by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 28, 2025 | Journal
Let me tell you about my friend up in Canada. She’s not some corporate shark gaming loopholes in trade law. She’s an artisan—sews intricate patterns into a quilt. Her friend paints mugs with flowers so delicate they’d make your grandma’s china blush, and sells them on...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 28, 2025 | Journal
Let me tell you a little story about what happens when politicians who don’t understand the real world try to fix it with a sledgehammer. A while back, President Donald Trump slapped a 50% tariff—that’s a fancy word for tax—on aluminum coming into the U.S. from other...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 27, 2025 | Journal
There they were — the sons and daughters of America, dressed in uniform, sent from Mississippi and Louisiana and God knows where else — raking mulch in D.C. like overpaid gardeners in camo. That sound you heard wasn’t a cherry blossom rustling in the breeze. It was...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 27, 2025 | Journal
Well, now, if it isn’t the Trump Doctrine back in motion — this time not with a tweet or tariff, but with the USS Lake Erie, a couple of amphibious bruisers, and enough firepower to remind Caracas how close Florida really is. In the southern Caribbean, it’s usually...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 25, 2025 | Journal
So here we are again, folks—watching the political map get redrawn not because we counted new people, but because some folks in expensive suits counted new opportunities. Texas fired the opening salvo, no surprise there. The Lone Star State, ever the ambitious...
