A Neocon Will Always Lie to Get What He Wants

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.”...

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Warmongering Republicans Are Not ‘Pro-Life’

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...

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Republican Senators Want War, Republican Voters Don’t

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,...

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Bill Kristol vs. The Holy Father

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....

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On Free Speech, Trump’s as Bad as Biden

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...

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Exclusive: Rand Paul Gives History Lesson on Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates

Exclusive: Rand Paul Gives History Lesson on Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates

Whether it was President Barack Obama ordering airstrikes on Libya and Syria over a decade ago, or President Donald Trump directing strikes on Yemen and the Houthis today, non-interventionists often insist these presidents need congressional approval, as the Constitution demands. And, without fail, hawkish advocates of such unilateral, executive acts of war without congressional approval will cite President Thomas Jefferson going after the Barbary pirates for attacking ships that sailed Mediterranean in the early nineteenth century. They insist that Jefferson just did this, bypassing...

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Only Thomas Massie Understands the Problem of Tesla ‘Terrorists’

Only Thomas Massie Understands the Problem of Tesla ‘Terrorists’

As Donald Trump's administration rushes to call the vandalism of Teslas across the country “terrorism,” at least one Republican is not comfortable with doing so. In a recent story for Semafor on Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), reporter David Weigel highlighted a quote from Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) that he posted on X. Weigel wrote of Massie, “He was also uncomfortable with Republicans using the word ‘terrorism’ to describe what was being done to the cars.” The story continued, “That term is overly used by both sides,’ he said. ‘It’s just vandalism and bad behavior.’...

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Don’t Treat Pro-Palestine Protesters Like J6 Protesters

Don’t Treat Pro-Palestine Protesters Like J6 Protesters

“Treason.” “Sedition.” “Coup.” These were the words used immediately to describe the protesters—or “insurrectionists” who participated in the January 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill. As ugly as that day was without having to embellish, Democrats and Never Trump Republicans were still insistent that this event was not merely a political protest turned violent, but a legitimate attempt to overthrow the United States federal government. Never mind that there was zero chance that was actually going to happen. Never mind that there was no organized effort to do so, or a particular foreign state or...

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