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The Gloves Are Off: ICE, Electric Shock Weapons and Secret Police

The Gloves Are Off: ICE, Electric Shock Weapons and Secret Police

by | Aug 24, 2026 |

This is what comes of giving a lawless agency unlimited funds to build detention centers, terrorize communities, and act as a secret police force. Anything goes. Masked raids. Unmarked vehicles. Warrantless arrests. Racial profiling. Sweeping surveillance. Detention camps. Excessive force. Citizens dragged off the streets. Protesters targeted. Congressional oversight obstructed. Now add electric shock gloves to the arsenal. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing...

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Dumb and Dumber

Dumb and Dumber

by | Aug 24, 2026 |

As I have observed in the past, it is possible to be entertained nearly every week by the antics of President Donald J Trump, though one’s amusement often changes to annoyance or even to disgust when the consequences of the behavior become clear. To be sure, it would be difficult to top the just surfaced account of February’s chickenhawk parade involving the Air Force One plane-switching in Ankara after a NATO meeting. It was unparalleled for its sheer me-first Trumpean disrespect for the poor...

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One Bad Week

One Bad Week

by | Aug 24, 2026 |

It took around two hundred years for US government debt to reach one trillion dollars. By contrast, in less than half a year a trillion was added to bring the debt total to the 40 trillion dollars it reached last week. According to the Peterson Foundation, US government debt is on a path to reach 50 trillion dollars within the next six years. Despite promising to reduce government spending in all three of his presidential campaigns, President Trump, with the assistance of congressional...

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‘Flashing Red Warning Sign’ for Lawmakers: Poll Shows Voters Reject US-Israel Military Integration

‘Flashing Red Warning Sign’ for Lawmakers: Poll Shows Voters Reject US-Israel Military Integration

by | Aug 21, 2026 |

A new poll of US voters published on Tuesday offers a warning for congressional lawmakers backing a plan to deepen military ties between the United States and Israel, finding that a clear majority of voters oppose the proposal—which some critics have called “treasonous.” The Data for Progress survey of 1,217 likely US voters—conducted August 3–7 for Demand Progress and the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) Policy Project—revealed that 61% of...

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The Confession in the Escalation: If Iran Is Beaten and Hormuz Is Ours, Why the ‘Unprecedented’ Sanctions?

The Confession in the Escalation: If Iran Is Beaten and Hormuz Is Ours, Why the ‘Unprecedented’ Sanctions?

by | Aug 21, 2026 |

In my previous piece — The Walls Have Doors Now — I argued that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s promised “measures like have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation of a country” would push against an open frontier: an Iran with land bridges to Pakistan, military and intelligence lifelines to Russia and China, and, most consequentially, an oil trade that has walked out of the dollar entirely, settling in Chinese yuan through China’s CIPS clearing network beyond...

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Some Shattering Illusions of Our Declining Empire

Some Shattering Illusions of Our Declining Empire

by | Aug 20, 2026 |

Now that the lofty 250th-anniversary rhetoric about the greatness of our country has faded, it is time to face the reality of our country’s actual behavior. The US fashions itself as a generous and benevolent world leader enforcing the “rules-based order”—a deceptive construct used by globalist elites to bully other countries. The rules are arbitrarily changed to suit the bullies and are regularly fashioned into pretexts for military action against uncooperative nations. In short, it is a...

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The Gloves Are Off: ICE, Electric Shock Weapons and Secret Police

ICE Wants Our Emails 

by | Aug 20, 2026 |

When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage through the political opinions, associations, criticisms and angry rhetoric of anyone merely because a government official finds those opinions offensive, threatening to an agency's reputation or inconvenient to its mission....

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Pennies Have Been Abandoned. Now What Will Be Done with Nickels?

Pennies Have Been Abandoned. Now What Will Be Done with Nickels?

by | Aug 19, 2026 |

The United States government minted its final penny in November of 2025. This came after fiat money inflation succeeded in depriving pennies of nearly all their value. Pennies are still circulating, but it is increasingly common for stores to round cost totals to avoid giving pennies in change. Also, people seeing that the metal content of their pennies is worth more than the face value are deciding that it is better to store pennies in a jar than to spend them. The same issues that caused the...

