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Why DOGE Has Failed

28th May 2025 Patrick Barron 2215 Comments

After much ballyhoo and euphoria over Elon Musk’s DOGE findings, it now appears that the federal budget will not decrease one penny this fiscal year. What went wrong? As a long-time consultant in the banking [more…]

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Another disappointing week

26th May 2025 well_chuffed 2451 Comments

In the USA it was all supposed to be habbening, only it didn’t. Over here Starmer is supposed to be toast but he still lingers and the anchor baby was supposed to be facing a [more…]

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Isolating Iran

19th May 2025 well_chuffed 2272 Comments

The Donald’s latest excursion in the Middle East has been met with the usual carping and disdain from the legacy media. I will be the first to concede he has been over the top with [more…]

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Keith’s negotiating prowess

9th May 2025 well_chuffed 1456 Comments

Keith’s expertise is certainly not in negotiating and especially not with the Donald. Despite shouting from the rooftops how wonderful our new trade deal with the US is (remember only possible because of Brexit) the [more…]

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The Reece Committee: Lessons from history

30th April 2025 Going Postal 2339 Comments

In the early 1950s, against the backdrop of the Cold War and growing concerns over potential clandestine efforts at internal subversion, the United States Congress launched an investigation into the activities of major tax-exempt foundations. [more…]

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California’s Medi-Cal implosion Explained

29th April 2025 Going Postal 2680 Comments

California’s Democrat socialist democracy, thanks to our one-party supermajority, is a sterling example for our country.  At least its chief architect, Gavin Newsom, hopes so for his 2028 ambitions.  His chief entitlement used to attract [more…]

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Making Sense of American Craziness

24th April 2025 Going Postal 2347 Comments

The idea that England and America are two countries separated by the same language is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but there are other attributes that separate us as well.  We in the US [more…]

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Some Straight Talk to the Anti-Free Traders

23rd April 2025 Patrick Barron 2212 Comments

Oh, I know. You aren’t REALLY against free trade per se. You just demand a “level playing field”. Those Chinese cheat by raising tariffs against our goods and subsidizing key industries that they want to [more…]

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They call him the Great Disruptor

17th April 2025 Going Postal 2043 Comments

It’s been interesting (but entirely predictable) to see the world reaction to Trump’s tariff speech. I suppose that hysteria is warranted, because what Trump has done is indeed unprecedented and likely to have seismic effects, [more…]

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