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Jimmy Carter’s Hypocritical Olympic Boycott

Jimmy Carter’s Hypocritical Olympic Boycott

by | Jan 9, 2025 |

According to an article in the Washington Post, Gene Mills, a U.S. citizen who was one of the top amateur wrestlers in the world, stated, “He stole my life. That was my life. He took it away from me.” Mills was referring to President Jimmy Carter, who recently passed away at the age of 100. It was Carter who ordered U.S. athletes to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. The reason? Carter used the boycott to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. There were...

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‘Police Officers were Injured and Killed’: Klobuchar Repeats Common False Claim About January 6th

‘Police Officers were Injured and Killed’: Klobuchar Repeats Common False Claim About January 6th

by | Jan 9, 2025 |

Minnesota Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar this week was hit by a “community note” flagging a common false statement made about January 6th and how multiple officers were killed that day. Democratic leaders routinely refer to multiple deaths of officers when the only person to die on January 6th was Ashli Babbitt, a killing of an unarmed protester that remains controversial after a whitewashing by the Capitol Police. Klobuchar, who has been a vocal supporter of censorship to...

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Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die

Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die

by | Jan 9, 2025 |

Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025? So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, corruption, and make-works programming that leaves us no better off than where we started. Indeed, we’ve been down this road so many times before that there should be no surprise when, no matter who occupies the White House, we find ourselves subjected to more of the same when it comes to the...

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Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters

Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters

by | Jan 8, 2025 |

The passing of Jimmy Carter has been duly noted in ubiquitous remembrances and commentaries on his four-year presidency, 1977-1981. Carter is lauded more for his post-presidential humanitarian projects, while his presidency is deemed a mixed bag by left and right alike. For many Vietnam War resisters – myself included, it is more personal.  Jimmy Carter’s first act as president was to pardon draft resisters.  He then established a program for military deserters like me, who were able...

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Ukraine War Turns into Absurdist Fiction

Ukraine War Turns into Absurdist Fiction

by | Jan 8, 2025 |

ESTRAGON: Don’t touch me! Don’t question me! Don’t speak to me! Stay with me!VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you? ESTRAGON: You let me go.— Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett One great transformation of the Ukraine war in the past year since the current Russian offensive began is its transition to an absurdist fiction devolving upon the existential insecurity of Europeans, their fear of being abandoned by Donald Trump and yet their desire to be left alone.  Overall, the above quote...

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Don’t Pardon Michael Byrd. Indict Him Instead.

Don’t Pardon Michael Byrd. Indict Him Instead.

by | Jan 7, 2025 |

The Washington, D.C., establishment is, needless to say, up in arms over President-elect Trump’s plans to pardon the protestors who stormed the Capitol on January 6 four years ago. After hundreds of criminal prosecutions and sometimes long jail sentences meted out by federal judges, Trump’s pardons will be upending not only the entire prosecution-and-conviction scheme but also the ludicrous official narrative that has been used to justify the prosecutions and sentences. The narrative states...

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Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience

Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience

by | Jan 7, 2025 |

Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1892) was written as a Victorian-style moralizing tale of sin and its consequences. The author, a political and religious conservative of his times, never could have imagined that his novel would become a bestseller in his own time largely due to its lascivious imagery and terrifying plotline that fed into every anxiety over morality, science, and public health, much less kick off a century and a quarter of vampire films.  It also served as a...

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D.O.G.E.: End The Global Engagement Center!

D.O.G.E.: End The Global Engagement Center!

by | Jan 6, 2025 |

In the book Crisis and Leviathan, libertarian thinker Robert Higgs pointed out that the state uses crises to ratchet up its power and control over citizens. With each new “crisis” – often directly or indirectly caused by the state itself - government grows and our freedom shrinks. The root cause of the September 11, 2001 attacks was US interventionism, for example. As I said in a presidential debate a few years later, they came over here because we were over there. But instead of looking to...

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In The Jan 6 Killing Of Ashli Babbitt, A Double-Standard On Cop Misconduct

In The Jan 6 Killing Of Ashli Babbitt, A Double-Standard On Cop Misconduct

by | Jan 6, 2025 |

Contrary to exaggerated, partisan rhetoric that frames the Jan 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot as a “deadly insurrection,” the truth is that only one homicide occurred that day. The victim, an unarmed Trump supporter, was shot and killed by a police officer with a history of irresponsible handling of firearms, who opted against a nonlethal response to an act of trespassing, and who fired his weapon in the absence of any imminent threat of death or serious injury to himself or others in his...

