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Trump’s Failed Mission to China

Trump’s Failed Mission to China

by | May 16, 2026 |

The Beijing circus is over and Donald Trump’s talks with Xi Jinping produced nothing more than some pleasing photo ops and some performative diplomacy with no substantive accomplishments. There was no final communique at the end of Trump’s two days of meetings with Xi Jinping. Instead, we are left to rely on the statements from each government. When you parse the two statements, the two readouts diverge significantly, and the gaps are as informative as the overlaps. When you compare what each...

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When Killing Becomes Commonplace

When Killing Becomes Commonplace

by | May 14, 2026 |

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punishedunless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” -- Voltaire (1694-1778) Last week, when the Pentagon resumed its attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, the media barely noticed. The US military has now destroyed 56 vessels and killed 190 persons. The killings began in September 2025 and have continued to this month. The attacks caused a stir a few months ago when one of the strikes...

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Gorka Advocates Violating the First Amendment for Israel

Gorka Advocates Violating the First Amendment for Israel

by | May 14, 2026 |

Sebastian Gorka again. This time Gorka acts like he knows the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He claims the First Amendment prohibits incitement. It does, under certain conditions. The Supreme Court ruled speech is prohibited if directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action. Furthermore, the speech must be likely to incite or produce such action. In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the Court overruled a previous ruling on “clear and present danger” and said advocacy of illegal...

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America’s Representative

America’s Representative

by | May 14, 2026 |

My heart was broken in Kentucky's 4th district today. As I neared the home of a new client, driving my beat up old Ford covered in Thomas Massie and Ron Paul bumper stickers, I passed the Ed Gallrein for Congress signs that lined his fence. Now, this is to be expected. Although Trump's poll numbers are in a free fall and the coalition he built around his 2024 campaign has been shattered, an endorsement from the President is still coveted among a significant enough portion of the Republican...

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Payback: Russia Uses Iran as a Proxy Against the United States

Payback: Russia Uses Iran as a Proxy Against the United States

by | May 13, 2026 |

Washington and Moscow both enthusiastically celebrated the victory of the Allied “Grand Alliance” over the fascist powers at the end of World War II.  Since then, however, the two capitals have typically been on opposite sides of numerous nasty geostrategic struggles around the world.  They also have relished opportunities to work with foreign countries and political movements to create major headaches for the other great power. A crucial recent example of that strategy has been the...

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‘Ways of War’ are in Metamorphosis: Lessons from the Iran War

‘Ways of War’ are in Metamorphosis: Lessons from the Iran War

by | May 13, 2026 |

Although the Iran war largely has been viewed through the lens of conventional western warfare, its lessons are anything but conventional. They are in fact insurrectionary. The post-war western approach (especially in the Cold War context) relied on the ability to outspend any military adversary through the acquisition of high-end, over-engineered and costly manned aircraft and munitions. Dominance of airspace and heavy reliance on aerial bombardment, i.e. air-war, was the doctrinal...

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Voting on Another Deceptive Antisemitism Resolution in the House of Representatives

Voting on Another Deceptive Antisemitism Resolution in the House of Representatives

by | May 12, 2026 |

Here they go again. The members of the United States House of Representatives are set to vote Tuesday on another resolution listing off statistics purportedly demonstrating very high and growing amounts of antisemitism in America. Those claims are bunk. But that will not stop the vast majority of House members from voting for this resolution just like happened two years ago when the same resolution, sponsored then as now by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), was considered in the House. In...

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The Trump Hustle: Distraction, Deception and the Heist of the American Economy

The Trump Hustle: Distraction, Deception and the Heist of the American Economy

by | May 12, 2026 |

Call it what it is: a heist. The corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing that now define the American government—under Donald Trump in particular—amount to a slow-motion stick-up carried out in broad daylight. But here’s the trick: it’s a heist hidden behind spectacle. The Trump administration is flooding the stage with noise so “we the people” don’t notice what’s happening behind the curtain. We’re being manipulated into watching the wrong thing. The distractions are part of the plan to rob us...

