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Future Without Massie

Future Without Massie

by | May 20, 2026 |

Yesterday was a sad day for me. My dear friend and fellow principled American, Congressman Thomas Massie from Kentucky, lost the Republican primary for his seat. It is now on record as the most expensive primary congressional seat campaign in American history. Why was it this important, this pivotal? Because Massie, like Congressman Ron Paul before him, could not be bought. And Washington, both Republicans and Democrats, cannot abide partners who refuse to be bought. During his gracious...

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Trump’s Self-serving Business Deals Have Prostituted the Office of the President

Trump’s Self-serving Business Deals Have Prostituted the Office of the President

by | May 20, 2026 |

As far as I can tell, Donald Trump is the first American president in my lifetime to be actively engaged in business while serving as President of the United States.  I have no memory of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush starting and running businesses while occupying the Oval Office. It is true that Lincoln was a known agent of the railroads and that Grant’s administration was corrupt, as other 19th century administrations might...

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The President Who Cries War, then Peace, Then War

The President Who Cries War, then Peace, Then War

by | May 20, 2026 |

The lad who inspired Aesop to write, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” (also known as “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf”), has grown up and is now President of the United States. Since February 28, 2026, Donald Trump has released 11 statements suggesting the war with Iran was over or that a negotiated deal is close, only it turns out to be a hoax. What emerges across nearly three months is a remarkably consistent cycle: Trump declares victory or proximity to a deal → Iran denies it or the facts on the...

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NPR is Doing Alright Without US Government Funding

NPR is Doing Alright Without US Government Funding

by | May 19, 2026 |

National Public Radio (NPR) show All Things Considered aired a report Monday concerning how NPR is doing after the elimination of United Sates government funding. The overall assessment came in roughly as “Things are going alright.” David Folkenflik reported in the segment that NPR is suffering from an eight million dollars shortfall, amounting to a little under three percent of its annual budget. To help deal with the financial situation, Folkenflik explained, the plan at NPR involves...

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Israel’s ‘War to the Root’ May Unravel America

Israel’s ‘War to the Root’ May Unravel America

by | May 19, 2026 |

Both Trump’s Iran war and the closely connected Israeli war for Jewish hegemony across the Middle East (termed “Permanent Security” in Israeli military vernacular) are unravelling fast. Iran is standing defiant in the face of Trump and Israel’s threats, leaving Trump gambling the entire US economy and its global strategic standing on conjuring up a decisive “win” over Iran — however deceitful and Pyrrhic that “win” might prove to be. Trump has now arrived for the summit in China (reportedly...

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There Is No Freedom in an Assassination Nation

There Is No Freedom in an Assassination Nation

by | May 19, 2026 |

To date, President Trump and the US national-security branch of the federal government (i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA) have assassinated around 200 people in small boats on the high seas near South America. Such assassinations are quickly becoming a normalized part of American life, especially within the mainstream press. There is no question but that the American people, as of now, can do little to stop these assassinations. Trump controls the congressional branch of government as...

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More Wars and Rumors of Wars

More Wars and Rumors of Wars

by | May 18, 2026 |

President Donald Trump is back from his business trip to China which had a lot of ambiguity over issues like Taiwan without having done either much discernible damage or benefit to American interests. The trip ended with the American participants dropping all the gifts that they had received from the Chinese into a large garbage bin on the tarmac before they boarded their plane. And while the president was gone Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to everyone’s surprised announced...

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Kevin Warsh’s Impossible Mission

Kevin Warsh’s Impossible Mission

by | May 18, 2026 |

After Kevin Warsh was confirmed as Federal Reserve chairman last week, he received a stark reminder of the challenges facing the central bank. The reminder came in the form of a worldwide surge in the interest rates paid by government bonds. The surge followed the spike in oil prices caused by the Iran War. The rise in bond yields comes along with the news that, according to government statistics (which are manipulated to understate the real rate of inflation), consumer prices increased by 3.8...

