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Slashing Foreign Aid Redux
Hot damn!
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A Day In Trump World—The Good,The Bad And The Stupid
Any conservative who still thinks Donald Trump will Make America Great Again really ought to stop smoking whatever it is that’s producing their acute…
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Trump-O-Nomics: The Ditzy Spawn Of Free Money, Not Free Trade (Part 1)
He can gratuitously claim all the economic “golden ages” he pleases, but when it comes to economic policy the Donald is an unhinged ditz and then some.
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January 2025

NATO: The Case To Get Out Now
The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions:
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NATO: The Case To Get Out Now
The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions:
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It (Part 2)
The Soviet Union’s acquisition of the A-bomb in 1949 did not change the equation or gainsay the case that the entanglements of the Marshall Plan and…
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It (Part 1)
When asked whether the Constitutional Convention had produced a monarchy or a republic, Ben Franklin famously replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
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Thunder And Blunder On Day One
Well, the Donald surely did hit the ground thundering, and some right good noise it was—starting with the 1500 + pardons of the J6 offenders.
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Senator Mike Crapo’s Crappy Economics
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo is about as useless as tits on a boar when it comes to the fundamental GOP mission to function as the…
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Fiscal Redemption Requires A Republic—Not An Empire, Part 3
The evidence from the Soviet archives shows that Stalin’s policy during the 1947 pivot to Cold War was largely defensive and reactive.
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Heads Up, Donald! The UniParty Has Booby-Trapped The Economy
Donald Trump is returning to the Oval Office after skipping a term—a feat accomplished only one time before by Grover Cleveland in the late 19th…
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Fiscal Redemption Requires A Republic—Not An Empire, Part 2
The war-weary Washington policy makers were absolutely correct when they brought America’s 12 million-man expeditionary force home from Asia, Europe and…
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