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More Complications Arise In the Trump Universe

More Complications Arise In the Trump Universe

by | May 12, 2026 |

The top story last week, at least in terms of shock value, might well be the ongoing saga of the Trump White House ballroom, which started out as a $200 million development off of the building’s East Wing accommodating 300 guests and completely paid for by private donors. It then grew to 600 guests and the price doubled. The East Wing of the White House was then completely demolished without approval by Capitol architectural authorities to make way for a greatly expanded facility. The...

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A $1.5 Trillion Military Budget is a Gift to the Grifters

A $1.5 Trillion Military Budget is a Gift to the Grifters

by | May 11, 2026 |

Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally responsible investment.” “Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, this War Department has moved from bureaucracy to business,” he said last Thursday. In a way he was right, though. The huge increase is much more about “business” than what is...

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More Wars and Rumors of Wars

More Wars and Rumors of Wars

by | May 11, 2026 |

President Donald Trump is back from his business trip to China which had a lot of ambiguity over issues like Taiwan without having done either much discernible damage or benefit to American interests. The trip ended with the American participants dropping all the gifts that they had received from the Chinese into a large garbage bin on the tarmac before they boarded their plane. And while the president was gone Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to everyone’s surprise announced that he was...

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2026 – Of Potatoes and Pitchforks

2026 – Of Potatoes and Pitchforks

by | May 8, 2026 |

We are stepping into a period where multiple systemic failures are colliding rather than unfolding one at a time and the usual vocabulary of crisis feels inadequate. Overlapping conflicts, tightening energy markets, fraying social contracts, sovereign debt burdens that leave little room for maneuver, and an agricultural sector standing on the edge of a perfect storm. This is not a single emergency to be managed by a single agency. It is a polycrisis, and it is arriving at a moment when the...

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The Gulf Separating the US and Iran is Too Wide to Bridge

The Gulf Separating the US and Iran is Too Wide to Bridge

by | May 8, 2026 |

As I pointed out in my last article, someone in the Trump administration who has been briefed on Trump’s upcoming statements about the war in Iran made a financial killing yesterday. This is part of a continuing pattern of deliberate deception by Trump, i.e., pretending there is great progress with talks with Iran, which in turn produces a boost in the US stock market and a decline in the futures price of oil. Here is the reality: There will be no negotiated end to the war with Iran in the...

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The Comey Indictment and Free Speech

The Comey Indictment and Free Speech

by | May 7, 2026 |

In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its scope. The Supreme Court employed a particularly narrow approach during much of the last century, through two world wars and then the Red Scare in the 1950s.  Thankfully, in the 1960s, the Warren Court began a remarkable and thus far unimpeded march toward compelling the government to tolerate open, wide, caustic and even threatening speech. When crafting the First...

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How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World

How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World

by | May 6, 2026 |

This article is adapted from a speech given at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference in Lake Jackson TX on 25 April 2026. I’m going to begin our examination of the US-Israel relationship by taking you to an unlikely location, thousands of miles from either Tel Aviv or Washington. We’re also traveling more than 36 years into the past. On December 20, 1989, the United States invaded the Republic of Panama to oust its leader, General Manuel Noriega, who had outlived his usefulness to the...

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Danger of a World Catastrophe

Danger of a World Catastrophe

by | May 5, 2026 |

The very first story on the Drudge Report on both April 23 and 24 was headlined with a quote from Bernard Arnault saying if the Iran war was not quickly settled, it could be a “world catastrophe.” I apparently do not keep up with world business as much as I should, because I did not know that Arnault is one the three richest men in the world along with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. They trade first, second and third depending on fluctuating stock prices. Arnault heads a French conglomerate, LVMH,...

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Keeping DHS Unfunded

Keeping DHS Unfunded

by | Mar 19, 2026

In January, I wrote about Democrats in the United States Senate proposing a group of changes in US immigration enforcement. Listing some of the suggested changes, I summed them...

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