Obama Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuelan Killings

Obama Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuelan Killings

The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama. In his 2017 farewell address, Obama boasted, “We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists.” Drone strikes increased tenfold under Obama, helping fuel anti–U.S. backlashes in several nations. As he campaigned for the presidency in 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama declared,...

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Property Rights Ping Pong Pandemonium

Property Rights Ping Pong Pandemonium

Remind me again why any reasonable person expects the federal government to obey the law. The Trump administration this week gravely imperiled the nation’s water supply by curtailing federal regulations over dry land. Or at least that’s the story the media is hustling. A Washington Post headline epitomized the fretting: “Trump proposal would limit protections for U.S. waterways” by narrowing the definition of wetlands. The Post did not mention that mere puddles or land that is dry 350 days a year have been categorized as “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Perhaps the...

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Trump’s War on Truth Tellers

Trump’s War on Truth Tellers

Some folks who know my work presume that I am implacably opposed to all federal agencies. Not true. I have always appreciated federal agencies who exposed the waste, fraud, abuse, and brazen lies committed by politicians and bureaucrats. The second Trump administration has warred against such truth tellers since its first week in office. On January 24, President Donald Trump fired seventeen inspector generals working for a wide array of federal agencies. Trump’s action jolted Washington because most of those officials could supposedly only be removed for cause—specific misconduct or other...

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The Sordid History of U.S. ‘Aid’ to Colombia

The Sordid History of U.S. ‘Aid’ to Colombia

President Donald Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering Venezuelan fishermen. Trump has boasted of the killings by the U.S. military but claims all the targets were drug smugglers. He has threatened to suspend all U.S. government handouts for the Colombian government. Trump warned Petro that he "better close up" cocaine production "or the United States will close them up for him, and it won't be done nicely." Tapping his own psychiatric expertise, Trump proclaimed that Colombia has “the worst president...

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Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist?

Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist?

In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.” Unless, of course, federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. The Transportation Security Administration has vexed Americans for more than twenty years. Last week, three separate idiotic TSA surveillance programs were exposed by Congress and the Trump administration. In 2021, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) created a secret watchlist of individuals who publicly opposed President Joe...

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Trump Pulls Plug on Hunger Hucksters

Trump Pulls Plug on Hunger Hucksters

The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced that it is canceling that annual survey because "the data is rife with inaccuracies slanted to create a narrative that is not representative of what is actually happening in the countryside.” That annual survey was “costly, politicized, and [does] nothing more than fear monger," USDA said. Those were some of the most honest...

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Is Cover-Up of Epstein’s Financial Crimes Finally Collapsing?

Is Cover-Up of Epstein’s Financial Crimes Finally Collapsing?

In 2025, the Justice Department declared that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein "harmed over one thousand victims”—mostly young females, many of them underage. But a dozen years before his suspicious death in a New York prison cell, Epstein "was granted immunity from federal charges, as were all of his potential co-conspirators,” as The New York Times reported in July. That bizarre blanket immunity was a “get out of jail free” card for scores of men who sexually abused under-age females. But the Trump administration announced in July that the subject was closed. President Donald Trump has since...

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