D.J. McGuire
D.J. is an Adjunct Faculty Instructor in Economics at Tidewater Community College, a cost estimator, and a self-described progressive conservative. He has said the political spectrum "has thrown me around like a Martian Congressional Republic Navy vessel dropping into combat maneuvers from a 3g burn with no crash couch."
The Economics of COVID-19: How to Build the New Normal (UPDATED)
The concept of limited and efficient government can survive the pandemic, but like everything else, it must adapt.
Decline Is a Choice…
… and it comes with consequences
So What Happened in New Hampshire?
Analysis of Tuesday’s Republican and Democratic results
Supporting Bernie Sanders is a Mistake, No Matter Your Reason
Left-wing Democrats have bad ideas; right-wing Republicans have bad faith. Both will fulfill their roles in a Greek tragedy if they propel Sanders to the nomination.
Thank You, Senator Romney
Nearly the entire Republican Party in Congress prostrated itself to Donald Trump. Nearly.
As Impeachment Trial Begins, GOP Defense Waylaid by GAO
The entire GOP defense is based on the assertion that Trump had policy reasons to withhold Ukrainian aid and that no law was broken but GAO report makes clear one cannot believe the first part to be true without accepting the second part is false
So You Really Want to Defeat the Iranian Regime?
You have to recognize that defeating them probably doesn’t involve direct military action
Scott Taylor Changes His Mind, Will Go For a Luria Rematch After All
Republican Scott Taylor will seek the nomination to run against Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria
A Tactical Success Does Not a Strategy Make
Iran-backed militias kill hundreds of Iraqi protestors and Washington does nothing. One of those militias messes with some embassy property and…boom. That doesn’t symbolize strength, but rather callousness.
We Were Warned: What the 2015 Trade Debate Said About the GOP
Prior to that point in time, freer trade was a bedrock principle of the Republican Party
