Platner Has Fundraising Surge After NYT Exposé, Which Is Bad News For Nervous Democrats

Yesterday was a sad day for me. My dear friend and fellow principled American, Congressman Thomas Massie from Kentucky, lost the Republican primary for his seat. It is now on record as the most expensive primary congressional seat campaign in American history. Why was it this important, this pivotal? Because Massie, like Congressman Ron Paul […]

Putin Again Tells Energy Giants To Use Iran War Windfall To Pay Off Bank Loans: 'Wise Decision' In yet more unintended blowback from Washington's Iran war gambit, now in its fourth week, President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russian oil and gas companies must use windfall profits from the Iran war to reduce debt. It's been no secret that higher crude prices, amid the ongoing massive disruption to global energy supplies due to the Hormuz Strait effective closure, have been a boon to Russia as it continues to fund its war...

Trump Explains Why He's Okay With North Korea Having Nukes, But Not Iran Here's what White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said a mere week ago on the rationale for the US attacking Iran: "The President is courageously ensuring that such an evil country never possesses a nuclear weapon, which will make the entire world safer and more stable," she said. This week President Trump was asked why he seems OK with a deeply totalitarian state like North Korea and its dictator Kim Jong Un having nuclear weapons, and not Iran. Trump's blunt response...