Trumpian fans will almost surely say “how could you not see it before?”, but I still believe it’s a reasonable response that when someone says “go and drink this poison–it will taste really good!” we should vehemently disagree. And I still disagree with his rhetoric on tariffs, but there is some small reason for optimism. […]
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In my last post, one of our frequent commenters repeated a critique that Donald Trump and so-called MAGA members make, which is that the WSJ specifically, but by extension anybody that opposes the national conservative movement, is a globalist. Here is a portion of the salient* remarks that Richie offered: Frankly, the WSJ is no […]
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Is Mr. Trump going to give us Biden 2.0?
14 Mar 2025
Joe Biden was elected president for basically one reason–the general public on the margin wanted an end to perceived Trumpian chaos and a return to normalcy. Mr. Biden had promised to be that candidate–bring us back to normal and he would be a caretaker until the next generation of leaders would arrive. And then in […]
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Ever since his coming down that escalator, Mr. Trump has been blessed by his enemies. His singular ability to cause people to hate him and do insane things in opposition to him make him appear to be the sane one. No, Mr. Trump is not normal. He doesn’t intend to be. And he certainly doesn’t […]
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Over the next few days I will write a series of posts on what’s happening with Ukraine, primarily to address comments that those that are opposed to continuing support Ukraine make. There is an isolationist case to be made–those that make it are not necessarily evil or lovers of Putin. Nevertheless Bereans already know that […]
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Putin smiling
01 Mar 2025
Like many, I’m still processing what happened in the oval office yesterday. I encourage all readers to listen to the entire event. Trump partisans are blaming Zelensky, Trump opponents are blaming Mr. Trump (and/or Mr. Vance). The question I have is simply this: Who invited the media in here? Mr. Trump controlled this completely (there […]
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War Years Estimated U.S. Military Deaths American Revolutionary War 1775–1783 ~25,000 War of 1812 1812–1815 ~15,000 American Civil War (Union & Confederate) 1861–1865 ~620,000–750,000 World War I 1917–1918 ~116,516 World War II 1941–1945 ~405,399 Korean War 1950–1953 ~36,516 Vietnam War 1955–1975 ~58,220 Wars in Afghanistan & Iraq 2001–2021 ~6,892 It’s an easy argument. Those that […]
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Hold on for the ride, it’s Tariff Time!
03 Feb 2025
Over the weekend, President Trump announced sweeping, broad-based tariffs across all Canadian and Mexican imports at a 25% tax rate (with Canadian energy products at a 10% rate), with goods manufactured in China also subject to a tariff tax of 10%. He has long promised to start this trade war, and in his first term […]
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Day 2 of Trump 2, a dizzying pace of disruption
22 Jan 2025
We always knew that Donald Trump wouldn’t change much, and that was both the encouragement and discouragement of his 2nd go-round. Despite the full-throated demonstrations of terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome, which claimed this would be the last election, that Trump would take away IVF, and on and on, we always knew the best predictor of […]
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By most accounts, Mr. Hegseth acquitted himself reasonably well yesterday–at least the Democratic pique suggests that he did not give them the ability to turn away his nomination. But should he be SecDef? I agree that the President should be given general leeway to pick his or her own cabinet, but constitutionally the Senate is […]
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