Prophetic Words From a Burning Bush
Something deep in our old-fashioned Republican souls feels a certain nostalgia for the administration of President George W. Bush, and lately even our most newfangled Democrat friends will admit to...
View ArticleThe Ongoing Campaign’s National Insecurity Statement
Ever since the Reagan administration — and oh how we miss those days, by the way — the congress has required that presidents provide a general statement of their foreign policy objectives and plans to...
View ArticleSteeling Ourselves for a Trade War
The smart money on Wall Street didn’t much like President Donald Trump’s announcement he would be imposing steep tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum, with the Dow dropping 500 points before...
View ArticleThe Pros and Cohns of Protectionism
Even on a Tuesday day when a pornographic video performer called Stormy Daniels filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, the departure of National Economic Council director Gary Cohn was the...
View ArticleTrump Takes on Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson has long made the motorcycles of choice for American cops, criminals, and male middle age crisis sufferers, and ranks with Louisville Slugger baseball bats and Fender electric guitars...
View ArticleTrade Wars on an Otherwise Delightful Summer Day in Kansas
Tuesday was another sunny yet unusually temperate top-down summer day here in Kansas, and we had a nice meal with our California brother and his delightful longtime partner and our excellent parents,...
View ArticleAmerica First, Morality After That
President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Lesley Stahl of the “60 Minutes” program that aired on Sunday, far away from the friendly confines of “Fox and Friends,” and of course it was full...
View ArticleThe First Casualty of the Trade War
Trade wars are good and easily won, President Donald Trump assures us, but we have to admit they make us nervous. Somehow we can’t find a single case in the past several millennia of economic history...
View Article“BoJo,”“Brexit,” and Trump
Over the past many decades there have often been intriguing similarities between America’s presidents and the United Kingdom’s prime ministers. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a conservative Tory...
View ArticleThe Desultory State of the Democrats
President Donald Trump is facing an impeachment trial and numerous other pressing problems entirely of his own making, but he can console himself he’ll likely wind up running for reelection against a...
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