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No, It’s Not Time to Ban Sports Gambling Again

No, It’s Not Time to Ban Sports Gambling Again

by | Oct 3, 2024 |

Writing for The Atlantic, Charles Fain Lehman claims that legalizing sports gambling was a huge mistake. “If you follow sports, gambling is everywhere. Ads for it are all over broadcasts; more than one in three Americans now bets on sports,” he laments. Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, gets his history right if nothing else: Before 2018, sports gambling was prohibited almost everywhere. Now it’s legal in 38 states and the District of Columbia, yielding $10 billion a year in...

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Deal or No Deal?

Deal or No Deal?

by | Oct 3, 2024 |

“Oh, what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practice to deceive.”--Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) The case of the Gitmo plea agreement keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. A few weeks ago, we learned that a plea agreement had been entered into by way of a signed contract between the retired general in the Pentagon who is supervising all Gitmo prosecutions, the Gitmo defendants and defense counsel, and the military prosecutors. The agreement, as we understand it from sources who have seen it,...

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America Is Falling Apart: Our National Priorities Are in Dire Need of Restructuring

America Is Falling Apart: Our National Priorities Are in Dire Need of Restructuring

by | Oct 2, 2024 |

“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”—Bob Dylan A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices. One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs repair, endangering hundreds of millions of commuters. More than 42,000 bridges across the country, carrying about 167 million vehicles each day, are in disrepair. It is estimated that 300 million people could face power...

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The US Privately Encouraged Israel To Escalate in Lebanon

The US Privately Encouraged Israel To Escalate in Lebanon

by | Oct 2, 2024 |

POLITICO reported on Monday that despite the Biden administration’s public calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, White House officials privately told Israeli officials that they agreed with the plan to escalate in Lebanon and shift its focus to the north. The report, which cited US and Israeli officials, said the message was delivered by Brett McGurk, the top Middle East official on the National Security Council, and Amos Hochstein, an Israeli-born veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces...

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Will the Suffocating Cage of Leviathan be Avoided?

Will the Suffocating Cage of Leviathan be Avoided?

by | Oct 1, 2024 |

As the ousted “Emperor,” Biden made his “final walk” from the dias at the UN, he was not the Emperor of yore, brimming with the bravura that the U.S. is back, and “I’m running the world.” For as the Middle East explodes, and the Ukrainian bubble deflates, the White House continues to urge restraint on all parties to dial back the violence. But no one is listening. With his era stumbling to an inglorious close, Biden may have loved the idea of pulling the levers of coercive soft-power...

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Mistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy and Debt for Prosperity

Mistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy and Debt for Prosperity

by | Sep 30, 2024 |

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer. All things fall apart. The center cannot hold.”  --  W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming As of May 2024, the United States has committed over $175 (borrowed) billion to escalating the proxy war against Russia, and, as in the case of the Iraq and Afghan wars, with little regard for accountability pertaining to tracking military hardware,  equipment, funding, or  fraud prevention. One of the most...

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Fed’s Rate Cut Helps Candidate Harris but Will Hurt President Harris (or Trump)

Fed’s Rate Cut Helps Candidate Harris but Will Hurt President Harris (or Trump)

by | Sep 30, 2024 |

Many investors, businesses, and consumers cheered the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut since March of 2020. The Fed’s 50 basis points interest rate reduction was larger than many Fed watchers anticipated and was followed by suggestions that there are more rate cuts on the way. A drop in borrowing costs following the Fed’s rate reduction can help make people more optimistic about the general economy and their own financial situation. The uptick in consumer sentiment could help...

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John Kerry Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: ‘First Amendment Stands As Major Block’ To ‘Govern’

John Kerry Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: ‘First Amendment Stands As Major Block’ To ‘Govern’

by | Sep 29, 2024 |

The World Economic Forum held its 'Sustainable Development Impact Meetings' during last week's United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Speaking at the meeting, far-left elitist and former presidential climate envoy John Kerry expressed frustration to fellow globalists, stating that the First Amendment frequently obstructs their agenda.  "Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer...

