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What Happens after Impeachment Fails?

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That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, as Friedrich Nietzsche would put it. At this year’s State of the Union address, will Donald Trump, “strengthened by the failure of his antagonists,” take a page out of Bill Clinton’s 1999 State of the Union address? Bill Clinton also went through the same process and came out […]

The US is Today a Net Energy Exporter

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In any debate over the merits of U.S. military involvement in the Middle East, the most important bit of information should be, what vital interest does America have in the region? Before committing forces to any cause, policymakers should consider whether or not it meets the threshold set by the Weinberger/Powell Doctrine. The first rule […]

You Want to Live Where Your Money is Respected

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You meet a lot of people when you ski, especially on a crowded holiday weekend like this last one. We shared a chair with two brothers from Vermont who were none-too-pleased with Bernie Sanders. “He’ll give the whole state away if he can,” said one of the brothers. The other nodded, “Yup.” There was an […]

Trump Plans Ambitious Visit to Davos During Senate Impeachment Trial

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While Democrats continue to waste America’s time by pressing their impeachment case in the Senate, President Trump is pushing forward with the business of the people by setting a full agenda of meetings with important counterparts at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump’s focus is on the Middle East, with meetings planned with […]

President Trump’s Impeachment Trial Begins Today

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Today, report the staff of the Morning Dispatch, begins the impeachment trial of President Trump in the Senate. They write (abridged): As we wrote in Friday’s Morning Dispatch, last week’s hot impeachment topic concerned whether McConnell was likely to allow the Senate to subpoena its own witnesses or to consider new evidence that has cropped up […]

Funeral March Led by Waddling Homunculus Jerrold Nadler

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At LewRockwell.com, James Howard Kunstler writes (abridged): So titanically self-unaware is the Democratic Resistance that it failed to grok it was actually signing the party’s death warrant Wednesday, complete with official Nancy Pelosi commemorative black-and-gold signature pens. Their solemn, prayerful journey from one side of the Capitol building to the other was actually the conveyance of […]

Election Tracker 2020: As Trump Stacks Wins, Do Dems Have a Way Forward?

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How can the Democratic National Committee recover from last week’s debate, widely criticized as a snoozer? “More debates!” seems to be their answer. Democrats have been holding a single debate each month since June (with a break in August). Now, with voters worn out, and the number of candidates cut to only a handful of […]

President Eisenhower Warned of the “Military Industrial Complex”

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Originally posted on November 15, 2018. At The American Conservative, Gareth Porter, explains that the military-industrial-complex, called out by President Eisenhower in his farewell address, “has become a much more serious menace to the security of the American people than even Eisenhower could have anticipated.” Porter writes (abridged): What President Dwight D. Eisenhower dubbed the […]

Oathkeepers Call to Arms at Virginia Gun Rights Rally

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The Oathkeepers’ Stewart Rhodes calls on all patriots to converge on Richmond, VA for a gun rights rally to protest the proposed gun control legislation being pushed by Gov. Ralph Northam and the Democratic controlled state legislature. He writes: Volunteers needed! We need LEO and military veterans to volunteer to help us on the ground […]