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Trump’s Fake FIFA Peace Prize: How He Hijacked the World Cup Draw

Friday, December 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump World Cup draw and his peace medal

Trump turned the World Cup draw into yet another ego spectacle — complete with a fake FIFA Peace Prize crafted to soothe his obsession with the Nobel he’ll never win. From lingering on the Club World Cup stage to strong-arming Infantino into flattery, this post exposes how FIFA let the world’s most popular sport become… Read more.

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Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: American politics, Authoritarianism, Chelsea FC, Club World Cup, Fifa, Gianni Infantino, International Football, iPINIONS, Nobel Peace Prize, Political Vanity, Sports Corruption, Trump, World Cup 2026

The Kennedys: From Camelot to Spamalot

Friday, August 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
The Kennedys feature RFK and Jack Schlossberg

Not that long ago, Americans treated the Kennedys like royalty. JFK inspired a nation. RFK embodied its conscience. Today, the family name is trading like a meme coin — bouncing between cable nostalgia docs and social media trainwrecks. iPINIONS contends that, from JFK’s White House glamour to his grandson’s TikTok stunts, Camelot has morphed into… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: American politics, Camelot, Jack Schlossberg, JFK, Kennedys, political dynasties, political satire, RFK Jr., social media scandals, Spamalot

Supreme Court: Texas Can Enforce Its Own Immigration Law

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 6:18 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
immigrants crossing the southern US border with images of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Biden and of supreme court inset

Federal law vs. Texas law  The federal government has exclusive authority to enforce immigration law. That’s because federal law takes precedence over state law. This precedence stems from the Supremacy Clause, a bedrock principle of the US Constitution.  That’s why Texas petitioning the Supreme Court for the right to enforce its own immigration seemed so farfetched. It made… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: American politics, Biden Administration, Current Affairs, Federal vs. State Authority, Political Commentary, Red States Rebellion, Secession, Supreme Court, Texas Immigration Law, US Constitution

Trump Blackwashing with Gilded Sneakers, Mug Shot, and Fake Friends

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump at Black conservative gala with AI images of Trump with Blacks.

Trump is unapologetically racist The more Donald Trump humiliates White men like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, the more loyalty they show him. This political phenomenon is as vexing as it is perplexing. Yet, polls show that the more Trump hurls racist insults, the more appealing Blacks find him. Forget vexing and perplexing. That reeks of Orwellian doublespeak. After all, Trump is arguably… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: American politics, black voters, presidential election, racism, Trump

Carlson Interviewing Putin Shows That Trump Has Normalized Treason

Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump talking to Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene at LIV Golf tournament with image of Putin inset.

Carlson interviewing Putin reflects the new (Trumpian) norm Alas, we live in an America that now blithely tolerates treason. Only that explains American Tucker Carlson traveling to Moscow to interview America’s foreign enemy No. 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, has interviewed President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the Kremlin… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: American politics, Donald Trump, media influence, political analysis, propaganda, Russia, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Civil War II Between Red States and Blue States: The Fighting Has Already Begun

Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump vs Biden face off with image of Jan 6 insurrection inset

Civil War II America is marching into Civil War II – eyes wide shut. Indeed, few seem to care. iPINIONS has raised alarm in this regard in many commentaries. But the titles alone of some of them seemed alarming enough – as these three attest: “Civil War II Looms Larger as Texas Suppresses Voting Rights and Bans… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: American politics, Biden, Civil War II, democracy, MAGA, Republican and Democrat conflict, Supreme Court rulings, Trumpism, U.S. political landscape, Voting Rights

The Armageddon Bargain Between (White) Evangelicals and Jews

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 6:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I am the apostate son of an evangelical preacher man. This apostasy has informed allusions I’ve made in many commentaries to the white evangelical-Jewish political alliance. Ironically, two recent developments have sanctified my “heretical” take on this relationship. Therefore, I feel obliged to at least acknowledge them. The Evangelical-Jewish Alliance I  have always found the… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: American politics, Armageddon, Biblical Prophecy, Christian Zionism, End Times, Evangelical Christians, golden calf, Israel, Jews, Religion and Politics, Trump

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