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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Understanding Jewish Power
Post Date: 2018-06-13 12:50:54 by Deckard
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Who has helped create a war-addicted America?I recently was asked to speak at an online conference entitled Deep Truth: Encountering Deep State Lies. My panel addressed Understanding Zionism: Deconstructing the Power Paradigm and my own topic was How Jewish Power Sustains the Israel Narrative. Working on my presentation, I was forced to confront the evolution of my own views on both the corruption of government in the United States and the ability of powerful domestic lobbies to deliberately distort the perception of national interests to benefit foreign countries even when that activity does terrible damage to the U.S. My personal journey began half a century ago. I became part of the U.S. ...
How Dare a Politician Talk about Respect and Credibility
Post Date: 2018-06-08 13:30:53 by Deckard
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So, Rudy Giuliani doesn’t “respect” Stormy Daniels because the business she was in entitles her “to no degree of giving” her “credibility any weight.” Rudy doesn’t “respect a porn star the way” he respects “a career woman or a woman of substance or a woman who … isn’t going to sell her body for sexual exploitation.” Instead of making an honest living like Stormy Daniels, Rudy has been a politician for most of his life. In other words, he was the lowest of the low. He was someone whom no one should ever respect. He was someone who had no credibility. He, like all politicians, sold himself for cash, gifts, favors, or ...
There Is No ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card for the President
Post Date: 2018-06-07 09:50:37 by Deckard
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“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.“—Richard Nixon Someone needs to alert Donald Trump: there is no “Get Out of Jail Free” card just for being president. According to Trump’s Twitter feed, he believes that he has an absolute right to pardon himself of any crimes for which he might be charged while serving in office. He’s not alone in this imperial belief. Two of Trump’s lawyers have attempted to float the idea that “the president’s powers are so broad as to make it impossible for him to have obstructed justice.” Rudy Giuliani, another of Trump’s enablers, insists that Trump ...
The State Will Gladly Protect You From Freedom of Conscience
Post Date: 2018-06-04 07:31:23 by Deckard
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For hundreds of years, western cultures have been refining what is known as Freedom of Conscience. One of the outcomes of this refinement is Freedom of Speech, a Liberty that is relatively new to the human political experience. Not long ago, being critical of a government, for instance, could get you killed by that government. Merely speaking out of turn or having critical thought towards the State religion meant torture or death. But, we have advanced through time to understand that free thought and critical speech is something that a free people must protect and encourage. Thomas Jefferson went as far as to say that repressing Freedom of Conscience was a “Sin against God”. ...
The Conservative Drug War Creed
Post Date: 2018-06-02 11:49:11 by Deckard
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If there is one thing that most conservatives have in common it is their support for the federal government’s war on drugs. Although conservatives claim to believe in certain principles that libertarians would likewise hold to, their support of the drug war shows that they don’t really believe in them at all. Here is the conservative drug war creed. I believe in the Constitution, but I also believe in the unconstitutional federal war on drugs.I believe in a smaller federal government, but still support a federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).I believe in federalism, but not when it comes to the federal war on drugs.I believe in free markets, but not when it comes to a free ...
Statists’ Greatest Fear
Post Date: 2018-06-01 20:33:18 by Deckard
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I can no more imagine being afraid of liberty than I can imagine a Canada goose being afraid of heights. But that’s just me. I know many people are scared out of their minds at the thought of liberty. They fight against it every way they can think of, and work hard to try to make others as fearful as they are. They misrepresent liberty. They define it incorrectly. They dream up all sorts of “what if” scenarios to justify being afraid. They have a right to feel as they do, but… They are wrong. If they stopped at having feelings, no one would be hurt but themselves. Yet they never do. They are so cowardly that they use the aggression of the ...
