Russia was never so strong as it wants to be and never so weak as it is […]
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A Trumpian Triumph challenges the left
14 Oct 2025
The release of the Israeli hostages filled most of the world with joy yesterday. The end of the war in Israel is now possible. War is ugly, which is why however unrealistic its vision is in a fallen world, we must always at our core desire to be peacemakers. Phase 1 of this peace deal […]
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It’s really hard to put MAGA into a box, because as President Trump reminded Tucker Carlson, he is MAGA, and consistency of positions is not a hallmark of his style. Nevertheless there are broad themes that reflect the President’s values, which really haven’t changed much over the years. President Trump is not particularly concerned with […]
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Mr. Trump repeatedly insists there is no inflation for his rationale for berating the Fed for not lowering interest rates, and yet the dollar has fallen ~9% since the beginning of the year. And Gold is up ~40% since his inauguration. Gold is an inflation hedge, and you can be sure, the market is pricing […]
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Trump’s embrace of Socialism is Increasing
19 Sep 2025
According to the Horseshoe Theory of Politics, the extreme left and right are much closer to each other than they are to the center. And that is true of MAGA conservatism; much that distinguishes it from traditional conservatism is precisely its embrace of values and methods from the left. As I’ve repeatedly said here at […]
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A time to weep
10 Sep 2025
I don’t really even know how to express it. Crestfallen. Numbed. A deep sadness. I’m not generally a TPUSA rabid supporter, but lately I have been increasingly encouraged by watching some of Charlie Kirk’s interactions with progressives, especially his defense of Christianity and conservative values. He was formidable and unafraid. Many of his personal attributes […]
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The Wonderful Works of God
06 Sep 2025
Perhaps you’re like me, with a big stack of books over in the corner of the reading room, that you’re going to get to one of these days. For me, they include books on economics, business and theology. One four volume set that I really want to read is Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics. I bought […]
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