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Netanyahu’s Réprise of the ‘Iraq WMD Deceit’ – Re-launched to Promote War on Iran

Netanyahu’s Réprise of the ‘Iraq WMD Deceit’ – Re-launched to Promote War on Iran

by | Aug 18, 2026 |

President Trump took Secretary of War Hegseth’s military cheerleading (“US military potency is awesome”) at face value, only belatedly to discover that the US is out of interceptors in a war that hinges on air defences. “The restock mathematics is just as cold. Four years to refill the stocks (not four months), because components include rare earth materials that are controlled by China.” Hegseth, it seems, is now in the dog-house, whilst Treasury Secretary Bessent’s star is ascendent....

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The Rabbi Was Right

The Rabbi Was Right

by | Aug 18, 2026 |

Murdering foreign leaders is not something any American president should ever do. How can the US uphold its claim to be a champion of laws and political decency while committing murder and sabotage? Alas, Donald Trump is not the first US president to stoop so low. The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations enlisted gangsters in attempts to remove the irksome Cuban strongman, Fidel Castro. Sixty-eight or more years later, the US is still trying to strangle long-suffering Cuba by blockading its...

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One Bad Week

Support the Troops: Bring Them Home!

by | Aug 17, 2026 |

Last week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from photos that surfaced in the media, looked worse than what you would feed a dog. Parents and spouses of service members risked disciplinary action against their loved ones to highlight to the US Navy Secretary and to the media the revolting conditions aboard the carrier, which has been at sea with no port of call for a record period of time. Stories of...

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New Hampshire Showdown

New Hampshire Showdown

by | Aug 15, 2026 |

As small farmers who produce livestock get more squeezed out of the retail market, at least one state is leading a charge against federal government overreach:  New Hampshire.  Yes, "Live Free or Die."  That state, bless 'em. The legislature passed a bill, HB396, that allows 3 beef, 5 hogs, and 10 goats and sheep to be slaughtered on-farm per month and sold to individuals, grocery stores, and restaurants without inspection.  It does require adequate cooling. It's...

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Marching into Colombia

Marching into Colombia

by | Aug 14, 2026 |

In January, with the United States military having just attacked Venezuela and rushed off the South American nation’s president to incarceration in the US all in the name of fighting drugs, I warned that US President Donald Trump may soon use the same excuse to sic the US military on two more Latin American nations — Colombia and Mexico. Concerning Colombia, I noted that Trump was already threatening then Colombia President Gustavo Petro and launching allegations against him, saying he “has...

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Switching Presidential Planes in Ankara

Switching Presidential Planes in Ankara

by | Aug 14, 2026 |

Hardly a week goes by when Donald Trump is not the centerpiece and source of a lie so outrageous or an accusation so heinous that one has to sit back gazing at one’s computer screen, stunned by the audacity and shaking one’s head in disbelief. But even after what is now more than a year and a half of exposure to Trumpism, there is sometimes an insult, or a gesture, or an insane narrative that moves one to something beyond that, akin to shock in the realization that it is our country and even a...

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The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump’s Standing Army on American Streets

The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump’s Standing Army on American Streets

by | Aug 14, 2026 |

The National Guard was just the beginning. One year after President Trump deployed military troops to the nation’s capital, we find ourselves navigating a posse comitatus presidency in which the visual trappings of martial law are the norm, not the exception. When Trump declared a supposed “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., called in the National Guard, unleashed federal law enforcement throughout the city and temporarily seized control of the Metropolitan Police Department, we...

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The Right to Be Left Alone

The Right to Be Left Alone

by | Aug 13, 2026 |

"The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone -- most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.”-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) The rapid spread of public surveillance cameras represents something far more consequential than a new piece of police technology. It represents a fundamental change in the relationship between the individual and...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

US Passports Fall Behind

US Passports Fall Behind

by | Jul 23, 2026

One benefit of being a United States citizen has been the ability to have a US passport that facilitates the maximum amount of travel freedom around the world. Those days are in...

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