November 11 is Veterans Day, a day set aside each year to recognize the dedication and sacrifice of America’s military veterans. As I shared last year, I’m a little conflicted about Veterans Day due to the tyranny and authoritarianism we…
The 2026 midterm elections may have changed the balance of political power, but the machinery of the American police state keeps right on running. The surveillance state, militarized policing, government detention machinery, endless wars and accumulated executive powers remain. A…
Donald Trump’s goal of rebranding the Republican Party and destroying conservatism in order to build a Nationalist America began the day he first rode down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015, and in the aftermath of the 2026 election, it…
Ronald Reagan once said, “What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property.” While this excerpt from…
Doomsday government has a plan for Armageddon: keep the war machine running even if America’s civilian infrastructure is destroyed by war. Who gets left behind, and what happens to the Constitution when preserving government power takes precedence over protecting the…
Hidden within the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Section 219 — formerly Section 224 before the House passed and changed it in July — is a provision known as the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” legislation that will…
If you listen to the Republicans and Democrats, the problem facing voters always boils down to “the other party.” But as the 2026 midterm election draws near, the real problem, as Frederick Douglas once said, “is whether the American people…