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Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision

Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision

by | Dec 20, 2024 |

As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. One case, however, has long stood out for me as wildly off-base and wrongly decided: Kelo v. New London. The case allowed the government to seize property from one private party and then give it to another private party. There is now a petition before the Supreme Court that would allow...

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Is Seeking to Stop a War a Crime?

Is Seeking to Stop a War a Crime?

by | Dec 20, 2024 |

The early November detention of Asif Rahman, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, indicted in a federal national security court in the Eastern District of Virginia on two counts of “willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act,” was largely downplayed in the national media. He was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday November 5th at the US Embassy in Phnom Penh in Cambodia where he was...

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Trump Should Pattern Presidency After Eisenhower

Trump Should Pattern Presidency After Eisenhower

by | Dec 19, 2024 |

“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 Eisenhower’s Secret Battle To Save The World” by Evan Thomas. In the same paragraph as the words above are these: “When Defense Secretary Neil McElroy warned him that further cuts would harm national security, Eisenhower...

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Showdown in DOGE City

Showdown in DOGE City

by | Dec 19, 2024 |

The leaders of President-elect Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, have been meeting with Republican lawmakers recently. None of those involved shared details from their meetings, which was by design to allow for brainstorming. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did say “Government is too big. It does too many things, and it does almost nothing well,” adding Musk and Ramaswamy would help usher in change. But how will Elon and Vivek...

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Shoot the Drones!

Shoot the Drones!

by | Dec 19, 2024 |

The skies over New Jersey have been littered with strange flying objects during the past two weeks; and the feds are either hiding the truth from terrified folks on the ground or scratching their collective heads along with the rest of us. Since early December, there have been between 3,000 and 5,000 reports of large drones -- some about the size of a pickup truck. They have three or four arms, at the ends of which are very bright lights. The drone I saw over the northwest tip of the state...

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A New Geo-Political Map is Unfolding – The End of Syria (and of ‘Palestine’ for now)

A New Geo-Political Map is Unfolding – The End of Syria (and of ‘Palestine’ for now)

by | Dec 18, 2024 |

Syria has entered the abyss – the demons of al-Qa’eda, ISIS, and the most intransigent elements of the Muslim Brotherhood are circling the skies. There is chaos, looting, fear, and a terrible passion for revenge scalds the blood. Street executions are rife. Maybe Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and its leader, Al-Joulani, (following Turkish instruction), thought to control things. But HTS is an umbrella label like Al-Qa’eda, ISIS and An-Nusra, and its factions have already descended into...

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Iran: America’s Next War Of Choice

Iran: America’s Next War Of Choice

by , | Dec 18, 2024 |

Peace is not at hand in the Middle East, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu remains determined to expand the war. Syria’s de facto partition into Israeli and Turkish territories is the prelude to wider war with Iran. As the Times of Israel reported last week, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) has “continued to increase its readiness and preparations” for “potential strikes in Iran.” Netanyahu’s top priority is the destruction of Iran before Russia wraps up its victory in Ukraine and Syria becomes...

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Would a Trump-Putin Agreement Bring Peace to Ukraine or Just Set the Stage for More War?

Would a Trump-Putin Agreement Bring Peace to Ukraine or Just Set the Stage for More War?

by | Dec 17, 2024 |

“I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.” – Winston Churchill, 1942 Many Americans, even a lot who never much cared for Donald Trump, voted for him in part because they believed – or at least hoped – that he would be, relatively speaking, a peace candidate compared to the hideous Biden-Harris record. To his credit, Trump’s first term was the only US presidency since Jimmy Carter’s not to get us embroiled in a new conflict,...

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A Gift America Can’t Return: The Police State Is America’s New Crime Boss 

A Gift America Can’t Return: The Police State Is America’s New Crime Boss 

by | Dec 17, 2024 |

The American police state has become America’s new crime boss. Thirty years after then-President Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act into law, its legacy of mass incarceration, police militarization, and over-criminalization continues to haunt us. It has become the gift that America can’t seem to return. We are now suffering the blowback from the triple threats of the Crime Bill: police militarization, a warrior mindset that has police viewing the rest of...

