Maybe no one would have noticed if Trump had sent in some FBI guys just to help guard the federal courthouse in Portland, but Trump lives by the motto "Be ominously obnoxious or go home." So he sends in unidentified agents from customs, the border patrol, and other...
Donald Trump
On The Ballot
by Steven Woskow | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog
Looks like the Counsel On Foreign Relations won't be endorsing Trump this year. At Foreign Affairs Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting the United Kingdom and Denmark this week amid a strain in the transatlantic alliance. President Donald Trump has criticized...
Donald Trump on Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘I Wish Her Well’
by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog
"I just wish her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years... I just wish her well, whatever it is." Anyone else? Anyone else wish Ghislaine Maxwell "well"? I don't. I think that if only bad things happen to her from now on that would be just fine....
June Was One of the Most Expensive Months On Record
by Michael Maharrey | Jul 16, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The federal budget deficit in the month of June totaled nearly the entire 2019 fiscal year shortfall and would rank sixth largest-ever if it were a yearly deficit. The June deficit came in at $864.1 billion dollars, according to the latest Treasury Department report....
Natural Born Citizens: Understanding Who Can Be POTUS in a Nation Beset By Divided Loyalties
by Sam Jacobs | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Natural born citizenship” goes all the way back to England and determines who can and cannot be the president. But it also speaks to the core of who is an American.
How the Pentagon Failed To Sell ‘Bountygate’ Hoax to U.S. Intelligence
by Gareth Porter | Jul 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The New York Times dropped another Russiagate bombshell on June 26 with a sensational front-page story headlined, “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.” A predictable media and political frenzy followed, reviving...
Constitutional Republic vs. Pure Democracy: How the U.S. Election Process Has Changed
by Sam Jacobs | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
The long history of America’s franchise is one of ever greater expansion. But is more democracy actually better?
The Russian Bounties Hoax
by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There’s no reason for you to accept the story about the Russian military paying Afghan militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post all started this controversy late last week with incredibly thin...
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Carrier Follies Continue Apace
The military press seems to be coming around to the conclusion that has been floated here at the Institute for quite some time. The aircraft carrier has seen its time and it is time to retire the tired and anachronistic technology. Poor concepts, design and planning;...
Child Effigies
There was a time when Rebecca Black and her song, ‘Friday’ was a meme. It was popular for millions of people to tease, torment, stalk and threaten the life of a thirteen year old girl because of a music video, the digital mob was hungry for another child effigy to...
The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
The Trump administration's abduction and threatened deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old green-card holder and permanent legal resident of the United States, is horrifying not just for him and his pregnant wife, a U.S. citizen, but as a sign of things to come....
Roast in Hell Karl Marx
On this day when Karl Marx became a good communist.
Parenting w/Kyle Matovcik
Kyle joined me to discuss what to expect when becoming a parent. Alp
Chinese Chess Moves: A Tectonic Shift in Exquisite Platforms
If the Saab 37 Viggen and the F16 had a love child, it is the Chinese J-10C. The realignment begins, you are witnessing a tectonic shift away from US influence in all the conflict hot-spots on Earth. Meanwhile, the J-10C is equipped to fight against modern threats in...
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