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Removing the Blinders on Iraq

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What a great thing for Jeb Bush to bring his brother George W. into his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. That’s because the former president’s participation in the race has brought his war on Iraq back into public discussion. The controversy enables Americans who have chosen to live lives of self-deception on Bush’s Iraq War to confront truth and reality about the war. After all, let’s not forget that the Pentagon called its invasion Operation Iraqi Freedom and that many Americans spent 11 years thanking and glorifying the troops for defending our rights and freedoms by killing, injuring, maiming, jailing, and torturing untold numbers of Iraqi people. In the process, they failed to recognize that it was the U.S. government that was the aggressor in the war and that neither the Iraqi government nor the Iraqi people ever attacked or threatened the rights or freedoms of the American people. A classic case of self-deception on the Iraq War was reported ...

The Biggest Threat to Our Country

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The New York Times recently profiled three military veterans who are running for Congress. All three are women and all three graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. The Times highlighted the military experience of the women, which they plan to rely on to establish their credentials for running for Congress. Of course, hardly anyone asks the obvious question: Why should serving in the military operate as a credential for serving in Congress? At the risk of belaboring the obvious, the members of Congress don’t personally do the types of things soldiers do, such as drop bombs on people, torture people, or assassinate people. So, why should a person’s military service operate as any special credential for serving as an elected representative in Congress? Some people might say, “Because they served their country.” That seems to be the mindset of at least one of the three women, Mikie Sherrill, who said, “It’s incredibly important that I decided to serve ...

You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List

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“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”—Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials, b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops, d) purchased tickets to travel by bus, cars, or plane, e) all of the above. In fact, if you selected any of those options in recent years, you’re probably already on a government watchlist. That’s how broadly the government’s net is being cast in its pursuit of domestic extremists. We’re all fair game now, easy targets for inclusion on some FBI watch list or another. When the FBI is asking banks and other financial institutions to carry out dragnet searches of customer transactions—warrantlessly and without probable cause—for “extremism” indicators broadly based on where you shop, what you read, and how you travel, we’re all in trouble. Clearly, you ...