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Gun-Free School Zones and Students’ Safety

Gun-Free School Zones and Students’ Safety

by | Oct 30, 2026 |

Earlier this month, a mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon appears to have been cut short by Kaylub Giamanco, a father of two students at the school. Giamanco, using a handgun in contravention of gun-free school zone law, killed the murderer. Brady Leonard provided in a Wednesday Independent Institute article some details regarding Giamanco’s heroic intervention. That intervention, wrote Leonard, depended on Giamanco breaching legal restriction on the exercise of his...

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Trump Speaks His Mind On the Campaign Trail

Trump Speaks His Mind On the Campaign Trail

by | Oct 30, 2026 |

President Donald J Trump has been rampaging around the United States delivering campaign speeches that are all about himself as America’s “greatest president” when he is not smearing someone else employing his own unique brand of maniacal hatemongering. Recent sorties to the hinterland have including Trump in Michigan admiring the prominent asses of incumbent Senator candidate Jon Husted and celebrity rapper Nicki Minaj, to include expressing to the MAGA audience with a leering grin how much...

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America’s Deadly Addiction to War

America’s Deadly Addiction to War

by | Oct 29, 2026 |

America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars. Yet these wars have consistently failed to achieve the objectives proclaimed when the killing began. Enemies are replaced by new enemies, dictators give way to new dictators, and supposedly decisive victories become endless...

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Ukraine News

Lies, Damn Lies, and Ukraine News

by | Oct 29, 2026 |

It's been said that truth is the first casualty of war. What about the Ukraine war? I've followed the news closely, and have found ample evidence in headlines and storylines that the old adage holds true today. Too often the Ukraine news stories we see are misleading instead of informative. For instance, in March 2014 CNN reported that Ukraine's Maidan Revolution was "standing up on behalf of democracy." A month earlier, The Week cited many pundits and policymakers also characterizing events...

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The Doomsday Government: Preparing for the End of the World, Not the End of Power

The Doomsday Government: Preparing for the End of the World, Not the End of Power

by | Oct 28, 2026 |

This time of year, there is no shortage of monsters to frighten us. Hollywood has given us vampires, zombies, mad scientists, masked killers and creatures that emerge from the darkness to prey upon the unsuspecting. But perhaps the most frightening monster of all is the government that has become so accustomed to wielding extraordinary power that it cannot imagine a future in which that power is diminished. Enter the Doomsday Plan. In what sounds like a plot lifted straight out of Stanley...

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The Iran War and the ‘Terrible Power of the Purse’

The Iran War and the ‘Terrible Power of the Purse’

by | Oct 27, 2026 |

The “Grand Design” to “maintain [western civilisation’s] place at the head of the world” (as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it) requires the tools for ensuring compliance are two-fold: The creating of destructive revolutionary fervour from below (now termed “regime change”); and secondly, the use of what Theodore Herzl in a now famous phrase termed “the terrible power of the purse to exert irresistible pressure on international politics” in order to co-opt the ruling strata into a...

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Who is Making Billions from the Iran War?

Who is Making Billions from the Iran War?

by | Oct 26, 2026 |

At a campaign rally over the weekend, President Trump dismissed Americans’ concerns over high oil and gas prices, claiming that it’s a small price to pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars “we” are making from these higher prices. “We’re making a fortune,” he said. “Hundreds of billions of dollars. Trillions of dollars.” People are paying a little bit more for gas, he explained, but it doesn’t matter because “we” are making so much money. The question is, “Who is ‘we’?” We know it is not...

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A Western Civ Speech Only A Neocon Could Love

A Western Civ Speech Only A Neocon Could Love

by | Oct 24, 2026 |

When one of my acquaintances expressed his enthusiasm for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s October 7 speech from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece—seeing it as the de facto launching of a presidential campaign—I thought to watch the talk in its entirety. It was worth the viewing, if only for the craftsmanship involved. It was set in the golden hour, with the Parthenon beautifully framed behind Rubio, bathed in the soft light of the setting sun.    It was as well written as it was...

