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The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges

The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges

by | Jul 1, 2026 |

What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit. Freedom has become conditional. Constitutional rights have become political bargaining chips. Government now claims the authority to decide which religious beliefs...

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Americans Want Peace, Israel Wants War

Americans Want Peace, Israel Wants War

by | Jul 1, 2026 |

America wants peace. Israel wants war. The great majority of Americans want an end to the war against Iran. The great majority in Congress just want more contributions from the Israel Lobby and its supporters. Now, most members of Congress are really squirming. They know that most of their constituents are fed up with foreign wars and want this stupid war in Iran over, the sooner the better. But they are afraid to criticize Israel’s war for fear of the Israel Lobby steering big campaign...

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Russia Hearing the European Clamor for War, Announces it is Ready

Russia Hearing the European Clamor for War, Announces it is Ready

by | Jun 30, 2026 |

The de-escalation framework that unfolded in the US-Iran Lucerne talks largely stayed true to the original Iranian 10-point plan. Meanwhile, President Trump and Vice-President Vance deliberately muddy the waters, claiming that Iran has already agreed to IAEA inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities (a claim repeatedly denied by Iran): Vance announced that the IAEA could have begun inspections this week. No – – the “Framework” only refers to the possible IAEA supervision of the dilution to the...

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Virginia’s New Gun Laws are Already Costing Jobs 

Virginia’s New Gun Laws are Already Costing Jobs 

by | Jun 30, 2026 |

Newly elected Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va, and her Democratic-controlled state legislature set their sights firmly on the Second Amendment after taking office earlier this year. The Governor signed a litany of bills into law including a ban on the sale and manufacturing of so-called “assault weapons,” including the wildly popular AR-15, and a ban on magazines with a capacity of fifteen or more rounds which criminalized most modern sporting rifle (MSR) magazines and some pistol...

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FARA Docs: Israel is Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches

FARA Docs: Israel is Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches

by | Jun 30, 2026 |

If you are a Christian living in the Western United States, you have almost certainly been targeted with pro-Israel, anti-Palestine propaganda, paid for directly by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Your searches, location, and internet activity is being monitored by Israel, and your algorithms and search results across multiple platforms are being manipulated by Israeli government in what its American partner calls the “largest geofencing and targeted Christian digital campaign ever.”...

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Are There Really Iran-US Peace Talks?

Are There Really Iran-US Peace Talks?

by | Jun 29, 2026 |

No week goes by in Washington without another display of Trumpism, i.e. the expressed desire by the president to turn our constitutional republic into an expression of Trump-world that honors and glorifies, as he put it recently, “me.” Trumpean conceit has included his Tr(i)ump(hal) Arch in Arlington, his bid to rename the Kennedy Center, his takeover of the Institute of Peace, his seizure of the District of Colombia’s public golf courses, and a declaration two weeks ago that he continues...

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War Crimes, War Powers and American Sovereignty: The USA + Israel = The Department of Forever War

War Crimes, War Powers and American Sovereignty: The USA + Israel = The Department of Forever War

by | Jun 29, 2026 |

Against the horrific high- and low-tech butchery of Palestinians and Lebanese by Israeli ethno-nationalist psychopathic killers, this week there will be an effort in Congress to formally merge or integrate the military of Israel and the United States at the most advanced levels. Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act of 2027, provides for an unprecedented unification. The nearly $4 billion in the NDAA for Israel’s offensive efforts pales next to...

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The Fiat Money Maestro

The Fiat Money Maestro

by | Jun 29, 2026 |

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan passed away last week at the age of 100. Greenspan chaired the Fed from 1987 through 2006. Despite being a lifelong Republican, Greenspan refused to lower interest rates, though doing so may have helped George H.W. Bush’s 1992 reelection campaign. However, he did tailor monetary policy to support President Clinton’s 1993 budget, as well as the 1997 bipartisan budget deal. Greenspan’s handling of monetary policy was widely credited as responsible...

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Do I Look like a ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ Vandal?

Do I Look like a ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ Vandal?

by | Jun 26, 2026 |

I blundered on Saturday by failing to check the latest updated terrorist profile before visiting Washington, DC. How was I to know that National Guard troops would be on the lookout for 60ish bicyclists who are too damn curious about algae? I went riding around downtown Washington to check the latest Trump administration efforts to make Washington “safe and beautiful” for the 250th birthday celebration next month. Across from the White House, Lafayette Square—the site of many famous protests...

