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WITCH HUNT: Trump’s Not So Crazy Waco Strategy | Steve Berman

WITCH HUNT: Trump’s Not So Crazy Waco Strategy | Steve Berman


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As we know, Donald J. Trump was not arrested last week on charges of—well, we’re not really sure what they will be—by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The former president kicked off his official 2024 campaign with a rally in Waco, Texas. The theme was “witch hunt.” His fans lapped it up like beer at a monster …

BIDEN CORPORATISM: Funds Told to Spend Your Retirement on ESG | Steve Berman

BIDEN CORPORATISM: Funds Told to Spend Your Retirement on ESG | Steve Berman


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Earlier in the week, I made a passing reference to President Biden’s veto of a Republican effort to stop a Department of Labor rule dealing with retirement funds. Yawn; exciting stuff. The rant wasn’t even about that topic; it was a screed against navel-gazing while the totalitarians have their wedding day. But I feel like this arcane topic …

NEW WORLD ORDER: Now is Not The Time to Screw Around

NEW WORLD ORDER: Now is Not The Time to Screw Around


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China and Russia’s leaders have pledged to make a “new world order” based on their brand of governing. They sealed their promise with a swarm of Iranian suicide terror drones blasting Kyiv. Joe Biden issued the first veto of his presidency, shooting down a Republican ban on the Labor Department’s impending rule to allow huge government pension …

ISRAEL’S WARNING: “The Abyss is at our Fingertips” | Steve Berman

ISRAEL’S WARNING: “The Abyss is at our Fingertips” | Steve Berman


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If you want a glimpse of a country with its unpopular leader the defendant in a seemingly endless corruption trial, remaking his nation’s judiciary under the influence of extremists who wish to shape the government and the state to serve their own ends, don’t look to the U.S. in 2024 and the nightmare second term of Donald J. …

BOOTPRINTS: Moral Hazard as a Business Model | Steve Berman

BOOTPRINTS: Moral Hazard as a Business Model | Steve Berman


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What you’ve always suspected is true. Bankers lie. It’s a racket. But it’s not like “The Big Short” where deceptive bankers and greedy real estate agents and mortgage originators teamed up to load homeowners into impossible purchases of McMansions they could never afford. This is when bankers lie to each other, or when smarter bankers …

GREEN ENVY: Biden’s Oil Doublespeak | Steve Berman

GREEN ENVY: Biden’s Oil Doublespeak | Steve Berman


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President Biden is all about saying the right things to appease the greenies, but then doing all the things to appease the oilmen. He’s about to approve project Willow, which will give ConocoPhillips the right to use oil leases on Alaska’s North Slope, producing up to 180,000 barrels a day. At the same time, he’s declaring 13 million …

I Asked an AI to Justify Student Loan Forgiveness | Steve Berman

I Asked an AI to Justify Student Loan Forgiveness | Steve Berman


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If you want the straight truth about President Biden’s (likely doomed) effort to harness emperor-level authority and “forgive” hundreds of billions in student loans, I can save time and boil it down to Jonah Goldberg’s closing words in his essay on the subject (sadly behind a paywall, protected by a phalanx of murder-buttons): “I want the law.” Higher …

PEACEFUL JOE: How Biden Wins the Nobel Peace Prize by Making War | Steve Berman

PEACEFUL JOE: How Biden Wins the Nobel Peace Prize by Making War | Steve Berman


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On February 22, 1909, President Teddy Roosevelt reviewed 16 battleships returning from his “Great White Fleet” two year world tour which began on December 16, 1907. The fleet’s return, 10 days before his term of office ended with the inauguration of William Howard Taft, expressed in real terms that the United States was a world …

THE FOREPERSON: I Have Georgia’s 2020 Voter File and Here’s What I Found About Emily Kohrs | Steve Berman

THE FOREPERSON: I Have Georgia’s 2020 Voter File and Here’s What I Found About Emily Kohrs | Steve Berman


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When Fulton County DA was picking members for the special grand jury, my wife had jury duty, about a month after I did. We live in Fulton County. I prayed hard that neither of us would show up on the fated day and be selected. God forbid, and I’m glad it was other people. I …