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1 month ago | 
ronpaulinstitute.org | David Stockman |Ron Paul |Jacob Hornberger |Peter Van Buren
The US and China came closer to a full-fledged trade war last week when China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on key US agricultural exports. This was retaliation for President Trump’s increasing of tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States from 10 percent to 20 percent. China’s retaliatory tariffs show how export-dependent industries are harmed by protectionist policies.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Van Buren
Politics
Can Trump Stop the ‘Baby Factories’?
Changing the enforcement and jurisprudence around the 14th Amendment has been a high priority for the president-elect.
Even before taking office, Trump’s influence is being felt on birthright citizenship.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Peter Van Buren
EXCLUSIVERevealed: Rochdale grooming gang ringleader's VERY comfortable life in Britain a decade after he was released and told he'd be deportedThe ringleader of an Asian grooming gang is still living in the town where he committed his horrific crimes - almost a decade after he was released …
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Van Buren
For all the emphasis on the southern border, the wall, asylum procedures, and criminal aliens, little ink has been spilled over the other side of immigration, the issuance of visas abroad to foreigners by the Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs. Literally millions of temporary nonimmigrant visas (tourist visas, students, temporary workers) are issued yearly, many of which go to foreigners who have no intention of ever returning home.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Van Buren
Politics
Shootout in DOGE City
What can the new sheriffs in town actually do to cut government inefficiency?
The leaders of President-elect Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, have been meeting with Republican lawmakers recently. None of those involved shared details from their meetings, which was off the record by design to allow for brainstorming. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did say, “Government is too big.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
telepolis.de | Peter Van Buren
Die US-Außenpolitik im Nahen Osten gleicht einer Kettenreaktion. Wo einst stabile Regime herrschten, herrscht heute Chaos. Ein Gastbeitrag. Ein Zeitreisender aus dem Jahr 2024, der im Nahen Osten vor etwa 40 Jahren landen würde, um die Zukunft zu enthüllen, würde auf Unglauben stoßen.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Van Buren
What is to become of the Department of Education (DOE)? Trump promised to get rid of it, and Elon and Vivek say they will follow through and “delete” it. What does the Department of Education do, anyway? And will it be missed? First off, what does the DOE not do? It does not choose textbooks or curricula, and it does not hire teachers. That has for a long time been done on the local or state level.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Peter Van Buren
Report: Planned Parenthood Caught Selling ‘Viable’ Fetuses To University Of California San Diego, by Shawn Fleetwood By by Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative, Peter Van Buren is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan, and Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent. The war has begun.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Van Buren
Politics
Trump v. the Bureaucrats
The opening salvos in Trump’s war on the fourth branch of government have been fired.
The war has begun. It’s Trump, Elon, Vivek Ramaswamy, and their new Department of Government Efficiency versus the federal bureaucracy in a no-holds-barred cage deathmatch. The first punches have been thrown; who will win? At stake: your tax dollars.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Peter Van Buren
Politics
What Has Changed?
Things don’t usually happen overnight, but the Trump re-election is a watershed moment.
Things don’t often change overnight. Change tends to happen slowly, then fast, in small increments and then big jumps—but rarely does one night matter that much. So it is with the election; America did not change overnight as it reelected Donald Trump president, but the election of Donald Trump did mark a significant milestone of change in America.
