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Category Archives: America
Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests (5-18-25)
01:00 American Primeval exemplifies my worldview, https://yourmoralleader.blogspot.com/2025/05/american-primeval.html12:00 Political scientist John J. Mearsheimer on war and international politics, https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/49/4/7/130810/War-and-International-Politics27:40 Which prominent Americans called for regime change in Russia?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16140332:00 Subversive un-pc jokes on SNL34:20 Mark Halperin: Opportunity Missed: The Media Continues … Continue reading
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2025 is the Year of Living Dangerously Between Inflation and Deflation (5-11-25)
01:00 I perform humility03:00 The decline of Biden Inc.10:00 Nathan Cofnas: ‘Podcast Bros and Brain Rot: The only thing worse than an expert is a non-expert’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16106540:00 NYT: Trump’s No. 1 Fan in Greenland: A Bricklayer Turned Political Player1:16:30 Batya … Continue reading
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‘The Rule of Law, The Rule of Courts, and the Rule of the State’ (5-4-25)
02:00 WSJ: Trump’s Tariffs Are Lifting Some U.S. Manufacturers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W960TW79QCI 07:00 Trump’s First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W960TW79QCI 24:00 Michael Huemer: Trade, Tariffs, & Make-Work Bias, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16094240:00 Democrats Think They Have A Branding Problem, … Continue reading
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The Democrats believe they have a branding crisis.
This reminds of the optics crisis experienced by the Alt Right post Charlottesville, and Biden’s communications crisis that Americans think the economy sucks and he’s too old to govern. These are all attempts to deny reality. The problems are deeper … Continue reading
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Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
This is the greatest book on the 2024 election so far. Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes write: In June 2023, one year before the debate and two months after he’d formally announced that he would seek reelection, Biden entered a … Continue reading
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DEI Kills – Capt. Lobach’s Reckless Disregard For 67 Lives Is Not Complicated (5-1-25)
01:00 NYT Lies: New details revealed by The Times show that the failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Reagan National Airport were far more complex than previously known. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/dc-plane-crash-reagan-airport.html02:00 DC Helicopter/Airliner Crash: Shocking … Continue reading
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The Discussion Has Changed From Tariffs Are Bad To Trump’s Tariffs Are Bad (4-27-25)
02:00 Trump’s Al Anon Approach To The World, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16092604:00 Are there too many variables with global trade for anyone to be an expert?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16091817:00 Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google’s Gemini Problem, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcd1EgQrhU25:00 Trump’s Dealism, https://www.ft.com/content/eb780115-80ec-48c4-ab96-4936624ff16740:30 … Continue reading
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Trump’s Al Anon Approach To The World
The Al Anon approach to life is to recognize the limits of your power and influence and to allow people to reap the consequences of their decisions. Ukraine tried to ally with the West. As a result, Russia smashed it. … Continue reading
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Decoding Trump’s First 100 Days (4-24-25)
01:00 Trump’s first 100 days, https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-100-day-opportunity-policy-economy-narrative-658b8a43?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s16:20 The Self-Inflicted White House Wounds, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6gOQrvi17Yhttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-tricked-strong-economy-0020346420:00 NYT: They Caught the Flu, and Never Came Home: The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/well/flu-deaths-hospitalizations.html38:00 The Case For Economic … Continue reading
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Decoding The Right’s Trump Derangement Syndrome (4-17-25)
01:00 I read in the FT that Trump is halfway to instituting a police state02:00 FT: Trump is halfway to making America a police state, https://www.ft.com/content/4c4b0f14-3e85-4436-94de-204d3f518f3c03:00 Will Trump revoke Harvard’s tax exempt status? https://ncofnas.com/p/with-amy-wax-for-and-against-tds08:00 George Friedman on How Geopolitics Drives … Continue reading
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