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Donald J. Trumpberger

Donald J. Trumpberger

What goes through the head of a typical Israeli? One of the greatest human capabilities is being able to understand another human being. I did not say...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Boeing vs SpaceX

Boeing vs SpaceX

It’s not even a competition. SpaceX is set to go public this week. The company is seeking $75 billion from the offering, while demand has already...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

The Republicans Are Saps and Saps Deserve to Lose

The Republicans Are Saps and Saps Deserve to Lose

In six years, you could not have fixed the problem? I have a friend who is a kind of fixer in the Israeli Knesset. You’d never know his name, and...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Our Billionaires Kind of Stink

Our Billionaires Kind of Stink

With some noticeable exceptions. I think that most people dream of being rich. They think of the wonderful life they could live and possibly all of...

04.06.2026 5

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Our Enemies Lie

Our Enemies Lie

The near endless failures of peace-making in the Middle East are due to our not thinking like the locals. Imagine being in an intense negotiation with...

03.06.2026 4

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Alan Joseph Bauer

A Mouthful of Deception

A Mouthful of Deception

Our food is poisoning us. It would seem that all of Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointments are unique and qualified. Each seems to have command of his...

02.06.2026 6

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Alan Joseph Bauer

The West Has Already Lost

The West Has Already Lost

We are watching the end of the most amazing period in human history. Have you ever watched a ballgame when your team is down by 10 runs in the seventh...

01.06.2026 8

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Levels of Violence

Levels of Violence

We can no longer win wars because it is impolite to apply the violence required to do so. When JFK was president, a reporter interviewed both the...

31.05.2026 6

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Alan Joseph Bauer

When All They Have Are Lies

When All They Have Are Lies

Lies and the Jews—they both have four letters. One of the misrepresentations of the left and the moron right is that it is verboten to criticize...

30.05.2026 6

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Why We Write

Why We Write

We’re all in this fight together for the next 250 years of American exceptionalism. During the Korean War, General Matt Ridgway prepared materials...

28.05.2026 5

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Alan Joseph Bauer

250 and Hauling

The U.S. is just getting started. Donald Trump can look forward to a retirement playing professional sports. The latest count on his primary...

27.05.2026 7

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Speaking the Same Language

To succeed, we all need to be speaking in a manner that both sides understand. In one of the more comical memories from our wedding I recall my father...

25.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

May I Do the Thinking, Please?

President Donald Trump would appear to be close to an Iran deal. What will it entail? Donald Trump apparently made one condition when allowing Home...

24.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

OK, So Why Do Jews Keep Voting For People Who Hate Them?

A dissection of irrational Jewish voting patterns. Imagine driving from New York to San Francisco. For three days, you stay on I-80, only getting off...

23.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

No More Room at the Inn

Forget Domino’s Pizza orders. Look at the flight line at Ben Gurion Airport. Israel is a small country of around 10 million people. Its major...

21.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Ain't Got No Responsibility

A world without consequences is all around us. Israel stopped ships from another “flotilla” that attempted to make its way to Gaza. When commandos...

20.05.2026 7

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Nakba Forever

The Palestinians enjoy wallowing in their own self-inflicted misery. When visiting English-speaking countries like Canada, England, and Australia, I...

18.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

There Are Enemies and Then There Are Enemies

Donald Trump knows how to change gears when dealing with America’s friends and foes. Donald Trump did a whirlwind visit to China, where he brought...

17.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Nick Kristallnacht

Nick Kristof of the New York Times has created a new breed of Israeli dogs. There was a time long ago in a distant galaxy when I used to read the...

16.05.2026 20

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Can-Do Nation

Israel is like the U.S. of old. There are a lot of things in common between the US and Israel, even as many on the Left turn against the Jewish state...

14.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Victims Everywhere

Losers will generally remain losers. As I write, Donald Trump is on his 14-hour trip to Beijing. The president never comes empty-handed. Flying with...

13.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Keep Reality to Yourself

A new report out of Israel and the same response. I have a buddy who was quite the cyclist. He once did an organized ride from Boston to San...

12.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Living in the Rearview Mirror

One can appreciate the past, but our job is the future. One day, while riding in my folks’ 1970 Chevy Impala, my dad turned on the AM radio. I...

11.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Can't Barack Obama Learn a New Hobby?

The former president seems awfully busy jet-setting around the world. Most American presidents retire to a quieter life away from the responsibilities...

10.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Donald Trump's Razzle-Dazzle

Ordered chaos is the way the president wins. I have to admit that I don’t remember much from my youth. I know that I had loving and wonderful...

