Trump Tells the Truth: Sanctions Cause People to Suffer
This week President Trump admitted what the Washington policy establishment of both parties would rather be kept quiet. ...
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The Green Bad Deal
The recently-proposed Green New Deal is proof that climate change is for progressive Democrats what terrorism is for neoconservative Republicans: a ready-made excuse to expand government and curtail liberty....
Bipartisan Attacks on the Second Amendment
The House of Representatives recently passed legislation that would expand the national background check system to require almost everyone selling firearms to perform background checks on the potential buyers....
Emergencies Do Not Trump the Constitution
President Trump’s emergency declaration is not just an end run around Congress. It is an end run around the Constitution. ...
Walter Jones and the Vote to End US War on Yemen
Ending senseless US wars is an idea whose time has come. We can thank Walter Jones for his role in making it so. ...
President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
Last week’s bipartisan Senate vote to rebuke President Trump for his decision to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan unfortunately tells us a lot about what is wrong with...
Shut Down the TSA!
Congress should permanently close the TSA and return responsibility for security to private businesses. ...
Fire the Fed?
President Trump’s frustration with the Federal Reserve’s (minuscule) interest rate increases that he blames for the downturn in the stock market has reportedly led him to inquire if he...
Campaign Finance Reform Helps Special Interests
One of the new Democratic House majority’s top priorities is so-called campaign finance reform legislation. Contrary to the claims of its supporters, campaign finance reform legislation does not limit...
Trump’s Neocons Reverse His Syria Withdrawal Plan
Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling...
Rough Times Ahead, But Liberty Can Still Win
While Congress and the president fight over funding a border wall, they continue to ignore the coming economic tsunami caused by the approximately 22 trillion dollars (and rapidly increasing)...
Troops Out of Syria and Afghanistan? That’s a Good Start!
We all had a big shock when, seemingly out of the blue, President Trump announced that he was removing US troops from Syria and would draw down half of...
Why The Senate Vote to End Yemen War Is So Important
Last week something historic happened in the US Senate. For the first time in 45 years, a chamber of the US Congress voted to pull US forces from a...
Too Much Partisanship in Washington? No, Too Much Bipartisanship!
Sadly, but not surprisingly, neither Congress nor the administration is fighting to cut, or at least not increase, spending. ...
Pentagon Fails First Audit; Neocons Demand More Spending!
After spending nearly a billion dollars to find out what has happened to trillions in unaccounted-for spending, the long look through the books has concluded that only ten percent...