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OK, “Gun Control” Had Its Chance, Here Are The Results

In the wake of Cole Tomas Allen’s alleged attempt to assassinate US President Donald Trump and/or other political officials, journalists, and...

28.04.2026 5

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Note to Those So Inclined: Please Stop Trying to Kill Donald Trump

On April 25, one Cole Allen allegedly charged a security checkpoint outside the Washington Hilton ballroom where many of the nation’s most prominent...

27.04.2026 10

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There’s a Simple Way to End the Gerrymander Wars

On April 21, a majority of Virginia voters said “yes” to a ballot measure allowing the state’s US House districts to be redrawn for the benefit...

23.04.2026 8

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The Real AIpocalypse is Probably Already Here

Are The Terminator, The Matrix and other such films entertainment, or are they prophecy? With the fast progress of artificial intelligence over the...

14.04.2026 8

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Iran War: And The Winner Is …

US president Donald Trump says that his war in Iran – currently in a supposed ceasefire – resulted in “total and complete victory. 100%. No...

13.04.2026 20

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Stop Pretending Military Spending is About “Defense”

$1.5 trillion. With a “t.” That’s how much US president Donald Trump wants Congress to appropriate for military (falsely called “defense”)...

08.04.2026 10

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OK, Fine, Give TSA Agents Back Pay … But Then Send Them Home For Good

At airports across the US, Transportation Security Administration agents have been “working” — that is, impeding, harassing, ogling, and groping...

31.03.2026 10

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Autarky: Terrible at Political Scale, But Great as Individual Self-Defense

Since everyone seems to have a sticker shock story lately: I rolled one of my motorcycles up to a gas pump yesterday and, for the first time ever,...

25.03.2026 10

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Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants $200 billion for the Trump administration’s illegal, ill-advised, undeclared war on Iran. Well, maybe....

23.03.2026 30

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Iran War: We Have Met the Enemy, and He is U.S.

Even when -- if -- tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz can get back to normal, we'll be feeling the economic after-effects for a long time....

19.03.2026 30

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Social Media’s Down Side: No Fresh Starts

Generally speaking, I’ve always considered myself a “techno-optimist,” sometimes perhaps to the point of Panglossianism. As a teen, I embraced...

11.03.2026 10

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On War Powers, Questions Aren’t a Working Substitute for Action

No president has ever been held to account by, and punished by, Congress for exceeding his powers and exercising its, not his, prerogative of...

05.03.2026 20

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Tariff Refunds: Honest Policy Would Be Smart Politics

On February 20, the US Supreme Court ruled part of US president Donald Trump’s crazy-quilt tariff scheme illegal in its particulars. Specifically,...

25.02.2026 10

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Liberation Day for Real? Not Really

“[The International Emergency Economic Powers Act] does not authorize the President to impose tariffs.” That’s the single really important...

23.02.2026 90

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Russell Vought Says “We are in a post constitutional moment in our country.” He’s Not Wrong.

“There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections,” US president Donald Trump declared in a February 13 Truth Social rant, “whether approved...

16.02.2026 20

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Minnesota Murders Shoot a Hole in the Overton Window

"Alex Pretti was murdered, in public and on camera, by thugs. Period. If you're lying to others about that, shame on you. If you're lying to yourself...

28.01.2026 10

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Recipe vs. Result: Does the US Government Actually Exist?

I write three syndicated columns a week, and the vast majority of them could easily run with the title “Stupid and Evil US Government Action of the...

19.01.2026 30

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Data Centers Might Break the Grid? Good, Something Needs To

A quick headline roundup from the last couple of weeks: “US Electric Grid Heading Toward ‘Crisis’ Thanks to AI Data Centers” (Common Dreams,...

15.01.2026 20

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Will Trump’s Residential Investment Ban Really Make Housing More Affordable?

In a Truth Social post, US president Donald Trump says he’s “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more...

13.01.2026 30

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Peace President? Yeah, Right.

On December 17, surrounded by festive holiday decorations, US president Donald Trump delivered an upbeat — one might even say manic — address to...

22.12.2025 20

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First They Came for the Tourists

“In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security...

15.12.2025 40

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SCOTUS Passport Ruling: A Distraction from the Real Issue

“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth,” the US Supreme Court held in a short, unsigned ruling on November 6,  “no more offends equal...

10.11.2025 20

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Against Moral Panic: Or, Dolls Aren’t Real Kids

On November 3, the Washington Post reports, “fast-fashion” retailer Shein banned sales of sex dolls on its site after a government regulatory...

05.11.2025 10

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Instead of Adding a Ballroom to the White House, Turn it Into a Museum

Citing two Trump administration officials, NBC News reports that “the entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished ‘within days'” to...

24.10.2025 20

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“No Kings” Redux: Necessary But Insufficient (and Somewhat Misdirected)

Back in June, I attended the first “No Kings” rally in Gainesville, Florida, On October 18, I attended the second. Positive differences: While...

