Category Archives: America

What are the next books to come out about Joe Biden, Donald Trump and the 2024 election?

Grok says: “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” Authors: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson Release Date: May 20, 2025 Publisher: Penguin Press Description: This book dives into Joe Biden’s decision to seek … Continue reading

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What stunning thing will Trump do next? (3-30-25)

01:00 My best self would spend zero time listening to pundits in favor of experts, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=160417 07:00 What stunning thing will Trump do next? https://yourmoralleader.blogspot.com/2025/03/what-stunning-thing-will-trump-do-next.html 12:00 Video: MASSIVE B-2 Bomber Deployment… Iran About to Be HIT HARD, 18:20 Michael joins, … Continue reading

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WSJ: For Trump, Recent Setbacks Are a Price Worth Paying for Radical Change

My two biggest fears about this Trump administration were that it would lack competence and have too much corruption. The Signal chat mess from last week demonstrated a lack of competence. Overall, I’m thrilled with this administration. It is far … Continue reading

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NYT: ‘The Secret History of the War in Ukraine’

Prior to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine was a de facto member of NATO. Since Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has been a de facto member of NATO (aside from NATO countries explicitly waging war on its behalf with their own forces). Every day … Continue reading

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Permanent Resident Vs Citizen

When I came back to the USA after 8 months in Australia in 1989, the customers officer told me that I could lose my green card for being out of the country for so long. Frightened, I immediately set about … Continue reading

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WP: Trump pushes for changes that keep opposition off balance, are hard to reverse

The Washington Post reports: The administration’s approach: Overwhelm with action, outrun the usual checks on executive power, and change government and the country so quickly that some impacts could be irreversible even if courts later intervene. White House deputy chief … Continue reading

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Does Mike Walz know Jeffrey Goldberg?

Grok says: There’s no definitive evidence to confirm whether Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security Adviser, personally knows Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. The question stems from a March 2025 incident where Waltz inadvertently added Goldberg to a Signal group … Continue reading

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How Can The Right Take Back Institutions

Aaron Renn writes Feb. 13: Conservatives can’t use the long march strategy because the left isn’t dumb enough to let them penetrate institutions. Instead, conservatives need to do the equivalent of a private equity buyout and restructure institutions from the … Continue reading

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Trump’s assault on the left-wing credentialed class (3-25-25)

01:00 Trump isn’t fighting fair06:40 Trump vs Big Law, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whRO1X1oSOk09:00 Big Law Gets Back to Business, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/24/big_law_gets_back_to_business_152545.html23:00 Trump’s assault on the elites aka the left-wing credentialed class, https://yourmoralleader.blogspot.com/2025/03/trumps-assault-on-elites-aka-left-wing.html25:00 Are American plumbers, dentists, lawyers, garbage men, and professors likely to hang … Continue reading

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Trump’s assault on the left-wing credentialed class

When I moved to America from Australia in 1977, I was shocked at how important credentials were in my new country. Credentials are for Americans what mateship is for Australians. Some of my fellow Aussies who now lived in America … Continue reading

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