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Erickson and his family reside outside the beltway in Macon, Georgia, where he is a former Macon city councilman.
The first question in weapons design should be what America’s existing factories can build, not what engineers could build with an unlimited budget.
Republicans will outperform their polling again, but probably not by the same margins, because the gap narrows in a second-term midterm.
Tehran was betting that pain at the pump would break us before its own economy broke. That bet has failed.
I am an ever-shrinking minority who thinks the GOP will not win, but can mitigate the damage.
“Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel.”
JD Vance is offering socialism-lite, and Diet Coke socialism never beats the real thing.
Why is the United States building a rival to the American oil patch?
The politicians, experts, press, and elite need to build back the trust they destroyed.
Only Mark Zuckerberg and Meta seem to understand how to approach Americans on the matter.
We lost the ability to do big things in the private sector, and we lost it on purpose.
Every dollar that flows into a Treasury bond is a dollar that does not flow into the private economy.
Heading into the midterms, Democrats can tell independents that a government this entangled with foreign money needs more oversight, not less.
The concerns are real, they have fixes and the future will be built by the states willing to innovate.
The French, the Russians, and the Chinese believed they could perfect human nature by breaking enough eggs. Our founders believed the opposite.
There is no permanence in American politics.
Vice President Vance sees a tripartite world and is asking us to mistake retreat for prudence. We should decline.
The Iran war came at a price. Now, we are giving up.
The strangers at our door are finding America at its best.
The face of American socialism is increasingly young, college-credentialed, and conspicuously well-bred. This is not coincidence. It is structure.
