“You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with – its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.” – Seven Days in May (1964)
Who is actually running the government?
That is no longer a rhetorical question.
As America’s war with Iran lurches from escalation to ceasefire to renewed threats of military force, Americans are being asked to trust that someone, somewhere, knows what they are doing.
But who?
The president who boasts one moment of imminent peace and threatens the next to “finish the job”? The Pentagon officials who insist the war is going according to plan? The vice president who has reportedly questioned whether the Defense Department is giving the president the full picture? The intelligence agencies, defense contractors, war planners, foreign allies, billionaire donors, political handlers and unelected power brokers who operate behind the curtain?
This is the constitutional crisis hiding in plain sight.
The question is not merely whether Donald Trump is fit to lead. The question is whether any president still leads in any meaningful constitutional sense once the permanent war government gets moving.
That war government – the military industrial complex, the intelligence apparatus, the surveillance state, the federal police bureaucracy, the defense contractors, the private-sector profiteers and the unelected functionaries who keep the machinery running – does not need tanks in the streets to take over. Continue reading
America didn’t always have an income tax. For most of U.S. history, the federal government ran without taking a cut of your paycheck – yet it still funded wars, built institutions, paid officials, and expanded across a continent.
First, let’s agree on the definition of ‘enemy’.
A few days ago I was reading from Isaiah 6 and, although I’d read it before, a passage in Isaiah 6 had a profound effect upon me; causing my brain to come to a screeching halt so that it could consider what I’d just read.
The Declaration of Independence is the root of the ideals for American freedom. It was the first document to openly define our disagreements with the King of England who controlled the colonies. Even more importantly, the Declaration specifically outlined the foundation of liberty, including limited government overreach in the lives of the citizens, the absolute need for private property ownership to guarantee personal freedom and the ability to build personal wealth. 
This piece is just a little bit of me reflecting and perhaps waxing a lil’ philosophical, as I considered this thing called “life”.
“David Morens, Dr. Fauci’s top advisor, was indicted, but Fauci himself still walks free,” Sen. Rand Paul, warning about the deadline that came Monday, wrote in an X post on May 7.
Last month, the Department of Justice indicted the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on 11 felonies, including charges of wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering to fund the racism it claims to fight.
It’s a bold claim – but the truth is more complex, and far more interesting than the headline suggests.
My subtitle highlights the immense and far-reaching consequences of what we say and do. It suggests that even small gestures or brief comments can trigger a massive “ripple effect” of logical or incidental outcomes. These outcomes can be far larger than their initial causes; careful consideration of both speech and behavior is essential to creating positive change.
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The US Department of Justice has announced the Soros-backed Southern Poverty Law Center, 