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McConnell Cannot Stop the Non-Interventionist Tide

McConnell Cannot Stop the Non-Interventionist Tide

by | Apr 8, 2024 |

Even Republican stalwarts like current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are starting to notice that something is shifting in the party. While McConnell announced recently that he would step down as Republican leader in the US Senate, in an interview last week he was adamant that he would continue to serve out his term in the Senate with one purpose in mind: “fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party.” He sounds worried. What McConnell deems to be “isolationism” had...

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Israel is Crossing All Boundaries as America Tires of its Endless Wars

Israel is Crossing All Boundaries as America Tires of its Endless Wars

by | Apr 8, 2024 |

A version of this article first appeared as a regular RPI Update. Subscribe for free here. Last week the Israelis scored a bloody "hat trick" - slaughtering seven international food aid workers, demolishing the last major hospital operating in Gaza, and - perhaps most dangerous - attacking an Iranian diplomatic facility in Damascus, Syria, in which several senior Iranian military figures were killed. There is a very good reason diplomatic facilities are off limits even in times of war. It has...

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Ukraine – Faking News Still Does Not Help Winning

Ukraine – Faking News Still Does Not Help Winning

by | Apr 6, 2024 |

I find it amusing how little western media have learned from their own reporting on the war in Ukraine. Two years ago a mystic 'Ghost of Kiev' was allegedly shooting down Russian aircraft left and right. The ghost turned out to be a fake character. The Ukrainian air force had never had such successes. Two years on it is still the same story. The Ukrainian government claims something and western media print it as if it had really happened. When the claim is debunked, often sooner than...

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New Challenges to the First Amendment from the Biden Administration

New Challenges to the First Amendment from the Biden Administration

by | Apr 6, 2024 |

The great irony is despite all the fear mongering spewed out about Donald Trump ending democracy, it is mostly the Democrats who are taking shots at its most sacred freedoms, those of the First Amendment. The House recently passed a bill, HR 7521, seeking to “ban” the popular app Tik Tok from America’s smartphones. The logic works like this: Tik Tok is owned by a Chinese company. Chinese companies are under the control of the Chinese Communists. Therefore, Tik Tok is brainwashing American...

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Federal Judge Hits CDC Over Withholding Data on Adverse Vaccine Reports

Federal Judge Hits CDC Over Withholding Data on Adverse Vaccine Reports

by | Apr 5, 2024 |

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to resist disclosing information on claimed side effects and problems with its COVID-19 vaccines, including from healthcare workers. Due to a January order by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in a Freedom of Information Act case, the CDC is being forced to turn over hundreds of thousands of “free text” entries from V-safe. The court has scolded the CDC for its continuing efforts to withhold information on...

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The Government Attacks the Freedom of Speech

The Government Attacks the Freedom of Speech

by | Apr 4, 2024 |

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”-- Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty as governments throughout the United States engaged in direct and subtle attacks on free speech. The freedom of speech is unique in American history and ethos. It was the linchpin of the secession of the 13 colonies from Great Britain. It is often claimed at the most distinguishing characteristic between life in the United...

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‘#arrestme’: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law

‘#arrestme’: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law

by | Apr 3, 2024 |

We have previously discussed the growing anti-free speech movement in Scotland with the expanding criminalization of political and religious speech. The new Scottish law is a perfect nightmare for free speech, expanding the potential of a jail sentence for merely insulting language. In response, author JK Rowling has taken a stand and dared the Scottish police to come and arrest her for criticizing transgender status. The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act...

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The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?

The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?

by | Apr 3, 2024 |

The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, sexual freedom, the rights of the unborn, and property interests in one’s body, but there’s so much more at play. In the 50-plus years since the U.S. Supreme...

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Israel’s war, Netanyahu’s Gamble

Israel’s war, Netanyahu’s Gamble

by | Apr 2, 2024 |

US Democratic Party support for Israel is fast fissuring – an “ideological tremor,” Peter Beinart (editor of Jewish Currents) calls it. Since 7 Oct “it has become an earthquake” – a “Great Rupture.” This concerns the fusion of Liberalism to Zionism that long has defined the Democratic Party: Israel’s war in Gaza has supercharged a transformation on the American Left. Solidarity with Palestinians is becoming as essential to leftist politics – as is support for abortion rights or opposition to...

