This morning over at National Review they made a comment that trade deals take years and we shouldn’t even want one sooner, but I disagree. The reason NAFTA took years is to negotiate carve outs–and free trade doesn’t need carve outs. Instead of 1500 pages, it could have likely been done in a couple of […]
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Tariff War Chronicles: Trump’s playing with fire, but we’ll be the ones burned for years if he’s wrong
09 Apr 2025
I’m willing to accept for the sake of argument that in the internal battle within the Trump Administration over whether the tariffs are tools to 1) negotiate free trade or are 2) non-negotiable to force manufacturers back to the U.S. that Mr. Trump wants free trade and believes that his tariffs will both get us […]
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And why does the answer illustrate the fallaciousness of the whole climate change movement? I’ll give you the weekend to comment on it before I pontificate. Mongolia fetes Vladmir Putin in violation of the ICC criminal warrant (which Mongolia is a party to). Russia Invades Ukraine China rams Philipine fishing boats in South China Sea. […]
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Watch the latest BATG video with Peter Schweizer and bring your comments and discussions here
04 Apr 2024
Look to the right on the site, and you can hear my interview with Peter Schweizer, one of the most compelling speakers on political corruption and foreign policy around. I’m happy to engage with your comments or questions on the video below. And yes, go buy his book! Some of you were asking for videos, […]
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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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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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What is the Conservative Approach to Ukraine?
22 Mar 2023
Last night the Russians bombed a dormitory, killing seven people in Ukraine. The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for Mr. Putin as a war criminal; thousands of civilians have been killed and wounded, Ukrainian children have been abducted into Russia, hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides, and there are over eight […]
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The Rockets Rain on Ukraine
24 Feb 2022
A guest post from Jordan Beal, a careful observer of the Ukraine-Russia situation, offering a personal take on the events unfolding in Eastern Europe. He is also my brother—unrelated… I imagine I’m not the only one who’s been watching the events at the Ukrainian border with my hands covering my eyes, opening a slit in […]
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Don’t Tax Me! I’m Irish!
25 Jul 2021
The Biden administration seeks to form an international agreement to establish a global minimum corporate tax at 15%. According to CNN, 132 nations back the proposal, but some notable holdouts including Ireland, block the way. The EU needs to vote unanimously to pass the proposal, so as long Ireland opposes it, there’s no deal. Over […]
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The Perfect Time to De-Tariff
24 May 2021
The other day I read a Wall Street Journal piece about EU tariffs on U.S. goods that (thankfully) never came to be. It reminded me about the Trump administration’s departure from U.S. policy for the last few decades which generally aimed to increase free trade. The Biden administration has yet to make any strong changes […]
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