Last week AOC was in the press (she seems to like that doesn’t she?!) claiming that it is impossible for someone to earn a billion dollars. She is not arguing that people aren’t being paid a billion dollars, but she is making a more substantive (but incorrect) claim that no one who earns that much […]
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Mr. Trump has boldly gone where no previous president has dared to go. For almost 50 years, the Iranian regime has engaged in low-level warfare against both the U.S. and its allies. Over 2000 Americans have been killed by Iranian proxies, and our response has been typically, at best, tit for tat. Given the ideological […]
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Since my last post was pretty gloomy for Republican-leaning voters, consider this comment from Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, who continues to push a per employee tax on Chicago businesses, even after the city council’s finance committee soundly rejected it (from the WSJ): Yet Mr. Johnson is doubling down. “The corporate tax is in this budget. […]
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Mr. Biden’s pardon of Mr. Biden
03 Dec 2024
I’m actually both amused and tremendously surprised at the depth of coverage of Mr. Biden’s pardon of his son this weekend. I’m surprised because everybody had to know it was going to happen. Mr. Biden’s protestations to the contrary, that paragon of virtue was always almost certainly going to pardon his son. No one in […]
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My short take on Ms. Harris’ chances
23 Jul 2024
Here is how I see it. For the pro’s, 1) she is alive and has energy, 2) her name is not Joe Biden or Donald Trump, 3) the media can now joyfully promote her without feeling any guilt of being part of the big lie, 4) there are a lot of people who really dislike […]
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With Leadership Must Come Accountability: U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Must Go!
22 Jul 2024
In August 2007, after my promotion to Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, I was blessed to do my Senior Developmental Education (usually War College) as an Air Force Fellow at the Brookings Institution, along with fellows from the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and CIA. After arriving at Brookings one morning, I was greeted (and […]
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Yesterday I returned again to the theme of bad economics that Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden share, lamenting on their economic nationalism (which is really pure special interest politics at the expense of the rest of us). But don’t think I’m drawing an equivalence between the two: Mr. Biden is a deliberate obfuscator of the […]
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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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On Tuesday evening, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made good on his threat to oust Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The vote was 216-210, with eight Republicans (including Gaetz) joining Democrats to remove McCarthy. According to Gaetz, McCarthy was guilty of many sins, chief among them his willingness to work with Democrats. Yes, […]
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Ohio Inflationary Blues
26 Sep 2023
Two weeks ago, the Census Bureau released it’s real median income numbers for 2022, with real income falling a shocking 2.3% from 2021 to 2022. Yet the Biden Administration and its promoters continue to be amazed that Americans really don’t understand how good things are with Bidenomics! Consider Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (hat tip to […]
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