The End of Neo-Conservatism

In what can be called a victory speech over failed neoconservative foreign policy, President Donald Trump proclaimed the end of 30-some years of existing foreign policy in the Mideast. The ideology dragged the U.S. through pointless wars from Libya to Yemen is now dead. At an investment…

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Loneliness

“Let there be loneliness, for where there is loneliness, there is also love, and where there is suffering, there is also joy.” – Clark E. Moustakas, Loneliness As regular readers of this column may know, I like to begin each edition with a story from my life that I…

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Merkel’s Back, Warns Europe Could Be ‘Destroyed’ Without More Open Borders

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is back with a message; Europe could be ‘destroyed’ unless they continue to allow millions of ‘non-Europeans’ to flood the bloc.  Criticizing Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s migration policy, Merkel told Southwestern Press Forum in Neu-Ulm last week that efforts to secure borders could have catastrophic…

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Could the Deagel Report Be True?

A disappeared think-tank report may be the ultimate clue to the purpose of the Covid vaccines. Last week, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) discussed the official government cover-up of the COVID-19 vaccines at a Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in the Senate. Johnson explained that he was stonewalled…

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Jake Tapper’s Biden Book is Hilarious and Insane

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s mass media apologia is leaps and bounds more demented than the book’s subject, Joe Biden. I wasn’t going to do it, really. After stepping to the edge of nervous collapse of late, I promised, no more Conventional Wisdom Bestsellers. I saw Abundance in an…

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It’s 3 a.m. and Private Equity is Extending an Invitation to ‘The Big Club’

I have worked in capital markets for three decades, and Wall Street has some unflattering names for the retail investor. Dumb Money. Slow Moving Deer. Ray Charles Buyers (Because Ray was blind). In other words, such investors have been the Rodney Dangerfield of investment…

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How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class

California’s ruling elites have priced out the middle class, replacing opportunity with oppression under the guise of equity and climate justice. California has declared war on its middle class, and the special interests controlling the state are doing everything they can to impose this punitive economic model…

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The Gross Fiscal Negligence of the GOP

The gross negligence of the Washington GOP with respect to its fundamental duty in the governance process of American democracy—to function as the Watchdog of the US Treasury—seems to know no bounds. Very simply, with current policies fixing to add $22 trillion of baseline deficits over the next…

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Musk Getting Fed Up With Trump and GOP Swamp Creatures

I wondered how long it would take for a no nonsense entrepreneur like Musk to get frustrated by how things actually work in the swamps of DC. Trump and the GOP are trying to convince the ignorant masses this big beautiful bill actually cuts spending. That’s a bold…

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For Gen Z, Love is Becoming a Digital Battlefield

Dating in 2025 is a minefield. Everywhere you turn, you’re met with unresolved trauma, emotional baggage, or self-destructive behavior. What was once a straightforward path to connection has become a labyrinth of complexities, especially for Generation Z. Technology, while ostensibly making it easier to meet people, has…

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