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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Hold on for the ride, it’s Tariff Time!
03 Feb 2025
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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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I am Tariff Man, and I rule the world!
16 Dec 2024
So American CEOs can just pound sand! The WSJ reports yesterday that CEOs are quietly trying to get into the Trump transition team to try and influence the new administration to not start a trade war, which will harm their businesses and raise prices. But as the headline says, “He isn’t budging.” I’ll have more […]
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There is no joy in Mudville, Mighty Casey has Struck Out: Reflections on the Trumpquake.
07 Nov 2024
Thank you Kamala, for bringing back the joy. Maybe not the joy you were thinking about, but I’ll take it. We’re not going back to normal, perhaps we never will. But we’re leaving the dystopian reality that was the failed Biden/Harris administration, and that is an encouragement. Like you, I’m still processing the election results […]
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As we continue our political economy commentary in Daniel (see the first post first), the reader should read Daniel Chapter One. picking up in v3, and beyond, we see the following major activities: 1) Nebuchadnezzar commands that leading Israelites be brought back to Babylon to learn and be brought up in the customs and ways […]
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Over the summer I had a conversation with a friend, and he mused about the threat within the church of Christian nationalism. I said I’d first like to see it defined, as the left’s pre-occupation with Christian nationalism had basically pinned that label on anybody that believes Christian values system should underlie political positions (e.g., […]
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“I Told You So” doesn’t feel so good.
13 Aug 2024
Here at BATG, we’ve been skeptical for a while that we’d see the Donald Trump/Joe Biden Round II. Too many Americans (typically around 70%) said they wanted another choice, and surely one of the parties (at least) would give it to them. My vanity and lack of time to create a more interesting blog post […]
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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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While ~70% of Americans lament that we are stuck with Biden-Trump Round II, there is nevertheless a choice to make this November. For Christian conservatives, I believe there really is no choice, as Joe Biden is hostile to most Christian values (e.g., he is not just supportive but an unabashed defender of the most radical […]
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