They Will Not Leave You Alone
Post Date: 2018-06-01 20:20:31 by Deckard
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If you were to find some place in the middle of nowhere in the woods, where no one was living, on land no one was using, which types of people would leave you in peace, and which would feel justified intruding into your life and initiating violence against you? If you happened to be anywhere inside the ~3,800,000 square miles claimed by the U.S. ruling class as its territory, a grand total of zero Democrats and Republicans would advocate leaving you in peace. They might differ in what they want you forced to fund, and which of your behaviors they want regulated and coercively controlled, but NONE of them would actually condone leaving you in peace. None. But guess what. Neither would ...
How do civil wars happen?
Post Date: 2018-05-31 08:40:58 by IbJensen
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Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even agree that elections are how you decide who's in charge. That's the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war. The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it's not the first time they've done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he ...
Whose Country Is This? Is the Constitution Even Welcome Here Anymore?
Post Date: 2018-05-30 07:33:43 by Deckard
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“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out ‘stop!’ When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.” ― Bertolt Brecht, Selected Poems There are days I wake up, and I’m not sure what country I live in anymore. There are days I wake up and want to go right back to sleep in the hopes that this surreal landscape ...
In Defense of Degeneracy
Post Date: 2018-05-28 12:39:58 by Deckard
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How long have I been asleep that I woke up and suddenly the Alt-Right wants to go full Amish? When did they lose their sense of humor and get so frickin’ uptight? When did their comical irreverence get swapped out for an unintentionally comical reverence toward all things our forefathers deemed holy? I realize that a lot of these whippersnappers are young and have short attention spans—call them “meme-impaired”—but whence cometh this seemingly sudden, undeniably hive-minded, and morally hysterical fixation on “degeneracy”? If you’re going to be a degenerate, isn’t your youth the best time to do it? Shouldn’t you at least wait until you ...
Haspel Is Not the Problem. The CIA Is the Problem.
Post Date: 2018-05-24 10:21:55 by Deckard
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As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it’s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president’s enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as CIA director but of the torture program she oversaw should tell us all we need to know about Haspel. Saying that Haspel would make a great CIA director, Cheney dismissed concerns over the CIA’s torture program. Asked in a television interview last week about the program, Cheney said, “if it were my call, I’d do it again.” Sadly, the majority of the US Senate agreed with Cheney that putting a torturer in charge of the CIA was a ...
The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy
Post Date: 2018-05-17 01:32:10 by Tooconservative
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1.The Aristocracy Is Dead … For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America’s fading aristocracies. Sometimes around Christmas, more often on the Fourth of July, my family would take up residence at one of my grandparents’ country clubs in Chicago, Palm Beach, or Asheville, North Carolina. The breakfast buffets were magnificent, and Grandfather was a jovial host, always ready with a familiar story, rarely missing an opportunity for gentle instruction on proper club etiquette. At the age of 11 or 12, I gathered from him, between his puffs of cigar smoke, that we owed our weeks of plenty to Great-Grandfather, Colonel Robert W. Stewart, a Rough ...
Cultural Appropriation is Becoming the New Segregation, SJWs Turning Into What they Hate
Post Date: 2018-05-16 09:47:02 by Deckard
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Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you have likely seen the chaos and controversy swarming the internet and mainstream media having to do with “cultural appropriation.” To be clear, there is indeed a negative aspect of cultural appropriation whereas a dominate culture will use a bastardized characteristic—either willingly or unwillingly—of a marginalized culture, to push messages of misinformation, prejudice, and stereotypes. An extreme example of this would be blackface shows in the 1800’s in which theatrical makeup was used predominantly by non-black performers to represent caricatures of black people. A less extreme form of ...
Laws Always Mean Guns to the Face
Post Date: 2018-05-15 10:29:46 by Deckard
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One of the very first red pills a person swallows on the journey toward becoming a voluntaryist is the idea that every law is guaranteed by an act of violence. In our day and age, that means a gun to the face. In days past, it meant a sword, a club, or a fist. Thus begins the critical analysis of every type of government law that is proposed, passed, and enforced. It often proceeds as follows: laws regulating the use of private property are summarily dismissed as obvious violations of liberty; laws regulating the use of one’s body are likewise summarily dismissed as obvious violations liberty; laws requiring fees for permission to do things or fines for doing the wrong thing are next; ...
