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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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Will America Survive?

Will America Survive?

by | May 6, 2025 |

The foreign policy of the United States is in the hands of the least capable, most uninformed, and most reckless morons the American education system has yet produced, and their successors, if any, will be worse. American aggression toward the world is hidden under a euphemism:  “national defense.”  In past years before  euphemisms took over from reality, the Secretary of Defense was known as the Secretary of War. Washington conducted wars against Mexico. Against...

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It Was Never About Hostages. It Was Never About Hamas.

It Was Never About Hostages. It Was Never About Hamas.

by | May 5, 2025 |

Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his top priority, suggesting instead that defeating Hamas should take precedence over a hostage deal. “We have many objectives, many goals in this war,” Netanyahu said. “We want to bring back all of our hostages. That is a very important goal. In war, there is a supreme objective. And that supreme objective is victory over our enemies. And that is what we will achieve.” Nothing the prime minister...

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What Will Trump Find in the Middle East This Week?

Tariff and Spend

by | May 5, 2025 |

President Trump has proposed using the revenue from his increased tariffs to lower or even eliminate income taxes — with a priority on removing Americans making less than 200,000 dollars a year from the tax rolls. Exempting more Americans from income taxes — and lowering taxes on other Americans— is certainly a worthwhile endeavor. However, replacing income taxes with tariffs may have negative consequences for the very Americans President Trump wants to help. Replacing with tariffs what the...

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Agent Waltz?

Agent Waltz?

by | May 3, 2025 |

The Washington Post is reporting today that recently-ousted National Security Advisor Mike Waltz may have been involved in activities even more nefarious than inviting journalists onto highly sensitive Signal group chats. It appears that what really angered President Trump is less Waltz's incompetence (or worse) in keeping sensitive military communications secure, but rather his taking an active role in doing the bidding of a foreign government. As the Post reported, in advance of Israeli...

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Will We See Mushroom Clouds Over Kashmir?

Will We See Mushroom Clouds Over Kashmir?

by | May 3, 2025 |

One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the UN. In my book `War at the Top of the World’ I warned that the confrontation over Kashmir, the beautiful mountain state claimed by both Islamabad and Delhi, could unleash a nuclear war that could kill millions and pollute the planet. After three wars and many clashes, it seemed the two bad neighbors had...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Downsized DOGE

Downsized DOGE

by | Jan 11, 2025

Elon Musk stirred up much hope among many small government advocates when he spoke on stage at Donald Trump’s October 27 presidential campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in...

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Polio Poppycock

Polio Poppycock

by | Jan 1, 2025

“Polio.” That is a common go-to word for trying to silence people expressing any concern about any vaccine. The emotion-centered tactic relies on people having great fear of...

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