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More Ghastly Decisions by the Trump Administration?

It must be Good News Week judging by the stories generated by the Trump regime and its supporting cast of neocons, with good old best friend and ally Israel up to its usual tricks and Ukraine, Russia and the Europeans vying to see who can flatter and cajole the mentally challenged American president most effectively. With much of the focus on Ukraine and the visit of Vladimir Putin to Alaska, Israel was free to continue to slaughter Palestinians as part of the plan to create an “Eretz” or Greate...

In an Age of Lies, Truth Is Extreme

The late columnist, Joe Sobran, diagnosed America’s political malaise with scalpel-like precision:

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

By this clinical standard, the forgotten American qualifies as a dangerous extremist—and it is high time people like this we...

Why Do We Live in a Two-Faced World?

Most people accept the moral prohibitions on lying, murdering, and stealing in their personal lives as well as in their business affairs.  Why, then, does government, which is run by people, get a pass?  Is ethics irrelevant in government affairs?

The answer is yes, because there is no one to hold government accountable.  By its nature as a state, it is above accountability.  As Rothbard elaborately explained, the state is a criminal gang writ large, an organization not subject to its laws becau...

‘Avoid Political Alliance’

Today’s silly and ignorant crop of U.S. politicians seems to walk around with the assumption that the Founding Fathers had quaint, late 18th Century ideas that are no longer relevant to today’s bigger and more complex world. This assumption is false. Technology and weapons become more sophisticated, but human nature never changes.

George Washington was a far wiser man than most of the guys now residing in the city that bears his name could ever dream of being.

American foreign policy wonks and ...

God Is Not Blessing America for Supporting Israel; He Is Cursing America for Supporting Israel

Lindsey Graham says God will ‘curse’ US if it stops supporting Israel.

The above is the title of a news article. Here are excerpts:

Prominent US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has denied that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and said that God will curse the US if they pull their support for Tel Aviv.

At a South Carolina Republican Party meeting on Wednesday, Graham said: “If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us”.

He went on to state: “Israel is not the bad guys...

Golden State Hate

Historical verisimilitude does not seem to concern Hollywood writers these days. Not that it ever did. Blatant misrepresentations in the movies are far too many to list here. The bloodthirsty George Custer was portrayed by an almost angelic-looking Errol Flynn in They Died With Their Boots On, while the desperate and homely Dutch hooker Mata Hari—guillotined by the cowardly French as a German spy—was embodied by Greta Garbo in all the thespian’s magnificence.

Never mind. Movies are supposed to t...

Ukraine’s Future – A ‘Steppe Corridor’ – A Neutral, Transit-oriented State

While Russia is confidently prosecuting the war in Ukraine towards its inevitable end.

Meanwhile the ‘West’ is still negotiating with itself about the conditions under which it will have to capitulate.

Discussions continue about ‘security guarantees’ for Ukraine even as the only serious ones are those that Russia is willing to give.

The confused arguments about ‘guarantees’ are reflected in the reports of them. Consider this nonsense:

A security guarantee could encompass a wide range of issues. ...

Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State’s Digital Evolution

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Loudoun County Schools Suspend Boys Who Didn’t Want Girl in Locker Room

Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is suspending two high-school boys after a “transgender” student secretly videorecorded them in the boys’ locker room questioning why she was there.

WJLA reported Monday:

LCPS’s Title IX Office launched an investigation based on that video and the male-identifying student’s complaint. That office has now determined the two boys are responsible for sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination, according to attorney, Josh Hetzler, who represents th...

Macron Once Again Proposes EU Direct Participation in Ukraine

Despite recent joint efforts by Russia and the US to reach a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian conflict, European countries continue to insist on maintaining a destabilizing stance, boycotting the diplomatic process. Recently, French President Emmanuel Macron resumed his campaign to send European troops to Ukraine on a possible “peacekeeping mission,” which in practice makes any fruitful dialogue to de-escalate the war impossible.

Macron stated during an interview with journalists after the sum...