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John F. Di Leo

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Who Should America Protect, and How?

Who Should America Protect, and How?

Photo Credit:Security guard pix4free ccoThere are a lot of people in...

25.01.2025 80

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Carteresque: Joe Biden Said Israeli Hostages Released by Hamas Terrorists Appeared to Be 'in Good Health'

Carteresque: Joe Biden Said Israeli Hostages Released by Hamas Terrorists Appeared to Be 'in Good Health'

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21.01.2025 2

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The Newsom/Bass Wildfires and the Allocation of Blame

The Newsom/Bass Wildfires and the Allocation of Blame

Photo Credit:California wildfires montage Monica ShowalterThey must not...

13.01.2025 20

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Chinese Footprints in a Moroccan Seaport

Chinese Footprints in a Moroccan Seaport

There are news stories that make the front page, there are news stories that make the business page, and there are news stories that aren’t covered...

07.01.2025 6

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Protectionism in an Age of Free Trade

President Trump takes a lot of heat – as a Republican – for being comfortable advocating for the use of tariffs. We live in an age of free...

16.12.2024 10

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The Hunter Biden Who Could Have Been

Since Sunday night’s announcement of an expansive pardon for Hunter Biden, a generous gift from a wayward father to his wayward son, the press...

05.12.2024 3

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Yes, Tariffs Are a Tax. What about It?

As the un-American left lays the groundwork for undoing President Trump’s second-term policy goals, one of the areas in which Trump’s enemies...

02.12.2024 4

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Trump's Trade Policy and the Procrastinating Importer

Companies the world over watched the election results and tried to read the tea leaves on what will happen to trade policy.  President Trump ran...

29.11.2024 5

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DOGE: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government are Not the Problem -- Bureaucratic Power is

Many are dancing an Irish jig – even non-Irishmen whom one would not expect to know such dances – over the prospect of Elon Musk and Vivek...

15.11.2024 40

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Tariffs, Inflation, and the Donkey that Cried Wolf

President Trump has been re-elected, and the American left is losing its mind.  That was to be expected. It’s one of the ways leftists are...

10.11.2024 30

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Five Half-Truths About the Longshoremen’s Strike

We have been told many things about the longshoremen’s strike over the past week. Most of the reporting has been in half-truths, at best –...

08.10.2024 2

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Natural Disasters and Unnatural Expectations

Hurricanes can be predicted; the devastation they leave behind often cannot. Hurricane Helene left some people on its path alone, while causing...

29.09.2024 10

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The ILA’s Expected Port Strike: One Union Against All Others

Even before the expected longshoremen's strike begins, we have learned a great deal about the shortsightedness and incompetence of the modern...

24.09.2024 30

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The Debate at the Kitchen Table

ABC staged a debate this week.  A presidential debate.  Ostensibly between former president Donald J. Trump and former senator Kamala Harris, but...

13.09.2024 30

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Standing Up to the Puppeteers in the Red Sea and Beyond

The Houthi rebels have been fighting in Yemen for thirty years, as part of the general power struggles between Shia and Sunni that define so many...

10.09.2024 2

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Denial and Delusion: The DNC at the United Center

How are you supposed to run a party convention?  And how are you supposed to behave when you stage one? Can’t look to the Constitution for...

21.08.2024 3

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The Decline and Fall of RFK Jr.?

For months, election-watchers have wondered: will Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. make it onto enough states’ ballots to have an impact?  Will he have...

15.08.2024 20

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The Biden Campaign and the Knives in the Senate

On Sunday, July 21, 2024, the White House issued a written statement in which Joe Biden announced that he was withdrawing from his reelection...

23.07.2024 40

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How Can Election Results Really Fight Bigotry?

On the Foreign Policy night of the 2024 Republican National Convention, there was a great deal of focus on the eruption of antisemitism and anti-...

20.07.2024 7

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Insurrections and the Leviathan State

For the past four years, we have been constantly reminded of “the insurrection,” a brief moment on January 6, 2021 when a couple hundred...

15.07.2024 20

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