On July 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed to have “overwhelming evidence” that President Barack Obama himself, as well as key members of his administration, “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.” In other words, the basis for the Russiagate collusion hoax claimed by Democrats after the 2016 presidential election in which President Donald Trump allegedly conspired with Russia to win. After a two-year investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, nothing was found that...
Does Superman Make Israel the Villain?
Many say the new Superman movie is a commentary on Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza in which Israel is the villain and the movie’s hero fights for the Palestinians. Director James Gunn has insisted that his movie is not political. If so, why are so many people seeing the same foreign policy parallels in the movie? Let’s examine. Boravia is a fictional country that first appeared in Superman comics in 1939, almost a decade before Israel was founded in 1948. In this movie, Boravia’s president, Vasil Ghurkos, is approached by Superman’s arch nemesis Lex Luthor who offers to provide weapons and...
The Smallness of Mark Levin
In 2009, I was working part time in talk radio in Charleston, South Carolina as an on-air personality. I was also the token conservative columnist for the local, liberal free weekly paper. I wasn’t making a lot of money, but I was working in the field I was most interested in at the time. Paying my dues. This is when I was personally targeted by nationally syndicated talk show host Mark Levin. This might sound bizarre. It was. Allow me to explain. In my radio “career” during this time, my antiwar libertarianism was not shared by many of my fellow South Carolinians, but in a post-Ron Paul...
A Neocon Will Always Lie to Get What He Wants
When Barack Obama bombed Libya in 2011, a number of conservative voices spoke out against the president starting an unconstitutional war. Those Republicans insisted that presidents must go through Congress to declare war, as Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution requires. As James Madison wrote to Thomas Jefferson in a 1798 letter: “The Constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature.”...
Warmongering Republicans Are Not ‘Pro-Life’
Republican Randy Fine wants to nuke Gaza. He said so after two Israeli Embassy employees were shot and killed in Washington DC on Wednesday. Fox News asked Fine on Thursday if he thought this could affect the ceasefire proposed between Israel and Palestine. Fine said the embassy deaths were due to “Muslim terror” and compared Palestinians to World War II-era Nazis and Japanese. “The fact of the matter is the Palestinian cause is an evil one,” Fine said. “We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender. That needs to be the same here. There is something deeply, deeply...
Republican Senators Want War, Republican Voters Don’t
Last week over two-hundred Republicans, including every GOP senator except Rand Paul (R-KY), signed a letter urging President Donald Trump to insist that Iran give up all enrichment capabilities in any nuclear deal with that country. In other words, they don’t want a new Iran deal. But most Republicans do want a deal. As Responsible Statecraft’s Stavroula Pabst reported on May 12, “As U.S.-Iran talks continue, new polling finds that nearly two-thirds of Republicans support a negotiated deal on Iran’s nuclear program over military action intended to destroy it.” Pabst explained: “Indeed,...
Bill Kristol vs. The Holy Father
Recently when President Donald Trump shared an AI image of himself as the next pope in the wake of the death of Pope Francis, apparently in jest, it caused controversy. For neoconservative godson Bill Kristol, it created an opportunity to needle Vice President J.D. Vance, who is Catholic. Hey, @JDVance, you fine with this disrespect and mocking of the Holy Father? https://t.co/xbPs1hf5Gn — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 3, 2025 Vance replied: As a general rule, I'm fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen....
On Free Speech, Trump’s as Bad as Biden
In September, candidate Donald Trump vowed, “I will bring back free speech in America...I will sign an executive order banning any federal employee from colluding to limit speech, and we will fire every federal bureaucrat who is engaged in domestic censorship under the Harris regime.” Trump was addressing the clear danger that Democrats posed to the First Amendment. The Republican presidential nominee was talking about the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, who had once threatened to sic the Justice Department on social media platforms that “profit off hate.” In 2022, her choice...