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Iran: Comparisons to Iraq are only helpful to a point when the world has changed
Less than 20 years ago, the phrase “Arab Street” generally meant a collection of countries that were both anti-Israel and largely opposed to the United States. Mainly thanks to President Trump himself, the region has flipped from adversary to ally and that might be enough. President Donald Trump’s bold, risky, some would say reckless decision…
Trump’s State of the Union and the two things that might matter in the days ahead
While this speech, nor any speech, is likely to be remembered in an age of short attention spans, the President did two things that could matter by tying his policies to individual people and positioning the Democrats as anti-American rather than merely anti-Trump. On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered an effective if not truly…
The Olympics, the progressive obsession with politics above all else, and my own obsession with Bruce Springsteen
Pride in America has fallen to staggeringly low levels among Democrats, who lash out at everything including the gold-winning USA hockey team because politics has become their one and only obsession. For me at least, there has to be another way. On Sunday, the US men’s hockey team won the Olympic gold medal for the…
The Supreme Court’s unsatisfying decision to cut the IEEPA baby in half on tariffs
Taxes have been considered a form of regulation since the Founding. Concluding one doesn’t come with the other amounts to believing Congress delegated the use of economic nuclear weapons, but only nuclear weapons, even when a scalpel might better serve the same purpose. In principle, I agree with the notion that our constitutional order does…
When, exactly, was politics normal like the Democrats claim?
Democrats plan to counter Trump’s State of the Union by claiming these aren’t normal times. Me? I’ve got a few questions about the past three decades the American people have been forced to suffer through and I would like their opinion on whether any of it was normal. Tomorrow evening, some leading Democrats are planning…
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Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 