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J.T. Young
J.T. Young served in the Department of Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2004 and as a Congressional staff member from 1987 to 2000.
by | Dec 18, 2023

President Joe Biden is not the Democrats’ biggest problem; they are. The greatest misperception in the 2024 presidential race is that Biden is causing Democrats’ poor performance. On the contrary, Biden is an effect. The real cause is that Democrats…

by | Dec 3, 2023

Will the far-left target Hispanics next?  If that sounds far-fetched, then you have not been paying attention to the far-left.  Now targeting American Jews for supporting Israel’s right to self-defense and Israeli hostages’ right to freedom, how will far-left extremists…

by | Nov 26, 2023

When reading national polls, keep “Biden minus 4.4 percent” in your head. For Biden to beat Trump next year, he needs a lead at least that big in national polls. That he is not close to that now — and…

by | Nov 14, 2023

Hamas is less hypocritical than its American apologists. This is clear after listening to the cant coming from many in our colleges and Congress. Hamas has been comparatively straightforward in its hatred and intent to exterminate Israel; not so for…

by | Nov 5, 2023

American populism’s rise is directly connected to the failures of our self-styled elites.  American elites have in numerous instances missed the coming of important crises, some of which they have caused. Average Americans have borne the brunt of these crises. …

by | Oct 18, 2023

Listen closely and you will hear Biden being scapegoated for Democrats’ policy failures. In 2020, Democrats had only one candidate who could beat Trump, and Biden had only one candidate whom he could beat. It was a match made in…

by | Oct 10, 2023

President Joe Biden’s double-speak on his new border wall is shocking even for his administration. For three years, Biden has substantively ignored a problem he created; now facing threatening politics, he is symbolically pretending to address it. In doing so,…

by | Oct 5, 2023

For Joe Biden’s economy, what’s up should be down and what’s down should be up. Inflation, fueled by his own over-spending, has proven resiliently high, while real GDP has stubbornly under-performed, despite economic growth being his justification for over-spending. If…

by | Sep 26, 2023

Comparing current polling to 2020’s results, President Joe Biden cannot win reelection in 2024. To win in 2020, Biden had to roll up a big popular-vote margin to squeak to victory in the Electoral College. If current polls are correct,…

by | Sep 18, 2023

Even Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to live in San Francisco anymore. If not the explicit excuse for her recent announcement to seek reelection, that is no less its consequence. And all things considered — in San Francisco and California —…

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