The Donald’s Done – The Deep State Wins Its War On America First
Post Date: 2018-05-14 10:27:25 by Deckard
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The Donald’s action to ash-can the Iranian nuclear deal marks the War Party’s complete and baleful triumph. There is now nothing much left of America First. Trump’s reckless, unwarranted and utterly irrational action will pull Washington ever deeper into an incendiary middle eastern vortex of political and religious conflict that has absolutely nothing to do with the safety and security of the America people. To the contrary, picking a fight with Tehran is an exercise in unprovoked Imperial aggression. The Iranian regime has no means to attack America militarily and has never threatened to do so. Nor has it invaded any other country in the region where it was not invited by a ...
Donald Trump’s Neocon Conversion was Predictable
Post Date: 2018-05-14 09:28:00 by Deckard
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During the election, I wrote a little ebook titled “Donald Trump’s War on Islam.” In addition to pointing out Trump’s pandering to Islamophobia, I wrote about his association with a number of neocons, including Frank Gaffney and John Bolton, who is now his national security adviser. “I think John Bolton’s a good man,” Trump told the Hugh Hewitt Show. “I watched him yesterday, actually, and he was very good in defending me in some of my views, and very, very strong. And I’ve always liked John Bolton. Well, we are thinking about it, Hugh [nominating Bolton as secretary of state]. I will say that. We are thinking about it. I mean, the negative ...
Rulers, ‘Foolers,’ and Shooters: They’re Closing the Cage in Plain Sight
Post Date: 2018-05-11 20:26:09 by Deckard
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A picture that has been around awhile depicts Homo sapiens society at its finest…as it truly is. There are four “tiers,” so to speak, with the politicians, royalty, and rulers occupying the uppermost level, followed by the clergymen and religious swamis on tier two, and then the gendarmes/police/soldiers on tier three. The bottom tier is occupied by the people, supporting the other three tiers upon their back. The caption is “We rule you [Leaders], we fool you [Religious Heads], we shoot you [the “Enforcer” class]. These “tiers” are to be found in every nation, among every people and tongue. It is not a new concept: these three levels of nabobs have ...
Reuters/Ipsos: Pay no attention to this flawed, outlier poll from… Reuters/Ipsos
Post Date: 2018-05-07 08:46:56 by Tooconservative
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The time-honored sport of political poll watching has grown a bit stale over the past year, particularly when it comes to the President. Trump’s numbers have consistently zigged and zagged back and forth from alarmingly low (in the mid 30s) to better, but still worrisome (low to mid 40s). Trying to read the tea leaves and determine which headline, early morning tweet or leak from Mueller’s office caused the latest shift has, at least for some of us, simply grown tiresome. But the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll came with a surprise which made it noteworthy. It’s not so much the shock value of the numbers they produced (Trump is up near 50 all of a sudden), but their introduction ...
A Quick Thought On America’s Useless Trillion Dollar Military Industrial Complex
Post Date: 2018-05-04 20:34:13 by Deckard
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America is a country drowning in debt, slowly but surely, and the United States’ trillion dollar (annually) military-industrial complex, as Eisenhower put it more than half a century ago, is part of our national disaster. Before going all MAGA on me, just answer this question: when was the last time the US military defended the homeland? The answer is pretty simple if you know your history: in 1945. The sad truth is that the United States has world’s largest (and best funded) army, yet realistically speaking, it has no (military) enemies. No nation on Earth even comes close to having the capabilities of invading the US, and no desire to do so, or at least that’s how I view ...
