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Our Unhinged Government

Our Unhinged Government

by | Aug 2, 2025 |

Some months ago, I pointed out that Preacher Johnnie Moore’s taxpayer-funded defense firm, the Orwellian labeled Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, had one benefit and one benefit only.  It would allow its American employees, former soldiers in many cases, to be on the ground in Gaza seeing what the US is faithfully funding, and what Israel has done and is doing. Israel, with the active support and blessing of over 80 percent of Israelis since late 2023, has been violently destroying Gazan...

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The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent

The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent

by | Aug 1, 2025 |

The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on COVID-19—is yet another Trojan Horse. First, President Trump issues an executive order empowering federal agencies to clear out homeless encampments and lock up the homeless in mental institutions using involuntary civil commitment laws intended for dealing with individuals experiencing mental health crises. Days later, a gunman allegedly suffering...

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Israel, Listen to Rabbi Berger

Israel, Listen to Rabbi Berger

by | Aug 1, 2025 |

"Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance." So wrote Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leading Jewish thinker of the 50’s and 60’s, who opposed what he called Israeli-style "Jewish nationalism." Another renowned Jewish thinker, Arthur Koestler, warned that Israel was becoming "a nasty little Sparta." This past week, much of the rest of the world, sickened by the mass slaughter and destruction in Gaza wrought by...

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Can the President Impose Taxes?

Can the President Impose Taxes?

by | Jul 31, 2025 |

This week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- which sits right below the Supreme Court -- is hearing a case of profound constitutional importance. It is the government’s appeal of a ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade, which found that President Donald Trump’s unilateral imposition of tariffs on certain goods entering the United States from certain foreign countries is unconstitutional. The lower court recognized that the Constitution established the...

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Freedom in a Post-Covid World

Freedom in a Post-Covid World

by | Jul 31, 2025 |

The Covid era cut through traditional ideological paradigms like knives on tissue. Nothing behaved as we might have expected. The civil libertarians were nowhere in sight. The courts did not work. Big business and media fully cooperated. The major religions caved. The national security state thrived, while both parties let it all happen. The population was mercilessly propagandized and pillaged with no resistance from the commanding heights.  Seemingly out of nowhere, pharmaceutical...

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Pediatricians Organization Says Eliminate Almost All Vaccine Exemptions for Children

Pediatricians Organization Says Eliminate Almost All Vaccine Exemptions for Children

by | Jul 30, 2025 |

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) distinguished itself as an obsessive shots pusher and freedom theatener during the coronavirus crackdown. It was admonishing that children — who were at very minimal risk from coronavirus — be subjected to the quack practices of masking and social distancing to protect them until they became “fully vaccinated” with experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots. The AAP was also calling on pediatricians to evangelize for giving these dangerous and ineffective...

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Why is US Intelligence Providing Bogus Numbers of Dead Russian Soldiers?

Why is US Intelligence Providing Bogus Numbers of Dead Russian Soldiers?

by | Jul 30, 2025 |

I am sort of surprised that no one has done what I am going to do… Provide a realistic calculation of the actual number of Russian casualties since the start of the Special Military Operation in February 2022. This includes Killed in Action (KIA) and Wounded in Action (WIA). Sy Hersh, in one of his recent posts, was fed a line of bullshit by a US military or US intelligence source. I don’t blame Sy… He simply reported what he was told. He wrote the following about the current Russian...

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Is the Trump ‘Mystique’ Broken? Does MAGA Sense Betrayal?

Is the Trump ‘Mystique’ Broken? Does MAGA Sense Betrayal?

by | Jul 29, 2025 |

The Epstein cloud is metastasizing and becoming a rallying point for deep-seated popular alienation from certain ruling strata. The public begrudgingly has become resigned to accept that their “rulers” routinely lie and steal, but nonetheless they (particularly within the MAGA faction) have dimly come to understand that there may be vice within the body public which they regard as too detestable to imagine. People have caught on that Trump was in one way or another (even as a by-stander)...

