“Our Country is Full” – President Donald Trump (April 5, 2019) What does it mean for a country to be “full”? In a November 2018 prepared statement, President Trump had made it clear said declared that his agenda was only about illegal immigration: “Illegal immigration hurts American...
Let’s Talk Turkey The country, not the bird. Change happens. In Turkey, change has been a slow-motion slide into dictatorship. Turkey used to be the shining example of an Islamic republic with a multi-decade history of secular democracy. No more. Turkey’s last sixteen years provide...
A Simple Take-away from the Mueller Investigation The Mueller Investigation was not about whether President Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to overthrow the U.S. government. Those who took a Manchurian Candidate view of the Investigation, as well as those who saw the Investigation as an...
Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick Big Stick Diplomacy was Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy trademark. Roosevelt described his style as “the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis.” That style served America exceptionally well....
Will Central Planning Work? Friday’s The Lonely Realist was distributed early on a turbulent news-filled day. That news included March’s EU factory output, which fell off the table, and U.S. manufacturing activity, which slipped to its lowest level in almost two years. The slowing...