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We Were Lied Into the Gaza Genocide. Al Jazeera Has Shown Us How

We Were Lied Into the Gaza Genocide. Al Jazeera Has Shown Us How

by | Apr 2, 2024 |

For weeks, as Gaza was battered with bombs and the body count in the tiny enclave rose inexorably, Western publics had little choice but to rely on Israel’s word for what happened on 7 October. Some 1,150 Israelis were killed during an unprecedented attack on Israeli communities and military posts next to Gaza. Beheaded babies, a pregnant woman with her womb cut open and the foetus stabbed, children put in ovens, hundreds of people burned alive, mutilation of corpses, a systematic...

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A Fauci for Every Farm Animal

A Fauci for Every Farm Animal

by | Apr 1, 2024 |

Mainline industrial confinement livestock producers routinely feeding subtherapeutic antibiotics to their animals have been desperate for an alternative for many years. As superbugs like cDiff and MRSA developed, consumer backlash against ubiquitous antibiotic use increased. When consumer advocacy groups pummeled factory farmers with headlines like “Who’s Drugging Your Dinner?” the industry first denied it was a problem, then actively started looking for alternatives. I remember well when Bill...

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McConnell Cannot Stop the Non-Interventionist Tide

The Senate Calls Out-of-Control Spending a National Security Threat, Keeps Spending Anyway.

by | Apr 1, 2024 |

Last month, the US Senate passed a resolution saying the over 34 trillion dollars (and growing) national debt threatens national security. A few days later, a bipartisan majority of the Senate voted for a 1.2 trillion dollars spending bill. In addition to the usual increases in war and welfare spending, the bill funds gender transitioning for minors without parental consent and red flag laws, which allow law enforcement to seize an individual’s firearms without due process. Before passage of...

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Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The House Formally Invites President Biden to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry

Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The House Formally Invites President Biden to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry

by | Mar 30, 2024 |

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer has sent a seven-page letter (below) to invite President Joe Biden to testify in the Republican impeachment inquiry. The letter is the latest, and best, reduction of the glaring contradictions in the President’s past statements on his family’s well-documented influence peddling operation. President Biden is not expected to testify. However, the media should be interested in his answering the questions presented by the Committee. It is now clear...

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The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree

The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree

by | Mar 28, 2024 |

Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security Agency to vacuum up trillions of emails and other data. A bevy of bipartisan members of Congress called for radically curtailing those nullifications of Americans’ privacy. But the effort to put a leash on the federal surveillance failed dismally. Congress voted for a four-month extension of FISA,...

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Taking Easter Seriously

Taking Easter Seriously

by | Mar 28, 2024 |

“That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine eventTo which the whole creation moves.”-- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British governance, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, editorials and sermons was not “safety” or “taxes”; it was “freedom.” Yet, two intolerable acts of Parliament so assaulted personal freedom that they broke the bonds with the mother country. The first was the Stamp Act of...

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Ukraine’s Survival Hangs in the Balance 

Ukraine’s Survival Hangs in the Balance 

by | Mar 28, 2024 |

A controversy arose needlessly over the advisory issued by the American embassy in Moscow on March 7 to the effect that “extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts” and warning US citizens to “avoid large gatherings.” It took the form of a diplomatic spat and momentarily at least, the American claim that they shared the ‘information’ with the Russians hinted at the ineptness of the security agencies in Moscow while the latter hit back saying...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

New Jersey Eliminates a Tax

New Jersey Eliminates a Tax

by | Jul 16, 2022

New Jersey has a reputation as a high tax state. This month, something happened that should pare back that reputation some: The state eliminated its sales tax on medical...

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The Republic of Texas, Part Two

The Republic of Texas, Part Two

by | Jun 21, 2022

Texas was its own nation independent of any other for ten years between gaining its independence from Mexico in 1836 and joining the United States in 1846. Nearly 180 years...

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