In 2019, the Transportation Security Administration seized $181,000 in cash from an employee of a Tampa trucking company while he was going through a TSA checkpoint for a flight from Tampa to Cleveland. According to the employee and his employer, the worker...
Constitution
Trump’s Betrayal of Julian Assange
by Ron Paul | Feb 24, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
One thing we’ve learned from the Trump Presidency is that the “deep state” is not just some crazy conspiracy theory. For the past three years we’ve seen that deep state launch plot after plot to overturn the election. It all started with former CIA director John...
2/21/20 Sheldon Richman on the Nonintervention Principle
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman discusses what he calls "the nonintervention principle," a corollary of libertarianism's nonaggression principle. Richman says that in the face of those who advocate foreign intervention and regime change, libertarians have a tendency to deny the...
2/21/20 Daniel Lazare on Erdogan’s Military Adventure in Syria
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Lazare discusses the problems facing Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is dealing with a troubled economy, declining political popularity at home, and failing military excursions abroad. Lazare and Scott also talk about the failure of President Trump to...
The Senate Takes a Stand on Iran
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 21, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #455, I discuss the Senate voting on a War Powers bill to constrain Trump's ability to start a war with Iran. Trump has continued on the presidential tradition of killing whoever he wants, and he is unbound by the Constitution. The House will also need to pass...
Judge Says Conditions at U.S. Border Holding Cells Violated the Constitution
by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog
Newsweek: A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that conditions at U.S. border holding cells operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency violated the Constitution. In a case first launched in 2015 over conditions at Tucson sector holding facilities, U.S....
Support Grows for West Virginia Bill to Block Unconstitutional National Guard Deployments
by Michael Maharrey | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (Feb. 10, 2020) – There was political drama in West Virginia last week as the sponsor of a bill that would prohibit unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s national guard troops narrowly failed in a parliamentary move to get it...
Democrats Ignore Trump’s Real Violations
by Ron Paul | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
This week the latest Democratic Party attempt to remove President Trump from office – impeachment over Trump allegedly holding up an arms deal to Ukraine – flopped. Just like “Russiagate” and the Mueller investigation, and a number of other attempts to overturn the...
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Military Education and the Zampolit Parade Through the Institutions
The professional military education systems and the academies have been captured by the Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) zampolit cadres in a detailed and comprehensive way. In the military a zampolit is a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a...
Regime Apologists Continue to Insist the Carrier is Useful
They misspelled disposable. There is nothing hard to target about a very large ship traveling at very large ship speeds with very large wakes in the modern era by air breathing and non-air breathing detection assets. What this means is that all the carriers deployed...
The F35 Continues to Excel at the Pentagon
The "mission capable rate" of these F35s is simply appalling. 23 years in and it still doesn't work. 23 years. And Congress won't kill it but continues to feed money into the F35 industrial wood-chipper. The jets have often been stuck on the ground due to engine...
“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck…”
Hot garbage on the wing. The pursuit of US and Western air dominance is a pipe dream but a fever dream for the military industrial complex. The existential failure of this fighter program has been stunning to behold. The days of manned fighter aircraft are numbered in...
All Hail Homo Sovieticus Booboisie in America
Happy Dependence Day, Helots. The Declaration of Independence continues to be a masterwork of brevity and directness in its promise to sever ties and formalize a divorce. There is no sizable sector of America today that would even have the temerity to sign it much...
Unpossible! Another Fraud Complex Found in DoD Contractor
Another fraud incident with overcharging. Sikorsky is a Lockheed-Martin subsidiary. Sikorsky Support Services Inc., a helicopter manufacturer headquartered in Stratford, Conn., agreed to pay the federal government $70 million in a settlement alongside Wisconsin-based...
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