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The Imperative of a US Conviction in the Maduro Case

The Imperative of a US Conviction in the Maduro Case

by | Jun 26, 2026 |

Having illegally attacked Venezuela in an effort to kidnap the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and transport him to the United States to stand trial for supposed violations of US drug laws, US officials have placed themselves in a position in which they are now compelled to secure a conviction. After all, how is it going to look if Maduro is acquitted of such charges and walks out of US District Court a free man? What then? Needless to say, Maduro’s defense lawyers are challenging the...

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War and Constitutional Indifference 

War and Constitutional Indifference 

by | Jun 25, 2026 |

Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference. Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere articulated in the Constitution. Its general regulatory powers were granted to address interstate commerce, but during the FDR years, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress can regulate events that affect interstate commerce. This has...

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‘Israel Picking up the Pieces of its Deep-Seated Hubris’

‘Israel Picking up the Pieces of its Deep-Seated Hubris’

by | Jun 24, 2026 |

The Iran-US de-escalation framework has been signed. As always, getting a framework agreed is one thing, but preserving it from disruptive actors or malicious distortion of the text is quite another. Who knows how long it will survive intact? The MoU nonetheless constitutes an important phase – albeit one leg – in a long journey ahead for Iran. The Agreement however, may also prompt wider geo-economic “plate” shifts. Iran has succeeded in pushing a reluctant Trump to cross the Rubicon. Danny...

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Sen. Susan Collins’s Antisemitism Schtick

Sen. Susan Collins’s Antisemitism Schtick

by | Jun 24, 2026 |

It’s over. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) just doesn’t understand that. Her antisemitism schtick no longer packs the same punch. People see through it now. They recognize that the majority American opposition to the Israel government’s serial violence — enabled by United States government provided weapons, intelligence, and funding — is not a judgement about Jewish people. It is about opposing the rampant pursuit of property destruction and carnage, all undertaken on the American people’s dime. In...

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Another Week from Hell

Another Week from Hell

by | Jun 23, 2026 |

Last week started on a positive note with President Donald Trump uncharacteristically declaring that a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) had been achieved by US and Iranian negotiators assisted by Pakistani and Qatari mediators to suspend military action and begin sixty days of discussions in pursuit of a peace agreement. The move was based on a what was described as a fourteen-point listing of the steps that would be undertaken to move the process along, including concessions dealing with...

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The Fiat Money Maestro

Trump’s Attempt to End the Iran War Infuriates the Uniparty

by | Jun 22, 2026 |

Against the odds, the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the US and Iran appears to be holding, after threats and counter-threats. It may collapse, but it has survived a first round of talks between the two sides in Switzerland over the weekend. President Trump started a war on Iran against all sober guidance and in violation of the US Constitution's requirement that only Congress can declare war. There must be a reckoning for our elected leaders who violate their oath of office, the...

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Congress Is Preparing to Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary

Congress Is Preparing to Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary

by | Jun 22, 2026 |

The United States Congress, on the very eve of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, is preparing to formally diminish American independence and sovereignty through a proposed merger and long-term integration of executive functions throughout the government, coordinated by the Department of Defense. Treacherous provisions in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) mandate that the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Commerce Department, and the...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

What Agreement?

by | Jul 1, 2026

Not surprisingly the Memorandum of Understanding ending the US-Israel war on Iran means different things to different people. Since its signing, the Trump administration has...

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Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

Waiting for Kei Truck Freedom

by | Jun 30, 2026

In April of 2024, I wrote about the Texas government opening up roads in the state to mini vehicles often referred to as kei trucks or kei cars. Then, in December of last year,...

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The Especially Unpopular Iran War

The Especially Unpopular Iran War

by | Jun 29, 2026

According to analysis by Stephen Semler in a Friday Responsible Statecraft article, Americans’ opposition to the Iran War exceeds Americans’ previous polling-indicated opposition...

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Secretary of War Crimes

Secretary of War Crimes

by | Jun 11, 2026

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likes to be referred to by the title secretary of war. Given his answer to a question at a Wednesday press conference at MacDill...

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