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Independence Day 2025

Independence Day 2025

by | Jul 3, 2025 |

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the President of the United States bombs the lawful facilities of a foreign country that pose no threat whatsoever to American national security and does so without a congressional declaration of war as the Constitution requires, when...

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This Is Israel’s War – Not Our War

This Is Israel’s War – Not Our War

by | Jul 2, 2025 |

President Trump, to his credit, demanded a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Both countries agreed to it. Then, the president became very angry with Israel because, as he said, “As soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I’ve never seen before.” But as I write this column, the ceasefire is still in effect. I hope it lasts. However, just two days before the ceasefire, we dropped ten 30,000-pound bunker bombs on Iran, a country that had not...

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US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price

US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price

by | Jul 2, 2025 |

When asked about the cost of their government’s support of the State of Israel, some Americans will say it’s $3.8 billion a year — the amount of annual military aid the United States is committed to under its current, 10-year “memorandum of understanding” with Israel. However, that answer massively understates the true cost of the relationship, not only because it doesn’t capture various, vast expenditures springing from it, but even more so because the relationship’s steepest costs can’t be...

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Inalienable Rights in an Age of Tyranny: The Government Is Playing God

Inalienable Rights in an Age of Tyranny: The Government Is Playing God

by | Jul 2, 2025 |

We are now struggling to emerge from the wreckage of a constitutional republic, transformed into a kleptocracy (government by thieves), collapsing into kakistocracy (government by the worst), and enforced by a police state algogracy (rule by algorithm). This week alone, the Trump administration is reportedly erecting protest barricades around the White House, Congress is advancing legislation that favors the wealthy, and President Trump is grandstanding at the opening of a...

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What Means ‘Winning’?

What Means ‘Winning’?

by | Jul 1, 2025 |

At one level, Iran plainly “won.” Trump had wanted to be regaled with a reality-TV style, splendid “Victory.” Sunday’s attack on the three nuclear sites indeed was loudly proclaimed by Trump and Hegseth as such – having “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme, they claimed. “Destroyed it completely,” they insist. Only … it didn’t: The strike caused superficial surface damage, perhaps. And seemingly was co-ordinated in advance with Iran via intermediaries to be a “once and done”...

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The Answer to Sen. Rand Paul’s One Question Leads Him to Vote Against the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

The Answer to Sen. Rand Paul’s One Question Leads Him to Vote Against the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

by | Jun 30, 2025 |

President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leadership have been putting immense pressure of Republican United States House of Representatives and Senate members to approve and send to Trump before the July 4 holiday a large in size and scope piece of legislation that Trump has called the “Big Beautiful Bill.” On the Senate floor on Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul, one of the Republican legislators who has resisted this pressure, presented a speech explaining that the answer to one question...

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A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex

A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex

by | Jun 30, 2025 |

The US Senate worked through the weekend on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The goal was to pass it quickly to ensure the House will then pass it and send it to President Trump’s desk before the July 4th holiday. However, disagreements among Republican Senators over reductions in spending on programs including Medicaid and food stamps as well as language in the bill eliminating “clean energy” tax credits were preventing Senate Republican leadership from getting enough votes to pass the bill. Also,...

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Trump Rolls Over for a New War

Trump Rolls Over for a New War

by | Jun 30, 2025 |

It is generally believed that American voters elected Donald Trump president at least in part due to their embracing his lies that he was a peacemaker who would not involve the United States in the pointless wars that have proliferated since 9/11. Trump’s predecessor the hapless Genocide Joe Biden had entangled the US deep in a conflict involving nuclear armed Russia and had also armed, funded and politically protected war criminal Israel in its openly declared objective to eliminate the...

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The War On Iran – Summing Up The First Round

The War On Iran – Summing Up The First Round

by | Jun 28, 2025 |

USrael's long planned attack to regime change Iran did fail. Control by the military and political leadership of Iran was never in doubt. Attempts to kill Ayatollah Khamenei were unsuccessful (and would have not mattered at all). The military response to the Israeli attack was quick and successful. After just twelve days of war Israel sued for peace. Iran agreed but may well rue that decision in future. It had the advantage of being able to fight and win an attritional war...

