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Spying on the American Remnant

As a boy, your author lived in a working-class neighborhood just outside Houston’s city limits. My parents were the children of rural people who had come to Houston looking for work during the Great Depression.

California Apocalypse Now

John Seiler, Jr.

Just about everybody I know, especially Republicans, is planning an exit strategy from California. A Los Angeles County firefighter I met at a party said all those guys, too, are planning to leave, despite their high salaries and pensions.

Trump's China Strategy

Srdja Trifkovic

Many years ago, Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson was challenged by a mathematician to name a single proposition in all social science that was both true and nontrivial. Samuelson proposed the principle of comparative advantage, first developed by economist D

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After Bolton, Trump Goals Remain Unrealized
Pat Buchanan | September 13, 2019
The sudden and bitter departure of John Bolton from the White House was baked in the cake from the day he arrived there.
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John Bolton's Long Overdue Departure
Srdja Trifkovic | September 11, 2019
Only by firing John Bolton, I wrote in this blog three months ago, President Donald Trump may demonstrate “that he is still ready, even belatedly, to stop the ongoing kidnapping of his foreign policy by the enemy within the gates.” He has done so, thus reducing the danger of America’s entanglement in yet another Middle Eastern war and improving his own chances of reelection next year.
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I Remember
Tom Piatak | September 11, 2019
I was in the air when the first tower was hit; I watched the two towers fall, stupefied and enraged, alone in my hotel room in Norfolk. After my business was done, I went to the eerily quiet Norfolk airport to begin the drive home.
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What’s Happened to the Mother of Parliaments?
Ralph Berry | September 11, 2019
Scene: the House of Commons. Speaker Bercow announces that he will stand down on October 31. Labour benches applaud wildly—the convention that members do not clap is so retro—and the Conservative benches are grimly silent, other than two or three malcontents who are headed out of the party anyway.
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