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Ghosted by ChatGPT: How I was First Defamed and then Deleted by AI

Ghosted by ChatGPT: How I was First Defamed and then Deleted by AI

by | Dec 16, 2024 |

Below is my column in The Hill on recent reports that the use of my name in search requests on ChatGPT results in an error and no response. I am apparently not alone in this haunt of ghosted individuals. The controversy raises some novel and chilling questions about the rapid rise of AI systems. Here is the column: It is not every day that you achieve the status of “he-who-must-not-be-named.” But that curious distinction has been bestowed upon me by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to the New...

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Ukraine and Syria, A Western Plan Goes Awry

Ukraine and Syria, A Western Plan Goes Awry

by | Dec 16, 2024 |

Triumphant rhetoric in the corridors of Washington, DC celebrating the collapse of the Syrian government as a major victory over Russia is both foolish and short-sighted. I will explain. Let’s start with the situation in Ukraine. There is a growing atmosphere of desperation and panic among Western leaders as they watch Ukraine’s military collapse along the entire front and cast about for a strategy to stave off Ukraine’s defeat. But there is no viable solution. Russian military operations that...

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What Are We Doing in Syria?

What Are We Doing in Syria?

by | Dec 16, 2024 |

My first reaction to news earlier this month that the Syrian government had been overthrown was, how much did we have to do with it; how involved was the CIA; and how much is it going to cost. As with Saddam and Gaddafi before him, we know that Assad was no libertarian hero. But unleashing an army dedicated to establishing an Islamic state in once-secular Syria hardly seems like a good idea to me. As with President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” moment after Saddam’s overthrow,...

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US In ‘Direct Contact’ With Designated Terror Group HTS, Blinken Admits

US In ‘Direct Contact’ With Designated Terror Group HTS, Blinken Admits

by | Dec 15, 2024 |

The US has made "direct contact" with the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) under Abu Mohammad al-Jolani which now holds Damascus and most major Syrian cities in the wake of Assad's fall. "We’ve been in contact with HTS and with other parties," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said following talks with Arab diplomats in Aqaba, Jordan. This is the first official acknowledgement that the Biden administration is interacting with HTS, which has long been an officially...

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South Korea – National Assembly Impeaches President Over Failed Putsch Attempt

South Korea – National Assembly Impeaches President Over Failed Putsch Attempt

by | Dec 15, 2024 |

On December 3 the President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol launched a coup against the opposition ruled National Assembly. He declared martial law and ordered military special forces and police units to block law makers from assembling. But the assembly members did win the race: Just 150 minutes after the presidential announcement 191 of the 300 members of the National Assembly voted to immediately end the martial law status. Troops and police entered the parliament but the vote...

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Abolishing Democracy in Europe

Abolishing Democracy in Europe

by | Dec 14, 2024 |

On 4 October I spoke to a meeting of the United European Left group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Arriving a bit early, I sat though a presentation by a Moldovan judge, Victoria Sanduta, who was formerly the President of the Association of Judges in Moldova. She had recently been dismissed, along with other judges, after investigation by a committee set up by the President to vet judges. She said the “vetting” was openly political, and the purpose was to remove...

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Death of Syria

Death of Syria

by | Dec 13, 2024 |

What is clearly a joint US-Israeli plan to remake the Mideast map is now well underway. Changes will be seismic. The Biden administration, by now almost totally controlled by pro-Israel neocons, is making its final major moves by loosing a Parthian shaft into the heart of the Mideast. Syria – or what’s left of it – was divided up into zones – a third of the country with all its oil and gas fields is under the control of US military forces. Revenues from this oil and gas accounted for half of...

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Bring Back Constitutional Money

Bring Back Constitutional Money

by | May 17, 2024

The United States Constitution specifies that gold and silver are money. “No State shall … make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts,” declares the...

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The Libertarian Nonparty

The Libertarian Nonparty

by | May 15, 2024

Check out the United States Libertarian Party’s website for its national convention later this month at which a major focus will be the choosing of the party’s presidential...

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