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A SLOG: Zelenskyy’s Moral Plea to Biden on NATO Membership | Steve Berman

A SLOG: Zelenskyy’s Moral Plea to Biden on NATO Membership | Steve Berman


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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy knows that Ukraine’s future lies in NATO, and NATO said as much in its communiqué Tuesday. The long document mentions Ukraine 45 times in 90 numbered paragraphs, and establishes a NATO-Ukraine Council. Specifically, NATO said it would “support” Ukraine in defending itself against the “Russian war of aggression against Ukraine” though the meaning …

SAY IT: Someone Owes Trump a Thank You for SCOTUS | Steve Berman

SAY IT: Someone Owes Trump a Thank You for SCOTUS | Steve Berman


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It’s a given that modern Marxists-parading-as-liberals not only oppose actual conservatives, but also believe them to be evil incarnate. Therefore, no bounds of political “Geneva convention” rules apply to their tactics. This has been true since the red-baiting days of the 1950s. In the last 100 years, social experimenters and red revolutionists have always been …

PRIGOZHIN: Putin’s Decembrist Still Has a Future | Steve Berman

PRIGOZHIN: Putin’s Decembrist Still Has a Future | Steve Berman


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Yevgeny Prigozhin is known as “Putin’s chef.” In America the term would be “a fixer,” kind of like Roger Stone. if Stone had access to advanced military hardware and could raid prisons to build a gang around a core of professional thugs. In Russia, this is not an uncommon arrangement. Russian omnicrat Vladimir Putin himself …

Would a Jury Send Hunter to Prison, But Not Trump? | Steve Berman

Would a Jury Send Hunter to Prison, But Not Trump? | Steve Berman


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If I won the (U.S.) presidential election, my first act after the inaugural festivities would be to ask for the real intelligence files on alien bodies and craft held at Area 51. Then I’d promptly declassify it. Who cares about the intergalactic NDA and intellectual property rights agreement, enforceable by planetary destruction, that every president …

A Pox on Joe Rogan | Steve Berman

A Pox on Joe Rogan | Steve Berman


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The country once dodged a bullet. This time it might hit its target. It’s January 11, 2017, and then-President-elect Trump’s transition team—a disorganized three ring circus led by clowns—found Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. too much of a crank to seriously consider as leader of a panel on vaccine safety. RFK Jr. is of course the son of …

IDOLATRY: Baptists Battle Over Women, Leave Sin Untouched | Steve Berman

IDOLATRY: Baptists Battle Over Women, Leave Sin Untouched | Steve Berman


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Best-selling author and megachurch pastor Rick Warren has repented of keeping women out of ministry, and the Southern Baptist Convention is roiling over it. But so far, they refuse to take a strong stance against their history of unbridled support for Donald Trump. That was one of the themes of the last SBC meeting in Nashville, but …

DEAL: Chip Roy Puts On His Armor From the Safety of the Castle on Debt Deal | Steve Berman

DEAL: Chip Roy Puts On His Armor From the Safety of the Castle on Debt Deal | Steve Berman


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The list of House Freedom Caucus and other Republicans who have pledged to vote against Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s deal with the White House to pass a new debt ceiling bill, falls just short of something that would actually kill it. I say that’s by design. There might be a vote held to “vacate the chair” but I’m …

MAGA MAJOR GENERAL: Ken Paxton Faces Impeachment | Steve Berman

MAGA MAJOR GENERAL: Ken Paxton Faces Impeachment | Steve Berman


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I didn’t expect this, but it’s good news coming out of Austin, Texas. A Republican-led state House investigative committee has recommended 20 articles of impeachment to rid the Lone Star State of its MAGA attorney general. The decision was unanimous. If the full house votes to impeach as early as today, by Texas law he would be …