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Jeane Kirkpatrick: A Normal Country in a Normal Time (1990)

  • June 2, 2021
NOTE: I was struck when reading this for the first time several months ago. To say that this Kirkpatrick essay–which is the finest short piece on foreign policy I’ve ever…
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It’s Okay If They Rip You Off

  • April 12, 2021
LESSON: When people are using your talking points, arguments and rhetoric, you’ve won. If you’re the only one saying it, you might be unique, but you don’t have influence.  Apropos:…
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No, Viewpoint Neutrality is not “Hate”

  • March 11, 2021
Dumb. Gab is not an “Antisemitic platform”—there are plenty of antisemites on Twitter. What Gov. Abbot seems to be doing is allowing the Left to bully you into demanding viewpoint…
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The Khashoggi Op, Take II

  • March 2, 2021
I wrote a lot about information operation in my new book, Qatar’s Shadow War–and focused on the Jamal Khashoggi effort in particular. The weapons used in Information Operations are, obviously,…
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Today at the Capitol

  • January 7, 2021
Lesson: You cannot put your people into a corner they cannot get out of.
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On Ideology vs Blackmail

  • December 13, 2020
If you can’t predict what they’d do, you can’t fight them. If it’s ONLY shadow wars you’ll never understand, what’s the point in even trying? Just unplug from the news and play video games.
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On Blue-to-Red Internal Migrations

  • December 11, 2020
As @Oracle moves to Texas, it’s it’s well past time to take stock of what these internal political migrations actually mean–and what responsibilities governors, mayors and legislators have to ensure…
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Universal Values and “the Big Sort”

  • December 9, 2020
For low tax, high growth states like TX or FL, there are no tax or business incentives in the world that are worth risking changing the policies that made you attractive in the first place.
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Why Conspiracy Theories are Harmful

  • November 22, 2020
You cannot explain motivation by a large group to engage in any conspiracy—broadly defined, any coordinated effort—without considering that ideas/ideology that the motivating factor.
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On HAMMER and SCORECARD

  • November 19, 2020
If I give you an explanation for something you believe to be true—is that explanation true?
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