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PAGE: Patriots of the Caribbean

December 24, 2025 Guy Page

A provocative proposal out of Washington recently — one that sounds like it belongs in a history book, or maybe a pirate movie—but it’s very real. U.S. Senator Mike Lee of Utah has introduced legislation that would revive a long-dormant constitutional power: letters of marque and reprisal. In plain terms, the bill would allow the President of … Read more

MACDONALD: Dems Panty Twist Over Double-Tap

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Democrats in Congress are still desperate for a win. Any win. Something that will make their base happy. Wait, you mean they aren’t actually using their legislative and oversight powers for good? No chance of that. They need to make sure the rank-and-file proglodytes fill out (and send) all of their mail-in ballots or goose-step … Read more

Ron Paul: Congressional Republicans Must Stand Up to the President on Venezuela!

November 13, 2025 Ron Paul

I recall when then-President Barack Obama was planning to send troops to enforce his “Assad must go” policy in Syria, many Republican US Senators passionately argued that the US President must come to Congress for approval before sending US troops into combat overseas. At the time, they portrayed themselves as brave defenders of the US … Read more

MACDONALD: If Mexico Doesn’t Want to Get Venezuela’d…

October 22, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Trump’s DOJ has been coming at the swamp sideways, which has a lot of people anxious on both sides. Bolton for classified doc charges (he’s toast). Letitia James for mortgage fraud (she’s in trouble, too), James Comey for Perjury (he lied to Congress a lot, so he’s going down), Shifty Schiff is lined up and … Read more

America Is a Lot More like Venezuela than You Thought

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Steve MacDonald

In true Marxist fashion, the People’s Republic of Venezuela (dba: Venezuela) has a food security problem. The connected political elite are eating like kings while the poor (everyone else) starve. The “cure” for this ailment may sound familiar.

Biden Thinks We Might need More Oil so He’s Looking to Russia, Iran, and Venezuela

March 8, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Before Joe Biden stumbled into the Oval Office, the United States was the global leader in oil production. We weren’t dependent on anyone, sorry – that’s not entirely true.

Democrat Ann Kuster Voted to Give Billions to Iran, Russia, China, and Venezuela

November 2, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Voters in New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District have heard or seen a lot from the mouth of Ann Kuster and Democrats. But before you vote tomorrow ask yourself, why did Democrat Ann Kuster vote to give our enemies billions of dollars?

NH Democrats Ann Kuster and Chris Pappas Vote to Give Billions of Dollars to Our Enemies

August 15, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The Democrat majority House recently pushed through HR 7617, a Defense Department Appropriation bill that sends 300 billion in your tax dollars to our enemies.

Blogline of the Day – Shush, don’t tell the Democrat Prez wannabees – Communism fails yet again

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 Skip

WHEN COMMUNISTS GET DESPERATE ENOUGH TO TRY CAPITALISM: Socialist Venezuela Proposes To Privatize Its Collapsing Oil Industry. I’m not sure why this lesson is never learned. I guess it’s just history that no longer exists because if history WAS studied, nobody would EVER let them near the levers of Power ever again. The Soviet Union never … Read more

Maduro Says Venezuela is Ready to Make a Deal with Trump and US

January 21, 2020 Steve MacDonald

President Nicolás Maduro has made an announcement. He is prepared for direct negotiations to repair relations between the US and Venezuela. If Trump lifts sanctions, he will open his oil reserves to US companies. No offense, but we don’t need your stinking oil.

Bringing Socialism to New Hampshire and America

October 8, 2019
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Imagine empty supermarket shelves. Starving children and families. Filthy hospitals without basics; things like aspirin or toilet paper. Pretty ugly right. These are the brutal realities of socialism in Venezuela.

Links for International News of the Day

September 18, 2019September 18, 2019

We hope the Links for International News of the Day will help you stay abreast of happenings in the broader world that may affect your corner of it. Israel Israeli politics deadlocked after second election: What now? Reuters. Israel elections results based on counted ballots. Jerusalem Post. Saudi Arabia Growing evidence Iran launched oil field … Read more

Links for International News of the Day

August 29, 2019

Israel White House announces peace plan will not be released prior to Israeli election. The Foreign Desk. Iran Trump talks up credit line for Iran, but no sign of imminent policy change. Voice of America. U.S. sanctions networks it says are connected to Iran’s government, military. The Algemeiner. U.S. sanctions Iranians it says are linked … Read more

Venezuelans were disarmed in 2012.

May 3, 2019 Skip

It is clear that the Socialist Government of Venezuela has been tyrannical (as well as slipshod, cronyistic, and can’t manage a lemonade stand, but that’s Socialism in a nut shell). Now we see it truly is. The Chavez / Maduro regimes disarmed their population years ago. The Progressive Democrats are trying to do so now … Read more

Who ever thought that MSNBC would make the case for the Second Amendment?

April 30, 2019 Skip

And I’m betting that, at the time, the uber-Progressive Democrats with by-lines would be confirming what we Conservatives have been saying for decades – that the Second Amendment was written certainly not for hunting and not just self-defense but in the time when a government becomes tyrannical and totalitarian: And never, EVAH believe the … Read more

The Tree of Libertad

April 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Thomas Jefferson wrote these famous lines in a letter to William Stephens Smith: “What country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms…the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of … Read more

Venezuela, China, Russia, Caravan?

April 10, 2019

What’s going on? The Trump administration notes the return of competition between world powers. States with the ability to wield influence on a global scale are coming increasingly to prominence. America’s national security and national defense strategies need to reflect this new reality. China and Russia, both want to shape a world antithetical to U.S. … Read more

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Ignore Earth Hour Tonight- Communist Venezuela Has Been ‘Celebrating’ It for Weeks

March 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

March 30th is the day “we” celebrate Earth Hour. Global virtue signaling at its most grand. You have to say GRAAHHHNNND, Darling. This socialist marketing scheme encourages people to turn everything off for an hour from 8:30-9:30 pm local time to save the planet.

Bernie Sanders: “We Need to do a Better job Explaining What We Mean by Socialism”

January 18, 2025March 18, 2019 Steve MacDonald

In an interview with Government-run State radio Comrade Sanders, Bernie Sanders speaks to many topics. But the one I found most interesting was socialism. How do you address the socialist label, which for those who forgot is a label he more or less gave to himself. Bernie Sanders is an independent who is a socialist, running for President … Read more

With Socialism ‘New Green Deal’ Comes Standard: Venezuela has Massive Power Outages

March 8, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Here’s an excellent example of how corruption and incompetence can advance stated progressive policy, even accidentally. Take the environment. ~~Democrat~~ Socialists in America want you to use less electricity. What better way than unplanned nation-wide blackouts?