I have been thinking, with increasing concern, about the spectacle of violence in America — not merely the violence itself, but the way it has become normalized, rationalized, and woven into the fabric of our daily lives.
Tag: United States
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GOVERNMENT UNCHAINED: THE YEAR THE CONSTITUTION LOST ITS GUARDRAILS
We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’ MOMENT
Unless President Trump reverses course, the “Lower Prices Bigger Paychecks” banner that hung behind him at his “affordability” speech this month will be remembered as being to economic policy what President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner was to foreign policy.
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JUST 10 PERCENT OF AMERICANS CALL 2025 A ‘GREAT’ YEAR
Americans may be eager to ring in the new year and leave the old one behind after a newly released survey found just one in 10 said they considered 2025 a “great” year.
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MIDTERM MADNESS
On 3 November 2026, millions of Americans will head to the polls in the midterm elections that come with very high stakes for the Trump administration and how the rest of his term may play out.
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THE CONSTITUTION VS. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF: THE DUTY TO DISOBEY UNLAWFUL ORDERS
Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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‘KILL THEM ALL’
As we learn more about the events on Sept. 2, 2025, in international waters 1,500 miles from the United States, the behavior of the United States military becomes more legally troubling than at first blush.
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GIVING THANKS FOR OUR BLESSINGS MEANS SAYING ‘NO THANKS’ TO POLICE STATE TYRANNY
We find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms.
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MURDER FOR CHRISTMAS?
When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child’s cartoon character, in a helicopter using a military weapon to kill people in a small boat below him, and captioned it “For your Christmas wish list,” it understandably caused an uproar.
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IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID: 51 PERCENT OF YOUNG VOTERS BACK DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST FOR NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
A newly released Rasmussen poll found that 51 percent of voters between the ages of 18 to 39 say they would like to see a democratic socialist be elected the next president of the U.S.