Trump’s rhetoric about Russia having lost one million men in the Ukraine conflict is not just nonsense (the real number not even reaching 100,000), but his resort to it underlines that the usual meme of Trump being just woefully misinformed is looking less and less...
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The Big Freeze at HHS, CDC, and NIH
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
Part of the sweep of government in the first days of the Trump administration has been a freeze on communications. The explosion has hit the whole of public health bureaucracies, which Trump personally blames in part for the meltdown of his previous term of president...
The CIA Report: Why a Low Confidence Finding is the Height of Hypocrisy
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Every modern president seems to promise transparency during their campaigns, but few ever seem to get around to it. Once in power, the value of being opaque becomes evident. We will have to wait to see if President Donald Trump will fulfill his pledges, but so far...
To Make America Great Again, Separate Money and State
by Ron Paul | Jan 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis” is the title of one of the many executive orders President Trump issued in his first week back in the Oval Office. This executive order directs federal agencies to...
Did Trump Halt Aid to Ukraine?
by Larry C. Johnson | Jan 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, there were a number of “headlines” in the US media claiming all foreign aid was stopped—except for Israel and Egypt. But the Pentagon weighed in today denying that it affects Ukraine: “A Pentagon official confirmed that Trump’s executive order freezing...
Saved from the Terror of TikTok
by Eric Margolis | Jan 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
Thank goodness that our heroes in Congress and the Supreme Court have courageously acted to end the scourge of that nefarious Red Chinese conspiracy, TikTok. This evil computer program was designed to mesmerize, corrupt and mislead America’s youth. Not since the...
Russian Casualties and the Russian Economy — A Memo for President Donald Trump
by Larry C. Johnson | Jan 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Mr. President, I believe that the CIA is providing you inaccurate, false intelligence about Russia’s casualties and the condition of its economy. If you hope to realize your goal of opening negotiations with President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the war in...
Thunder and Blunder on Day One
by David Stockman | Jan 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
Well, the Donald surely did hit the ground thundering, and some right good noise it was— starting with the 1500 + pardons of the J6 offenders. That promise-kept was crucial because it was one big presidential middle finger rebuke to the Giant Lie that the Washington...
TikTok and the Freedom of Speech
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Congress shall make no law ...abridging the freedom of speechor of the press…”--First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution During the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the famous Pentagon Papers case, a fascinating colloquy took place between Justice William O....
The Competency Crisis Proliferating The West
by Alastair Crooke | Jan 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
The essayist and military strategist, Aurelien, has written a paper entitled: The Strange Defeat (original in French). The “strange defeat” being that of Europe’s “curious” inability to understand Ukraine or its military mechanics. Aurelien highlights the strange lack...
Euphoria
by Joel Salatin | Jan 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
Teresa and I had the unprecedented privilege to attend the MAHA Inaugural Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria in Washington, D.C. last night, guests of Dr. Eric and Karen Berg. Some 500 revelers converged in one spot to celebrate Trump's victory, but perhaps more importantly,...
The Biden Regime Was an Amazing Collection of Criminals
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
“In its final hours, the most CORRUPT Administration in American history is covering up Democrats’ trail of criminal activity.” — US Rep. Andrew Clyde The Criminal-in-Chief in his last criminal act has issued a “preemptive pardon” to 20 criminals. Mass murderer...
For Inauguration Day, Open Federal Files and Give Truth a Chance
by James Bovard | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Federal agencies classify trillions of pages of documents each year—enough secrets to fill 20 million filing cabinets. Washington politicians and federal agencies routinely blindfold American citizens on the most important and most reckless decisions the government...
Can Trump Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy?
by Ron Paul | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden...
When it Comes to Terrorism, Israel Beats Hamas
by Larry C. Johnson | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
Judge Napolitano asked me a pertinent question today: Why are the persons released by Hamas referred to as hostages and the persons released by Israel as prisoners? I think the answer is simple: Israel and its supporters in the Western media control the...
Biden’s Sordid Legacy: Ravaged Rights and Liberties
by James Bovard | Jan 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
Just before he leaves office, President Biden is commuting the prison sentences of 2,500 people who have been convicted of non-violent drug offenses. Biden stated, “This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing...
Israel Against The World – With US Aid
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
I once represented a man charged with first-degree murder. At the preliminary hearing, the courtroom was filled with the family and friends of the victim. When my client was led out of the holding cell, the officer who brought him out leaned over and whispered...
Trump Must Not Flunk His Litmus Test
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Trump’s litmus test awaits him on the Oval Office desk. The litmus test is the pardon for every one of the wrongly indicted and wrongly prosecuted January 6 Trump supporters–which means all of them–who attended the rally and were persecuted for doing...
Will Trump End Washington’s Democratic Foreign Policy Façade?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump’s political adversaries have long contended that he is a danger to democracy both at home and abroad. The alleged threat that he poses domestically is symbolized by the riot his supporters waged at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Opponents...
A Switch in Time?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
When she was a member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard was a fierce defender of personal privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment. She consistently opposed permitting federal agents to spy on Americans without search warrants, and she...
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