<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Burkean Nation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Burkean Nation]]></description><link>https://www.burkeannation.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:14:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.bnation.us/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Iran Ceasefire's Strategic Brilliance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump's Iran ceasefire is the beginning-of-the-end of Iran’s 45-year war on civilization — and it was engineered with the precision, leverage, psychology, and sheer audacity that only President Donald J. Trump brings to the table.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/the-iran-ceasefire-s-multifaceted-strategic-brilliance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d876d14e4fe2e3f72be8f3</guid><category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Statecraft]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:42:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_fe278f96bba34518933b97c5c0b6974e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_784,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[America’s New Way of War]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump Way of War is America's New Way of War. It demands many exceptional qualities and assets. All are present and fully accounted for in the Iran War, which is arguably World War III.

Iran is a next-level challenge—a vast country on the far side of the world that's been waging war on America and the West for half a century now.

Godspeed to our warriors waging this largest example yet of America's New Way of War.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/america-s-new-way-of-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bf7cfb915fd340e9e9f1d5</guid><category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Statecraft]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:39:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_3cb329e8e9e5479e93e85886be642b61~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayers for our Epic Warriors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here are two prayers for our warriors in Operation Epic Fury. Please use them at your next gathering of patriots, whether in church, synagogue or at a community meeting. For those of us on the home front, it's the least we can do.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/prayers-for-our-warriors-in-operation-epic-fury</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b9c3e3bcb9fb0e96f36136</guid><category><![CDATA[Judeo-Christian Heritage]]></category><category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:47:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_09e83a91e0f34bf08300d7558e4ff29e~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Venezuela Model]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venezuela Model operates on Trump Time. Lightning to start, quick to instantiate, quick cash-flow to follow.

The V Model is the polar opposite of the Forever War model.

The V Model is extensible and scalable. Iran and Cuba are soon to prove that.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/the-venezuela-model</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ae56b2de5ad9153e09f5cc</guid><category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Statecraft]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:44:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_c9254642a1ad4844b8a4da2cc49b8a1d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bonhoeffer Tools]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are surrounded by Bonhoeffer Tools: people who advance a mainstream-approved worldview, allergic to counter-evidence, and compelled to signal disdain for dissenters. Recognizing this pattern clarifies why family rifts persist, why celebrity rants feel scripted, and why facts alone rarely sway the committed.

Remember: against such Bonhoeffer Tools, defenselessness in debate does not mean helplessness in living truth.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/bonhoeffer-tools</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6981a7da889819a51f066ea4</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Political Alignment]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:21:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_8a9a49e0cd9c4b2085ce906cea4aa181~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top of the 2nd for Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Trump has reached the top of the 2nd inning in his second term as we approach Thanksgiving 2025. He crushed it in the first inning with a Hall of Fame-level performance.

Herewith: ten 1st-inning scores, ten 2nd-inning assets, and ten 2nd-inning challenges for POTUS 47.

Bottom line: The game is going great.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/top-of-the-2nd-for-trump</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6912d6864d01cb460b6394ef</guid><category><![CDATA[Political Alignment]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:41:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_5c8bfc92627448fc8814dd716e6883e0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meltdown @ Moss Landing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The MELTDOWN @ MOSS LANDING public briefing packed them in on Cannery Row.  A hundred citizens came out for this CASI  civic education event at Wave Street Studios , a sign of civic health, especially given the terribly grim topic. I participated reluctantly. Duty called. Dr. Francois Melese opened the briefing, followed by me, soon joined by two victims of Vistra’s Battery Bomb: the analytic Larry Moore &#38; the heroic Liza Schmidt — Supermom. I then ceded the stage to my scientific hero,...]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/meltdown-moss-landing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690bcb9c8de3a65c6f2f1f23</guid><category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:49:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_c93e6d41c8b0474ea8c600464a676130~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin's Plagues]]></title><description><![CDATA[Putin has brought a series of plagues onto Russia, with the first eight listed in this post already occurring. Will he capitulate before Putin's Plagues reach nine, let alone ten? His billion dollar Pleasure Palace hangs in the balance.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/putin-s-plagues</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a94e871ef02eaf6d135ac0</guid><category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Statecraft]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 06:35:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_d911102c788542dcb660d06fa4e27741~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_770,h_513,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revealed: Public $$$ for Moss Landing BESS]]></title><description><![CDATA[New research reveals that Vistra Corp likely received almost $500 million in politically directed money to build and operate its Battery Electric Storage System (BESS) in Moss Landing, prior to its self-destruction. Given the terrible harm that befell the communities surrounding Vistra’s BESS disaster and the fortune in public money used to build and operate it, Vistra should disgorge that $500 million into a community fund for victims of the disaster. ]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/revealed-public-for-moss-landing-bess</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68891323886c9d5debe5207a</guid><category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:11:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_2cd54d6fff284c35963d1a87519f331f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_904,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wicked Witch of the West]]></title><description><![CDATA[The burgeoning partnership between Burkean Nation &#38; the Monterey County Republican Party took another step today with a press release denouncing Dawn Addis.

