A Sanctions Regime as a Foreign Policy Tool
When a head of state – such as the President of the United States, for example – wants to encourage certain behaviors in a foreign government, the toolbox is limited.
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When a head of state – such as the President of the United States, for example – wants to encourage certain behaviors in a foreign government, the toolbox is limited.
Self-governance advocates have always supported robust debate, where the pros and cons of competing ideas are discussed, and voters are allowed to make informed decisions. Conversely, in recent years, it has been the anti-democratic radicals who shout down speakers, claiming that their ideas are too dangerous to be heard. That is, until an Article V convention is the subject. Then the roles reverse.
America’s Founders established the United States on a foundation of rock-solid principles that allowed our country to become the strongest and most prosperous bastion of freedom and liberty in the world.
In the early 2010s, retired Navy SEAL and political novelist Matt Bracken published a provocative essay titled “CW2 Cube. In it, he proposed a three-dimensional model for understanding how a second American civil war might play out—not along neat geographic lines, but via complex interrelations of race, ideology, and allegiance to government authority.
In conventional wars, armies carry rifles and wear camouflage. In Civil War 2.0, your enemies wear lanyards, file lawsuits, code algorithms, and write policy memos. Their weapons aren’t bullets—they’re mandates, executive orders, subpoenas, shadowbans, and ESG scores. This isn’t just war—it’s fifth-generation occupation.
Bail “Reform” is working as planned, filling our streets with violent criminals. In Texas there is some effort to control this abuse of the bond system.
Honest answers to a few basic questions will lead the faithful to the inevitable conclusion that we have a moral duty to use ALL means available to prevent government overreach from encroaching on our God given rights.
Liberals have to be held accountable for their actions against the law, no matter what position they hold.
Pipeline companies are eagerly awaiting the chance at $$$ billions in taxpayer-funded government subsidies to “sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) underground.” This is the process known as carbon capture and storage (CCS). It kills the fertile soil for yards around the buried pipes.
In the long march of human history, soldiers have sworn loyalty to emperors, warlords, kings, and dictators. But in 1787, America broke with that tradition.
Justice Robert Jackson wrote, “We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.”
Officers cannot pick and choose the superiors they follow. Either execute to the best of your ability or get out.
I realize your propaganda machine foams at the mouth over the thought of President Trump but just as biology does not allow you to magically turn a man into a woman, so geography does not allow you to call a citizen of El Salvador a Maryland man.
It bothers me when someone uses another person’s name and reputation to advance their own position, without the other’s consent or agreement. Yet that is a favorite tactic of Article V convention opponents – frequently attributing convention of states opposition to the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
The U.S. Supreme Court hears appeals from the Circuit Courts. There is no requirement that the Supreme Court must hear all or any cases. The reality of this selectivity is due to an overload of cases and sometimes for political reasons.
The year 1934 marked a critical turning point in American history, where the federal government, under the guise of responding to the Great Depression, seized unprecedented control over individual rights, private wealth, and industry.
The defeat of Senate Bill 51 in the South Dakota House of Representatives back in February is symptomatic of the Devil’s grasp on politics in America.
President Donald Trump was endlessly subjected to stupid, phony charges and lawsuits filed in various courts all around the country.
Take a rifle, slap on a bipod and a scope big enough to see into next Tuesday, and suddenly it’s not a hunting rifle anymore. No sir, now it’s a “sniper rifle.”
The Trump administration has deported 238 illegal aliens, who were members of the terrorist gang Tren de Aragua. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered the President to return them to the United States. The Dems are insisting that it will be a constitutional crisis if the President refuses to comply with the judge’s order. Their reasoning is completely backwards.