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TSA’s New Confirm.ID Tax

TSA’s New Confirm.ID Tax

by | Dec 3, 2025 |

Back in March of 2014, I wrote about how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operates an extortion racket-style scheme via its PreCheck program that gives travelers who pay a fee and jump through a bunch of hoops including submitting to fingerprinting and a background check a chance, though no guarantee, that they can evade some harassment from the TSA itself. In the same vein, starting in February, TSA is planning to roll out a new tax and other demands, termed Confirm.ID, that...

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NATO Thinks Of ‘Pre-emptive Strikes’ Against Russia To ‘Defend’ Against Something That Did Not Happen

NATO Thinks Of ‘Pre-emptive Strikes’ Against Russia To ‘Defend’ Against Something That Did Not Happen

by | Dec 3, 2025 |

As it is becoming obvious that Ukraine is losing in the proxy war against Russia, the ideas European governments are are throwing around are getting more crazy. Some are now eager to ‘pre-emptively’ attack Russia in ‘retaliation’ for alleged ‘hybrid attacks’ against European countries. Those ‘hybrid attacks’ are mostly pure fantasies. Politico was first to report this nonsense: Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia – Politico, Nov 27 2025Countries are looking...

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Negotiating in Moscow on the Negotiations

Negotiating in Moscow on the Negotiations

by | Dec 3, 2025 |

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow. The approximately five-hour session focused on a revised U.S. peace proposal aimed at ending Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine. This marked Witkoff’s sixth meeting with Putin in 2025 and Kushner’s first in-person involvement in these talks. The U.S. delegation arrived directly from recent negotiations with Ukrainian...

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Ah, Good Old War Propaganda

Ah, Good Old War Propaganda

by | Dec 2, 2025 |

Just as the news breaks that Trump has issued Maduro an ultimatum to leave Venezuela immediately if he wants to escape with his life, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has published an amazingly brazen war propaganda piece titled “How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine.” “Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities,” the article...

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Europe just made Russia’s case for Odessa.

Europe just made Russia’s case for Odessa.

by | Dec 2, 2025 |

When you authorize naval-drone terrorism against Russian civilian oil tankers in the Black Sea, don’t whine when Moscow redraws the coastline. You wanted escalation? Fine. Now watch your proxy lose Odessa, and with it access to the Black Sea. Washington is hunting for a face-saving imperfect peace after admitting Russia can’t be beaten. But London, and the EU — delusional, hysterical, and terrified of the coming reckoning from their own populations - keeps pushing the kind of escalation that...

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Progress in the Fight for Educational Freedom

Progress in the Fight for Educational Freedom

by | Dec 1, 2025 |

The government shutdown “proved an argument that conservatives have been making for 45 years: The U.S. Department of Education is mostly a pass-through for funds that are best managed by the states.” The most significant thing about this statement in a November 16 USA Today editorial is not its substance. As the editorial’s author points out, the argument presented is not new. The most significant thing about the statement is that its author is Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Unlike many in...

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A Looming Mexican Coup?

A Looming Mexican Coup?

by | Dec 1, 2025 |

On November 15th, incendiary protests engulfed over 50 cities across Mexico. The Western media has universally adopted the narrative disaffected local “Gen Z” sought to vent their righteous rage against the government, over corruption, and the administration’s purported ties to drug cartels. Footage of law enforcement clashing with demonstrators spread like wildfire, and many outlets widely emphasised how the upheaval injured at least 120 people. Few acknowledged...

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Trump Pardons Drug Smuggler, Threatens Venezuela

Trump Pardons Drug Smuggler, Threatens Venezuela

by | Dec 1, 2025 |

Trump’s South America policy is getting more ridiculous by the day. Yesterday he announced a pardon for the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for partnering with drug traffickers who had allegedly shipped 400 tons of cocaine to the United States. He also endorsed a right wing candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura for Sunday’s election in Honduras. Asfura belongs to the same party as Hernández. This is unlikely (archived) to have...

