Matt Kreiser

about matt

Journalist | Commentator | Analyst

Matt is a journalist, commentator and analyst passionate about pursuing the truth, something he describes as the greatest challenge and most exciting adventure.

In an age of confusion, bickering and divisiveness Matt believes that how one interprets the news is often more important than the news itself.

You can catch Matt focusing on stories in sports, business, politics and foreign affairs.

To learn more about Matt, where he's coming from and what his beliefs are click here or keep scrolling.

Religion
:
Christianity
Political Map
:
Economic Left/Right: 4.0 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.1
Abortion
:
Pro-Life
, against purposely killing the fetus in all cases. If the mother’s life is threatened prioritize the mother’s life while secondarily trying to save the fetus.
Affirmative Action
:
Against
Confederate Flag
:
Against
any display on public property unless it’s a museum.
Congressional Term Limits
:
Undecided
Convicted criminals allowed to vote
:
For
. I’m pro-redemption.
Covid-19 School Closures
:
Against
Cultural Assimilation
:
For
stricter standards like requiring English proficiency.
Drug Decriminalization
:
For and against.
For decriminalizing Marijuana; against decriminalizing hard drugs.
Drug Price Regulation
:
Undecided
Economic School
:
Austrian
Equal Pay Protections
:
Against
Estate Tax
:
Against
Euthanasia
:
Against
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
:
Against
Federal Reserve Audit
:
For
Foreign Aid
:
Generally against
Foreign Election Interference
:
Begrudgingly for
. Game theory.
Fracking
:
For
Free College
:
Against
Freedom of Information Act
:
For
strengthening FOIA rights.
Government Regulation of Private Business
:
Almost Always Against
Government Regulation to deal with Climate Change
:
Against.
Technological innovation will solve the problem. International agreements like the Paris Accords are silly. Game theory.
Government Requiring Masks Be Worn in Public Spaces
:
Against
Government Social Programs
:
Almost always against
Gun Control
:
Generally Against
Immigration
:
For
less restrictive immigration policies if social programs are cut. If not, then for current immigration law being fully enforced rather than status quo where executive branch controls whether immigration law is enforced through executive orders.
International Intervention
:
Begrudgingly for
because of game theory (example: China).
Labor Unions
:
Against
because they hurt economic growth.
Mail in ballot
:
Against
without stricter voter ID measures.
Manufacturing and Farm Subsidies
:
Against
unless there is a national security reason (China).
Monetary Policy
:
Hawk
. Current Federal Reserve Policy of inflating asset prices through near zero-interest rates to prevent a recession and thereby reduce economic hardship for poor is not justified. The Fed is accelerating inequality. The Fed claims their hands are tied and are preventing economic collapse. I disagree.
Net Neutrality
:
Against
Nuclear Energy
:
For
Paris Climate Agreement
:
Against
Photo ID Required to Vote
:
For
Public Healthcare
:
Against
Public Pensions
:
Against
Public Transportation Spending
:
Generally against
outside of major cities. Against public bus transportation outside major cities.
Quantitative Easing
:
Against
. The ends do not justify the means.
Quasi-Government Agencies
:
Almost always against.
Creates corruption.
Reduce Defense Spending
:
For
, but I am partial to the game theory issue.
Religious Exemptions
:
For
Student Loan Forgiveness
:
Against
Administrators should be held accountable for extreme cost increases for attending college.
Supreme Court Reform
:
Against
Tariffs
:
Generally against
. For national security purposes only. Game theory.
Tax breaks for married couples
:
For
. Should be tied to raising children.
Tax Law
:
Reform
to flat tax.
Tax-Exempt Organizations
:
For
much stricter standards.
Universal Basic Income
:
Against
Welfare
:
Generally Against
. Disability income is abused. Stricter measures should be enforced so those who remain qualified can receive more.

Religion: Christianity

Political Map:

  • Economic Left/Right: 4.0
  • Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -.1

Political Views:

Abortion: Pro-life, against purposely killing the fetus in all cases. If the mother’s life is threatened prioritize the mother’s life while secondarily trying to save the fetus.

Death Penalty: For

Myers Briggs: ENTJ

  • Extraverted: 85%
  • Intuitive 58%
  • Thinking: 64%
  • Judging: 76%

StrengthsFinder:

  1. Strategic
  2. Achiever
  3. Competition
  4. Futuristic
  5. Communication

Enneagram 8

HEXACO

Big 5 Personality:

  • Agreeableness: Low
  • Conscientiousness: Moderately High
  • Extraversion: Very High
  • Neuroticism: Moderately Low
  • Openness to Experience: High
You don't have to see the glory to be the hero
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Unattributed
True Friends stab you in the front.
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Oscar Wilde
The level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.
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Brene Brown
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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Upton Sinclair
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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C.S. Lewis
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
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Nicolas Taleb
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
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Winston Churchill
Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no none on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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CS Lewis
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Abraham Lincoln
The moment of enlightenment is when a person’s dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
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Vic Braden
A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,–and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women,–before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life.
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Wendell Phillips
I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were if the utmost importance to the felicity of life.
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Benjamin Franklin
A joke is a very serious thing.
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Winston Churchill
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Will Durant
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Mahatma Gandhi
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
I prefer to be true to myself even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
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Frederick Douglass
They know they are lying. We know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. Yet they still lie.
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Unattribued
I started finding things that were comfortable, and the more things I found comfortable the more uncomfortable my mind became.
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David Goggins
If you disregard this advice, you’re not offending your neighbors; you’re rejecting God, who is making you a gift of his Holy Spirit
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1 Thessalonians 4:8 MSG
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own site.
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Romans 12:16
If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.
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Matthew 16:25
You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
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John 8:32
Remember the words of our Lord Jesus for he said, it is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Acts 20:35
Show family affection to one another with brotherly love. Outdo one another in showing honor.
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Romans 12:10
Who made the human mouth? Who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I? Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.
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Exodus 4:11-12
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding, In all your ways submit to him, And he will make your paths straight.
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Proverbs 3:5-6
Put God in charge of your work, then what you’ve planned will take place.
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Proverbs 16:3 MSG
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
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Proverbs 11:2
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.
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Psalm 23:5
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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Isaiah 53:6
Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.
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1 Corinthians 1:28 MSG
For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.
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2 Timothy 1:7
Better a poor man who lives with integrity than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.
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Proverbs 19:1
For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.
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1 Peter 2:15
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
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1 John 3:16
The purity of silver and gold is tested by putting them in the fire; the purity of human hearts is tested by giving them a little flame.
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Proverbs 27:21
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Matthew 5:3-10
This playlist should give you a good idea of what I'm about, my internal vibe and how I try to live my life.