Here’s a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week for probably the first time in modern history. The short answer is: Even in the military, the Secretary of Defense cannot change the rules and procedures for criminal...
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Why Conservative Christians Oppose Marijuana Ballot Initiatives
by Laurence M. Vance | Nov 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist churches in Florida are rejoicing and thanking God that Amendment 3 on the Florida ballot to legalize the recreational use of marijuana was rejected by Florida voters. Although a majority of people in Florida did vote in...
What is Donald Trump Doing?
by Larry C. Johnson | Nov 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Let me state up front that I am no “Trump fan-boy.” But I am sure that what I am about to write will lead some of you to accuse me of that. So be it. When you listen to my interview earlier today with Danny Davis, I was quite disturbed by the news (still unconfirmed)...
The West’s Very Fundamental Accumulating Contradictions
by Alastair Crooke | Nov 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
The election has occurred; Trump will take office in January; many of the existing Party Nomenklatura will be replaced; different policies will be announced – but actually taking power (rather than just sitting in the White House) will be more complex. The US has...
Make Way for the Colonel
by David Gornoski | Nov 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the wake of the former and future president Donald Trump’s historic electoral victory, the mandate for an America First foreign policy has never been clearer. The American electorate has expressed a desire for a departure from the entrenched globalist strategies...
Iran Strongly Denies US Claims It Was Involved in Plot To Kill Trump
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly denied US claims that Iran was involved in an alleged plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump, dismissing the charge as a way to “complicate matters” between the US and Iran. On Friday, the US Justice...
The Second Resistance Movement: Why the Campaign Against Trump This Time is Different
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on the growing calls for an organized resistance to the Trump Administration by Democratic governors and prosecutors. They may find, however, that the resistance movement this time around will be facing significant legal and political...
Make Money Free Again
by Ron Paul | Nov 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Two days after Donald Trump became the first American since Grover Cleveland to win nonconsecutive presidential elections, the Federal Reserve announced a quarter percent cut in interest rates. Following this announcement, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell held a press...
The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Nov 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse. Consider the vaccine passports alone. Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans,...
Will Trump Buckle Again on the JFK Records?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
fascinating situation has now developed between President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment with respect to the long-secret JKF-assassination-related records that the CIA has succeeded in keeping secret for more than 60 years....
What If Voting Is Fruitless?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
What if you were allowed to vote only because it didn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you voted, the elites always got their way? What if the concept of one person/one vote was just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance? What if...
Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change (No Matter Who Wins)
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Nov 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
“If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal.”— Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006) After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won....
If ever a war could easily have been avoided, the war in Ukraine is that war.
by George Szamuely | Nov 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
Address to the U.N. Security Council, Oct. 31, 2024 Thank you, Madam President, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to address this distinguished body. If ever a war could easily have been avoided, the war in Ukraine is that war. If ever a war was needlessly...
Pat Buchanan Was Right…And Young Conservatives Agree!
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
As we arrive at today's election, there is good news in the US conservative movement regardless of who wins. While the old guard - mostly "boomers" - who still cling to the levers of power continue to mouth the tired old shibboleths ("peace through strength," "rules...
With JD Vance and Elon Musk, Suddenly Ideas Are Back in this Campaign
by Ron Paul | Nov 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
This presidential campaign season may be one of those turning points in history for reasons good and bad. Anyone watching the one debate between the Republican and Democratic Party candidates would not have come away with the view that this was a great battle of...
Flashback: How Yeltsin Gleefully Drove Bill Clinton to Tears. Who’s Crying Now?
by William Dunkerley | Nov 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
Yeltsin grinned while Clinton cried. The Russian president had just blurted out his unfiltered reaction to American news reporting. It was October, 1995. Clinton and Yeltsin had just spoken at the United Nations 50th anniversary meeting. The next day the two...
Dumpster Fire: White House Press Office Faced Internal Criticism Over the Rewriting of President Biden’s Garbage Comments
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
Since the “Let’s Go, Brandon” incident, the media has been repeatedly accused of reframing news or rewriting words to benefit the President or the Biden-Harris Administration. This week, the White House Press Office and various media outlets...
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
My family and friends are angry with me because I won’t tell them for whom I plan to vote for president. I have not voted for the Republican or Democrat for president since 1984, when I happily voted for Ronald Reagan. Since those days, the Democrats have gravitated...
The Media Musk? Why the Cancel Campaign Targeting Jeff Bezos Could Backfire
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column on Fox.com on the expanding boycott of the Washington Post by Democratic politicians, pundits, and members of the press. The reason? Because owner Jeff Bezos wants to stay politically neutral and leave the matter to the public. In an age...
Why is EU’s rotating presidency praising a country that flipped off the bloc?
by Rachel Marsden | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took a break this week from annoying the EU establishment at home to annoy it abroad. “For so many years now, the people of Georgia have been striving and fighting for democracy,” unelected European Commission President...
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