Having worked literally at the very heart of the Israel lobby, I can tell you that for Israel to be fighting a war for 10 days without a resolution of support from Congress, is unprecedented in modern times. It’s been at least 25 years, maybe much longer, since anything like that happened. Normally it doesn’t...
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So, they want “infrastructure”? (Archived from original email 5/10/21 newsletter) It’s been obvious for some time that the wheels are coming off the “Big Infrastructure Bill.” Among other things, it’s clear the Democrats will have to find a way to pay for most of it. Evidently, the Federal Reserve—our “fourth branch of Government”—has let them...
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That it took a “moderate” Democrat senator (Manchin) from the second most deeply Republican state (West Virginia) three and a half months into the new Congress to wake up and embrace the filibuster so the Democrats can’t turn the USA into a one-party dictatorship, speaks a lot to the state of today’s Republican party, which...
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