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Trump’s Election-Interference Tariff

Trump’s Election-Interference Tariff

by | Jul 17, 2025 |

Like a child with his new favorite toy at Christmas, President Trump is using tariff taxes not only to attempt to centrally plan the pricing of thousands of goods and services in the economy, but also to engage in election interference in other countries. The latter statement refers to how he recently put the government of Brazil on notice that 50 percent tariff taxes would be imposed on Brazilian imports to the U.S. unless it dropped the legal case against the former Brazilian President...

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No Due Process at Gitmo

No Due Process at Gitmo

by | Jul 17, 2025 |

Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States on 9/11. Originally, the federal government blamed Osama bin Laden as the 9/11 mastermind. Then, after bin Laden was murdered in his home in Pakistan by the feds, they decided that Mohammed was the real...

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Two Cheers for DHS’ Kristi Noem

Two Cheers for DHS’ Kristi Noem

by | Jul 17, 2025 |

We have been pretty critical for some of the more bonehead moves coming from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in these early days of the Trump Administration. She has staged some embarrassing cosplay "takedowns" of illegals and she inexplicitly spent her first Memorial Day as a Senior US Official - a day to honor fallen American soldiers - wailing at Israel's "Wailing Wall" for some reason. Nevertheless - and some may rightly criticize the slow pace of "progress" - the "easily excited"...

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US Hubris-Driven Blunders Transform the Entire Complexion of the Wider War

US Hubris-Driven Blunders Transform the Entire Complexion of the Wider War

by | Jul 16, 2025 |

The big issue emerging from the US’ 22 June strike on Iran – second only to “wither Iran?” – is whether in Trump’s calculus he can “rhetorically impose” the having “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme claim long enough to both restrain Israel from hitting Iran again, yet still allow Trump to pursue his show-stopper headline, “WE WON: I’m in charge now and everybody is going to do what I tell them.” These were the key conflicting issues that were to be hammered out with Netanyahu during his...

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The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, and Control You

The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, and Control You

by | Jul 16, 2025 |

Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing. We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritarian control, where our thoughts, moods, and biology are monitored and judged by the state. This is the dark promise behind the newest campaign by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, to push for a future in which all Americans wear biometric health-tracking devices. Under the guise of public health and...

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The Redheaded Stepsister Goes to the Ball

The Redheaded Stepsister Goes to the Ball

by | Jul 16, 2025 |

Against the AGM-158 JASSM missile, has Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge finally met its match? Talk of sending Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles to Ukraine commenced last year, during the later months of the Biden administration. It was reported at the time that it would take "months" to adapt the missiles to operate with the rag-tag Ukrainian air fleet consisting of a few surviving Soviet Su-27s and MiG-29s and whatever 1980s-era boneyard F-16s NATO could cobble together...

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My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress

My 46 Years of Contempt of Congress

by | Jul 16, 2025 |

“Those bastards didn’t send back my article! Now I have to re-type the whole piece before I can submit it somewhere else!” I growled standing by the apartment cluster mailbox on a sultry afternoon of July 3, 1979. “Did they just throw away or steal the stamps from the self-addressed stamped envelope I sent along with my piece?!” The New York Times logo on the front of a postcard in that day’s mail sparked my ire. I had dropped out of Virginia Tech three years before, confident that I...

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The Systematic Unraveling of the Administrative State

The Systematic Unraveling of the Administrative State

by | Jul 15, 2025 |

In 1883, when the Pendleton Act was passed, creating the US civil service, it must have seemed like no big deal. The forgotten Chester A. Arthur was the president. The fear of being assassinated like his predecessor James Garfield convinced him to back the legislation. The case for passage: government needs professionals with institutional knowledge. Technicians were changing the world, so why not government too? Science and engineering were the rage – electricity, steel bridges, telegraphic...

