Category Archives: Policy

If You Liked Joe Biden, You’ll Love Kamala Harris

Posted on September 10, 2024 by Joe Benning
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A Campaign About Nothing

Posted on August 21, 2024 by Joe Benning

Now that the Republican Convention has concluded and we are two days into the Democratic Convention, absent any surprises, we can safely say that we have a presidential  campaign about nothing. For instance, can any one honestly say that we … Continue reading →

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Modern v. Classical Liberals

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Joe Benning

“Governments are living things and operate as organic wholes.  Moreover, governments have their natural evolution and are one thing in one age, another in another. The makers of the Constitution constructed the federal government upon a theory of checks and balances … Continue reading →

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Is Donald J. Trump a Conservative?

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Joe Benning

At the moment former President and current Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump is the defendant in a books-and-records criminal trial in lower Manhattan. Serious people doubt that the books-and-records charges should ever have been brought, much less blown up … Continue reading →

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Presidential Immunity? No Thanks.

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Joe Benning

Q: Where in the Constitution is any form of immunity specified.    A: Nowhere So how is it that the Supreme Court is embroiled in a case in which apparently serious people argue that former President Trump is immunized against … Continue reading →

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Trump Strikes Again

Posted on April 26, 2024 by Joe Benning

We are back from Bordeaux and guess who is in the news? Bad ideas never die. They just bide their time.  The latest version of this truism is brought to us, naturally enough, by a Presidential contender. This time around … Continue reading →

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The State of Play

Posted on January 10, 2024 by Joe Benning

Question: What are the serious challenges the United States currently faces? Hint: The answer does not include specifying pronouns. The answers should be more than obvious. (1) America faces perhaps the most important foreign policy challenges it has ever faced. … Continue reading →

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Free Speech

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Joe Benning

A bipartisan group of 74 Congressman urged Harvard, MIT and UPenn to dismiss their respective presidents a few days after their Congressional testimony on campus antisemitism. Representatives  Elise Stefanik (R., NY) and Jared Moskowitz (D., Fla) actually co-authored a letter … Continue reading →

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Progressive Good Crime

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Joe Benning

Coinciding with the Biden Administration’s push for higher taxes on wealthy individuals and a greatly expanded IRS, ProPublica published documents that purport to show private tax information of several high profile billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and … Continue reading →

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Ben Sasse for President

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Joe Benning

We are once again faced with the question of whether it is worth voting in the Presidential race and if so, for whom. Before considering any particular candidate, let’s have a look at the question of why vote at all.  … Continue reading →

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