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Does the US Still Have a Constitution?

Does the US Still Have a Constitution?

by | Feb 5, 2026 |

Legal scholars have many lenses through which to examine the Constitution. Lawyers need to master about 150 Supreme Court decisions in order to have a sufficient understanding of the government. But most of what lawyers have studied is theory -- how the Constitution is supposed to work, as opposed to how it actually does work. This “supposed to” versus “actually does” conundrum is often called the formal versus the functional. Formally, the United States still has a Constitution. We still have...

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Gaza Reconstruction; Ukraine Reconstruction – ‘It’s All Business’

Gaza Reconstruction; Ukraine Reconstruction – ‘It’s All Business’

by | Feb 4, 2026 |

Over the past two weeks, two important messages were conveyed to Iran, both of which were rejected. One came from the US and the other from Israel. The former was: “We [the US] will carry out a limited attack and you should accept it; or at least, give only a symbolic response.” Tehran rejected this request, saying that it would consider any attack to mark the beginning of a full-scale war. Israel’s message, delivered through one of the various mediators, was: “We will not participate in the...

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Showdown

Showdown

by | Feb 4, 2026 |

For several years now I have been making the argument that, because American military power is so widely dispersed and diluted across the planet, the only way the United States could concentrate sufficient forces to prosecute a war against one of its three major power adversaries (Russia, China, and Iran) would be to significantly deplete its force posture relative to the other two. That is precisely what has been happening over the course of the past few weeks in relation to the military...

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Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op

Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op

by , | Feb 3, 2026 |

The claim of “30,000 killed” during two days of protests and rioting across Iran appears to be based largely on a single anonymous source, who admitted extrapolating that figure by assuming without evidence that “officially registered deaths related to the crackdown likely represent less than 10% of the real number of fatalities.” That quote was attributed by The Guardian to an alleged doctor whose real name the newspaper refused to publish, but whose identity it claimed to have...

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Israel Surrenders To The Truth: Admits 70,000 Killed In Gaza

Israel Surrenders To The Truth: Admits 70,000 Killed In Gaza

by | Feb 3, 2026 |

Throughout the Israel Defense Forces rampage across Gaza, the State of Israel and its collaborators and sympathizers around the world have ridiculed the alarming death toll maintained by Palestinian health authorities, dismissing the count as a gross exaggeration aimed at maliciously demonizing Israel. Now, after more than two years of casting doubts, the IDF has finally admitted its own estimates match the Gaza Health Ministry’s accounting of some 70,000 confirmed dead. It’s a grand example...

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Will He, or Won’t He?

Will He, or Won’t He?

by | Feb 2, 2026 |

For the past month, Americans have been wondering whether President Trump will attack Iran, or whether the massive military build-up in the Middle East is just another bluff. President Trump claims that the decision is his alone to make. Thus far, President Trump has made little effort to explain to the American people – or to Congress – why launching a war against Iran is in our national interest. Instead, he wanders from one reason to another, hoping something will stick. First it was a...

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‘Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??’

‘Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??’

by | Feb 2, 2026 |

Any time things heat up with an empire-targeted government I always get people demanding to know why I’m not critical of that government. “Why don’t you criticize Iran? You spend all your time criticizing the west and Israel; you’re a hypocrite if you don’t criticize Iran.” It flabbergasts them that I’m not saying harsh things about the latest Official Bad Guy of the Day. Everyone on TV is criticizing Iran. Both mainstream political parties are criticizing Iran. Their favorite mainstream...

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Cuban Crisis 2.0. What if ‘Gerans’ flew from Cuba?

Cuban Crisis 2.0. What if ‘Gerans’ flew from Cuba?

by | Jan 31, 2026 |

History doesn’t quite repeat itself, but it does upgrade its hardware. As Washington’s posture toward Havana hardens once again, the real question is no longer whether pressure escalates, but how and when. Cuba has lived under American coercion for over six decades. That reality is baked in. What’s changed is the battlefield and the tools available to smaller states that refuse to fold. So let’s run a strictly hypothetical scenario: if Cuba were forced to defend itself in a new confrontation,...

