North Korean Nuclear Blackmail
North Korean nuclear blackmail against the United States — imagine the conflict. The leader pulled the strings there is involved in a game of nuclear blackmail. The problem is, it doesn’t know that they More...
Margaret Thatcher Is Dead, But Conservatism Lives Forever
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. – Margaret Thatcher Britain’s More...
Obama on North Korea: hell-bent on destroying our deterrent
South Korea is nicknamed the “Land of the Morning Calm.” The titled was bestowed by some long forgotten Chinese emperor due to the beautiful mountain countryside filled with lush vegetation that is absolutely More...
A rare uncomfortable moment for President Obama
It’s not often that President Barack Obama finds himself in a situation where he is compelled to listen to a rational message, yet earlier this week at the National Prayer Breakfast, this turned out to be the More...
Rand Paul: “I’m a realist, not a neoconservative, nor an isolationist”
On the 102nd birthday of Ronald Reagan, the junior senator from Kentucky visited the conservative bastion of the Heritage Foundation to propose a reconciled foreign policy for the United States. “I’m a realist, More...
Hobby Lobby: an artist’s perspective and the Divine spark
Katherine Trunk is a contributor to The Brenner Brief. Twitter: @KatherineTrunk By its very nature, art is defined by constructive, creative action. Right now an American business which supports the arts is being More...
GOP: It’s the People, Stupid
The fiscal cliff has me thinking back to the first presidential election in which I was eligible to cast a vote. In doing so I’ve realized how vastly different the political discussion is today from what it was More...
Reagan, Kennedy and the Laffer Curve
Last week, House Speaker John Boehner stated that President Barack Obama’s newest tax proposal of $1.4 trillion in tax increases cannot pass the House and Senate. So far, neither side has come to an agreement More...
The Words You Cite, The Words You Write
John Mariotti is an experienced author and former senior executive. His columns appear weekly on The Brenner Brief on Wednesdays. It was just about a year ago that Dave Lukas and I were right in the middle of writing More...
Should the GOP be John Galt or Winston Churchill?
Jason Blair is a contributor for The Brenner Brief. His columns post on Tuesdays. There are growing rumblings from people on the right making the case for Republicans to “give Obama everything in he wants” More...
