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Blinken’s Window Dressing Tour of Arab Capitals

Blinken’s Window Dressing Tour of Arab Capitals

by | Jan 10, 2024 |

The expectation raised by the United States in allowing a UN Security Council resolution on Gaza pass through on December 22, 2023 without having to exercise its veto — albeit a watered-down one that stopped short of calling for ceasefire — was that the manifest international isolation facing Washington and Tel Aviv would inevitably impact Israel’s options going forward.  However, there are contrarian trends. Israel started the new year by ordering the withdrawal of part of its military...

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Something Lost, Never to Be Found Again

Something Lost, Never to Be Found Again

by | Jan 9, 2024 |

A strange ennui and distracted attention envelops the West today. Hat-tip to Simplicius’ Bones of Tomorrow, in which he reflects on a Culture that has become debased; its lures that used to trap us into the “Myth of the West” lie withered, as patently false idols. The dimming fire has squandered any sense of “magic” in the guttering West, or indeed of hope to recoup this something “lost.” It is the wistful realisation that – as it stands – the myth is never likely to offer...

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A Nation of Non-Compliers

A Nation of Non-Compliers

by | Jan 9, 2024 |

The train wasn’t scheduled for another 20 minutes, so I had a chance to contemplate the official sign on the door of the huge elevator leading to the platform. It said that only four people are allowed in because we must all practice social distancing. There was a helpful map of the interior of the elevator with stick figures telling people exactly where to stand.  Yes, these stickers are still everywhere. I recall when they first went up, sometime in April 2020. They seemed oddly uniform...

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Family of Ashli Babbitt Files $30 Million Wrongful Death Action

Family of Ashli Babbitt Files $30 Million Wrongful Death Action

by | Jan 8, 2024 |

The long-awaited tort action from the family of Ashli Babbitt has now been filed in Southern California. Babbitt was shot and killed on Jan. 6th and her family is seeking $30 million in a wrongful death action. Equally important, the lawsuit could force additional answers to why Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd shot and killed the unarmed protester as she attempted to climb through a window near the House Chamber. I have previously raised concerns over the shooting as conflicting with...

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40 Years in Jail for a Marijuana Offense

40 Years in Jail for a Marijuana Offense

by | Jan 8, 2024 |

When I read an article yesterday by a man named Edwin Rubis, I sat there, shook my head, and asked myself how any government could do such a thing to anyone. The reason that Rubis’s article caught my attention is captured in the title of his article: “I’m Serving 40 Years in Federal Prison. Here’s a Glimpse Into My World.” That title intrigued me because I have often wondered what daily life is like for prison inmates. Do they sit around all day reading books? Do they work out? Do they have...

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Soft Landing or Hard Crash?

Soft Landing or Hard Crash?

by | Jan 8, 2024 |

A clip from the 1990 movie Home Alone where the lead character purchases groceries, household goods, and toys recently went viral because he paid a total of $19.83 whereas today the same purchase would cost over three times as much. Ironically, while this evidence of the Federal Reserve’s failure to maintain the dollar’s value was going viral, stocks rose because investors believed the Fed had successfully engineered a “soft landing” by bringing down price inflation without causing a recession...

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Jewish Supremacism, Like American Exceptionalism, Breeds Barbarism

Jewish Supremacism, Like American Exceptionalism, Breeds Barbarism

by | Jan 6, 2024 |

Today’s Jewish Taliban is not the Israel I grew up in Israel has rendered Gaza a “moonscape in war,” uninhabitable for years to come, reduced to rubble by “the most intense air campaigns in the modern record.” Not only is Israel murdering tens of thousands of Gaza’s civilians–22,313 Palestinians to date (Via Ha’aretz Israel News, Wednesday, 03.01.2024); an average of 200 to 300 souls a day–but it has gone and done a Taliban on the Gaza strip’s heritage sites, some dating back to antiquity....

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Ballot Cleansing: Democrats are Moving to Bar Republicans from Ballots Nationwide

Ballot Cleansing: Democrats are Moving to Bar Republicans from Ballots Nationwide

by | Jan 5, 2024 |

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expansion of the 14th Amendment theory to attempt to remove Republican candidates for Congress from the ballots. Dozens of Democratic members have already called for the disqualification of up to 126 Republican colleagues under the same sweeping theory. These efforts show how this theory could place this country on a slippery slope to political chaos if not clearly and finally rejected by the Supreme Court. Here is the column: As the...