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Senate Democrats Offer Promising Ideas for Changing Immigration Enforcement

Senate Democrats Offer Promising Ideas for Changing Immigration Enforcement

by | Jan 31, 2026 |

It is good to be cautious when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) proclaims he is promoting “common sense” ideas. But, looking at a listing of some of what he on Wednesday called “common-sense reforms, ones that Americans know and expect from law enforcement,” that Senate Democrats want imposed for the United States government’s immigration enforcement efforts, it seems that Schumer and his party caucus are putting forward some promising ideas. The Senate Democrats’ proposal largely...

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Treating Peaceful American Civilians as Enemy Combatants

Treating Peaceful American Civilians as Enemy Combatants

by | Jan 30, 2026 |

The recent killing of Alex Pretti by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents in Minneapolis has generated a new wave of fury on the part of Americans upset about the mounting abuses that federal law enforcement personnel are committing.  The alarm is fully warranted.  ICE, the FBI, and other government entities increasingly both look and behave like ruthless military combat units.  Unfortunately, too many people who are alarmed about the recent...

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American Gestapo/American Psycho

American Gestapo/American Psycho

by | Jan 29, 2026 |

Last week, a half-dozen masked and unidentifiable Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a 37-year-old federal employee, a nurse, by spraying pepper spray into his eyes, pushing him to the ground, stealing his lawfully owned and carried handgun, and then shooting him nine times in the back. The thugs from ICE whom the federal government has sent to Minneapolis have produced murder and mayhem on a scale far more violent, disruptive and disturbing to human life than have the...

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Judge, Jury, Executioner: When the Government Decides Who Lives or Dies

Judge, Jury, Executioner: When the Government Decides Who Lives or Dies

by | Jan 28, 2026 |

What does it say about a political movement that demands absolute reverence for life in the womb yet shrugs when the government kills, cages, or brutalizes the living? What does it say about a government—and a political movement—that claims to value the unborn, but once you are born, that concern evaporates? When life upon birth becomes expendable, subject to force, punishment, neglect, and death so long as it serves “law and order,” “national security,” or political convenience—when you can...

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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge

Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge

by | Jan 27, 2026 |

On Saturday, federal agents in Minneapolis killed protester Alex Pretti, shooting him in the back 10 times after they had taken away the pistol he legally carried. White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller quickly settled the issue: “A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.” A few hours after Pretti was killed, I commented on Twitter/X: “How many of the Trump supporters cheering the killing of the...

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The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the US Government

The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the US Government

by | Jan 27, 2026 |

I have long maintained that one of the big obstacles libertarians face in the achievement of a genuinely free society is the fact that most Americans honestly believe they are free. When people are convinced they are free, they have no reason to want to join up with us libertarians in our effort to establish a genuinely free society. Instead, they simply view libertarianism as a “weird” philosophy that purports to achieve what we already have — a free society. One can only hope that the recent...

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Will He, or Won’t He?

Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target

by | Jan 26, 2026 |

What does the Federal Reserve have in common with Venezuela and Greenland? It has been targeted by President Trump for regime change. The Justice Department recently launched a criminal investigation into whether Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell lied to Congress about the costs of renovating the Federal Reserve’s offices. Many believe this investigation was launched in order to support President Trump’s effort to replace Powell, who he nominated to be Fed chairman in 2017, with a Fed...

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Beware the Precedents You Set

Beware the Precedents You Set

by | Jan 26, 2026 |

For three decades, Washington insisted that internal destabilization was not an act of war when applied abroad. It called it “civil society.” It is now discovering that precedents don’t ask permission to come home — and that shock is already visible on Minnesota’s streets. This is not about Russia orchestrating unrest in the United States. It isn’t. There’s no evidence for that, and pretending otherwise is a distraction. The uncomfortable truth is simpler: the United States is running into the...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

The Ruble Is Far From Rubble

by | Dec 25, 2025

On March 26, 2022, then United States President Joe Biden boasted in a speech in Poland that “unprecedented sanctions” targeting Russia that had been put in place over the last...

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