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Scorch Marks in the Sand

Scorch Marks in the Sand

by | Mar 24, 2025 |

Javelin, Stinger, M-777 howitzer, HIMARS, Excalibur, Switchblade, all manner of electronic warfare gizmos and counter-battery radars, Bradley IFVs, Stryker, Leopard, Challenger, Abrams, Patriot, JDAMs, HARMS, Storm Shadow, ATACMS ... I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Oh, yeah … remember in early 2022 when the unveiling of the Bayraktar strike drones was hailed with great fanfare? They were predicted to be the bane of the Russian army. Instead, it was a major embarrassment for the Turks. Javelin,...

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Shut Down the Department of Education!

Shut Down the Department of Education!

by | Mar 24, 2025 |

President Trump’s executive order from last week titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” could help bring about a major step toward restoring constitutional government and improving education. The executive order directs that the secretary of education, “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local...

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Does the US military even know why it’s bombing Yemen?

Does the US military even know why it’s bombing Yemen?

by | Mar 22, 2025 |

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Fox News last weekend that the U.S. military had launched operations against the Houthis in Yemen because "ships haven't been able to go through for over a year without being shot at." He then said that in December-ish (not giving a specific date) that "we sent a ship through, it was shot at 17 times." Military sources who spoke to Military.com are puzzled because there were two attacks they know of in December against a merchant vessel and U.S....

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Voice of America Has No Place in a Free Society

Voice of America Has No Place in a Free Society

by | Mar 21, 2025 |

Statists are up in arms over President Trump’s decision to terminate the Voice of America and other U.S. government propaganda outlets that fall under the control of a federal entity called the U.S. Agency for Global Media. USAGM also encompasses Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and Radio Martí. Statists are saying that these propaganda outlets have long been great promoters of freedom. Harkening back to World War II, they say that Voice of...

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‘Independent’ anti-Russia outlet Meduza faces collapse after US funding slashed

‘Independent’ anti-Russia outlet Meduza faces collapse after US funding slashed

by | Mar 20, 2025 |

Alexey Kovalev, a self-described “Russian journalist currently living in exile for fear of persecution back home,” had spent much of his career at Meduza, the leading opposition media outlet in Russia. Since leaving the paper under mysterious circumstances in the summer of 2023 and relocating to London, Kovalev has split time writing commentaries for Foreign Policy and attacking reporters at The Grayzone, whom he has falsely painted as Russian assets, while calling for their...

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Perilous Times for Personal Liberty

Perilous Times for Personal Liberty

by | Mar 20, 2025 |

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out --Because I was not a socialist.Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out --Because I was not a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.”-- Rev. Martin Niemoller (1892-1984) The history of human freedom is long, tortuous, and not gratifying. It consists essentially in governments trampling the...

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Putin Gives Trump a Meaningless Concession, But Sticks to June 2024 Position

Putin Gives Trump a Meaningless Concession, But Sticks to June 2024 Position

by | Mar 19, 2025 |

The much anticipated phone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin took place on Tuesday, as expected. There was quite a bit of propaganda flack flying about prior to the call… for example, the Ukrainians told the NY Times that Trump was going to concede Russia’s right to control Odessa. It was also rumored that Putin might relinquish control of the Zaporhyzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). That didn’t happen. The White House account of the meeting emphasized that Trump...

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Using Medicalization to Suppress the Exercise of First Amendment Rights

Using Medicalization to Suppress the Exercise of First Amendment Rights

by | Mar 19, 2025 |

A repugnant tactic of authoritarianism is categorizing people’s desire for or exercise of freedom as illness that government should suppress. An example of this was the deeming of dissidents in the Soviet Union as mentally ill to justify their detention and punishment. In America, there has long been resistance against an effort to similarly have the United States government medicalize the exercise of gun rights as a means to circumvent the constitutional protection of the right to bear arms...

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Beware the Ides of March — Are Trump and Netanyahu, Acting in Tandem, Committing Political Suicide?

Beware the Ides of March — Are Trump and Netanyahu, Acting in Tandem, Committing Political Suicide?

by | Mar 18, 2025 |

“Beware the Ides of March” is a famous warning from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. This day, March 15, marked the midpoint of the month and was significant because it was the day Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BCE. March 15 marked the day that Trump started on the road to war with Iran. I believe that is a fateful decision that will ultimately end any chance of Donald Trump having a successful second term. He committed an act of political suicide in my opinion....

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Trump Hypes up Tensions with Iran

Trump Hypes up Tensions with Iran

by | Mar 18, 2025 |

On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date.  The US attacks began on Saturday and continued into Sunday on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas reportedly killing 31 people and wounding 101 so far, most of them children and women.  Such wanton killing of defenceless women...

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What Makes the Crimean Custody Battle Bogus?

What Makes the Crimean Custody Battle Bogus?

by | Mar 18, 2025 |

In current rhetoric about the Ukraine War peace negotiations, a lot's being reported about Crimea. But it's worth questioning how much of it is truthful or accurate.Ukraine says Crimea is an integral part of Ukraine that was taken by force, and wants it back from Russian occupation.At the same time Russia says the transfer away from Ukraine was done fairly by the residents themselves in a referendum. Russia contends the residents voted to attach Crimea to Russia, and that Russia intends to...

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Shut Down the Department of Education!

President Trump: Stop Bombing Yemen and Exit the Middle East!

by | Mar 17, 2025 |

Over the weekend President Trump ordered a massive military operation against the small country of Yemen. Was Yemen in the process of attacking the United States? No. Did the President in that case go to Congress and seek a declaration of war against the country? No. The fact is, Yemen hadn’t even threatened the United States before the bombs started falling. Last year, candidate Trump strongly criticized the Biden Administration’s obsession with foreign interventionism to the detriment of our...

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American Spring? Uphold Freedom of Speech on American Campuses

American Spring? Uphold Freedom of Speech on American Campuses

by | Mar 17, 2025 |

Throughout my political career, I have steadfastly defended the First Amendment, particularly the right to free speech. In 2002, I delivered a speech entitled A Prayer for America, where I challenged the rationale of the PATRIOT Act and questioned actions that infringed upon the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and protection against unreasonable searches. My commitment to upholding free speech has been a guiding principle throughout my tenure in public service. While a Member of...

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The Death of Free Speech in America?

The Death of Free Speech in America?

by | Mar 15, 2025 |

There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties. The US bipartisan unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world which now despises America’s corrupt political system and its increasing bizarre and out of touch leadership. There were even reports this past...

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Five Years Later, We Remember How Politicians Unleashed Covid Tyranny

Five Years Later, We Remember How Politicians Unleashed Covid Tyranny

by | Mar 15, 2025 |

Five years ago, politicians and bureaucrats went berserk and pointlessly ravaged Americans’ freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic provided the pretext to destroy hundreds of thousands of businesses, padlock churches, close down schools, and effectively place hundreds of millions of Americans under house arrest. Despite all the forced sacrifices, most Americans contracted covid and more than a million were listed as dying from the virus. “Pandemic Security Theater Is Self-Destructive, And Won’t Make...

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Three Cheers For Rep. Thomas Massie!

Three Cheers For Rep. Thomas Massie!

by | Mar 14, 2025 |

Told you so! Donald Trump doesn’t give two hoots about the true agenda that might actually make America freer and more prosperous again. We are referring to the principles of—- peaceful commerce with every nation, entangling alliances with none. minimalist, solvent, constitutional government at home. sound money and market-driven interest rates and asset prices. maximum scope for personal liberty and free markets. decentralized, Federalist arrangements for any necessary functions of the state....

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