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America Last?

America Last?

by | Jun 17, 2025 |

In a landmark piece of reporting out this week in New York magazine, the journalist Suzy Hansen observes that, The Democrats allowed themselves to be dragged into lawlessness by Netanyahu and his virulently racist Cabinet members like [Finance minister Bezalel] Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir. Even as the U.S. undergoes a reckoning about [President] Biden’s age, few have asked how his senility affected his direction of U.S. policy in Gaza. Instead, administration veterans...

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America First – We Hardly Knew Ye

America First – We Hardly Knew Ye

by | Jun 16, 2025 |

The Donald called Fed Chairman Powell a “numbskull” last week and deservedly so. But to paraphrase an old adage, when the cap fits said numbskulls tend to wear it themselves. Surely, that’s where we are this morning upon Israel’s reprehensible attack on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities and decapitation of its military and scientific leadership. Self-evidently, the attack was well known to Trump and tacitly greenlighted by him during the course of several conversations this past week with...

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Great Big Ugly Surveillance State

Great Big Ugly Surveillance State

by | Jun 16, 2025 |

On March 20, President Trump signed an executive order “Eliminating Information Silos.” The order directed heads of federal agencies to make sure officials designated by the president “have full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, data, software systems, and information technology systems.” The executive order did not attract much attention until it was more recently revealed that the administration was working with tech company Palantir to create a database containing all...

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Slouching Toward Authoritarianism?

Slouching Toward Authoritarianism?

by | Jun 14, 2025 |

The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and the rule of law. None of this was the case until President Donald Trump, against the express wishes of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, federalized the CA National Guard, became their commander in chief, and ordered them to thwart both...

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The Silver Lining in the Dark War Cloud Over Iran

The Silver Lining in the Dark War Cloud Over Iran

by | Jun 14, 2025 |

Israel’s unjustified and unprovoked attack on Iran early Friday morning, marks the full-on start of a war that is likely to change the face of the region. I mince no words… this is war. But there is a silver lining of sorts — with Israel having to use its air squadrons to launch repeated attacks on Iran and to scramble fighters into the air to try to stop Iranian drones and missiles, the Palestinians in Gaza will get a respite from daily bombings. So, what is happening? Israel’s initial strike...

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US-Israeli Deception Gave Iran False Security Amid Washington Green Light

US-Israeli Deception Gave Iran False Security Amid Washington Green Light

by | Jun 13, 2025 |

Fresh reporting as well as new Friday statements by President Trump reveal that the US and Israel practiced deceptive diplomacy, as Israeli and American officials worked together to convince Iran that nuclear negotiations were progressing. Yet all the while an elaborate Israel attack on Iranian nuclear sites was being planned, and Tehran was given a false sense of security, and ill-prepared for its defense. Axios has reported that Tel Aviv was given "a clear US green...

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Apply NOW: 2025 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!

Apply NOW: 2025 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!

by | Jun 12, 2025 |

Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students! This year we will celebrate our SIXTH class of Ron Paul Scholars and that means if you are a student interested in peace and prosperity, a non-interventionist foreign policy, liberty, and in making contacts among like-minded peers, we welcome your application to be a 2025 Ron Paul Scholar! What is it? The Ron Paul Scholars Seminar is a one-day, interactive foreign policy and civil liberties “boot camp,” with lectures from some of the most...

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Ron Paul Rewind: Don’t Ban Flag Burning

by | Jun 12, 2025 |

In a Tuesday speech at Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump declared that “people that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year,” something Trump proceeded to state he is working with United States senators to bring about. Twenty-two years ago this month, members of the United States House of Representatives were debating on the House floor whether they should approve H. J. Res. 4, a proposed constitutional amendment that would have empowered the Congress to “prohibit the physical...

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Today Is the Anniversary of JFK’s Declaration of War

Today Is the Anniversary of JFK’s Declaration of War

by | Jun 11, 2025 |

June 10, is the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s declaration of war against the national-security branch of the U.S. government. To be sure, he didn’t call it that. He simply was delivering a speech at the June 10, 1963, commencement exercises at American University. The speech has gone down in history simply as JFK’s “Peace Speech,” but in essence it was a declaration of war against the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA. JFK delivered his speech at the height of the Cold War, the...

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Can the Tyranny Be Soft-Landed?

Can the Tyranny Be Soft-Landed?

by | Jun 10, 2025 |

The excuse that this regime is better than it was, or might otherwise have been, only lasts so long.  Every transition government in history has deployed that trope. Think the Girondins in France, Kerensky in Russia, Weimar in Germany, the Second Spanish Republic, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and so on. In order, they were replaced by Robespierre then Napoleon, Lenin then Stalin, Hitler, Franco, and Mao.  In each of these cases, the transitional government was caught between and...

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The Silence of the Bears

The Silence of the Bears

by | Jun 10, 2025 |

Russia’s leadership is in “conclave” determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges onto civilian trains heading to Moscow; attacking the Kerch Bridge; and assassinating a Russian general via explosive body bomb. As Clausewitz noted two centuries ago, the point of military force is to compel an outcome: i.e. that...

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Great Big Ugly Surveillance State

Can Trump and Musk Make Up?

by | Jun 9, 2025 |

Last week’s dramatic blowout between President Trump and his one-time top collaborator Elon Musk was shocking yet predictable. According to media reports, a cold war had been brewing between Musk’s people and Trump’s appointees and it was bound to break out into the open. It was only a matter of time. On the campaign trail, Musk provided much energy and helped ramp up enthusiasm for Donald Trump. His support for Trump made him a lightning rod for Trump-haters and he saw his personal wealth...

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Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces US Gold Reserves Audit Bill

Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces US Gold Reserves Audit Bill

by | Jun 6, 2025 |

The United States government says it has about 261 million troy ounces of gold in its gold reserves. That is rather impressive, if true. The US government is not a great role model for honesty, though. So, it seems a good idea to put its gold claim to the test. President Donald Trump talked on occasion in the first couple months of his second term about traveling to Fort Knox where much of the gold is supposed to be held to check if it is really there. But, more recently, he has largely gone...

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The ‘Golden Dome’ is Pure Fantasy

The ‘Golden Dome’ is Pure Fantasy

by | Jun 6, 2025 |

Mutzig, France – First stop on my annual visit to France’s mighty Maginot Line forts is this lovely Alsatian town. Mutzig was built by the Germans 1893-1916 to defend against enemy approaches to the important city of Strasbourg. It was – and remains – the largest modern fortress in Europe. The vast fortress, which covers over 800 acres, was never attacked during World War I by the Germans or French. But as Europe’s first important fortress made of concrete and fully electrified, it was eagerly...

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Jake Tapper: Biden Cover-up ‘Worse Than Watergate’

Jake Tapper: Biden Cover-up ‘Worse Than Watergate’

by | Jun 5, 2025 |

For years, Jake Tapper, the leading newsreader for CNN, has been very unfair to and very biased against Republicans in general, and to President Trump in particular. Now, in an attempt to restore some of his lost credibility, he has written a new book with Alex Thompson of Axios about the Biden health cover-up. He apparently is embarrassed and/or feels guilty about all he did in a very partisan way to try to keep a very unhealthy Joe Biden in office as president, but I will give him credit for...

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The Right to be Left Alone

The Right to be Left Alone

by | Jun 5, 2025 |

Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies. Here is the backstory. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Like other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it doesn’t create the right; it limits government interference with it. President Joe Biden often misquoted the late Justice Antonin Scalia suggesting...

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