by R3publicans | Jan 4, 2024 | Foreign Policy, R3publicans
An Iraqi who was told he would be electrocuted if he fell off the box. I am on vacation this week but thought it would be useful to republish a painful story I did two decades ago for the New Yorker about a group of US army soldiers who went out of control amid a war...
by R3publicans | Jan 2, 2024 | OKGrassroots, R3publicans
“Time for The Great Uprising to defeat The Great Reset. This isn’t just an R vs. D question in 2023. It’s a 1776 moment.” —Vivek Ramaswamy I’m already liking 2024. Consequence is itching to return to the American scene. Somewhere around 2016, cause and effect got a...
by R3publicans | Jan 1, 2024 | Immigration, OKGrassroots, R3publicans
Despite all of my disastrously wrong past predictions, I cannot resist sharing my thoughts on the coming year. Before I start, let’s accept that state-created pain, state hypocrisy, and state-funded murder around the world – much of it funded and enabled by the US...
by R3publicans | Dec 30, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, R3publicans
“I’ve also lost patience with the Sharia of the political left taking over the entire system.” — David Collum Historians of the future, flash-frying peccary testicles and mesquite pods over their campfires, will wonder at how the archetypal Shining City on a Hill of...
by R3publicans | Dec 29, 2023 | OKGrassroots, R3publicans
Eight years ago the Washington Post pledged to save democracy, but now argues we need to be saved from it… A month ago in the Washington Post, not long before the Colorado mess, neoconservative icon Robert Kagan wrote, “A Trump dictatorship is...
by R3publicans | Dec 27, 2023 | OKGrassroots, R3publicans
The graph below embodies a shit-ton of modern political, policy and financial history, even if on the surface its seems prosaic enough. Literally, it tracks in 2023 dollars of purchasing power the rise of the public debt since 1966. To be sure, 1966 did have some...