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Venezuela Could be the Neocons’ Ticket Back to Power

Venezuela Could be the Neocons’ Ticket Back to Power

by | Nov 29, 2025 |

MAGA is riding high these days, convinced they've finally exorcised the neoconservatives who controlled the Republican Party for decades. Supposedly gone are the days of endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the trillion-dollar boondoggles sold as "spreading democracy"? Trump promised to drain that swamp, and his base believes he's done it—putting America First and mocking the old guard like John McCain and Liz Cheney. I hate to burst that bubble, but the neocons are far from dead. At best...

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The Imaginary Peace President

The Imaginary Peace President

by | Nov 29, 2025 |

One of the most common claims about the Trump 45 administration is that “He didn’t start any new wars.” This is demonstrably FALSE. During his first term, Trump became the ultimate causal agent for every one of the current conflicts with Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela. He not only maintained the trajectory of these conflicts as established by previous US administrations, but he dramatically raised the stakes and quickened the pace of the march to war. Ukraine In Ukraine, between 2017 and...

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Trump Has Gone Too Far With Threats Against Our Former Military Personnel

Trump Has Gone Too Far With Threats Against Our Former Military Personnel

by | Nov 28, 2025 |

President Donald Trump threatens to hang military officers who have the audacity to tell their troops not to obey unlawful orders. Trump called them ‘traitors’ and suggested they be locked up. The president just crossed the Rubicon. Formerly his language was amusing TV banter. Now, after these threats, he has gone way too far. Americans should be alarmed. I enlisted in the US Army in 1969 to become an infantry officer and served in Vietnam. At the time, I foolishly thought this colonial war...

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Thanksgiving and the Constitution

Thanksgiving and the Constitution

by | Nov 28, 2025 |

Government requires make-believe. Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the people are the people. Make believe that governors are the servants of the people. Make believe that all men are created equal or make believe that they are not. -- Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) What if the government’s true goal is...

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The DOJ is Prosecuting a Drug Kingpin, Blah, Blah, Blah

The DOJ is Prosecuting a Drug Kingpin, Blah, Blah, Blah

by | Nov 27, 2025 |

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) was patting itself on the back with gusto last week in publicizing it is prosecuting alleged drug kingpin Zhi Dong Zhang upon his extradition from Mexico. The prosecution is a really big deal in the US government’s effort to win the war on drugs according to the assertions of several government employees in the DOJ press release. In reality, the hoopla is just more “blah, blah, blah” in support of a destructive drug war that continues to cause much...

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Ambassador Mike Huckabee Secretly Meets Top Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard

Ambassador Mike Huckabee Secretly Meets Top Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard

by | Nov 26, 2025 |

Given the high visibility of the Israeli genocide being carried out in Gaza, for the first time many among the American general public are beginning to ask why a rich country like Israel should be getting billions of dollars from the United States taxpayer to pay for waging its war when many Americans are struggling. Inevitably, of course, the press coverage of the questions being asked about the cash flow and what is playing out in Gaza have failed to discuss the real magnitude of the “aid,”...

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Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny

Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny

by | Nov 26, 2025 |

“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands…for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”—Daniel Webster We find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms. It’s not an easy undertaking. The contrast between George Washington’s first Thanksgiving...

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Rubio Neo-conned Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan

Rubio Neo-conned Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan

by | Nov 25, 2025 |

Lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas; lie down with neocons, you wake up with wars.-Me So goes President Trump's 28 point peace plan to end the Russia/Ukraine war. Revealed at the end of last week, the plan initially received a cautious but cautiously optimistic reception in Moscow. It was hardly a dramatic tilt toward the Russian position. Many of the plan's points ranged from the implausible to the bizarre. For example the idea that President Trump would be crowned some sort of "peace...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

War and Peace w/ Daniel McAdams

by | Nov 21, 2025

RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins the popular geopolitical podcast The Duran to discuss the latest Russia/Ukraine peace deal, Venezuela, US politics and Congress, and more...

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