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Trump’s ‘Stupid War’ in Iran Is Causing a Blizzard of Higher Prices

Friday, March 13, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump ignoring high gas prices while energy bills rise

Trump promised lower prices and no stupid wars. Instead, he’s boasting about an Iran war that’s already threatening to raise oil, gas, and home energy costs for ordinary Americans. iPINIONS argues that this is yet another case of his reverse Robin Hood economics: sending poor “suckers and losers” to die in a war that he’s… Read more.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Energy Bills, gas prices, Inflation, iPINIONS, Iran, Middle East, oil prices, rump, U.S. politics, war

Labor Day in Trump’s America: Traffic, Outsourcing, and Political Gaslighting

Monday, September 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Labor Day cartoon of AI robot

America celebrates traffic and sales while workers work. This post shows how grievance politics swap wages for outrage… how offshoring buys cheap goods at the cost of jobs… and how algorithms now do what foremen used to do. iPINIONS contends that the theater is the point… and workers pay for the tickets. Read my full… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: AI surveillance, economy, grievance politics, Labor Day, MAGA, offshoring, outsourcing, Trump, U.S. politics, unions, workers rights

Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska 2025: A Helsinki Rerun of National Embarrassment

Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump-Putin summit in Alaska with Trump looking sad and weary at the end

Trump rolled out the red carpet in Alaska,  literally, only to let Putin strut as the puppet master. No deals, no ceasefire, just humiliation for America and a PR win for a war criminal. iPINIONS warned it would be so… Read it on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-putin-summit-alaska-2025-played Read more.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Alaska Summit, autocracy, democracy, foreign policy, Helsinki 2018, Putin, Trump, U.S. politics, Ukraine War

Sen. Cory Booker Delivered a Filibuster Marathon — But Stopped at Hour 25

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Cory Booker dethroning Strom Thurmond as Senate filibuster king

Booker showed MAGA Trump is more Thurmond than Eisenhower Senator Cory Booker made history this week, speaking on the Senate floor for 25 hours and 5 minutes. He was protesting the Trump administration’s cruel, corrupt, and unconstitutional policies. In doing so, Booker shattered Strom Thurmond’s infamous 1957 record of 24 hours and 18 minutes. Back… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Authoritarianism, Civil Rights, Cory Booker, Filibuster, Project 2025, Senate speech, Strom Thurmond, Trump administration, U.S. politics

Trump Returned to Washington More as Conquering General than President-Elect

Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Biden hosting president-elect Trump at White House with images of Jack Smith and Jill Biden and Melania inset

Frankly, Trump’s victory was so decisive, and his vision for America so ominous, that it begs the question: What would America look like if it were a conquering Robert E. Lee meeting a surrendering Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox? Civil war of 2024 with ballots, not bullets Well, we’re about to live out a 21st-century… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2024 election, Biden and Trump, divisive America, Kamala Harris, presidential campaigns, Trump’s victory, U.S. politics, White House transition

‘Civil War’: A Documentary and a Warning

Friday, May 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
cartoon image of marquee for Civil War the movie

Wikipedia describes Civil War as follows:  A 2024 dystopian film written and directed by Alex Garland. It follows a team of journalists traveling across the United States during a civil war fought between an authoritarian federal government and several regional factions.   Naturally, it’s all too easy to envision a new Trump administration as that “authoritarian federal government,” with… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: American Democracy, authoritarian government, blue states vs red states, Civil War film 2024, Donald Trump, dystopian films, Gregg Abbott, immigration politics, U.S. politics

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