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Ukraine’s ‘Victory Plan’ Is Delusional

Ukraine’s ‘Victory Plan’ Is Delusional

by | Sep 28, 2024 |

n the past two years the western establishment media has effectively obscured the reality on the ground in Ukraine.  Only recently has it become clear to the public that the tales we've heard about Russia imploding due to "bad tactics" and "throwing bodies into the meat grinder" in exchange for irrelevant territory have all been a fantasy.  The problem is, propagandists often end up believing their own propaganda and then they are caught completely by surprise down the road when...

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Will Lebanon be Next After Gaza?

Will Lebanon be Next After Gaza?

by | Sep 27, 2024 |

Few people know that Lebanon was once part of Syria. It was detached from Syria by Imperial France and made into a nominally Maronite Christian nation. Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims and Druzes were also encompassed in this newly engineered country of 6 million. Then came 100,000 Palestinian refugees driven from their ancestral home in what is today Northern Israel. The admixture of these Palestinian refugees enflamed Lebanon’s traditional ferocious tribal rivalries. In 1975 they burst into major...

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Trump Pushes Narrative That Iran Is Trying to Kill Him

Trump Pushes Narrative That Iran Is Trying to Kill Him

by | Sep 27, 2024 |

On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump pushed a narrative being spread by US intelligence officials that Iran is trying to kill him even though there’s no evidence of Iranian involvement in either attempt on his life. Trump’s campaign said they were briefed on the alleged Iranian threat by officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is led by Avril Haines. “Big threats on my life by Iran. The entire US Military is watching and waiting....

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Violating the Law to Provide War Aid to Israel

Violating the Law to Provide War Aid to Israel

by | Sep 26, 2024 |

In March, I wrote about eight United States Senate members sending a letter to President Joe Biden declaring that Section 6201 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 requires the termination of offensive military aid to the Israel government because the Israel government “prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance.” This declaration seemed then and continues to seem now true to observers of the situation where...

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A Brief History of Free Speech in America

A Brief History of Free Speech in America

by | Sep 26, 2024 |

“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”--First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When James Madison agreed to be the scrivener at the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, he could not have known that just four years later he’d be the chair of the House of Representatives committee drafting the Bill of Rights. In doing so, he insisted that the word “the” precede the phrase “freedom of speech” in what was to become the First Amendment,...

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Hidden Agendas: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency

Hidden Agendas: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency

by | Sep 25, 2024 |

he government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, cronyism and graft to asset forfeiture, costly stimulus packages, and a national security complex that continues to undermine our freedoms while failing to making us any safer. Americans have also been made...

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Zelensky’s Victory Plan is his Survival Kit

Zelensky’s Victory Plan is his Survival Kit

by | Sep 24, 2024 |

Strana, one of the top online newspapers in Ukraine, which is banned in Russia since 2022, reported on Friday that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is planning to dismiss Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and the powerful military intelligence chief Gen. Kirill Budanov from their posts as part of his continuing purge of the military establishment in Kiev.  Umerov is a political lightweight and a non-military man by profession and may become the "fall guy", as the Ukrainian...

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Will Israel ‘Recklessly’ seize the day? ‘Have the doors to a war without limits been opened?’

Will Israel ‘Recklessly’ seize the day? ‘Have the doors to a war without limits been opened?’

by | Sep 24, 2024 |

“After today [the day of the pager simultaneous explosions], there can be no talk about settlement and solutions,” writes Ibrahim Amine, Editor of Al-Akhbar, known for his close contacts with the Hizbullah leadership: In just one minute, the enemy succeeded in delivering its harshest blows to the body of the Islamic Resistance … [Furthermore] through yesterday’s operation, the enemy confirmed that it doesn’t want to abide by the rules of engagement. Have the doors to a war [then] been opened:...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Cornel West Says End the Wars

Cornel West Says End the Wars

by | Jul 25, 2023

Cornel West was well known and liked by many before he made his early June announcement that he is running for president. That has given West’s Green Party presidential campaign...

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