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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
War Is a Racket — And so Is The State
Post Date: 2018-07-30 08:06:30 by Deckard
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In past writings I’ve attempted to show that the majority of the social problems experienced throughout the world — poverty, war, economic collapse, famine, hyperinflation, genocide, unilaterally broken agreements — can be traced to the dominant form of social organization under which we live: the State. Simply put, states are bullies that collect their revenue through theft and manage their populations through threats of punishment. They use other incentives, such as tax breaks, but their existence depends on keeping their populations fearful of reprisals. Of course they don’t want to be seen as thieves or bullies — they want our allegiance. So, ...
Secretary Mattis, here's a roadmap to peace in the Middle East
Post Date: 2018-07-28 15:49:45 by Hondo68
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Getty Images If you had five minutes to speak before the secretary of Defense, what would you say?At this point, I’m sure, if Gen. James Mattis is reading this, he is probably muttering to himself: “Here we go again.” You see, every time I run into the secretary of Defense, I try my best to make the point that we’ve been at war too long in too many places.Gen. Mattis, as well as the head of NATO, the head of the UN, and virtually every voice of reason in the foreign policy world, acknowledges that there is no military solution to the unending Afghan War.For that matter, most agree that there is no military solution to the Syrian civil war or the Yemeni civil war. And ...
Was Jesus a Socialist?
Post Date: 2018-07-27 09:46:20 by Deckard
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Was Jesus a socialist? Was he revolting against wealth and money itself? Or was he actually challenging people who use the violence of the state to prosper? I have my own working framework for how to apply Jesus’s role model in politics and economics. Nevertheless, I recently spoke with fellow-travelers theologian David Bentley Hart (view our discussion here) and economist Jerry Bowyer (watch the interview here) to invite critical dialog for our society. Dr. Hart and Bowyer share my interest in the late René Girard’s sweeping anthropological account for the origins of collective violence. Girard posits that humans ape their neighbors’ desires which leads to contagious ...
Rush Limbaugh: Gets It Right Again!
Post Date: 2018-07-26 11:00:17 by IbJensen
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Rush Limbaugh: I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound.... No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11attack, you're going to get an average of $1,185,000.... The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.... If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, ...
Fake Populism
Post Date: 2018-07-26 07:05:15 by Deckard
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President Trump is known as a “populist” president who was elected by appealing to “the forgotten man” (and woman) – the hard-working, taxed-to-death middle class people whose interests are usually diametrically opposed to the political elites of both parties. The label of populism seems especially appropriate with regard to his foreign policy of pursuing peace with Russia and North Korea, judging by the vicious and apoplectic reaction to it by the deep state elite, some of whom have called for the president’s execution for treason. You know an American president is doing the right thing when he is so viciously attacked by the James Gang – ...
IMPORTANT: Clapper throwing Obama under the bus is an extremely important development
Post Date: 2018-07-25 16:22:04 by nolu chan
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REX @_ImperatorRex_ July 24, 2018 1. IMPORTANT: Clapper throwing Obama under the bus is an extremely important development. Remember, though: he ISN'T referring to the FISA fraud being exposed 24/7, or the Mueller clownshow. The scandal Clapper's referring to is MUCH worse than either. Some thoughts. https://twitter.com/USRussiaReset/status/1021397305608622086 alan watson @USRussiaReset James Clapper admits to Anderson Cooper that #Obama set off the sequence of events that led to the Mueller investigation. Obama is guilty of meddling in our sacred democracy. 2. The FISA fraud being exposed is, without a doubt, the most shocking abuse of power in US history. The FBI/DOJ ...
No Doubt About It: The Deep State Is Real and Trump Is Its Latest Tool
Post Date: 2018-07-24 11:29:19 by Deckard
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“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt There are those who would have you believe that President Trump is an unwitting victim of the Deep State. And then there are those who insist that the Deep State is a figment of a conspiratorial mind. Don’t believe it. The Deep State—a.k.a. the police state, a.k.a. the military industrial complex, a.k.a. the surveillance state complex—does indeed exist and Trump, far from being its sworn enemy, is its latest tool. When in doubt, follow the money trail. It always points the way. ...
What it Means to be a Law Enforcer . . .
Post Date: 2018-07-23 09:25:53 by Deckard
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It is no accident that police have become more brutal – in appearance as well as action – since they became law enforcement.The term itself is a brutal syllogism. The law exists and must be enforced because it is the law. I am just doing my job, only following (lawful) orders. People were hanged for using such reasoning to justify the enforcement of vicious, evil laws and went to the gallows baffled as to why.Victor’s justice, they called it. And perhaps they were right, if a bit prematurely.Today’s defendants – well, one hopes that they will be that, one day – are just as guilty in kind if not degree.They enforce the laws. All of them. They do not question ...
