Hope for America.

Last weekend, my Institute for Peace and Prosperity hosted another conference here on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Not only did we have a full house attending the conference, which in a way is the most important thing,

but in this era of profound disappointment and disillusionment, we struck a note of optimism,

thankfully due to our wonderful lineup of speakers.

The main topic of the conference titled, War is Back on the

menu, was, of course, the disastrous decision by the Trump administration to launch an unprovoked

war against Iran, both last June and again on February 28th.

Professor Robert Pape from the University of Chicago offered a compelling blueprint

to break free of some of the neocon chains that bind us to the Middle East to our own detriment.

Let the states in the region manage their own security, he argued.

It is not our job to be their policemen.

Very importantly, we were fortunate to have had, as speakers,

two individuals who stood up for their principles

when putting them aside for expediency and

personal gain would have been so much easier. Former U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Green

was, in her own words, a general in the Maga Army.

She dedicated her life and plenty of her own money to the cause of electing Donald Trump because she believed he would put America first as he had promised.

She watched that cause betrayed, first with the President's support for the tyrannical

central bank digital currency, and then with his refusal to release the Epstein's files.

Finally, she explained, after he had dubbed her a traitor for disagreeing with him on these issues.

Constant death threats forced her to resign her seat in the house.

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