Sea Warrior

In any other administration this would be criminal activity!

Opinion | Presidential power and the Supreme Court’s own stature ride on this case The momentous tariffs case will undermine or buttress the Constitution’s separation of powers.

#SCOTUS oral argument on Wed, Nov 5 in Learning Resources Inc. v Trump. Our amicus brief argues that emergency powers law (IEEPA) doesn't allow the president to impose global tariffs, as George Will notes.

This administration has no strategy plus Trump and Hegseth forced the strategic thinkers in uniform to retire.

Europe Is Answering Putin’s Challenge Members of the NATO alliance are showing real grit—and, for now, the U.S. is with them.

Members of the NATO alliance are showing real grit against Russia—and, for now, the U.S. is with them, Shane Harris reports:

It’s Not the President’s Military America’s military belongs to the Constitution and the people, not to a would-be tyrant.

Very strong piece by Marine combat veteran Michael Wood.

open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Promotes Unproven Ties to Autism With a Common Painkiller and Vaccines

Should we take medical advice from the man who told us to inject bleach in 2020? Trump Administration Live Updates: President Promotes Unproven Ties to Autism With a Common Painkiller and Vaccines www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

I had a friend drop by for breakfast

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”

Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

The WH threatening any Republican that signs the Epstein discharge petition.

It’s 100 percent clear Trump is covering up criminal child sex trafficking

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The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.

Government ownership of industry is , by definition, Socialism. It seems to me that Trump and the Magats say they are conservative and oppose socialism. Perhaps someone from the GOP can explain how this works?

A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.

"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."

American conservatism 1945-2015:

We’re anti-fascist. The European conservatives we admire were (mostly) anti-fascist. And Henry Ford—who he? America First—who they?

American conservatism 2015-2023:

Rebooting. Woke worse than fascist.

American conservatism 2024 ff.:

Embrace your inner fascist.

Analysis: Trump’s empty threats on Russia sanctions | CNN Politics For years, Donald Trump criticized presidents for empty threats.

www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/p...

You know you’re a winner when you leave Putin looking like this.

Trump Has No Cards Why would Putin need to make a deal with him?

Vladimir Putin has clearly made a calculation, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues: Donald Trump, to use the language he once hurled at Volodymyr Zelensky, has no cards, and his fond wish to be seen as a peacemaker can be safely ignored.

Live Updates: Trump Backs Plan to Cede Land for Peace in Ukraine

Yet again, Trump rolls over for a war criminal. Trump Always Chickens Out!

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.

(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

A government attempt to own or directly benefit from a corporation’s production is the definition of communism! U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...