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Checkmating Middle America

America’s descent into banana republicanism continues apace, and on two fronts. To begin with, we learn that President Trump’s much-disdained assertion that Trump Tower was being wiretapped during the election campaign turns out to be absolutely true.

Recessional

Ralph Berry

P.G. Wodehouse reached for Keats to describe his emotions when he read the first of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman saga.

Bleached Chicken, Brexit, and Trump

Freddy Gray

Will he? Won’t he? Ever since Donald Trump emerged as a serious presidential contender last year, the British have been excited at the thought of his arrival in the motherland.

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The Blast of the Globalists
Tom Piatak | October 23, 2017
[W]hat the upholders of the establishment consensus have not fully reckoned with is that the only reason Americans began listening to Donald Trump is because the globalism that leaders of both parties have offered voters for so long has been a disaster for much of America and many Americans.
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Is Liberalism a Dying Faith?
Pat Buchanan | October 20, 2017
The congregation worshiping the gods of equality, diversity, and democracy is shrinking. And even Europe seems to be rejecting what America has on offer.
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The Empire Comes Home
Maj. Danny Sjursen | October 18, 2017
I can remember both so well. 2006: my first raid in South Baghdad. 2014: watching on YouTube as a New York police officer asphyxiated—murdered—Eric Garner for allegedly selling loose cigarettes on a Staten Island street corner not five miles from my old apartment. Both events shocked the conscience.
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Is War With Iran Now Inevitable?
Pat Buchanan | October 17, 2017
With his declaration Friday that the Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran. He was not elected to do that. Or so at least some of us thought.
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