Steve Berman

Opinion Contributor

Steve Berman is a transplanted northerner living in the Atlanta area. For over 30 years, Steve has been a technology entrepreneur, creating, building, and selling businesses. Steve has been writing about politics and social issues for nearly a decade. It started with a “diary" on RedState, and quickly moved on to professional writing. He has written for other well-known web publications and was one of the original writers who helped Erick Erickson launch The Resurgent in 2016.

Steve’s work has been published by Fox News, and he has been cited on the New York Times opinion page, and quoted by the Washington Post. He is excited to be involved with the latest project, The First, as an opinion writer.

A Jewish believer in Christ, Steve lives and worships with his family in the Atlanta suburbs, after moving to central Georgia from New Hampshire over 28 years ago.

MCCARTHY SHOULD FRAME THIS QUOTE: “By God Sir! I Will Not Retreat!” | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Jan 4, 2023

Kevin McCarthy has vowed to keep fighting for his quest to become Speaker of the House, despite a contingent of “burn it all down” members of his own party determined (and able!) to deny him. The last time the House may have been this divided, it took 133 ballots to elect a Speaker. McCarthy has called on the …

WOULD YOU RATHER: Get Fired for Thoughtcrime or Impregnating Your Wife? | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Dec 30, 2022

In USA Today, I read a piece about a “righteous living” lawsuit against Ramsey Solutions. Summed up, a man they hired was recently married, and disclosed his wife was pregnant. Ramey executives determined that the man must have gotten her pregnant before they were married, violating their ban on extramarital sex, so they fired him. They did …

I’M WRONG: 2023, Medvedev’s Hellscape, and Truth | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Dec 27, 2022

If you want to read a hellscape for 2023, Dmitry Medvedev has one on Twitter. Here’s one in the thread. Medvedev, Vladimir Putin’s longtime partner in crime, also predicted the EU’s collapse, a united Irish republic including Northern Ireland, and a Fourth Reich “encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e. Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, …

IT’S WRONG: Congress Trashes the Law on Trump Taxes | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Dec 21, 2022

Democrats in Congress spent six years in court Donald Trump’s tax returns, and now that they have them, they have voted to release them to the public. It’s wrong to do this. Trump, as a candidate, promised to release his tax returns, then flip-flopped, citing an ongoing audit. The New York Times, which obtained decades of …

JAN 6: Drink the Kool-Aid, Die from the Poison | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Dec 20, 2022

Republicans had one chance to do the right thing in January 2021, and they went for the poison Kool-Aid instead of choosing to live. There’s really no more powerful evidence of this than Trump’s reaction to panicked texts from his own political supporters. Marjorie Taylor Greene—yes, her—texted Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, “Please tell the President …

CRYPTO-FAIL: It’s Time to Kill Crypto-Currency | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Dec 14, 2022

They arrested the wrong guy. Sam Bankman-Fried likely violated federal law and a whole bunch of securities regulations. But he’s not the one who should be in jail. It’s the venture capitalists who piled on the real cash, and the politicians who lent respectability to what essentially is the financial equivalent to snake oil who …

#RESIST of Twitter: Let History Sort it Out | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Mon, Dec 12, 2022

I could not be less surprised at the collaboration and cozy relationships between Twitter safety, programming, and management with certain government entities within the DOJ and the intelligence community. There’s a context here that’s been lightly covered, and that’s the “stop Trump” movement which was in full swing throughout his presidency. I do believe Twitter safety chief Yoel …

EVACUATE: The House of Trump is Falling | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Dec 7, 2022

In Georgia, more votes were cast in yesterday’s Senate runoff than in the 2020 general election where Donald Trump told the states’ top officials to “find me 12,000 votes.” The sane rose up against the insanity and—by just under 100,000 votes—toppled that wall Trump built. Thus the chant from the opponents of Trump from the …

HAIL TO THE SHEEP: Inflate of the Art | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Mon, Dec 5, 2022

Donald Trump was restored to Twitter by Elon Musk, but won’t tweet. Trump dined with Ye, who brought to dinner the most coprophagic plus-two he could find: Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos. Ye then went on Infowars with Alex Jones, and forced Jones into speaking sober sanity by literally praising Hitler. Ye’s masked appearance and insane actions left every …

BAD FAITH: China and Apple Conspire Against Freedom | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Nov 30, 2022

China and Apple have a lot in common. They both run “walled garden” operations, hoarding data, secretive and inscrutable about their internal workings; they both clamp down hard on leaks and revolts. They share an economic footprint, where Apple makes iPhones in China and China makes or assembles its myriad parts better and cheaper than …

NOT SACRED: Senate to Pass Same-Sex Marriage Law | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Nov 29, 2022

The Senate is set to pass the Respect for Marriage Act Tuesday. A bipartisan amendment with “commonsense language” to add stronger Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protections survived a filibuster vote Monday. The amendment was sponsored by a mix of Republicans and Democrats including Sens. Susan Collins, Tammy Baldwin, Krysten Sinema, Thom Tillis, and Ron Portman. Once passed by …

CRAZY PILLS: Meet the New Face of Conservative Republican | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Nov 25, 2022

It didn’t take long for a reporter to find Aaron Brink, the 48 year-old father of the shooter who killed five at Club Q in Colorado Springs. And the guy is totally nuts. He’s clearly on something, probably meth. But he’s a “conservative Republican” who’s glad his mass murderer son isn’t gay. “I became a porno …