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What if Freedom Is Suspended?

What if Freedom Is Suspended?

by | May 15, 2025 |

What if the writ of habeas corpus has been guaranteed to the British since 1215 and to Americans since 1789? What if this encompasses the right of every person who is confined by the government against his or her will to compel the jailer to justify the confinement before a neutral judge? What if this right is personal and individual and applies to all persons at all times? What if the right can be exercised by anyone who is arrested, whether it be for spitting on the sidewalk or murder? What...

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Can Trump Slip the Grip of the Neocons?

Can Trump Slip the Grip of the Neocons?

by | May 15, 2025 |

During the 1988 campaign, George W. Bush came to the Courthouse in Maryville, TN to speak at a rally for his Dad. As we were leaving, I told my friend and later Chief of Staff, Bob Griffitts, “Bob, he is better than his Dad.” When he ran for President in 2000, then Governor Bush went all over the Country saying we needed a more humble foreign policy, and according to Foreign Policy Magazine, he "famously campaigned against nation building." The Independent Institute reported that in a 2000...

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A Peculiar Measure of the Prevalence of ‘Antisemitism’

A Peculiar Measure of the Prevalence of ‘Antisemitism’

by | May 14, 2025 |

On Wednesday, the United States House of Representatives approved yet again legislation (this time H. Res. 352) to counter “antisemitism” — something the US government has been redefining for its purposes as going beyond being related to race, ethnicity, or religion so that it also includes criticizing the government of Israel. In its concluding section the resolution states, in addition to a couple other demands, that the House “calls on elected officials, faith leaders, and civil society...

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Trump Praises ‘Young, Attractive’ President Sharaa, Founder Of Al Qaeda In Syria, Before Qatar Visit

Trump Praises ‘Young, Attractive’ President Sharaa, Founder Of Al Qaeda In Syria, Before Qatar Visit

by | May 14, 2025 |

As a last major event while still on the ground in Saudi Arabia, and before embarking for Qatar, President Donald Trump met with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa. This signifies a monumental, historic shift in the entire regional order. We are witnessing the final blood soaked after-effects of the culmination of what was laid out in Seymour Hersh's The Redirection, a policy which began all the way back in the Bush administration. Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani,...

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Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?

Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?

by | May 14, 2025 |

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iván Archivaldo Guzmán recently evaded capture by Mexican police by using escape tactics that he learned from his father Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The Journal described Iván as “Mexico’s Most Wanted Drug Kingpin.” But wait a minute! I thought that when U.S. officials recently sentenced El Chapo himself to life in a U.S. prison, the war on drugs was supposed to have been won. Alas, apparently not. It turns out that El...

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Trump Advisor to Washington Post: ‘In MAGA, We Are Not Bibi Fans’

Trump Advisor to Washington Post: ‘In MAGA, We Are Not Bibi Fans’

by | May 13, 2025 |

Israel is in "total panic" that they're going to be the next US "ally" dropped by the Trump administration, according to the Washington Post. From The Washington Post, "Trump repeatedly bypasses Netanyahu, stoking dismay among Israelis": JERUSALEM — During his first major overseas trip this week, President Donald Trump is set to visit three countries in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — without stopping in Jerusalem. It's not the first time he has...

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The Illusion of American Generosity

The Illusion of American Generosity

by | May 13, 2025 |

Because of our strong Christian heritage, most Americans innately believe in being generous to their neighbors. Good neighborliness was central to our country’s founding ethos. Locally and nationally, there are a myriad of groups and organizations that provide support and assistance to people in need. This tradition is an important component of our culture. Consequently, much of our populace believes the United States government is a force for good around the world and an important contributor...

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What Will Trump Find in the Middle East This Week?

What Will Trump Find in the Middle East This Week?

by | May 12, 2025 |

President Trump’s return to the Middle East this week, the first since his first-term 2017 visit, will take place amidst great turmoil. It is a region that bears little resemblance to  the Middle East of 2017 and it appears, at least from media reporting this past week, that the Trump Administration has some understanding of this reality. Syria has been over-run and is now controlled by the same al-Qaeda that the US government supposedly spent 20 years fighting in the “war on terror.”...

