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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There is no joy in Mudville, Mighty Casey has Struck Out: Reflections on the Trumpquake.
07 Nov 2024
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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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As I drove to work last week, I enjoyed idyllic Ohio fall days–pleasant temperatures, blue skies and smiling faces upon arrival. If only I could turn off the outside pictures–the vicious attack on Israel (which includes many American hostages and deaths), the dysfunction in Washington DC, the continued market turmoil from a high interest rate […]
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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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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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Bragg Storms the Trump Tower
03 Apr 2023
Well, the Democratic District Attorney of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, has convinced a majority of the grand jury pool he convened to bring an indictment of Donald Trump. Tomorrow Mr. Trump will be arraigned, with a spectacle that will take us to a new low in politics. You don’t need BATG to do analysis on this; […]
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