20.10.2025 10

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“No Kings” Redux: Necessary But Insufficient (and Somewhat Misdirected)

Back in June, I attended the first “No Kings” rally in Gainesville, Florida, On October 18, I attended the second. Positive differences: While...

20.10.2025 10

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Trump, RFK Jr. May Be Right About Acetaminophen, But Why The Rush?

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A senile reality TV star and a publicity-seeking nepo baby walk into a press conference and announce that a...

25.09.2025 20

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Brendan Carr and Donald Trump: Another Jawbone, Another Ass

“This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,” Brendan Carr said on September 17. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”...

22.09.2025 30

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Hoplophobes Say The Strangest Things

On September 10, Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal looked at the state’s law against “open carry” of firearms, looked at the US...

18.09.2025 20

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Charlie Kirk: This Too Shall Pass, Unfortunately

If there’s one thing we should all be able to agree on, it’s that no one should be murdered for speaking. In the aftermath of Charlie “Prove Me...

15.09.2025 30

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Murder on the High Seas: Trump May Be Immune, But Are His Accomplices?

Let’s assume that US regime officials, including US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth and US secretary of state Marco Rubio, were truthful in their...

04.09.2025 10

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The Gaza War Isn’t Over, But Israel Has Already Lost

The Israeli regime has lost its multi-front war in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Yes, really. It may not look like it, but the...

04.09.2025 20

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Cracker Barrel vs. the Cracked Brain, Round Two

I’m not going to lie: I don’t particularly like Cracker Barrel’s new branding. The popular restaurant chain recently replaced its iconic logo,...

26.08.2025 30

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There’s a Cheap, Effective Way to Reduce Pedestrian Fatalities. Florida’s Government Prefers the Fatalities

On August 7, the Gainesville, Florida city commission voted to make three pedestrian crosswalks less visible, and the pedestrians using them less...

11.08.2025 30

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Trump’s Tariffs Come for Your Morning Wake-Up Routine

On August 6 — unless he chickens out — US president Donald Trump will impose a 50% tariff on American buyers of Brazilian coffee. Brazilian coffee...

06.08.2025 30

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Election 2026: Here Come the Gerrymanders

It’s only mid-2025, but both “major” US political parties are already well into their campaigns to win US House and Senate seats in the 2026...

31.07.2025 20

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West Bank: Would Annexation Provide Citizenship for the Annexed?

On July 23, the Israeli Knesset voted 71 to 13 in favor of a “non-binding” motion to “annex” the West Bank, where Palestinian Arabs have...

29.07.2025 20

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Martin Luther King Files: Justice (and Transparency) Though the Heavens (and Reputations) Fall

On July 21, the US National Archives made more than 250,000 pages of documents relating to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King,...

23.07.2025 20

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Trump/Epstein: Is That Birthday Doodle Warming Up Her Vocal Chords?

On July 17, the Wall Street Journal published an exposé by Khadeeja Safdar and Sadie Gurman, detailing a racy — and, in context, rather damning...

21.07.2025 20

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Remember When Code Was Speech? It Still Is

On July 14, Roman Storm’s trial  — on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and...

17.07.2025 20

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Rip Van Linker and “Competitive Authoritarianism”

“I now think the United States may well be evolving,” Damon Linker writes at Persuasion, “to become a competitive authoritarian system in...

15.07.2025 20

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Regarding Ken Paxton: “Now Let Him Enforce It”

“John Marshall has made his decision” regarding relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States,  US president Andrew Jackson...

30.06.2025 20

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Will Trump Continue Seeking War? If So, Here’s Why

In 1938, five years into Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” the US remained mired in the depths of a “Great Depression.” Real income...

25.06.2025 20

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Occupied LA: Don’t Riot — Boycott and Shun

US president Donald Trump, Axios reports, “is edging closer than ever to invoking the Insurrection Act, driven by a vision of executive power free...

11.06.2025 20

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Comey’s Numbers Aren’t News…or a Threat

“8647.” Those numbers are spelled out — in seashells — in a May 15 Instagram photo posted by former FBI director James Comey. The meaning...

19.05.2025 10

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Texas Pols Think They Can Control Speech. Nope.

Bing search results inform me that women from Texas seeking abortion-inducing drugs can likely get them through Whole Woman’s Health of...

01.05.2025 10

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Why the Trump v. Powell Fight is a Sideshow

As of market close April 21, major US stock indices have fallen by double-digit percentages since the beginning of the year, while bond yields — the...

24.04.2025 20

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Trump Will Never Accept Responsibility, But His Disappointed Voters Should

On April 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged another 2,000 points, the S&P 500 fell another 322 points, the Nasdaq index officially entered...

07.04.2025 20

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That’s Somebody Else’s Car

“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations”  Nikola Tesla wrote in 1905, “invariably result from misunderstandings in the...

03.04.2025 20

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Schumer’s Surrender: Much Ado About Nothing Surprising

“House Democrats erupted into apoplexy,”  Axios reported on March 14, “after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he would...

17.03.2025 10

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