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Turkey: A Rogue US Ally’s Territorial Conquests

Turkey: A Rogue US Ally’s Territorial Conquests

by | May 12, 2025 |

We often hear U.S. and NATO spokesmen claim that they believe in a rules-based international order. They don’t. The United States and its NATO allies have stressed repeatedly that Russia’s use of force to seize portions of Ukraine is reprehensible. They were emphatic on that point in 2014 when the Kremlin responded to the West’s role in overthrowing Ukraine’s democratically elected, pro-Russian president, Victor Yanukovych, by taking control of the Crimean Peninsula and then annexing it after...

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US House Approves MEGOBARI Act to Pursue in Georgia More Ukraine-style Intervention and Conflict with Russia

US House Approves MEGOBARI Act to Pursue in Georgia More Ukraine-style Intervention and Conflict with Russia

by | May 9, 2025 |

We have seen this play out before, the United States government relentlessly acting to control the government in a former Soviet Union republic bordering Russia and then proceeding to support that government in war against Russia. That course of action has led to devastation in Ukraine, including the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals, in a US proxy war against Russia. Through Monday approval in the United States House of Representatives of the Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s...

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Fed Up with Benjamin Netanyahu?

Fed Up with Benjamin Netanyahu?

by | May 9, 2025 |

I have in the past speculated that the day might come when President Donald Trump, he of a massive ego, might just become tired of his being manipulated and controlled by America’s Israel Lobby and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular. I thought, and hoped, that he might become so annoyed that he might move to take control of the so-called tail wags the dog relationship that has for so long put Israel in the driver’s seat. While I am loathe to read too much into several...

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‘We Were the First Christians’: Palestinian Believers Question American Evangelical Support for Israel

‘We Were the First Christians’: Palestinian Believers Question American Evangelical Support for Israel

by | May 8, 2025 |

Palestinian Christians in the West Bank are expressing a profound sense of betrayal as American evangelical leaders continue pushing for policies that directly harm their communities. Nicholas Kristof recently traveled to Bethlehem to hear directly from Christians living under occupation – and their testimony stands in stark contrast to the narrative promoted by many American evangelical groups. "Do we feel betrayed?" mused Mitri Raheb, a Lutheran Palestinian pastor who is President of Dar...

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Holes in the Constitution

Holes in the Constitution

by | May 8, 2025 |

Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between federal law enforcement and federal spies. The wall was erected in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which statutorily limited all federal domestic spying to that which was authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The wall was intended to prevent law enforcement from accessing and using data gathered by America’s domestic spying agencies....

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Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System

Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System

by | May 7, 2025 |

The American system of medical-care delivery has no name. It is neither single payer nor based on private enterprise. It is a patchwork of cockamamie carrots and sticks, agencies and incentives, exceptions and accounting tricks, cajoles and punishments, cobbled together over some 50-100 years of legislation that itself was a product of pressure-group pushes, graft, loopholes, mandates, and subsidies.  It’s not even a clean public-private partnership. It’s a...

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Martial Law Disguised as Law and Order: The Oldest Trick in the Authoritarian Playbook

Martial Law Disguised as Law and Order: The Oldest Trick in the Authoritarian Playbook

by | May 7, 2025 |

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison We are being frog-marched into tyranny at the end of a loaded gun. Or rather, hundreds of thousands of loaded guns. Let’s not mince words: President Trump’s April 28 executive order is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook: martial law masquerading as law and order. Officially titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals...

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Why Doesn’t the ‘Deal-Maker’ Close the Deal?

Why Doesn’t the ‘Deal-Maker’ Close the Deal?

by | May 6, 2025 |

The story, both on Ukraine and Iran, is that President Trump wants a “deal” – and both deals are available – yet he seems nonetheless to have boxed himself in. Trump presents his Administration as being something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental. It aspires to emerge, apparently, as also something more centralized, coercive, and radical. In domestic policy, there may be some truth to this categorisation of the Trumpian ethos. In foreign policy, however, Trump tergiversates. The reason...

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