Spooner Explains Why Vices Are Not Crimes
Post Date: 2018-05-04 20:04:41 by Deckard
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Recent actions and statements indicate that the Trump administration is serious about ramping up the federal government’s war on drugs. Earlier this year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new directive granting US regional attorneys greater authority to crack down on marijuana growers and dealers — even in states with laws making such practices legal. Session’s memo reversed the Obama-era’s much more hands-off approach. More recently, Trump himself declared his desire to implement the death penalty for drug traffickers, saying “These are terrible people, and we have to get tough on those people … and that toughness includes the death penalty.” ...
Let’s Be Honest: Paul Ryan Would Fire Jesus as House Chaplain
Post Date: 2018-05-02 11:09:33 by Deckard
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As a scholar of the life and teachings of Jesus, I am frustrated when I hear some “Christian” politicians hijack and, in fact, mutilate his teachings. A recent example involves House Speaker Paul Ryan’s firing of the House chaplain, Father Patrick Conroy, which apparently occurred, in part, because Conroy had the audacity to pray for the fair treatment of the poor during the tax debate last fall. Although the speaker’s office denied that the chaplain—the second Catholic to serve in that position and the first chaplain to be fired midterm—was forced to resign because of a specific prayer, Conroy reports that he received complaints from the speaker’s office ...
7 Forces Driving America Toward Civil War
Post Date: 2018-04-25 10:41:23 by Tooconservative
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I was interviewed by a mainstream media reporter yesterday. I thought he wanted to talk tech issues, but we actually spent almost the entire conversation discussing the feeling that many conservatives have that America has gone off the tracks and is headed toward dissolution or alternately, a civil war one day. Obviously, this would be a terrible thing and ironically, twenty years ago, it would have been laughable. Today, the joke isn’t so funny because we are a deeply unhealthy society with a dysfunctional government and for all our money, success and storied history, we seem to be on an increasingly dangerous trajectory. 1) A Post-Constitutional Era: Liberals don’t believe ...
The Sequel on The Conservative Cave on 22 Apr 2018
Post Date: 2018-04-22 11:08:04 by sneakypete
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The original post below in parentheses was Posted by Movie bugg-The Sequel on The Conservative Cave on 22 Apr 2018 "The race card is the Democrats' ace in the hole. If anyone makes any kind of criticism of any of their policies, they just openly accuse that person of racism to try and end the discussion. "O Some vote Republican because it's the party of “patriotism” and “real Americans.” " Well, considering that the Left is known for openly hating America and portraying it as an evil racist redneck nation, that's not surprising. Heck, Obama hated America so much that one of his first presidential actions was his infamous "Apology ...
After 33 years, I have solved the crime of the ceAntury
Post Date: 2018-04-16 18:54:16 by interpreter
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Well I want you guys to know that I write about a lot of stuff besides the Bible. After 33 years of research I have finally solved the crime of the century (at least in my neck of the woods). Although I am 99.9 % certain that I know who the psycho who committed the Calder Road Murders is, I can't actually say "It was" and have instead substituted "Was it" for now. But feel free to read that anyway you want to. Before publishing this, let me add that at one time I, being her boyfriend, was the prime suspect, and was even # 1 on Houston's Most Wanted. Without further ado, here is my answer to the League City police arresting me and Crime Stoppers and ABC putting ...
Want To Stop Mass Killings? Start Punishing Those Who Failed To Stop Them
Post Date: 2018-04-12 12:39:28 by Deckard
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While Parkland has kicked the gun control debate up into high gear, it wasn’t the gun’s fault. We all know this. We also know that there were countless failures along the way that permitted a 19-year-old with a history of being troubled to purchase a firearm and shoot up his former school. As Glenn Reynolds (better known to some as Instapundit) notes, if we want to be serious about stopping mass shootings, law enforcement failures need to start being punished [shooters’ names redacted]. Law enforcement keeps failing, and people keep dying. Where are the consequences? Where is the accountability?Despite receiving a warning directly from the Russian government, the ...
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