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Collapsing Empire: RIP CIA Front’s ‘Overt Operations’

Collapsing Empire: RIP CIA Front’s ‘Overt Operations’

by | Jan 6, 2025 |

In recent months, a remarkable development in the Empire’s decline has gone almost entirely unnoticed. The National Endowment for Democracy’s grant database has been removed from the web. Until recently, a searchable interface allowed visitors to view detailed records of Washington-funded NGOs, civil society groups, and media projects in particular countries - covering most of the world - the sums involved, and entities responsible for delivering these initiatives. This resource has...

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Jimmy Carter – Our Honest President

Jimmy Carter – Our Honest President

by | Jan 4, 2025 |

The late Jimmy Carter was an exemplary man. His honesty, modesty and good works set the mark for what American presidents should be like. He was the quintessential Christian gentlemen and a fine naval officer. Unfortunately, this good man got embroiled in America’s colonial misadventures more often than the social welfare projects and peace plans that he sought to pursue. Chief among these thorny problems was, of course, the Mideast – no place for a decent, honest man – and, as well, the ugly...

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Office Pool 2025

Office Pool 2025

by | Jan 3, 2025 |

1. On Jan. 1, 2026, Joe Biden will bea. A criminal defendant in a case brought by the Trump DoJ.b. Generally regarded as smarter than he appears to be today.c. Gone from this vale of tears.d. In hospice. 2. On Jan. 1, 2026, Donald Trump will still bea. Blaming JD Vance for something.b. Appealing the civil judgments against him.c. Defending the war he has started in Iran.d. Sick and tired of giving Bibi Netanyahu everything he wants and getting nothing in return. 3. In January 2026, JD Vance...

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The Deep State’s Triumph: 2024 and the Erosion of Liberty

The Deep State’s Triumph: 2024 and the Erosion of Liberty

by | Jan 3, 2025 |

We have become a nation adrift in a sea of government overreach, abuse and corruption. The following is a sobering account of the challenges we faced in 2024, which were marked by the government’s never-ending power grabs and relentless assaults on our civil liberties. 2024 saw a continued rise in government overreach and abuse of power. The militarization of police forces continued unabated, with local departments increasingly resembling extensions of the military. Schools, meant to be places...

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Pope Francis Should Go to Gaza!

Pope Francis Should Go to Gaza!

by | Jan 2, 2025 |

The death of former President Jimmy Carter started me thinking about how long it’s been since the United States has been led by a head of state who was also a thoroughly decent human being. To be sure, while in office Carter made many mistakes in terms of both foreign and national security policy, but much can be attributed to his inexperience and his unfortunate reliance on hardliners in his cabinet, most particularly Russophobe Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was his National Security...

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2025 – Ukraine On The Verge Of Defeat

2025 – Ukraine On The Verge Of Defeat

by | Jan 2, 2025 |

In 2023 the situation in Ukraine had developed into what looked like a stalemate. But 2024 proved that bigger things had been in the making. In 2024, after taking Avdivka, the Russian forces began to deliberately and steadily move forward. The introduction of FAB bombs, precision ammunition delivered from airplanes flying outside Ukrainian air defenses, broke the Ukrainian defense fortifications. Russian infantry, covered by ample artillery and with the help of drones, infiltrated and...

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Imperial Hubris (and its Consequences) in Syria

Imperial Hubris (and its Consequences) in Syria

by | Jan 2, 2025 |

The Syria story, it seems, is not so simple as “President Assad fell” and the “technocratic Salafists“ rose to power. At one level, the collapse was predictable. Assad was known to have been influenced by Egypt and UAE for some years past. They had been urging him to break with Iran and Russia, and to shift to the West. For some 3-4 years he had been incrementally signalling and implementing such a move. Iran especially faced increasing obstacles over operational matters in which they were...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Folly of Escalation

by | Jun 13, 2024

As Western leaders recklessly talk of escalating the conflict in Ukraine, European voters have sent the exact opposite message. The pro-war elites are clearly out of step with...

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