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It Shouldn’t Have Taken This Much For Mainstream Voices To Start Speaking Up About Gaza

It Shouldn’t Have Taken This Much For Mainstream Voices To Start Speaking Up About Gaza

by | Jul 29, 2025 |

Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as has the Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights. The Israeli organizations join Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, and the overwhelming majority of leading authorities on the subject of genocide in their conclusion.  The debate is over. The Israel apologists lost. And we are seeing this reflected in mainstream...

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When the Bully Bluff Blows

When the Bully Bluff Blows

by | Jul 29, 2025 |

The United States wielded near-total hegemony from at least the early 1990s to 2014 or so, at which point the first big irreversible cracks began to form. Russia took back Crimea, and took the Donbass under its wing. China began to methodically divest itself of US IOUs. Those acts of defiance threw down the gauntlet, serving notice not only to the masters of empire, but to lesser powers around the globe who were sick and tired of being pushed around and pillaged by the saphead American cowboys...

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One photo just confronted every American with a question they cannot escape

by | Jul 28, 2025 |

A child's hollow eyes stare back from your screen. His name is Mohammad Al-Motawaq, and he is dying of starvation. And those who see it will never be the same. "Behold, we did not know this" In a tent by the Mediterranean Sea, 30-year-old widow Hidaya Al-Motawaq cradles what remains of her 18-month-old son.¹ https://twitter.com/Medo198518/status/1949090160320131332 As NPR's Anas Baba reported, Mohammad "is a year and a half old and nearly all bone. His eyes protrude, as does his swollen...

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Militarized Law Enforcement Reaches a New Level under Trump

Militarized Law Enforcement Reaches a New Level under Trump

by | Jul 28, 2025 |

Law enforcement in the United States has exhibited an exceptional degree of harshness, if not outright brutality, during the initial months of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.  A majority of the most flagrant examples have involved enforcement actions by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division.  Numerous stories have appeared in the news media about ICE agents appearing at workplaces and schools to...

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Here’s What Gabbard’s Russiagate Report Missed

Here’s What Gabbard’s Russiagate Report Missed

by | Jul 28, 2025 |

"An easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia -- from a position of strength -- is possible. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end." Candidate Donald Trump said that on April 27, 2016. At first glance that might sound rather irrelevant to Gabbard's Russiagate revelations. But let me connect the dots for you.The first point is that Russiagate has inflamed US-Russia tensions. That action actually had a number of beneficiaries. Their interests would be harmed by Trump's...

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Nobody for Fed Chairman

Nobody for Fed Chairman

by | Jul 28, 2025 |

President Trump has recently suggested that, unless Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell cuts interest rates, the president might revert to his The Apprentice days and tell Powell, “you’re fired.” President Trump backtracked on firing Powell after the president’s comments caused stock markets to fall. However, it is almost certain that President Trump will not reappoint Powell when Powell’s term ends in May. Media reports indicate the leading candidates to replace Powell include Treasury...

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To Enforce the Laws Faithfully

To Enforce the Laws Faithfully

by | Jul 25, 2025 |

When the IRS announced two weeks ago that it would not enforce a section of federal law commonly called the Johnson Amendment, many clerics rejoiced. The Johnson Amendment -- named for its author, then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson -- strikes a bargain with charities. You accept tax-free dollars, you stay out of the political arena. The amendment is the federal law, codified in the IRS Code at 501(c)(3), that permits the IRS to grant tax-exempt status to qualifying charities. The tax exemptions...

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From Hero to Zero

From Hero to Zero

by | Jul 24, 2025 |

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, in February 2022, Volodymyr Zelensky has been elevated to the status of a hero King, pure in thought and deed, interested only in saving humble Ukraine from the onrushing hordes of Russian Orcs. Like Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, but short, thin-skinned and with a gravelly voice. He has been completely immune from any criticism in the west, with all allegations dismissed and labelled as Kremlin talking points. Yet, in an instant, that illusion has been...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Downsized DOGE

Downsized DOGE

by | Jan 11, 2025

Elon Musk stirred up much hope among many small government advocates when he spoke on stage at Donald Trump’s October 27 presidential campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in...

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Polio Poppycock

Polio Poppycock

by | Jan 1, 2025

“Polio.” That is a common go-to word for trying to silence people expressing any concern about any vaccine. The emotion-centered tactic relies on people having great fear of...

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