Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Trump administration’s attempt to strongarm South Korea into a large increase in spending on the basing of U.S. troops has failed:Trump, they say, already rejected what was probably Seoul’s best offer...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Iran has been seeking a loan from the International Monetary Fund for the first time in almost sixty years to help them fight the pandemic. The U.S. is expected to block the loan:The US plans to block Iran’s requested...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly just made things much worse for himself and the Navy by delivering an attack on Capt. Crozier in a speech to the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. It will come as no surprise...
The United States Strategic National Stockpile of essential medical supplies maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seems unable to respond to the present COVID-19 crisis. There is much discussion in today’s news about who is responsible for...
On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail. He turned 70 while in prison, and while he has served multiple prison sentences for protesting nuclear weapons, spending two years in a county jail is...
Rodney Howard-Browne, pastor of The River church in Tampa, Florida, strongly believes that God wants his church to continue holding live services for hundreds of parishioners even in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister and...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The backlash to the Navy’s punishment of Capt. Crozier has been intense, and some influential members of Congress are denouncing the decision to relieve him of command:NEW: @RepSpeier, who chairs the House Armed...
In a shocking press conference yesterday, President Trump and his advisors announced that the US military would begin conducting a "counter-narcotics operation" in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean. Perhaps not coincidentally, Trump's Justice Department indicted...
Gil Barndollar and Sam Long do an excellent job of making the case against the noxious U.S.-Saudi relationship:These attacks on individuals, however, paled in comparison to the Kingdom’s military misjudgments. The war in Yemen, pushed by Mohammed bin Salman when he...
Vigilance toward overweening government is no less important during a pandemic. The Cato Institute’s Patrick Eddington discusses some federal efforts to claim emergency powers with Caleb Brown. Listen here or go the Cato Institute page. You can also listen on Apple...
