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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Correction: The Donbass is named after the Donets “coal basin” (one of the richest coal-bearing regions on Earth), not the drainage basin of the Don river, although the Donets river does flow into the Don, which is entirely within Russia. The mistake in the below text is corrected in the attached PDF version of the fact-sheet. . The...
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You wouldn’t know it from (lack of) news coverage, but Washington, DC, our nation’s capital, has become a dump, a real disaster zone. Few know that DC had the toughest virus rules in the country. Two-thirds of ground-floor “storefront” businesses downtown—restaurants, cafes, banks, the odd financial advisor or asset manager—have closed, most of them permanently.
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. Street gangs in the Army When I was a young U.S. Army enlisted man in the late 1990s, the Army openly acknowledged it had “a gang problem.” No, street gangs were not causing a problem for the Army. They were sending their best recruits to the Army to learn discipline, leadership, firearms, and perhaps...
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