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A Delusional Trump Has Another Exciting Week

A Delusional Trump Has Another Exciting Week

by | Jul 13, 2026 |

There is a good thing about having Donald J Trump as president and that is how during a normal week he will say or do a number of incredibly stupid things that make one want to smile or even laugh outright. Unfortunately, however, the fun stops shortly after that point when one recalls that the outright insanity is not only destroying the White House and much of the District of Columbia. It also means engaging in wars against otherwise non-threatening adversaries that waste trillions in...

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Congressional Ratification of President Trump’s Corporatism

Congressional Ratification of President Trump’s Corporatism

by | Jul 13, 2026 |

Despite regularly denouncing the rising socialist menace, President Trump has been pursuing a policy arguably just as, if not more, dangerous to liberty and prosperity as anything proposed by Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders: using government funds to purchase partial ownership of private companies. The Trump administration has obtained ownership interests of approximately 27 billion dollars in 30 companies since January of 2025. While President Trump and his defenders claim making these...

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The End of Lindsey Graham

The End of Lindsey Graham

by | Jul 13, 2026 |

I am about to speak ill of the dead. Sen. Graham embodies everything wrong and sick about the American political class. And about American foreign policy. A childless and unmarried member of the "boomer" generation, he has advocated over his four decades as a politician in favor of every war and foreign conflict that has been backed by his foreign interlocutors and their paid agitators inside the Beltway. Whence the money flows. Graham is the epitome of who the great Nassim Nicholas Taleb...

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Trump’s 1,000 Missiles Locked and Loaded

Trump’s 1,000 Missiles Locked and Loaded

by | Jul 11, 2026 |

If the Art of the Deal fails, threaten them with total destruction. That’s what Trump did Friday night with another irrational post to his Truth Social. 1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Naturally, ME...

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Front Row at the Revolution

Front Row at the Revolution

by | Jul 10, 2026 |

Get your tickets to the Ron Paul Institute Summer DC Conference TODAY and save! In politics and communication, there is a tectonic shift taking place in the United States. The old guard is resisting, but change is here. At the Ron Paul Institute's Spring Conference in Texas, former US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene declared, "MAGA is dead. Where do we go from here?" The GOP is on the verge of open warfare as MTG, Tucker Carlson, and others declare they no longer identify with the Party. Meanwhile...

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Trump Declares MoU With Iran is Dead

Trump Declares MoU With Iran is Dead

by | Jul 9, 2026 |

The drama over the Strait of Hormuz escalated on Wednesday with Donald Trump declaring the MoU with Iran is dead and vowed more attacks on Iran. Trump continues to insist that Iran has no right to interfere with any ship trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz, but the fact is that Iran is acting within its rights under the terms spelled out in paragraph five of the MoU (which I discussed in my previous post). The US attack on Iranian outposts along the shore of the Persian Gulf on Tuesday...

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The American Revolution and the Danger of Standing Armies

The American Revolution and the Danger of Standing Armies

by | Jul 8, 2026 |

Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This was a heritage of British legal thought and history, and it became an underappreciated part of American political thought and experience. Why were peacetime standing armies viewed as such a threat? To many Americans of this period, peacetime standing armies posed a threat not only because they could be used...

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MoU Stacked in Holding Pattern as US Pivots to Plan ‘B’

MoU Stacked in Holding Pattern as US Pivots to Plan ‘B’

by | Jul 7, 2026 |

Plan “A” was to topple the Islamic Republic which was seen as nothing more than a fragile house of cards. That collapse – it was expected – would ripple through, and take down several connected Axis of Resistance fronts, according to the analysis of Mossad and interlinked Israeli power centres in the US (Certain US officials did, however, entertain doubts). The prediction of a popular uprising in Iran has proved to have been a strategic mistake of such bearing that per contra, it catalysed a...

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Congressional Ratification of President Trump’s Corporatism

Let’s Leave the Strait of Hormuz Alone

by | Jul 6, 2026 |

President Trump was reportedly “shocked” to see many thousands of Iranians in the street mourning at the funeral of the country’s late leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, over the weekend. Khamenei was assassinated by the United States at the beginning of the February US surprise attack on Iran. The US attack on Iran was sold to Trump by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US neocons as an easy “cake walk” that would lead the Iranian government to fall and be replaced with a US-friendly regime....

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Israel’s Days Are Numbered

Israel’s Days Are Numbered

by | Jul 6, 2026 |

Maybe you’ve heard of Dr. John Mearsheimer? He appears regularly on a variety of news shows and independent podcasts because of his deep understanding of foreign relations. Dr. Mearsheimer is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and co-authored the well-regarded book “The Israel Lobby” published in 2006. Recently Dr. Mearsheimer has opined that something is seriously wrong in the state of Israel. In particular he was referencing the nations obsession with military...

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House Vote on NDAA Blocked after Republican Members Rebel

House Vote on NDAA Blocked after Republican Members Rebel

by | Jul 3, 2026 |

Typically, all the members of the majority party in the House of Representatives vote for the rule to bring legislation to the House floor for debate, even if some of those members plan to vote against the legislation after the floor debate. Meanwhile, minority party House members typically all vote against the rule. But, on occasion, some majority party members think there is something wrong enough with legislation or the process by which leadership is seeking to bring the legislation to the...

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Trump’s Plan to Send Troops to Disarm Hezbollah

Trump’s Plan to Send Troops to Disarm Hezbollah

by | Jul 3, 2026 |

On June 29, General Joseph Aoun, the president of Lebanon, met with Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of the US Central Command at the Baabda Palace overlooking Beirut. “During the meeting, discussions were held regarding the preparations related to the start of implementation of the framework agreement that was approved as a result of the Lebanese-American-Israeli negotiations in Washington,” the office of the Lebanese Presidency posted to social media. Lebanon signs 'framework deal'...

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Apply TODAY: 2026 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students! This year we will celebrate our Seventh 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 2026 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...

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July 4, 2026

July 4, 2026

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

Which is better -- to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away? -- Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle -- Cotton Mather -- addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can long survive in a democracy. Byles was a...

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FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights

FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

When former FBI director Robert Mueller died in March, the New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.” Media tributes poured in as if Mueller was the law-enforcement version of Mother Theresa. Mueller’s abuse of power goes way back But tell that to the Liberty City Seven, victims in a landmark case in the war on terror that should have defined Mueller’s legacy far more than his photo ops at congressional hearings. The FBI...

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Gen Z Is Tired of War

Gen Z Is Tired of War

by | Jul 2, 2026 |

On September 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order which revived the original name for the Department of Defense, “The Department of War.” While technically the name remains the Department of Defense for legal purposes (as only an act of Congress can officially change the name), the Trump administration has done everything else in its power to rebrand the institution in this regard, claiming the original name is “woke” and that the change ensures 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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