I appreciate that the Party is using its megaphone to urge citizens up and down the Central Coast to vote out Dawn Addis in November 2026. ]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6875de3d97051c95031e71d8</guid><category><![CDATA[Voting Advice]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:28:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_e78fd6d1d1b24ff7aeee7993b07f100e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_718,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Badass Statecraft X]]></title><description><![CDATA[Operation Midnight Hammer marks President Trump's latest successful display of Badass Statecraft. He's employed Badass Statecraft at least IX times before, making this Badass Statecraft X.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/badass-statecraft-x</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6858659f4b45cd8de12d02d1</guid><category><![CDATA[Statecraft]]></category><category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:07:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_225ea8df06c64f04b7ac5a8f1db9b825~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad Energy v Healthy Energy]]></title><description><![CDATA[RENEWABLES are bad energy. They are gluttons for land AND require massive subsidies, yet their juice is super expensive.
NatGas &#38; nukes are healthy energy. They are slender, taking almost no land.
Healthy Energy is the Golden Ticket for California &#38; America as a whole.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/bad-energy-v-healthy-energy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6853221f5cf3f381d2f959d0</guid><category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:14:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_267bdab9b69f4b0bb665ea864e8b2867~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dems to Moss Landing: Drop Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church's Town Hall the other day at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories was well attended by locals, but deeply sad and profoundly disappointing. The Dem Supe and several aloof bureaucrats repeatedly dissembled and deflected when presented with plain spoken complaints about Moss Landing's demise. Moss Landing has become a Ghost Town Driving to the meeting through Moss Landing village's rugged streets was a tour of shuttered restaurants and stores. Moss...]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/dems-to-moss-landing-drop-dead</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6845e0470dba6b78c4b826fd</guid><category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category><category><![CDATA[eCon]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:39:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_4fa530a34cce461da2155d781fcbcf30~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moss Landing Disaster]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Battery Electric Storage plant recently exploded in the heart of Monterey County. That Moss Landing Disaster is hard to fully comprehend, given that it is simultaneously shocking, far reaching and profoundly tragic. This post examines the disaster, including who is to blame.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/moss-landing-disaster</link><guid isPermaLink="false">680559227dce486abaa46687</guid><category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voting Advice]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:10:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_5a0391088c4e4862b1fdf6035765382c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Better Tax]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tariffs are a better tax than what we suffer under today. Internal vs External, $4$, and Getting There from Here are the three sections of this post that explain it all. ]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/a-better-tax</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67fe96937658b88efd59c320</guid><category><![CDATA[eCon]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:12:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_3153c17d17334efb9539e7e084ee6e62~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interview with an American Hero]]></title><description><![CDATA[This special episode of the bNation podcast is an interview with Roland Martin, Greatest Generation hero extraordinaire. Let's go to 11!]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/interview-with-an-american-hero</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67e986b83352fee7c949a687</guid><category><![CDATA[War & Peace]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:17:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_bedfb0d2ec2846e499dbbfd99c740429~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My convo with Grok about Burkean Economics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grok evaluates Burkean Economics in a Socratic Dialogue with David Burkean.]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/my-convo-with-grok-about-burkean-economics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67bad464bb65c92eab0ce044</guid><category><![CDATA[eCon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burkeanism]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:46:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_cfb2607ece044969b2196235e217901d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the Fuel, Stupid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why did LA burn? Not Climate Change. Fuel. Climate doesn't burn. Fuel burns. Less fuel, less fire. Low fuel, easier fire to put out....]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/it-s-the-fuel-stupid</link><guid isPermaLink="false">678623eb62c6b84e1666da18</guid><category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:28:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_4824dd9c50f94716ab2e2d17dad996e3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_880,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peak Irony]]></title><description><![CDATA[CO2 Reduction led to a CO2 Eruption. The #LAFires released a huge volume of Greenhouse Gases, as seen in this picture of downtown LA. You...]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/peak-irony</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67886a85bde086d2c18f6f13</guid><category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:48:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_07e41c2527db4696ba3484224306a18d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_656,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bonfire of the Vanities]]></title><description><![CDATA[The late, great Tom Wolfe couldn't conjure a Shakespearian tragedy as profoundly ironic as this week's massive conflagrations in Pacific...]]></description><link>https://www.bnation.us/post/bonfire-of-the-vanities</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6780cda183cabed5d9281746</guid><category><![CDATA[Political Alignment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:47:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/73f0f6_eea1146f14ac46ba93e67054d119a351~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>David Burkean</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>