The US will impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and 10 percent on China, the Trump White House said. The purpose of tariffs is to protect domestic manufacturers and their work forces. What American manufacturers and workers are being protected by Trump’s tariffs? So much of US manufacturing is located offshore, what purpose […]
As noted in my recent “inaugural address”, there isn’t much a president is authorized to do. In a nutshell, he must execute the few constitutional laws Congress passes, and veto the rest. Repelling and expelling invaders is obviously among the permitted functions of his restricted role. Not only should a president deport anyone who illegally enters American territory; […]
Despite all the steps people will insist on taking to create union with God, clearing away whole lumberyards of spiritual debris along the way, intimacy with God has never really been about us to begin with. Having a relationship with God is not something we do but rather Someone we receive. And it is He who […]
As most of my readers know, I am not a huge fan of President Donald Trump. This, of course, doesn’t mean that I prefer Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or any other Democrat to Trump. I, in fact, loathe Biden and Harris much more than the Reason staffers who voted for them in 2020 and […]
President Trump’s approach to peace and liberty, as a subset of MAGA objectives, seems to be a net positive for his supporters, so far. He and his cabinet are working to defibrillate and jump start America’s broken and unhealthy body in hopes of strengthening and enriching the nation. He wants to build back its working […]
Ron Ridenour, a veteran anti-imperialist activist and writer, says he is happy to see Donald Trump as the US President. But not for any positive reasons about Trump as a politician or his administration. Ridenour has contempt for the 47th president (and many of his White House predecessors.) Trump’s bullying foreign policy could be coined as […]
As of this writing, when you attempt to access the US Agency for International Development (USAID) website or social media pages you are informed that, “This site can’t be reached.” The media reports that the new Trump Administration has not only frozen USAID activities but may be planning on bringing it back under control of […]
He can gratuitously claim all the economic “golden ages” he pleases, but when it comes to economic policy the Donald is an unhinged ditz and then some. In fact, he’s also a statist wolf in sheep’s clothing—pretending to be the savior of the people from the depredations of the Washington Swamp. Yet he now proposes […]
If you’re a Christian, there’s a particular passage that should shape your social life. It’s in Psalm 84:10-11, and it reads: “For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the […]
The story: Did you believe it 30 years ago when they told you that the Oslo Accords would bring peace to the Middle East? That Israel would finally withdraw from the Palestinian territories it had illegally occupied for decades, end its brutal repression of the Palestinian people, and allow a Palestinian state to be created there? […]