Peter Van Buren's Blog, page 11

What the Hell is Trump Doing in Court?

It was a busy day in court for Donald Trump. In Washington on October 25 Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the court to reinstate a temporary gag order, this time with jail as the penalty, after Donald Trump called former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows (and by extension former allies who have cut […]

Morality and Expediency in Israel

It is not hard to tell right from wrong, morality from expediency, especially at the extremes of human existence in war. It is impossible to see as right — moral — attackers who intentionally targeted and killed over 1,400 civilians, babies and the elderly, and laborers from Thailand who could not be responsible for the […]

NYT v. Sullivan Unfortunately Lives to Fight Another Day

Justice Clarence Thomas said it “comes at a heavy cost, allowing media organizations and interest groups ‘to cast false aspersions on public figures with near impunity.’” It is New York Times v. Sullivan, America’s defining defamation law and it unfortunately lives to fight another day. Or mess one up. Thomas, along with others on the […]

Talk to the American People about Ukraine, Joe

America needs to hear from its own president, not Volodymyr Zelensky, about what is going on in Ukraine. America just can’t get enough of Endless War it seems; otherwise why would it keep getting into one of them? Leaving aside ancient historical examples like Korea (still ongoing) and Vietnam (result was a complete defeat of […]

General Mark Milley – An Evil of the Trump Era

One of the evils of the Trump era was that illegal, immoral, and at times unconstitutional acts were raised to high standards if they seemed to chip away at Trump somehow. So a fake dossier, which consumed several years and millions of dollars of American life, was brushed off with in the end a fine […]

Trump and the 14th Amendment

In the developing world the party in power does away with its opponents one of three ways: a bullet to the head, throwing them in jail or kicking them off the ballot. Good to see America, Leader of the Free World, is already at work on two of the three. With it becoming ever-clearer that […]

Court Moves to End Govt Censorship by Proxy in Social Media

If you think your social media is being edited and blocked to press a certain point of view, it is. If you think the government is trying to get you to think a certain way, it is. There’s no more hiding this behind dummy allegations of conspiracy theories. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

The Political Assassination of Donald Trump: Shots Fired

Democrats remain terrified of Donald Trump and will continue to do their worst to keep him from the ballot, where he has beaten them before. Political assassination attempts stretch from the near-comical to the deadly serious. The most current attempt harkens back to one of the earlier ones. A handful of lawyers discovered the 14th […]

Thomas “T.J.” Jefferson and Race-Based School Admissions

White parents and Asian parents are fighting over how many black students should be allowed into Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Alexandria, Virginia. The school, universally known as “T.J.,” is among the finest STEM high schools in the United States. Given its role as a feeder school into the upper echelons […]

Trump and Kryptonite

As of summer 2023 we have in America reached an amazing place politically: the Republican front-runner and very possibly the next re-president of the United States, Donald Trump, is campaigning while basically on bail in four different jurisdictions. And nobody in America cares much. Actually, Americans sort of care, but not in any way that […]