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Ukrainian Post-Mortems Starting to Appear

Ukrainian Post-Mortems Starting to Appear

by | Jan 5, 2024 |

The war in Ukraine continues to grind on and Ukrainian troops are falling back all across the 600 mile front. Not a good start to the New Year for Zelensky and the future is bleak at best. Russia is methodically destroying Ukrainian factories set up to manufacture military tactical clothing, ammunition, drones and vehicles. Repair facilities also have been hit and obliterated. Ditto for military training facilities aka bases. Ukraine’s recent use of cluster munitions on Belgorod and Donetsk...

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Florida Surgeon General Says Nobody Should Take mRNA Coronavirus Shots

Florida Surgeon General Says Nobody Should Take mRNA Coronavirus Shots

by | Jan 4, 2024 |

In September of 2021, many government officials in America were advocating requiring people to take experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots in order to stay employed, go to school, or just shop at stores or attend events. At the same time, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a man with a very different approach to the matter, was being appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to be the state’s a new surgeon general and Department of Health leader. At the appointment announcement, Ladapo took the pro-freedom...

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Nikki Haley, American History and Intellectual Honesty

Nikki Haley, American History and Intellectual Honesty

by | Jan 4, 2024 |

When Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley answered a question last week in which she stated that the American Civil War was fought over "government,” “rights” and “freedoms," she was correct. Yet, like most politicians, when she realized that the popular answer should have been "slavery," she modified her answer. She should have stood her ground. Hear me out. This column is hardly indifferent to slavery. Slavery is the most morally reprehensible institution in history. Far from being...

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Trickery, Humiliation, Death – and the Timeless Hunger for ‘Honour and Glory’

Trickery, Humiliation, Death – and the Timeless Hunger for ‘Honour and Glory’

by | Jan 3, 2024 |

One major theme of Homer’s Iliad – which somehow seems as fresh and as vivid today as when first written – is its description of how even the greatest of states in Western civilization fail to reclaim what they lose. “Attempts to repair one loss lead only to more losses,” Emily Wilson writes in her introduction to the Iliad (2023). “Loss can never be recouped.” As Wilson sets out her story, one cannot escape the analogy to today – to a Biden seeking to recoup the...

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US Admonishes Israeli Officials For Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud About Ethnic Cleansing

US Admonishes Israeli Officials For Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud About Ethnic Cleansing

by | Jan 3, 2024 |

The US State Department has issued a statement indignantly finger-wagging at two Israeli officials who recently drew headlines for openly endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip.  The statement reads as follows: “The United States rejects recent statements from Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza. This rhetoric is inflammatory and irresponsible. We have been told repeatedly and...

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Destroying Democracy to Save It: Maine Shows the Danger of Zealots in our Legal System

Destroying Democracy to Save It: Maine Shows the Danger of Zealots in our Legal System

by | Jan 2, 2024 |

Below is my column in the Hill on the Maine decision and how it is illustrative of Justice Louis Brandeis’ warning of the danger of zealots. Shenna Bellows has long embraced extreme political and historical viewpoints, including denouncing the electoral college as a “relic of white supremacy.”  Challengers knew that they “had her at hello” in seeking to disqualify former president Donald Trump. The coming week will likely show how the Supreme Court will address the issue. Here is the...

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Soft Landing or Hard Crash?

A New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping

by | Jan 2, 2024 |

In the closing days of 2023, the Biden Administration once again announced a large military aid package for Ukraine, this time a “mere” quarter of a billion dollars. Without a new authorization of funds from Congress, it is said to be the last bit of money left over from the more than $100 billion already authorized by Congress for the proxy war with Russia through Ukraine. President Biden’s request for an additional $100 billion to spread around Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan was rejected by a...

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Putin Lifts the Fog of War in Ukraine

Putin Lifts the Fog of War in Ukraine

by | Dec 30, 2023 |

Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is entering a new phase. President Vladimir Putin lifted the fog of war and hinted at what can be expected going forward in a landmark speech at the National Defence Control Centre while addressing a meeting of the Russian Defence Ministry Board on December 19.   Russia has gained the upper hand in the proxy war while the United States is struggling to recreate a new narrative. For Putin, this is a moment of triumph where he...

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