Brian D. O'Leary

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Cult of the Open Mouth

Why Free Speech is Not a Virtue: Granting equal rights to truth and falsehood guarantees the collapse of a healthy American society. O’Leary’s First Law declares: Nice is not a virtue. The modernist concept of “Free Speech” is no virtue either. It is a mask for indifferentism. The Enlightenment sophists and their classical liberal descendants …

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Uncle Bibi’s War — and America’s Bill

WASHINGTON, March 10, 2026 — The Geneva talks ended without a deal on February 27th. The bombs fell on February 28th. Seven Americans are dead. The question almost no one in Washington is asking: what exactly changed between Thursday and Saturday?
Those who think this is new should consult the record of the last great European war.

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Projecting Power, Abandoning Home

Many are asking about the recent military intervention into Venezuela to extract its president, his wife, and bring them to “justice” stateside: What kind of precedent does this set?

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Jefferson Condemned Mercenaries

College Football Embraced Them…
Four playoff teams are quarterbacked entirely by transfers—a portrait of how loyalty died in college football’s marketplace.

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