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Assets In Place For Expanded US Military Action Against Venezuela

PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – America’s most advanced U.S. aircraft carrier, and the world’s largest, is expected to reach waters off Venezuela in days, a flex of U.S. military power not seen in Latin America for generations. Experts disagree on whether U.S. warplanes will catapult off the USS Gerald R. Ford to bomb targets inside […]

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Tucker Carlson Guest Who Minimized Nigeria’s Christian Persecution Aided Alleged Persecutor

In a recent interview on his long-form podcast, Tucker Carlson sat down with Robert “Bob” Amsterdam, during which the pugnacious former Fox News host praised Amsterdam as a defender of Christians and someone he consults privately about global attacks on Christian communities. During their conversation, Amsterdam downplayed some claims of anti-Christian persecution in Nigeria — […]

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Hasan Piker’s Anti-American Remarks In Tiananmen Square Draw Chinese Police Intervention

Streamer Rejects U.S. Patriotism While Waving Chinese Flag BEIJING — Political commentator and Twitch personality Hasan Piker stirred backlash this week after declaring, “I don’t have any kind of patriotism in my heart for America,” while livestreaming from Tiananmen Square. The comments came during a broadcast where Piker and a group of Gen Z and […]

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How One Immigrant Entrepreneur Supercharged American Prosperity

Elon Musk’s rise from a young immigrant in the 1990s to the most consequential industrialist of the modern era is at once a story about innovation, discipline, and a striking commitment to the principle that compensation should track achievement. His career illustrates how economic value is created in the real world. It also exposes the […]

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Agriculture Secretary: Tens Of Thousands Of Dead People Receiving SNAP Benefits

A political firestorm over the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) intensified this week after Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins revealed shocking levels of potential fraud and administrative failure within the program — including tens of thousands of deceased individuals listed as active SNAP recipients. Rollins made the comments while discussing the current administration’s effort to […]

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Trump Should Pardon Tina Peters And Force The Supreme Court To Settle The Limits Of Pardon Power

The question is simple, although its implications reach deep into the structure of the American constitutional order. Is the president’s pardon power confined to violations of federal statutes, or does it extend to state criminal offenses when the underlying conduct implicates the national interest? Many scholars assume the narrow view without argument. Yet the text […]

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Germany’s Chancellor Merz Says Syrian Asylum Grounds No Longer Apply

BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that Syrians currently living in Germany will no longer be considered eligible for asylum, arguing the Syrian civil war has ended. He also signaled that his government will begin encouraging returns — and potentially deportations — as the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) surges in the polls […]

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Obama & Biden Reportedly Not On Speaking Terms

The once-vaunted partnership between Barack Obama and Joe Biden — a political alliance Democrats long marketed as a model of loyalty and respect — has reportedly fractured beyond repair. According to veteran ABC reporter Jonathan Karl, the relationship between the former presidents has become so strained that the two pointedly ignored each other when they […]

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Can US Learn To Combat Drones Better Than It Did With IEDs?

PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – What lesson is it for drones? U.S. lost the war against IEDs or improvised explosive devices. Despite technological innovation, training, and tactical brilliance, attacks persisted. Tactical adaptations failed to prevent strategic defeat. Most critically, countermeasures never closed the risk-cost imbalance. Special Operations Command want a contractor to train its forces […]