“God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his trusted White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster. These words are quoted in the book “Ike’s Bluff – President...
Rep. John J. Duncan Jr.
Netanyahu Indicted For Crimes Against Humanity
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Dec 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted by the International Criminal Court on November 21 for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The U.S. is not a member of this court, and I don’t think it should be because it would not allow jury trials for some...
Some Of Our Leaders Are Putting Other Countries First
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Oct 30, 2024 | Featured Articles
Some of our leaders seem to care more about other countries, e.g., Ukraine and Israel, than they do about our own. Once again, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has come to Washington, begging for even more money, this time some $8 billion dollars. The U.S....
American Healthcare Workers Plead For End To Gaza Bombing
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Oct 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
On October 3, 2024, 99 American healthcare workers in Gaza released an open letter to the White House pleading for an end to Israel’s bombing of little children. The letter was sent by American physicians, surgeons, nurse practitioners, and nurses who had volunteered...
US Calls For Ceasefire But Keeps Supporting War
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
On August 12, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, issued a press statement commemorating the anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions. He said: “The 75th anniversary of the adoption of the 1949 Geneva Conventions is a fitting occasion to reaffirm...
A 2003 Newsletter Still Accurate Today
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Almost every week, even now, someone will say to me, “I really miss your newsletter.” I am very grateful for those comments because I tried very hard to put out very detailed Washington Reports. Most members of Congress did not publish newsletters and the ones who did...
Media Now Embarrassed For Covering Up Biden’s Weakness
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jul 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
It is both a little bit funny and a little bit sad, even a little pathetic, when a very old man tries to show he is as strong and active as a much younger man. President Biden often tries to carry his arms and take a couple of quick steps when he comes on stage to...
A Terribly Lopsided, Very Cruel War Continues
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jun 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
As I write this, in the last 15 days, Israel has bombed a tent city and a UN school and has killed 276 Palestinian non-combatants in a mid-day raid to gain the release of four Israelis being held as hostages. Almost 400 people were killed in the three actions, with...
Congress Passes Mega-Billions More For Ukraine
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | May 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last week, Congress voted to send $95 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The largest portion was to Ukraine – $61 billion – after the Congress had previously approved $114 billion, for a total of $175 billion. The total GDP of Ukraine in 2022 was...
Sen. Schumer: Gaza War Is Pushing Support For Israel To Historic Lows
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
On March 14, Sen. Charles Schumer, the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, gave a major speech on the Senate floor saying the Israeli government under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been “too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza,...
Ukraine Has Received Mega-Billions From US, Other Countries
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Mar 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
As of mid-January, global aid to Ukraine has reached what the Kiel Institute for the World Economy described as the “staggering” amount of $278 billion. This means that Ukraine has actually had more money than Russia has been able to spend on this war. Russia’s total...
U.S. Senate Votes To Send More Billions Down Ukrainian Rathole
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Feb 28, 2024 | Congress Alert
The U.S. Senate passed a major foreign aid bill recently by a vote of 70-29. This bill will require spending $95.3 billion that we do not have. We have a national debt that is approaching $35 trillion, a figure so huge that no one can humanly comprehend how much that...
Terrible Tragedies Continue In Unjust War
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jan 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
The CBS national newscast on Jan. 20 showed the terrible anguish of a father holding a photograph of a little girl who had been killed a few days short of her first birthday by an Israeli bomb in Gaza. This father and another little daughter had just been pulled out...
Vaccines are about money, power, control
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Feb 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
These very pious, holier-than-thou control freaks who keep demanding that everyone must be vaccinated need to answer some questions: Why are the most highly-vaccinated countries like Israel, Australia, the United Kingdom and others also the nations with the highest...
Most People Oppose Forced Vaccinations, Firings
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Nov 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
The fastest growing political movement in the US and around the world today is a movement against forced vaccinations. And it is a political movement because the left politicized the Covid vaccine right from the start. Jane Fonda, before our last presidential...
Coronavirus Over-Reaction
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Apr 20, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Throughout my 30 years in Congress, I noticed that very few of the Democrats in the House had ever run or even worked in a small or medium-sized business. In fact, while I got along with them personally, I found that some Democratic members and career bureaucrats...
‘An Antiwar Conservative’ – Rep. John Duncan, Jr.
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Sep 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
Can an antiwar conservative survive? US Rep. John Duncan, Jr. (Ret.) speaks at the Ron Paul Institute's 2019 Washington Conference on taking difficult votes in the House against the Iraq war in 2002. Often when there were just a couple of "no" votes on a particularly...
Goodbye My Friend, Walter Jones
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Feb 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
I just retired after serving 30 years in the US House of Representatives and 16 years before that as a lawyer and Judge. I have to say, of all the great men and women with whom I have worked during my career, Walter Jones was one of the best.There is greater turnover...
What the ‘Neocon Chickenhawks’ Have Wrought
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Dec 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
The 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice to end World War I has generated a lot of discussion and articles about the so-called “Great War.” Most of the neocon chickenhawks who so eagerly led us into the disastrous war in Iraq seemingly want to be regarded...
So We ‘Win’ Syria – What Then?
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Apr 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
In the days leading up to the Congressional vote on whether to go to war in Iraq years ago, Fortune Magazine had an article headlined “We Win – What Then?” The article said a prolonged war in Iraq would make American soldiers “sitting ducks for Islamic terrorists.”...
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