The Trump administration’s Department of State has been placing a high priority on denying the granting of visas to, and revoking visas from, people who have said things critical of the Israel government, including the Israel government’s war activities. That looks...
In Milan Kundera’s debut novel The Joke, the character Ludvik Jahn in communist Czechoslovakia is expelled from college and the Communist Party and ends up conscripted to a hard labor camp as a result of a joke he included in a post card message to a friend. The joke...
Back in the 1980s, I was not a fan of the television show Miami Vice. The focus of the show — cops Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs enforcing laws against vice — was not appealing. Stop the crackdown on vice — including by bowing out of the war on drugs — and follow a...
“Take the guns first; go through due process second,” recommended Donald Trump in a meeting with Congress members during his first term as president. Through this comment offered in support of imposing rights-trampling “red flag” laws to deprive people of their guns,...
In February, I highlighted a statement by Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, commending it for its pro-freedom tone. I also noted that “I will be watching for follow-up actions.” Well, on Thursday, Abraham came out with a powerful editorial again strongly...
In July, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which was recently criticized by United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for its major financial backing from and cozy relationship with Big Pharma, launched an effort urging state and local...
One area where President Donald Trump, from his first presidential term until the last few days, has been at odds with many of his supporters is in his insistence on praising the coronavirus “vaccines” that have been distributed in America and his Operation Warp Speed...
The Eighth Amendment of the Bill of Rights addresses the national government’s power in regard to bail. As with many other provisions in this set of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the declaration regarding bail is one of limitation on the national...
President Trump is suggesting the U.S. should change the name of the Department of Defense back to the “Department of War,” as his commerce secretary teases plans for the U.S. government to acquire equity stakes in top defense contractors. Trump may be claiming he’s...
As the United States and Russia governments have over the last decade-plus drifted into relations that bring to mind the cold war and that have brought forward the prospect of descent into nuclear war, there has been much effort from within America and other NATO...
Eleven years back, John W. Whitehead warned in his weekly column about the danger from government’s proliferating use of automated license plate readers across America. Whitehead included these devices among the tools being employed in the construction of what he...
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long been an adamant pusher for children in America to be given an increasingly long list of shots at an early age as laid out in the childhood vaccine schedule of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
You still have time to obtain tickets for the Ron Paul Institute’s annual conference near Dulles Airport in Virginia, and to book your guest room at the conference hotel at a special reduced rate. The Saturday August 16 conference titled “Blueprint for Peace” provides...
Gazans are starving. They are starving because of the actions of the Israel government, undertaken with the critical support of the United States government. A Wednesday statement signed on to by over 100 aid organizations describes how the Israel government has...
Many people, including President Donald Trump, have been suggesting over the last year that, because Trump survived being shot at during the 2024 presidential campaign, he and the things he does are endorsed by God. Indeed, this week, Trump, speaking with a reporter...
Earlier today I wrote about the United States Department of Justice under the Donald Trump administration continuing the prosecution of Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, Jr. because of actions he was accused of taking to protect patients from the dangers of coronavirus...
In January of 2023, the United States government’s coronavirus crackdown set its sights on the medical practice of Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, Jr., with the US Department of Justice charging him and three other individuals with crimes stemming from the allegation that the...
This is not the kind of news many supporters of the placement of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in charge of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wanted to see come out of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now under his purview. Reuters...
Each Fourth of July is a good time to consider the eloquent and insightful commentary filling the Declaration of Independence that was adopted by the Continental Congress in 1776. The Declaration of Independence was initially drafted by Thomas Jefferson. At the time,...
On the first day of July already relatively high marijuana taxes in California went up more with the kicking in of a tax increase from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. It had looked like this tax increase would likely be avoided. But, here it...
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