Humanity Crucified on a Cross of Iron - Eisenhower
Post Date: 2018-07-19 15:55:41 by Deckard
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A few people remember President Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, where he warned Americans about the rise of a military-industrial complex… a warning that was stunningly accurate and almost fully ignored. What almost no one remembers was Eisenhower’s speech in 1953, when he said that under the pressures of fear and war spending, humanity was “hanging from a cross of iron.” Bear in mind, this was said by Dwight David Eisenhower, five-star general who had been supreme allied commander. He was also the sitting president of the United States when he said it. So, there is absolutely no room for passing this off in the name of patriotism. Precisely What He Said ...
The Eruption of the Shills
Post Date: 2018-07-19 12:49:07 by Deckard
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shill: A person paid to endorse a product favorably, while pretending to be impartial. If ever you wanted confirmation that ruling structures are biased toward conflict, you got it over the past two days.If ever you wanted confirmation that public intellectuals jump to obey power, you got it over the past two days. As much as I avoid the bullhorns from New York and DC, I couldn’t escape them this time. Evidently Donald Trump had a summit with Vladimir Putin and uttered unspeakable words. After Putin denied interfering in the 2016 election, Trump said this: He just said it’s not Russia. I will say this, I don’t see any reason why it would be. And from that, all hell broke ...
If You Value The Reputation Of Your Restaurant, Maybe You Should Stop Serving Cops
Post Date: 2018-07-19 11:33:52 by Deckard
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from the time-to-start-kicking-against-the-pricks dept Cops lie. This is a fact. As a business owner, it is in your best interest to oust known liars from your premises, if only for liability reasons. Sure, this will result in backlash from cop supporters, but so will the alternative. Cops have placed themselves on a plateau of humanity far above their fellow citizens. Any perceived slight becomes a reason to drape themselves in an appropriated American flag and decry the masses for failing to show them the respect they feel they have no duty to earn. There have been several reports of low-wage fast food employees saying and/or doing mean things to cops in their restaurants. Sometimes, ...
War...
Post Date: 2018-07-18 08:05:47 by Deckard
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Brazile, Rice, Obama Gave Russian Hackers Free Rein
Post Date: 2018-07-17 16:34:28 by nolu chan
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Brazile, Rice, Obama Gave Russian Hackers Free Rein By Daniel John Sobieski American Thinker July 17, 2018 The conveniently timed indictments of 12 more Russians by Deputy A.G. (or should we just face reality and ditch the word "deputy"?) Rosenstein, who will never see the inside of an American courtroom, probably includes the Russian who "hacked" into John Podesta's email account secured with the password "password." Rosenstein was no doubt pleased with himself to announce that 12 Russian spies were caught – er, spying, on President Obama's watch, by the way, but neglected to include one small detail in his announcement – namely, that DNC ...
The irrational hysteria over Trump and Putin [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-07-17 16:30:22 by nolu chan
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The irrational hysteria over Trump and Putin By Steve McCann American Thinker July 17, 2018 I spent a good part of yesterday watching the vast army of those incapable of generating an original thought – namely, the majority of talking heads on radio and television as well as politicians in both parties, droning on about the disaster that was the Trump-Putin press conference in Helsinki. Once the first narrative was proffered by one of this gaggle, the rest dutifully repeated the talking points as if they were ventriloquist dummies. The bottom line: Trump is a buffoon inalterably subservient to the puppet master, thus betraying his country. Having watched the press conference, I did ...
John Brennan Misses Communist Russia [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-07-17 15:40:30 by nolu chan
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Special Report John Brennan Misses Communist Russia George Neumayr American Spectator July 17, 2018, 12:05 am He calls Trump a dupe, but Brennan actually was one for the Soviets. John Brennan’s anti-Trump tweets grow more and more maniacal. His latest tweet holds that Donald Trump’s Russian diplomacy in Helsinki “rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors.’ It was nothing short of treasonous.” That tells people all they need to know about the unseriousness of the left’s impeachment drive, not to mention exposing once again the demented malice behind the Obama administration’s spying on the Trump campaign. The ...
Trump's Putin Summit Is Another Reminder He Prefers Dictators to Democratic Leaders
Post Date: 2018-07-17 06:29:45 by Deckard
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The president has a long history of admiration for authoritarians and strongmen.Among the most consistent characteristics of Donald Trump's worldview is his admiration for dictators, authoritarians, and political strongmen—not in spite of their most thuggish tactics, but because of them. Trump often appears more comfortable in their company, and with their style of politics, than with the leaders of liberal democracies. This aspect of his personality was on display again today in his joint press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. At the press conference, Trump refused to acknowledge Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. That Russia interfered is ...
Constitutional Conservatives Fail the Drug Test
Post Date: 2018-07-16 08:40:12 by Deckard
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The announced retirement of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court (effective July 31, 2018) has conservatives salivating over the prospects of Donald Trump’s nominating a constitutional conservative to the Supreme Court. Although Kennedy was nominated to the High Court by Ronald Reagan, he has at times disappointed conservatives with some of his votes, especially when it came to abortion, gay rights, and same-sex marriage (Kennedy authored the majority ruling in the Obergefell v. Hodges [2015] case, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide). This will be the second Supreme Court justice that Trump has had a chance to appoint. After the death of Associate ...
