One of my principle objections to the whole Trump movement is its ill deserved label of conservative. Mr. Trump is the same 1990s big government Democrat he always has been, with the exception of his conversion on pro-life issues during his first term, where he can legitimately be described as the most pro-life president we’ve […]
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The divorce between Reaganites and Trumpians is almost complete–the Trumpians have contempt for previous Republican dogmas such as free enterprise and a strong military that helps freedom fighters abroad. Sure the Trumpians like enterprise, but it’s the free thing that they have a problem with. And yes they want a strong military, but supporting those […]
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Donald Trump proudly claimed that “I am a Tariff Man!”, falsely suggesting that imports impoverish us: Mr. Trump and Mr. Bernie Sanders are in unity: protecting industries from foreign competitors is the way to create a great economy (although even Mr. Sanders understood the folly of starting a trade war with Canada, strongly disagreeing with […]
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Is it possible that the Republicans in Ukraine can do worse than Biden did in Afghanistan?
20 Feb 2024
Afghanistan was an unmitigated disaster for the U.S., and despite Mr. Biden’s protestations that it was a success, his approval rating steadily declined in the aftermath, and has never recovered. To be clear, there were many other Biden failures (specifically his inflationary spending and his incredibly wrong-headed vaccine mandate) that have led to this result, […]
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Who knows? President Biden has steadfastly failed to make a case for what his goals are, nor therefore explained how those goals are in our national interest. Ukraine war critics are right to ask serious questions, but they’re wrong to deny support in the absence of this case by Biden–our interest in seeing Putin’s aggression […]
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DeSantis: Do or Die
30 Nov 2023
I wanted to be for Ron DeSantis. I admired his record in Florida, especially in the issues he targets. Sure I didn’t quite like the way he handled Disney, but I greatly appreciated his standing up to them, and playing hardball.* I think running on a “Let DeSantis do for America what he’s done for […]
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What is the most important issue facing the USA?
20 Nov 2023
We have tons of problems, and the right/wrong track direction is overwhelmingly negative, and yet not all issues are equally troubling. Our national debt is almost at $34T. Our military is not ready for the new axis of evil of Russia, China, Iran & North Korea. We are aborting a large part of our future […]
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Waking up to a good day. At least reminding ourselves that regardless of the world, it is a good day
08 Nov 2023
I went to bed last night knowing that Issue 1 (making abortion-on-demand enshrined in Ohio’s constitution) was losing 56-44%, with about two-thirds of the votes counted. I woke to find that margin maintained with 99% of the vote counted, a result that is worthy of lament. Lament yes, but surprise no. In a world totally […]
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Are Ohioans as brutal as Hamas? Or as the mass murderer in Maine? Amendment 1 will tell the tale.
29 Oct 2023
Most of the world rightly recoiled in horror at the brutal Hamas assault on Israeli citizens on Oct 7th, which included murder of women and children, including babies who were allegedly decapitated (which Hamas naturally denies). Of course, much to our collective shame, some progressives did not share in that horror but rather attempted to […]
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Israel-Hamas conflict reveals religious worldview teaching in so-called secular schools.
21 Oct 2023
In my last post, I discussed the increasing fissures across the political spectrum that are being exposed by multiple conflicts, including the Israeli-Hamas conflict. The latter issue continues producing profound division on the left, as young progressives are not in the slightest backing down from their rebuke by the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party’s […]
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