There are two types of evidence in criminal cases — direct evidence and circumstantial evidence. Direct evidence comes in the form of things like confessions, admissions, or eyewitness testimony. Circumstantial evidence comes in the form of indirect evidence. For...
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Great Words From President Trump And Others
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | May 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
As many people know, I have spent most of my waking hours reading – books, newspapers, magazines – for work and pleasure since probably my early teens. Two of my favorite nationally syndicated columnists are now deceased: Charley Reese died in 2013 and Georgie Anne...
Punishing Freedom
by Andrew P. Napolitano | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and deter or punish what the government and its benefactors hate or fear is un-American, unconstitutional and unlawful; and if not stopped, will reduce the American people to serfdom. During the past...
The Deadly Perils of Predatory Idealism
by James Bovard | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
How would people react if, on the third time their broken-down car was towed to the same repair shop for the same problem, the swaggering mechanic told them: “Sure — the engine doesn’t work today but — follow me on this — next year, you will drive from coast to coast,...
The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. As we stand on the brink of a new technological order, the machinery of power is quietly shifting into the hands of algorithms. Under Donald Trump’s watch, that shift is being locked in for at least a...
Germany Moves to Thwart Trump’s Ukraine Peace Initiative
by William Dunkerley | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
Efforts to bring peace to Ukraine just received a stifling blow. German Chancellor Fredrich Merz, with less than a month in office, has stepped forward to set back the US sponsored peace initiative.Trump wants to bring Ukraine and Russia together for a peaceful...
The Blair-Bush Project in Syria That Brought Al Qaeda to Power
by Vanessa Beeley | May 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Sykes-Picot is breaking; putting it back together, even in a different shape, will be a long and bloody affair”. So wrote Tim Marshall back in 2016 in his book Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know about Global Politics — essentially...
Donald Trump’s Lack of Critical Thinking Skills with Respect to Russia and Ukraine
by Larry C. Johnson | May 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump grabbed headlines on Monday with his Sunday outburst directed primarily at Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Here’s his rant: I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!...
A Week Long Drone Fight Which Russia Is Winning
by Moon of Alabama | May 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Over the last seven days the Ukrainian military has launched over one thousand drones against targets in Russia. Most of these were shot down by Russian air defenses. There are no reports of any serious damage. The biggest effect the week long drone attacks...
We Never Got to Torture Congress
by James Bovard | May 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Folks who believe the current political atmosphere is uniquely hateful have forgotten the boundless vitriol prevailing a few decades ago. During the George W. Bush administration, Republicans relied on push-button rage to suppress all criticism of the war on terror....
Take the Deal, President Trump
by Ron Paul | May 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
Deal-making is said to be President Trump’s specialty, yet after five rounds of indirect talks with Iran – most recently just days ago – we seem as far away from an agreement as ever. The fifth round ended last Friday with no breakthrough, but at least no breakdown....
SignalGate 2.0 and the Casual Indifference to War
by Abigail R. Hall | May 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
We recently learned that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared details of impending drone strikes on Yemen in a group chat with his wife, brother and personal attorney. If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it comes just weeks after national...
Making Palestine Go Away
by Philip Giraldi | May 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
It has been another exciting week in a world at war where the word “diplomacy” has no meaning and would probably be defined by America’s head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as a doctrine in which you shoot someone first before he or she can shoot you. In...
Decision Day in Rome
by Larry C. Johnson | May 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
On the eve of Iran’s meeting in Rome on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, summarized the situation quite succinctly… accept Iran’s offer to not build nuclear weapons or there is no deal. I do not think this is hyperbole or posturing. I believe it...
Why Negotiations With Iran Are So Difficult
by George D. O’Neill, Jr. | May 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
American and other Western elites complain ad nauseam, decrying the Iranians’ intransigent, devious, aggressive, and unreliable behavior. They claim Iran will not make or keep an agreement. Never forget, however, that Iran is more than five millennia old with a...
Sic transit gloria mundi
by William Schryver | May 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and yet still die. Here are the options: China Neither South Korea nor Japan want anything to do with a war against...
Iranian Diplomats Suspect Trump Using Talks as Instrument of Sabotage
by Max Blumenthal | May 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s Reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in...
Government Attacks on Private Property
by Andrew P. Napolitano | May 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the...
How America Is Being Made Great Again
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
Perhaps Putin should tell the Russian people and the Russian Army that his interest in resolving the conflict in Ukraine with peace negotiations lies in the possibility that the negotiations could be used to achieve a Great Power Agreement like what he and Lavrov...
Israeli Hatred For Children In Gaza Is Shocking
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | May 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
The hatred of some in Israel for the people of Gaza – even for little children – is just astounding. If they have even a tiny bit of belief in God, they should pray for forgiveness. Unfortunately, NPR reported last Thursday (May 15) on “deadly airstrikes, killing more...
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