Libertarians on Liberty’s Post suppress dissent – Sad. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-07-15 06:51:33 by Gatlin
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Libertarians on Liberty’s Post now find it perfectly acceptable to pursue the tyrannical practice of blacklisting anyone whose words offend their delicate sensibilities. Unfortunately these narrow-minded individuals do not realize that the best remedy to validate their political ideology is to catechize remarks that disparage it by subjecting them to the crucible of open debate and rational inspection. Libertarians continually fail to show tolerance and adhere to cherished “libertarian” values while abdicating all confidence that their ideas will handily defeat opposition to their philosophy. Libertarians propose the impossible and internally contradictory notion that they ...
Julian Assange, CrowdStrike, and the Russian Hack That Wasn’t
Post Date: 2018-07-14 17:47:10 by nolu chan
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Julian Assange, CrowdStrike, and the Russian Hack That Wasn’t By Michael Thau American Greatness July 13th, 2018 Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential election is predicated on Russian intelligence having hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computers. Russia’s guilt is such an article of faith among our political class, that a Republican-controlled Congress imposed sanctions and President Trump signed on, substantially worsening relations with an important and potentially dangerous nation. Outside the Acela Corridor, however, one finds more skepticism. A lot of ordinary folks wonder why the DNC wouldn’t let any outside parties examine ...
President Trump, Please Free Ross Ulbricht
Post Date: 2018-07-12 11:15:20 by Deckard
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Say what you will about President Donald J. Trump — his politics, his policies, his business dealings, his personal peccadilloes — the man demonstrated possession of a heart when he commuted the sentence of grandmother Alice Johnson 21 years into her life term for non-violent drug offenses. He’s asked protesting NFL players to send him a list of people who deserve clemency in lieu of continuing to kneel in protest during the national anthem. It’s encouraging to find mercy among his many and varied qualities.On July 3, the Libertarian Party’s national convention unanimously requested that President Trump exercise that mercy in the case of Ross William ...
Why Does the Law Not Warn?
Post Date: 2018-07-12 10:59:00 by Deckard
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Everyone who has children, or even nieces and nephews, understands that you have to warn a child before punishing him or her. If not, you teach the child a rash of bad lessons, like these: Punishment can rain down upon you at any time, with no warning. The world can’t be predicted. There are two kinds of people: those who order and punish and those who obey or suffer. The line between what is punished and what is not is unknown. Trying new things brings you shame and pain. I doubt that any of my readers would consider these as healthy attitudes for a child to assume. And that’s why we warn before we punish. We want them to understand that there are rational reasons for ...
KAVANAUGH THREATENS THE LEFT’S RIGHT TO CHEAT
Post Date: 2018-07-11 22:36:43 by nolu chan
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KAVANAUGH THREATENS THE LEFT’S RIGHT TO CHEAT Ann Coulter July 11, 2018 The fact that the media responded to the nomination of a Supreme Court justice by obsessively covering Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Russia and NATO proves that Trump has checkmated them with Brett Kavanaugh. Liberals know they can't stop Kavanaugh's confirmation, so they'd just as soon not hear any news about it at all. Please cheer us up with stories about Paul Manafort's solitary confinement! But there was one very peculiar reaction to the nomination. The nut wing of the Democratic Party instantly denounced Kavanaugh by claiming that his elevation to the high court would threaten all sorts ...
Why the Left Fears Libertarianism
Post Date: 2018-07-11 11:46:46 by Deckard
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Leftist criticisms of libertarianism have surged lately, a phenomenon warranting explanation. We libertarians could justifiably find it all quite confusing. For decades we have thought our battle a largely losing one, at least in the short term. We are a tiny, relatively powerless minority. The state has raged on, expanding in virtually every direction, for my entire lifetime and that of my parents. Yet nearly every week our beloved philosophy of non-aggression is subject to some progressive’s relatively widely read hatchet job. On the surface, it appears at least as misdirected as the rightwing hysteria about Marxists during the Cold War. But at least Marxism was the supposed tenet of ...
Opposing the Transgender Movement
Post Date: 2018-07-10 06:01:54 by Deckard
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The transgender war on cultural norms is not just about restrooms and pronouns. It's about denying biological fact and quotidian reality. It's about an epidemic of irrationality, a cultural contagion, a mass delusion claiming more victims every day. It's about silencing free thinkers who refuse to bow to the radical "gender" ideology. Absurd theories that deny scientific fact have been adopted by the mainstream press, the entertainment industry, the medical establishment, public schools, universities, corporate management, and government agencies. People who fear social isolation and charges of bigotry are following along. ...
The Christian Case For Libertarianism
Post Date: 2018-07-09 09:21:11 by Deckard
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The evils of government threaten all people, but ought to be particularly concerning to Christians.Ronald Reagan once said, “I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” With the Christian Right now taking up the banner of religious liberty in the face of an onslaught by the secular Left, evangelical conservatives should heed Reagan’s words and consider libertarianism as a palatable governing philosophy to advance their interests. In his book, “Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements” (2004), George Woodcock defines libertarianism as: “A political philosophy that upholds liberty as its principal objective. Libertarians ...
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