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The United States Cannot Defeat Iran

The United States Cannot Defeat Iran

by | Jun 28, 2025 |

How soon people have forgotten that, earlier this year, the US dispatched two carrier strike groups and a half-dozen B-2s (and other USAF assets) to disarm the Yemeni and open the selectively blockaded Red Sea. They failed. Abysmally. For the second time! First of all, in 2024, the USS Brave Sir Robin (CVN-69), USS Teddy Bear (CVN-71), and USS Fraidy Abe (CVN-72) gave it a try, only to eventually run away with their tail between their legs. The Brave Sir Robin left behind an F/A-18 at the...

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Vance Unwittingly Reminds Us of the Jose Padilla Case

Vance Unwittingly Reminds Us of the Jose Padilla Case

by | Jun 27, 2025 |

In mocking California Senator Alex Padilla by referring to him as “Jose,” Vice President Vance has unwittingly reminded us of the Jose Padilla case. The Padilla case showed us how government officials use “crises” to destroy the civil liberties of the people. The 9/11 attacks motivated U.S. officials to declare a “war on terrorism,” which turned out to be a bigger racket than their Cold War racket had been. Not only did the attacks fortify and reinforce the national-security state governmental...

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The Fictional Mental Illness That Only Affects Enemies Of The Western Empire

The Fictional Mental Illness That Only Affects Enemies Of The Western Empire

by | Jun 27, 2025 |

Within the storytelling of western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental illness which only affects people the US empire doesn’t like. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its crazy lunatic government will flip out and nuke us all. Watch out for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, those guys are a bunch of maniacal antisemites who want to attack Israelis just because they’re Jewish. Oh no, Putin is invading Ukraine completely unprovoked because he’s a madman who hates freedom...

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Let Trump Save Us from War with Iran

Let Trump Save Us from War with Iran

by | Jun 26, 2025 |

The ongoing pundit discussions whether or not the US attack destroyed the three Iranian nuclear facilities, which might or might not have been involved in developing a weapon, with many challenging the Trump administration’s report that all three facilities were destroyed, is stupid and even dangerous.  The whore media, incapable of thought, is desperate to do Trump in on any and every thing. Why are intelligent analysts keeping the issue alive for the biased media?  I...

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The Coming Police State

The Coming Police State

by | Jun 26, 2025 |

We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil liberties -- and this shrinkage will somehow keep us all safe. The premise of this deeply flawed argument is that less liberty produces more safety. That premise is historically and morally erroneous. Even if we had cops watching us on...

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Trump Rolls Over for a New War

The War on Iran is not Over

by | Jun 26, 2025 |

I don’t know why Iran agreed to the ceasefire, but it did. Iranian leaders, in my opinion, are frighteningly naive. Some apparently believe that they can achieve a legitimate negotiated deal with Donald Trump. I suggest the Ayatollah and IRGC commanders read Donald Trump’s Truth Social posting regarding Bibi Netanyahu (see image). Despite Trump’s temper tantrum on Monday — when he dropped the F-bomb complaining about the ignorance of Iran and Israel — he still has his lips firmly planted on...

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Middle East in Crisis After US Bombing of Iran

Middle East in Crisis After US Bombing of Iran

by | Jun 25, 2025 |

The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices in the Kremlin, wrote on the Telegram channel on June 23 a critique on the Middle East crisis following the US attack on Iran’s three key nuclear sites of Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. Medvedev listed ten points, which, taken together, messaged that Russia’s stance on the developing situation around Iran has markedly shifted to one of proactive mode marked by profound...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Merz’s Reich

by | Jun 6, 2025

What has happened to Europe? Why is its rhetoric so bombastic and militaristic? Why are Europe’s leaders so afraid of democracy? Why is the continuation of the Ukraine war so...

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Vaping Madness at the FDA

Vaping Madness at the FDA

by | May 30, 2025

“For the children.” That is a go-to justification for politicians and bureaucrats seeking to infringe on individual rights. It was on display last week in the final minutes of...

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DOGE Failure

DOGE Failure

by | May 28, 2025

Elon Musk, the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency in Donald Trump’s presidential administration, has expressed in a new interview his disappointment in Trump’s...

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The Ten Seconds Census

The Ten Seconds Census

by | May 27, 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is in the news for claiming it has eliminated several Census Bureau surveys and that it will be reviewing others in turn. That may...

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