The bag of Joe Biden Potato Chips was never very full to begin with, and wasn’t particularly tasty, but in the eyes of many Americans, his chips were at least prospectively better than the alternative of Tasty Trump Chips. The Trump chip bag had some great tasting chips, and it was pretty full. But occasional […]
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Profiles in Political Courage? Anybody? Bueller?
13 May 2024
Our ideal leader should have many positive attributes, but one of the most needed is courage. Most important decisions are fraught with danger–should the plan fail, the leader himself or herself can be at risk. We know that, and many of us decry the politician who sticks his finger in the wind waiting for the […]
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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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What if Mr. Biden is not the Democratic nominee? Should Republicans be preparing for this?
27 Sep 2023
As we debate and assess the Republican candidates, I think it’s important to consider who the Democratic nominee is. I will be shocked if Joe Biden ultimately is the nominee. I’ve thought for a while that he won’t be, and I still have some hope that Donald Trump will not be the Republican nominee. But […]
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In political science* and economics, one of the earlier axioms that our current moment says no longer applies is that of the median voter theorem. Roughly speaking, in a two-party system, the candidate that gets closest to the true middle views of the electorate will get all the votes to the right or left of […]
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Vivek Ramaswamy: Let Russia Eat Ukraine!
30 Aug 2023
In the recent Republican presidential debate, Vivek Ramaswamy boldly articulated several positions that I agree with, such as the nuclear family being the best governing unit in society. I believe he was also correct in asserting that we are in a kind of cultural cold war in America; I think Mike Pence’s response was off […]
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Trump’s Historic Indictment A Legal Stretch
05 Apr 2023
On Tuesday, Donald J. Trump, the forty-fifth President of the United States, became the first of America’s former chief executives to be indicted in a criminal court. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office charged Trump with thirty four counts of falsifying business records. The allegations revolve around Trump’s payments to suppress damaging information during the 2016 […]
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Trump tackles Haley; sounds like Biden
16 Feb 2023
One of my constant refrains in the Trump era was to point to the mixed bag of his policies; much to like, much to dislike. I was most hostile to his cronyist trade policy of favoring one industry against another (e.g., favoring the steel industry at the expense of other US manufacturers that use steel*). […]
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In Trump We Bust
10 Nov 2022
It is a good thing to reflect on election, to try and understand what voters wanted, and what they did not want. This is a very difficult task, one I’m glad our own MCS focuses as that’s certainly not my wheel house. Most of us are just arm-chair political scientists when we try to think […]
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