Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow

“[T]he Blunderer-in-Chief’s disastrous war has at least one silver lining: It inadvertently demonstrated the case for closing U.S. bases throughout the Middle East and bringing American forces home. Disengagement is long overdue, especially for an administration supposedly committed to America First.” (06/18/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/lessons-from-trumps-reckless-iran-war/

Source: The Nation
by US Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

“You will hear no more disorienting or self-defeating a platitude uttered on Capitol Hill in this 250th year of the American journey, by politicians of either party, than the sixth-grade dogma that America has ‘three co-equal branches of government.’ That ‘co-equal’ thing is confected nonsense. To begin with, if it is a real word at all, ‘co-equal’ is a mediocre concoction whose lackadaisical users cannot even decide whether it should be hyphenated. By adding the gratuitous prefix to the indispensable stand-alone word, which the Declaration of Independence applied to people, ‘co-equal’ establishes a confusing false equivalency among institutions, making it seem as if the framers wanted the three branches to be involved in a perpetual game of rock-paper-scissors with no apparent preference for actual progress toward a more perfect union.” [editor’s note: Ironic that this do-nothing Congressthug is writing this screed; if he and his colleagues ever bothered to pass a competent bill he might have some standing – SAT] (06/18/26)

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/congress-constitution-jamie-raskin/

Source: Cato Institute
by Doug Bandow

“Rather than telling Europe how much to spend on its defense, the Trump administration should begin a phased military disengagement from the continent.” (06/18/26)

https://www.cato.org/commentary/europe-refuses-spend-defense-means-america-needs-stop-defending-europe

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“I can’t help but wonder whether advocates of America’s socialist (i.e., central planning) system of immigration controls and the vicious immigration police state that comes with it are proud of how their system is being used against the Iranian soccer team that is competing in the World Cup games here in the United States. All three soccer games in which the Iranian team is competing are being played inside the United States. But with their socialist system of immigration controls, U.S. officials wield the omnipotent power to determine who enters the United States and under what conditions.” (06/18/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/06/18/petty-and-idiotic-immigration-tyranny-in-the-world-cup/