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Tucker Carlson Is the Most Important Voice in America

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If you want to thank someone for Trump’s replacement of ultra-hawk National Security Adviser John Bolton, you can thank Tucker Carlson explains Park MacDougald in his NYMag piece, “Is Tucker Carlson the Most Important Pundit in America?” Because on June 20, suggests MacDougald, when Iran shot down an American drone in the Gulf of Oman […]

Are Americans Getting the Foreign Policy They Voted For With Robert O’Brien?

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President Trump has chosen Robert O’Brien as his next National Security Adviser. While almost anyone is an improvement over ultra-hawk John Bolton, Daniel Larison writes at The American Conservative that O’Brien was still a bad choice. The danger, it seems, is that O’Brien is just one more cog in the globalist neoconservative machine in Washington […]

How Will the Next National Security Advisor be Judged?

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Chris Preble is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Chris is a friend of mine, and I’ve called him The Most Important Person You May Have Never Heard Of, because he’s America’s best foreign policy analyst. In the New York Daily News, Chris outlines a truly “America First” foreign policy […]

The Battle is on to Replace John Bolton

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Can President Trump make a clean break from “Boltonism?” Curt Mills thinks he can, as he explains at The American Conservative. Mills thinks there’s a chance that Trump and Bolton didn’t simply have a personal falling out, but that Trump could make a major policy shift after the ouster of Bolton. He writes (abridged): After […]

Trump Cannot Replace Bolton from Bush and McCain Teams

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At The American Conservative, W. James Antle, III tells readers that if President Trump wants to achieve the America First foreign policy he campaigned on and that Americans voted for, he cannot recruit a replacement for John Bolton from the Bush/McCain faction of the GOP. Trump’s choice, explains Antle, is either “chart a different course […]

Trump’s Plan to Finally Privatize the Mortgage Industry

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Since the financial crisis, mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been languishing on the federal government’s balance sheet. The two federally backed mortgage securitization companies were taken into government conservatorship in 2008. Now, Federal Housing Finance Agency director Mark Calabria has been tasked with the almost impossible task of reprivatizing them. I know […]

Income Inequality Declining in the Trump Years

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Citizens of these United States have much to be thankful for. More jobs, higher incomes, less poverty are all good signs of an improving society. Fewer Citizens Living in Poverty “By important measurements, life is getting better in the United States, especially for those at the bottom of the income ladder, writes James Freeman in […]

John Bolton Never Belonged Near the White House

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At The American Conservative, Daniel R. Depetris explains why the next national security advisor must dump Bolton’s ideas and “start over with strategies that actually have a chance at success.” The truth is, Bolton never belonged near the White House. Depetris writes (abridged): John Bolton is(was) everything you don’t want in a national security adviser. […]