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IDF Soldiers Say Grenade-Drones Being Used On Civilians: ‘None Of Them Were Armed’

IDF Soldiers Say Grenade-Drones Being Used On Civilians: ‘None Of Them Were Armed’

by | Jul 14, 2025 |

The Israel Defense Forces are routinely killing civilians in Gaza with commercial drones modified to drop grenades on them -- often leaving the corpses to be eaten by dogs, according to interviews with seven soldiers and officers conducted by Israeli investigative journalists. The tactic is being used to deter civilians from venturing into areas declared off-limits by the IDF, with indifference to the fact that the individuals -- some of them children -- pose no threat. Compounding the...

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By the Numbers — Western Propaganda on Russian Losses

By the Numbers — Western Propaganda on Russian Losses

by | Jul 14, 2025 |

Over the past week, the Western media has frantically pushed the narrative that Russia is suffering massive losses. Marco Rubio’s remarks in Kuala Lumpur a couple of days ago is a typical example: One hundred thousand since January? But it is not just Rubio… The Economist provides a more modest estimate, but the key word is estimate: As of July 9th our tracker suggests there have been between 900,000 and 1.3m Russian casualties since the war began, including some...

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Mistrusting Government about Epstein and More

Mistrusting Government about Epstein and More

by | Jul 14, 2025 |

Last week the Department of Justice announced that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “client list” of prominent individuals who may have broken the law at Epstein’s private island. These individuals could be blackmailed by Epstein and whatever intelligence agencies were working with him. In February, in response to a question about when Epstein’s client list would be made public, Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had it on her desk and would soon release it. She now says she meant she had a...

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Another Week in Washington to Remember

Another Week in Washington to Remember

by | Jul 12, 2025 |

If one thinks that arming Ukraine against Russia or having Israeli soldiers and also American contractors slaughter Gazan civilians are not supportive of any United States actual interests, last week could easily be written off as yet another descent into Hell on the part of the United States. Americans and others should have the right to criticize how the Israelis wage war without being denounced and criminalized by governments that have been corrupted from the inside, most often by money,...

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Trump’s Brazil Tariff Isn’t America First – It’s Economic Authoritarianism

Trump’s Brazil Tariff Isn’t America First – It’s Economic Authoritarianism

by | Jul 12, 2025 |

When President Trump slapped a fifty percent tariff on Brazilian imports this month, he didn't protect American workers. He didn't strengthen American industries. He didn't even pretend this was about fair trade. He made it clear: Brazil must drop its trial of Jair Bolsonaro -- or pay the price. This is punishment, not policy. It's blackmail dressed up as patriotism. And it has nothing to do with putting America first. Tariffs as Threats, Not Tools A tariff is a tax, plain and simple. Every...

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The Rise of the Prison State: Trump’s Push for Megaprisons Could Lock Us All Up

The Rise of the Prison State: Trump’s Push for Megaprisons Could Lock Us All Up

by | Jul 11, 2025 |

America is rapidly becoming a nation of prisons. Having figured out how to parlay presidential authority in foreign affairs in order to sidestep the Constitution, President Trump is using his immigration enforcement powers to lock up—and lock down—the nation. Under the guise of national security and public safety, the Trump administration is engineering the largest federal expansion of incarceration and detention powers in U.S. history. At the center of this campaign is Alligator...

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Trump To Send $300M In Weapons To Ukraine Drawn From Pentagon Reserves

Trump To Send $300M In Weapons To Ukraine Drawn From Pentagon Reserves

by | Jul 11, 2025 |

For the first time, President Donald Trump is set to use his authority to send weapons directly to Ukraine from Pentagon reserves, Reuters reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter, after last week's brief halt in shipments and now subsequent reversal. Until now, the Trump administration had only transferred arms that were previously approved during Biden's prior term. Trump is likely to use the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which enables the president to...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

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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Lawless Cops

Lawless Cops

by | May 12, 2025

Cops enforce laws. On first impression that may seem a good thing as one considers long in place laws, such as against assault, murder, and theft, that can help protect...

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