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AIPAC Favorite Ed Gallrein Wants to Bring Back the Draft

AIPAC Favorite Ed Gallrein Wants to Bring Back the Draft

by | May 16, 2026 |

Ed Gallrein is running against Thomas Massie in Kentucky. Trump hates Massie because he opposes the Iran boondoggle war. Massie has also demanded the release of the Epstein files. Ed has received a whopping $11,824,741 from the Israel lobby. That’s on the high end of donations, so you get an idea how important it is to defeat Massie and gain another voice for Israel in Congress. There is one issue at the top of Gallrein’s list. Ed mentioned it during an interview with USA Cares, a...

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Trump’s Failed Mission to China

Trump’s Failed Mission to China

by | May 16, 2026 |

The Beijing circus is over and Donald Trump’s talks with Xi Jinping produced nothing more than some pleasing photo ops and some performative diplomacy with no substantive accomplishments. There was no final communique at the end of Trump’s two days of meetings with Xi Jinping. Instead, we are left to rely on the statements from each government. When you parse the two statements, the two readouts diverge significantly, and the gaps are as informative as the overlaps. When you compare what each...

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There Is No Freedom in an Assassination Nation

When Killing Becomes Commonplace

by | May 14, 2026 |

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punishedunless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” -- Voltaire (1694-1778) Last week, when the Pentagon resumed its attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, the media barely noticed. The US military has now destroyed 56 vessels and killed 190 persons. The killings began in September 2025 and have continued to this month. The attacks caused a stir a few months ago when one of the strikes...

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Gorka Advocates Violating the First Amendment for Israel

Gorka Advocates Violating the First Amendment for Israel

by | May 14, 2026 |

Sebastian Gorka again. This time Gorka acts like he knows the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He claims the First Amendment prohibits incitement. It does, under certain conditions. The Supreme Court ruled speech is prohibited if directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action. Furthermore, the speech must be likely to incite or produce such action. In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the Court overruled a previous ruling on “clear and present danger” and said advocacy of illegal...

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America’s Representative

America’s Representative

by | May 14, 2026 |

My heart was broken in Kentucky's 4th district today. As I neared the home of a new client, driving my beat up old Ford covered in Thomas Massie and Ron Paul bumper stickers, I passed the Ed Gallrein for Congress signs that lined his fence. Now, this is to be expected. Although Trump's poll numbers are in a free fall and the coalition he built around his 2024 campaign has been shattered, an endorsement from the President is still coveted among a significant enough portion of the Republican...

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Payback: Russia Uses Iran as a Proxy Against the United States

Payback: Russia Uses Iran as a Proxy Against the United States

by | May 13, 2026 |

Washington and Moscow both enthusiastically celebrated the victory of the Allied “Grand Alliance” over the fascist powers at the end of World War II.  Since then, however, the two capitals have typically been on opposite sides of numerous nasty geostrategic struggles around the world.  They also have relished opportunities to work with foreign countries and political movements to create major headaches for the other great power. A crucial recent example of that strategy has been the...

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‘Ways of War’ are in Metamorphosis: Lessons from the Iran War

‘Ways of War’ are in Metamorphosis: Lessons from the Iran War

by | May 13, 2026 |

Although the Iran war largely has been viewed through the lens of conventional western warfare, its lessons are anything but conventional. They are in fact insurrectionary. The post-war western approach (especially in the Cold War context) relied on the ability to outspend any military adversary through the acquisition of high-end, over-engineered and costly manned aircraft and munitions. Dominance of airspace and heavy reliance on aerial bombardment, i.e. air-war, was the doctrinal...

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Voting on Another Deceptive Antisemitism Resolution in the House of Representatives

Voting on Another Deceptive Antisemitism Resolution in the House of Representatives

by | May 12, 2026 |

Here they go again. The members of the United States House of Representatives are set to vote Tuesday on another resolution listing off statistics purportedly demonstrating very high and growing amounts of antisemitism in America. Those claims are bunk. But that will not stop the vast majority of House members from voting for this resolution just like happened two years ago when the same resolution, sponsored then as now by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), was considered in the House. In...

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Future Without Massie

Governor Thomas Massie?

by | Apr 10, 2026

A run for governor may be in the future for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), but only if he first wins his May 19 Republican primary contest — the next step in his race for reelection...

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