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The Closest We’ll Get To A W A L L Is A W A R. With North Korea

Tuesday, President Donald Trump warned: “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” For his reckless threat...

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Neoconservatives Will Love Sebastian Gorka’s Hyperventilation About A Hyperpower

Tonight, watch your favorite Fox News neoconservative. Chucky Krauthammer, Brian Kilmead and other neocons will be wallowing in the “greatness” of Sebastian Gorka’s hyperventilation about the US being...

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UPDATED (8/22): Someone Doesn’t Know The First Thing About America First

POTUS, in outlining a “new” Afghanistan plan, has declared that “the American people are weary of war without victory.” Promising to increase American presence in Afghanistan, by sending 4000...

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Nikki Haley: Smalltime Politician Turned Big-League Scold

Only a woman would wag her finger at a country and say, “Enough is enough.” I give you Nikki Haley, the provincial idiot—a smalltime politician—whom President Trump has turned into a global power...

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Rocket Man & The Messy Calculus Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Writes Barely A Blog’s resident physicist Myron Pauli: Missile defense like the Israelis had against the HAMAS missiles “worked” because: 1. The missiles were poorly guided – hence only a limited...

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The UN Can’t Pick People Up; It Can Only Pick Their Pockets, POTUS

“We have it in our power, should we so choose, to lift millions from poverty, to help our citizens realize their dreams, and to ensure that new generations of children are raised free from violence,...

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Is Mad Dog Mattis Off His Rocker Like Rocket Man?

Six minutes into the clip, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson states, with reference to what Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has been saying: “Anyone who thinks North Korea won’t fight to the very death, with...

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Neoconservatives Are Thrilled With President Trump’s Foreign Policy

Bloomberg’s Eli Lake is in neoconservative heaven: “… for Venezuela [Donald Trump] came very close to calling for regime change. ‘The United States has taken important steps to hold the regime...

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They’ve Incited War With Russia, Now The UniParty Is Worried About …‘World...

Republican Senator Bob Corker is worried that President Trump is “reckless enough to stumble [sic] the country into a nuclear war.” This from the two War Parties who’ve not stopped egging Trump on...

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Has John McCain Heard Of ‘We The People’?

The ironically named National Constitution Center in Philadelphia has honored Sen. John McCain who cares not at all for the Constitution. In his acceptance address, the man dishonors voters who voted...

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McCain, Bush And Obama Renew Attacks On Deplorables

John McCain issued a jeremiad, just the other day, in which he decried nationalism,  or America Firstism, in favor on internationalism and neoconservatism. He had the chutzpah to cloak this decidedly...

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Americans Should Be Monitoring Dover Air Force Base Closely

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly addressed the country (but spoke past the twisted Mainstream Media). He spoke as a soldier and a bereaved dad. Kelly’s moving impromptu speech brought back the...

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UPDATED (10/23): A Brokenhearted Gen. John Kelly On Burying A Son And Buddies

Irrespective of party politics, John Kelly’s address as a soldier (retired United States Marine Corps general) and a bereaved dad, delivered in his capacity as President Trump’s chief of staff, ought...

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NEW COLUMN. Niger: Finally, A War John McCain Doesn’t Love

NEW COLUMN. No war makes Johnny a sad boy. But finally, “Niger: A War John McCain Doesn’t Love.” It’s on the Mises Wire, standing for Austrian Economics, Freedom and peace. An excerpt: News first broke...

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‘Take ‘Em Down,’ Says Documentarian Ken Burns About The South’s Monuments

Let’s hear from all the sides in the Vietnam war, counsels Ken Burns, creator of the Public Broadcasting Service documentary, “Vietnam“: the North Vietnamese civilian; the Vietcong guerilla fighter,...

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Mainstream Media Discovers Tulsi Gabbard, The Only Decent Democrat In Politics

“Tulsi Gabbard: Young, Unique, Reagan Democrat” was written as far back as December 24, 2015. But I had first discovered this impressive Democrat on 2015/05/28. “Tulsi Gabbard Is Not A Total Ass,” I...

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Yemen: Iraq All-Over Again, But Without The Ground Forces

“‘Yemeni Journalist: Saudi Arabia’s Total Blockade on Yemen is Death Sentence for All.'” But, apparently, some lowlifes on my Twitter feed are dancing with joy like the 9/11 rooftop dancers. Yes, maybe...

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Bad Things Legitimized Under Trump, On The Welfare & Warfare Fronts

Has anyone notice that: 1. Transfer programs, welfare, have gained populist legitimacy under President Trump? [Expanded] is the child tax credit … allowing families who owe no federal income taxes to...

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‘Trump’s National Security Strategy is Decidedly Non-Trumpian’

Well of course. Trump’s National Security Strategy is largely neoconservative. Strategically, the Trump administration’s NSS “is thematically consistent with many previous administration’s strategies,”...

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Troops In Niger And Norway Now Cheered, As Neoconservatism Is Normalized

Have you noticed that it’s now quite acceptable, on the so-called Left and phony Right, to casually quip about our troops in Niger and Norway? There is hardly any debate, disagreement or daylight, for...

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