On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order that implicity defines Jewishness as a racial or national catetory and not as just a religious category. The order further reinforces the Department of Education's power to sanction colleges that receive federal tax...
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US No Longer Considers Yemen’s Houthis an Iranian Proxy
by Jason Ditz | Dec 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Accusing long served as war justification for US, Saudis The Trump Administration has announced a policy change that looks like it could be a major turning point in US policy toward Yemen, announcing that they no longer consider the Shi’ite Houthi movement in Yemen to...
Islamic Terrorists. In Their Own Words
by Johnny Spooner | Dec 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“The outrage that Muslims feel over U.S. and British foreign policy is primarily the product of theological concerns” – Sam Harris The following list of quotations have been selectively edited to hammer home the dangerous buffoonery of Harris and every other...
No US-Israel Defense Pact!
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog, Foreign Policy
One of the most harebrained ideas to come down the pike in recent years is the proposed U.S.-Israel defense pact. The Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "made progress" on finalizing the pact...
Oklahoma Bill Would Block Unconstitutional National Guard Deployments
by Michael Maharrey | Dec 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Dec. 10, 2019) – A bill prefiled in the Oklahoma Senate would prohibit unconstitutional foreign deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. Passage into law would effectively restore the founders’ framework for a state-federal balance...
Saudi Gunman Tweeted Why He Attacked Pensacola
by Jason Ditz | Dec 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The Trump Administration is bound and determined not to draw any conclusions about Saudi Air Force gunman Mohammed Alshamrani, who killed three people on Friday in Pensacola. There seems to be a palpable fear that anything terror-related would make the Saudis look...
DHS to Tell States How to Implement REAL ID Requirements
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. | Dec 9, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is graciously willing to instruct states on how to implement plans to enforce the REAL ID statute requirements that go into force on October 2020. One of the suggestions being offered to states is the creation of online...
Pensacola: Blowback Terrorism: The problem isn’t ‘radical Islam’
by Scott Horton | Dec 9, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Scott Horton
Florida Senator Rick Scott is lost in the dark. After Friday’s deadly Afghan war-style “green on blue” attack by a Saudi air force officer at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, the senator issued a statement calling the shooting an act of terrorism, and...