09.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

-2 + -2 = +4?

Israeli politics is experiencing the Dell Rule for Losers Michael Dell is quite an extraordinary fellow. While other billionaires get more airtime due...

07.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Fantasies and the Rest of Us

One of the biggest problems we have in politics today is that a large part of the political spectrum accepts fantasy as the basis for policy. There...

06.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

They Hate You. Get Over It.

People hate you. There is little you can do about it except to protect yourself from the loonies amongst them. There is an “Anti-Zionism”...

05.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

It Must Be True! I Read It in The New York Times!

Tucker Carlson runs to the fish wrap of record to share his distorted view of the world. I got a laugh from the report that Tucker Carlson has a total...

04.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Hard to Bear It

A deep dive into the Chicago Bears and the 1986 Super Bowl victory leaves a lot of yellow flags on the field. I used to go to my accountant’s office...

03.05.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

The Radioactive Jew

Jews are being attacked and physically assaulted because… Israel or something. We met some friends the other night, and they asked if the New York...

02.05.2026 9

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Make It Their Problem

Donald Trump sets the template with Iran: make the problems theirs. Everyone knows the expression that, at times, is attributed to Donald Trump: if...

30.04.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

The British Are Going

250 years later and yes, the Americans won the Revolutionary War and the future. I was very happy to see the positive visit of King Charles and Queen...

29.04.2026 20

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Educated to Death

Left-wing lunatics are trending from the educated class. If one knew nothing about the Holocaust and was told about the mass murder of millions of...

28.04.2026 20

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Alan Joseph Bauer

They Could Do It, but You Wouldn't Like It

On paper, Israel could destroy Hamas and Hezbollah. Wars, unfortunately, are not fought on paper. A friend sent me a Hezbollah video. The first thing...

27.04.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Of Course They Want to Kill Him

When you don’t have a solution, you put an end to the problem. My late father was a professor for more than four decades. He always told us that if...

26.04.2026 20

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Yeah, They Really Do Hate America

The mask slips, and a Democratic senator expresses the views of his colleagues and voters. Israel is a funny country. When you think of the size,...

25.04.2026 20

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Alan Joseph Bauer

There Is a Reason Why There Are So Few Great Men Today

People rise and fall like buoys on the water. A great puzzle for Stalin was why the British threw Winston Churchill out of office in 1945. The last...

23.04.2026 20

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Alan Joseph Bauer

You Don't Get It, Do You?

If the US takes care of its interests and Israel benefits, is that so bad? Let’s imagine a dad who decides to get into shape. He stops drinking and...

22.04.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

I Could Give You a Billion Reasons

Decimal envy has multimillionaire “socialists” demanding a ban on billionaire capitalists. Let’s imagine a fellow who has a bad rash on his...

21.04.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

And Then There Were None

Senate Democrats give Israel the finger. Forty Democratic senators supported self-hating Jew Bernie Sanders in his attempt to prevent the shipment of...

20.04.2026 20

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Those Who Can Afford To Be Frivolous

Have you ever noticed that those in the West who are so pro Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah never have to actually deal with those groups or much of...

19.04.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

The Enigma of JD Vance

The sitting vice president is hard to figure out. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said the other day that nearly 80 million people specifically voted...

18.04.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Disposable Democrats

Former U.S. Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14) joins the ranks of Democrats jettisoned in the name of the party. Nikita Khrushchev went on a short...

16.04.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

In Israel, Garbage Trucks Bring the Garbage

Dozens of Palestinians were discovered in a garbage truck. This was poetic justice. On Monday, Israeli police discovered several dozen Palestinians...

15.04.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

You Can't Want It More Than They Do

The challenges of democracy when so many want governmental control. Years ago, my wife wanted her sister to get married; the latter was not overly...

14.04.2026 10

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Revolution for Thee but Not for Me

Talk’s cheap. Lifestyles aren’t. There is a story in an 800-year-old book by a well-known Jewish, philosopher rabbi. In it, he tells of a man who...

13.04.2026 20

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Alan Joseph Bauer

NATO: No Action, Talk Only

The non-American NATO contingent has proven itself a bunch of losers. With friends like these, who needs enemies? NATO played an important role in...

12.04.2026 20

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Alan Joseph Bauer

If I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give It to You

Why do they hate the Jewish state so much? Candace Owens has come out to write that there will never be peace in the world as long as Israel exists....

11.04.2026 30

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Seize Fire

There is a ceasefire. And then…? I regret that I was less aware of the late Charlie Kirk during his lifetime. He was extremely bright and, unlike...

09.04.2026 20

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