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Trump Says He Sets His Own Limits; Founding Fathers Disagree

by Alan Mosley | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

During a January 2026 interview with The New York Times, President Donald Trump was asked whether anything could limit his ability to use the vast military and economic power of the United States as he saw fit. His answer was breathtakingly candid. Trump replied, “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” He added that he doesn’t “need international law” and claimed that he isn’t “looking to hurt people.” These comments came amid reports of U.S. military raids in Venezuela and open discussions in the White House about “a range of options”...

Greenland Insists Defense Will Be Through NATO, Rejects Trump’s Takeover

by Alan Mosley | Jan 13, 2026 | News

In a statement released Monday, officials in Greenland said they will intensify efforts to make sure the Arctic territory’s defense is handled through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and that they “can in no way accept” President Donald Trump’s plan to take control of the Danish autonomous territory. The rebuke follows weeks of increasingly bellicose rhetoric from Trump, who told reporters that he’d prefer to strike a deal for the island but that ‘We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not.” European leaders are backing Copenhagen and Nuuk, and a...

For Oil and Empire: The U.S. Invades Venezuela

by Alan Mosley | Jan 5, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

On January 3, 2026, the world watched in shock as American bombers, warships, and helicopters executed a lightning strike on Caracas, disabled Venezuelan air defenses, and whisked President Nicolás Maduro and his wife away to the United States. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney said Maduro would face a four‑count indictment, including a narco‑terrorism conspiracy and gun crimes under Title 18; President Donald Trump boasted at a press conference that U.S. troops would “run” Venezuela until a friendly government could be installed and that American oil companies would “fix” the country with profits...

The DOJ is flouting the law on the Epstein Files. Why isn’t Pam Bondi in handcuffs?

by Alan Mosley | Dec 30, 2025 | Featured Articles

Congress’s newly minted Epstein Files Transparency Act—a bipartisan law co‑authored by Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna—was supposed to leave no room for discretion. It required Attorney General Pam Bondi, who serves President Donald Trump, to release all unclassified Justice Department records related to Jeffrey Epstein within thirty days. Trump signed the bill, but his Justice Department blew the deadline and produced only a small fraction of the documents, many of which were blacked out. The co‑authors have responded by drafting impeachment articles and exploring inherent...

WMDs for a MIC in Need

by Alan Mosley | Dec 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

In the closing days of 2025, the White House turned an opioid crisis into a national security drama. Standing in the Oval Office during a Mexican Border Defense Medal ceremony on December 15, President Donald Trump declared that he would sign an executive order to classify fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction,” calling the announcement “historic.” Treating a synthetic painkiller like a nuclear bomb says more about Washington’s mindset than about the drug. Though drug overdose deaths declined in 2024, 80,391 people still died and 54,743 of those deaths were from opioids. Those numbers...

Rose Wilder Lane, Frontier Prophet of Freedom

by Alan Mosley | Dec 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

On December 5, 1886, on a windswept homestead near De Smet in Dakota Territory, Rose Wilder Lane entered a world of adversity. She was the only surviving child of Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder. Within a few short years her family’s cabin burned, her parents were stricken with diphtheria, her father suffered a crippling stroke, and severe winters forced them to leave the prairie. Those early calamities impressed on Lane two lessons that would define her life: that individual fortitude matters more than fate, and that no external authority can substitute for self‑discipline. When she left...

Death Orders on the High Seas: Confronting Executive Violence and Constitutional Limits

by Alan Mosley | Dec 4, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

When journalism reveals a government’s dirty deeds, a country founded on constitutional constraints faces a stark test. Reports allege that a senior U.S. official ordered Special Operations commanders to “kill everybody” on a suspected Venezuelan drug boat in September, and after the first missile strike disabled the vessel, survivors clung to the shattered hull and were finished off by a follow‑on strike. Senators on both sides of the aisle have called for investigations, and former military lawyers have warned that the instructions amount to war crimes or outright murder. Critics from...

Henry Hazlitt, ‘Economic Conscience of a Nation’

by Alan Mosley | Nov 26, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Henry Hazlitt’s life story reads like a microcosm of the American century. Born in Philadelphia on November 28, 1894, he lost his father in infancy and left the City College of New York to support his widowed mother. In the fluid labor market of the time he bounced between office jobs, learning shorthand to improve his wages and eventually landing at The Wall Street Journal. Along the way he schooled himself by voracious reading. Philip Wicksteed’s The Common Sense of Political Economy convinced him that prices are determined by subjective preferences, while the essays of Herbert Spencer, B....