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Life is short, as I get older and (hopefully wiser) I can deal with loss better. Every time I travel for business for extended periods of time I always go visit those that mean the world to me. Yesterday I lost a huge part of my life, heart, and inspiration.. my life long friend, Am was called home yesterday.

I have learned to never questions God’s plan, because often it takes reflection over many years for it to reveal itself. With Amy I knew at the age of 5, that see was a gift from God. Amy was born with a lump on her spin which kept her legs from fully developing. I have more memories of her laughing and smiling than of anyone in my life. Amy had at 30 surgeries, often in full body cast afterwards, but nothing ever kept her from smiling.

God blessed all of us who grew up on our street, we all became a family, not friends. We all were protective of each other, mess with one, mess with all of us was our saying. It has stayed that way for 50+ years. Amy was the glue that this family together.

Amy was very protective of me, we had a special bond. If I was dating someone she did not approve of she would flat out tell them they were not allowed to date me. When I first started date my wife over 30+ years ago, Amy crashed our second date. My wife came to my apartment so we could head out, Amy called and said she wanted to meet this “new one.” Before I could get ready and head out, Amy was coming through my door. Amy and my wife hit it off from the first second. Amy looked at me and declared “Dave you and Paula are going to get married.” Then used my phone to call my other “sisters” (Pam and Missy), got off the phone and said “sorry, but your date has been canceled. Paula is going on our girls night, Dave the boys are coming to get you.”

Today I am in Gloucester broken hearted and thanking God for have Amy in my life. When my wife called me to tell me the news, she simply said “Sorry, Amy passed away today, one of the last things she said was ‘I am not sorry I crashed your date Paula. Dave is super smart but he would have screwed it up with you. So I Dave proofed it.’ ”

I miss and love you Amy… thanks for “Dave proofing” my wife, my kids, etc..

I will see you soon my Jimmy the Cricket.

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Vance Boelter update

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And live with the Lord Buckley today

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One heck of a coincidence!

Piecing it all together now, it seems that Kash Patel was recording live with Joe Rogan when the Elon Musk tweet broke. And Rogan interrupted the live recording of the podcast to break the news.

While coincidentally, JD Vance was live, recording a podcast with Theo Von when the Elon Musk tweet broke. And Theo interrupted the live recording of the podcast to break the news.

That’s one heck of a coincidence.

I’m not saying it was for the chest, but if it were, how much different would it have been played?

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February 17, 2024
Appearance on Richard Syrette

I did a quick hit on Richard Syrette yesterday. Gotta keep Canadians apprised of the U.S. madness.

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The Barnes Brief, Podcast Format: Monday, July 17, 2023

Closing Argument: Birthright citizenship is deeply American, and wholly Constitutional.

The Barnes Brief, Podcast Format: Monday, July 17, 2023
Declaration of Independence

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Board Poll: Iran War

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Movie Night: Fog of War

We start watching at 9 pm eastern on the dot; available on Amazon Prime and Tubi and YouTube for payment. Others in the chat may have additional links. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

Board Poll: Saturday Movie

Pick your favorite, and we will do a runoff between the top 2 to pick to watch and live chat open tonight at 9 pm eastern. Themes this week are documentary films.

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, June 13, 2025

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  • Friday at 9: Betting w/ Barnes AMA
  • Saturday Movie at 9 pm eastern: TBD
  • Sunday Law for the People w/ Viva at 6 pm eastern

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Art of the Day: Rose Window, Notre Dame. The stunning stained glass of the great old church astounds up close as much as it amazes from a distance. A bucket list item of mine checked off a decade ago when I attended the midnight mass at Christmas at Notre Dame, the most literary legendary church in the western world, sitting over an ancient site of religious recognition and spiritual invocation before Catholicism even set its first cornerstone on this little island in the Seine, with its underground waterways eminating up through to its recipients of the comforting waves above. The brilliance of the masons that molded the glass with copper and sapphire, forging this remarkable window into their own artistic minds where God meets man and expresses itself over the centuries for us all to bewilder and bewonder its symmetry of shape, colorful expression, and remaking of a physical glass into a rose resembling petal, whispering at the cycle of life and a quick glimpse into God’s soul as well as that of nature and of our own.  

 

Book Recommendation: Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch. He forecast it all a quarter-century ago -- a new globalist aristocracy distant from national identity, common culture, and worker-led economics that threatened our collective futures. 

 

Wisdom of the Day: “The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” President Eisenhower.

 

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, June 6, 2025

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  • Saturday Movie at 9 pm eastern: TBD
  • Sunday Law for the People w/ Viva at 6 pm eastern

Art of the Day: Grace Schara. Only twice in my legal career have I ever cried in court. The opening statement during Grace Schara trial was one of them. This photo symbolizes the light of life she brought to her family and friends. She learned the violin to play for her sister’s wedding. She found joy in the everyday aspects of life. A cherubic, child-like celebration of life itself. Born with down syndrome, those that knew her called it the love chromosome. She overcame everything except the callousness of a cruel medical system. A hospital consumed by avarice and arrogance in Covid-mania stole her from all who lived her. Let justice come soon in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Book Recommendation: The Managerial Class on Trial. A former book club review, with an excellent description of the problems of the professional class in power. Just ignore the deficient parts of the book suffering from the Monarchist school of anarchy.

Wisdom of the Day: “This emergent managerial class with their already hallmark bureaucratic paternalism and aspiring social engineering relied upon their ventriloquist verbal dexterity to appear to invest power in another” as they monopolized power to themselves. Michael McConkey, Managerial Class on Trial.

 

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, May 30, 2025

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Art of the Day: Venice wallpaper. The integration of art into your daily living space, much as Frank Lloyd Wright employed with his architecture, provides a continuous, contemporary mental escape and pleasant enveloping environment and aesthetic to work within and under the umbrella of expressive joy, as this art turned wallpaper of my favorite city in the world into your own home. For me, Venice is my Atlantis, and always wondrous to remember within your own home.

Book Recommendation: The New Economics. While a leftist at heart, the insights into the modern monetary system offered by dissident economist Steve Keen warrants further inquiry and introspection for public debt hawks and neo-classical economists.

Wisdom of the Day: “I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations. This is something that cannot be forgiven.” President Donald Trump.  

 

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