Source: The UnPopulist
by Berny Belvedere

“JD Vance embodies MAGA’s corrosiveness. His wife, Usha, is the daughter of immigrants and a practicing Hindu. They have mixed-race children and a mixed-religion family. As Dalmia noted, Vance’s trajectory should have led him to embrace a Reaganesque vision of a shining city on a hill — his biographical background and intellectual formation should have made him a natural fit for a responsible conservatism that treats pluralism as a feature rather than a threat. Instead, Vance has gone in the complete opposite direction. He is positioning himself as the leading figure in an administration mercilessly kicking out of the country people like his wife and children by trying to build a coalition represented by every faction of the neo-right, no matter how reactionary.” (03/05/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/vance-puts-maga-ideology-above-all

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave one of his signature ‘I don’t have a small penis’ tirades at the Pentagon on Wednesday, ranting and raving about the big, powerful, masculine war machinery that’s currently raining death and destruction upon the people of Iran. ‘We will fly all day, all night, day and night finding, fixing and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders, flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the IRGC, Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it’s over,’ Hegseth bloviated, saying there will be ‘B-2s, B-52s, B-1s, Predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets, death and destruction from the sky all day long.'” (03/06/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/06/the-us-war-machine-is-run-by-deranged-armageddon-cultists/

Source: Independent Institute
by William J Watkins, Jr.

“The Founding Fathers rejected the European model. Our first charter of union, the Articles of Confederation, lodged all executive functions in Congress. Under the Articles, Congress possessed ‘the sole and exclusive right of determining on peace and war.’ The thirteen sovereign states were forbidden to engage in hostilities except in cases of invasion or imminent attack. So, what would the Founders think of President Donald Trump’s war on Iran? They would assume we have abandoned the U.S. Constitution and opted for the European model they rejected.” (03/05/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/05/trumps-iran-war-is-grounds-for-impeachment-according-to-the-constitution/

Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton

“For everyone saying the Limited Military Operation in Iran is ‘Unconstitutional,’ we agree. The problem is the 1973 War Powers Act. It was designed to curb Nixon’s ‘Imperial Presidency.’ (Look it up.) That act of Congress allows an Executive to (a) commit troops/military action without either (i) a Declaration of War from Congress, or (b) any other sort of ‘Authority’ from Congress; (b) provided the President informs Congress within 48 hours of taking the action, and (b) provided the actions are limited to 60 days without Congressional approval. (Up to 90 days if American troops need more time to ensure their own (relative) safety.) TPOL submits that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional: it wrongly transfers powers from Congress to the Executive Branch.” (03/05/26)

https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/03/05/iran-war-and-the-fedgov-anyone-remember-the-constitution/