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Vote As If the Constitution Depended On It

Vote As If the Constitution Depended On It

by | Oct 24, 2026 |

There was a time when thinking for yourself was considered a virtue. These days, it can make you a political outcast. Question the Democrats, and you’re accused of being a Republican. Question the Republicans, and you’re branded a Democrat. Criticize Donald Trump, and you’re dismissed as suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Criticize his opponents, and you’re accused of enabling authoritarianism. Somewhere along the way, Americans seem to have forgotten that independent thought is not an...

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Our Failed Constitution

Our Failed Constitution

by | Oct 22, 2026 |

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The US Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture, even when it invokes national security, public order, economic necessity, emergency or the will of a popular majority. Its purpose is not to make government more powerful but to keep the government off the people's backs.  By that...

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Trump and Netanyahu Want to ‘Finish the Job’ on Iran

Trump and Netanyahu Want to ‘Finish the Job’ on Iran

by | Oct 22, 2026 |

If one were seeking to create something like a modern-day folk tale based on current realities and having the theme of “good versus evil” there are any number of real-life narratives available that could be exploited to invite speculation on actual environments that might have served as models for the fiction. I have found much of the bizarre and blood-soaked evil relationship between the United States and Israel, which serves no US interest at all, to be one such arrangement in which two...

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Some Pinocchios are Criticizing President Trump for Saying ‘Shylock’

Some Pinocchios are Criticizing President Trump for Saying ‘Shylock’

by | Oct 21, 2026 |

The name of Shylock, a character in William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice has long been embraced in the English language as a means of referring to charging high interest for loans or engaging in business ruthlessly. That second meaning also applies to the name Scrooge from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carrol. “Scrooge” may refer as well to disliking people or their pursuit or attainment of happiness. These are two examples of names from fiction and religious texts that have...

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The ‘War of Grand Design’ Transforms to More Narrowly Bolster US Hegemony

The ‘War of Grand Design’ Transforms to More Narrowly Bolster US Hegemony

by | Oct 21, 2026 |

The paradigm shifts. The networked supra-national stratum that long has pursued its global “grand design” through manufacturing public consent for wars of imposed compliance has, at last, run up against the limits to power. We are, indeed, at an “emperor has no clothes” moment. All can see it. Its traditional tools — the US military, the dollar system, the credit trap, the Bretton Woods structures, shock economic therapy and currency wars — are failing to preserve the US élite weltanschauung...

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Will Trump Take Millions of Hostages Like Me for Big Pharma?

Will Trump Take Millions of Hostages Like Me for Big Pharma?

by | Oct 21, 2026 |

President Trump loves protectionism but he gives Americans the same "protection” that the wolf gave to the lamb.  On January 20, the Food and Drug Administration and Customs and Border Protection will effectively ban almost all personal prescription imports, bushwhacking millions of Americans who rely on Canadian pharmacies.   Trump often brags that the U.S. has the world’s lowest drug prices. He also brags that he has lowered drug prices by 500% so he starts out with a helluva...

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Higher Oil Prices Are Likely To Stay

Higher Oil Prices Are Likely To Stay

by | Oct 21, 2026 |

Last months the Trump administration was loudly claiming that Iran had lost control of the Strait of Hormuz. Some ‘experts’ even claimed that the flow of oil was back at a pre-war level. Both of those claims were not true but short term blimps within volatile data. Attacks on ships passing through the Strait have increased. The flow of crude oil continues to be below the pre-war level. The draw down of nearly empty reserves is ongoing. The price of oil continues to rise: Brent crude futures...

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JD Vance Is Not Our Guy

JD Vance Is Not Our Guy

by | Oct 20, 2026 |

JD Vance drew anger this week after a CBS News town hall in which he appeared to brush off the Iran War’s operational failures in front of the grieving husband of a soldier killed in March. “Though the Iranian drone was the weapon that killed my wife, there were a lot of mistakes and a lot of fundamental failures that led up to that,” Joey Amor, whose wife, Sgt. First Class Nicole Amor, was killed in the strike, told Vance. Amor was referring to a CBS News report that military leadership...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Trump’s Pump and Dumps

by | Oct 5, 2026

In the Wednesday episode of his Peter Schiff Show, economics and current affairs commentator Peter Schiff focused in on two situations in which he argued United States President...

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Thank You for Your Coup

Thank You for Your Coup

by | Sep 25, 2026

For argument’s sake, let’s assume that Donald Trump is the worst United States president in history. Still, is he so bad that you would like to see him overthrown via a military...

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