Steve Berman

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Steve Berman is a transplanted northerner living in the Atlanta area. For over 30 years, Steve has been a technology entrepreneur, creating, building, and selling businesses. Steve has been writing about politics and social issues for nearly a decade. It started with a “diary" on RedState, and quickly moved on to professional writing. He has written for other well-known web publications and was one of the original writers who helped Erick Erickson launch The Resurgent in 2016.

Steve’s work has been published by Fox News, and he has been cited on the New York Times opinion page, and quoted by the Washington Post. He is excited to be involved with the latest project, The First, as an opinion writer.

A Jewish believer in Christ, Steve lives and worships with his family in the Atlanta suburbs, after moving to central Georgia from New Hampshire over 28 years ago.

INDICTMENTS: You Can’t Outsmart Justice | Steve Berman

INDICTMENTS: You Can’t Outsmart Justice | Steve Berman


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Former President Donald Trump’s valet texted that he had a “family emergency 🤫” (he really texted the emoji) come up when he changed plans in late June 2022—the weekend after Trump’s legal team received a subpoena from Department of Justice investigators asking for surveillance footage. Following that, a series of texts that even Inspector Jacques …

REBUNKED? The Debunked Stories Keep Coming Home to Roost | Steve Berman

REBUNKED? The Debunked Stories Keep Coming Home to Roost | Steve Berman


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As recently as late May—2023, this year—polls show that six in ten Republicans believe the 2020 election was illegitimate, which is about the same as it was in the fall of 2022. That has fallen from over 70 percent back in 2021, so at least some Republicans have grown tired of believing in empty fantasies …

A SLOG: Zelenskyy’s Moral Plea to Biden on NATO Membership | Steve Berman

A SLOG: Zelenskyy’s Moral Plea to Biden on NATO Membership | Steve Berman


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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy knows that Ukraine’s future lies in NATO, and NATO said as much in its communiqué Tuesday. The long document mentions Ukraine 45 times in 90 numbered paragraphs, and establishes a NATO-Ukraine Council. Specifically, NATO said it would “support” Ukraine in defending itself against the “Russian war of aggression against Ukraine” though the meaning …

SAY IT: Someone Owes Trump a Thank You for SCOTUS | Steve Berman

SAY IT: Someone Owes Trump a Thank You for SCOTUS | Steve Berman


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It’s a given that modern Marxists-parading-as-liberals not only oppose actual conservatives, but also believe them to be evil incarnate. Therefore, no bounds of political “Geneva convention” rules apply to their tactics. This has been true since the red-baiting days of the 1950s. In the last 100 years, social experimenters and red revolutionists have always been …

PRIGOZHIN: Putin’s Decembrist Still Has a Future | Steve Berman

PRIGOZHIN: Putin’s Decembrist Still Has a Future | Steve Berman


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Yevgeny Prigozhin is known as “Putin’s chef.” In America the term would be “a fixer,” kind of like Roger Stone. if Stone had access to advanced military hardware and could raid prisons to build a gang around a core of professional thugs. In Russia, this is not an uncommon arrangement. Russian omnicrat Vladimir Putin himself …

Would a Jury Send Hunter to Prison, But Not Trump? | Steve Berman

Would a Jury Send Hunter to Prison, But Not Trump? | Steve Berman


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If I won the (U.S.) presidential election, my first act after the inaugural festivities would be to ask for the real intelligence files on alien bodies and craft held at Area 51. Then I’d promptly declassify it. Who cares about the intergalactic NDA and intellectual property rights agreement, enforceable by planetary destruction, that every president …

A Pox on Joe Rogan | Steve Berman

A Pox on Joe Rogan | Steve Berman


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The country once dodged a bullet. This time it might hit its target. It’s January 11, 2017, and then-President-elect Trump’s transition team—a disorganized three ring circus led by clowns—found Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. too much of a crank to seriously consider as leader of a panel on vaccine safety. RFK Jr. is of course the son of …

IDOLATRY: Baptists Battle Over Women, Leave Sin Untouched | Steve Berman

IDOLATRY: Baptists Battle Over Women, Leave Sin Untouched | Steve Berman


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Best-selling author and megachurch pastor Rick Warren has repented of keeping women out of ministry, and the Southern Baptist Convention is roiling over it. But so far, they refuse to take a strong stance against their history of unbridled support for Donald Trump. That was one of the themes of the last SBC meeting in Nashville, but …