Our ideal leader should have many positive attributes, but one of the most needed is courage. Most important decisions are fraught with danger–should the plan fail, the leader himself or herself can be at risk. We know that, and many of us decry the politician who sticks his finger in the wind waiting for the […]

Look to the right on the site, and you can hear my interview with Peter Schweizer, one of the most compelling speakers on political corruption and foreign policy around. I’m happy to engage with your comments or questions on the video below. And yes, go buy his book! Some of you were asking for videos, […]

Over 15 years ago I published an op-ed on how businesses have to respond to inflation. I think it bears repeating today so I’ll put it here on BATG as well. Obviously Bidenomics has crushed these old numbers; you can’t get a fast food meal for under $9 in most places now. For you younger […]

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 […]

One of my principle objections to the whole Trump movement is its ill deserved label of conservative. Mr. Trump is the same 1990s big government Democrat he always has been, with the exception of his conversion on pro-life issues during his first term, where he can legitimately be described as the most pro-life president we’ve […]

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 […]

Donald Trump proudly claimed that “I am a Tariff Man!”, falsely suggesting that imports impoverish us: Mr. Trump and Mr. Bernie Sanders are in unity: protecting industries from foreign competitors is the way to create a great economy (although even Mr. Sanders understood the folly of starting a trade war with Canada, strongly disagreeing with […]

Afghanistan was an unmitigated disaster for the U.S., and despite Mr. Biden’s protestations that it was a success, his approval rating steadily declined in the aftermath, and has never recovered. To be clear, there were many other Biden failures (specifically his inflationary spending and his incredibly wrong-headed vaccine mandate) that have led to this result, […]

Who knows? President Biden has steadfastly failed to make a case for what his goals are, nor therefore explained how those goals are in our national interest. Ukraine war critics are right to ask serious questions, but they’re wrong to deny support in the absence of this case by Biden–our interest in seeing Putin’s aggression […]

I wanted to be for Ron DeSantis. I admired his record in Florida, especially in the issues he targets. Sure I didn’t quite like the way he handled Disney, but I greatly appreciated his standing up to them, and playing hardball.* I think running on a “Let DeSantis do for America what he’s done for […]