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 […]

This may be the easiest or the hardest fallacy to overcome, because the argument is incorrectly made. Of course we can continue to fund Ukraine. The question is do we want to. The fact that we cannot in total spending continue to spend $2T deficits forever does not mean we can’t spend some smaller amount […]

And just like the communists, they will always speak of doing it on behalf of the people. Welcome to the Peoples Republic of America (PRA), because it’s Tariff Time! Of course Mr. Trump’s supporters will vehemently disagree with me, with some justification, as Mr. Trump doesn’t want to run the whole economy. True enough. But […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Easy to understand, but not easy to implement politically given its status as a powerful club in the environmental movement’s arsenal. But that makes it a perfect target for the new Trump administration. With the fires running wild in Southern California, the California populace (and the American people who will get stuck with a large […]

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 […]