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Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms

Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms

by | Sep 18, 2024 |

Public trust in the government to “do what is right” understandably remains at an all-time low. After all, how do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed by the government, one can only conclude that you shouldn’t trust the government with your privacy, your...

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Two Years into His Drug War that Continues Today, Nixon Privately Stated that Marijuana is ‘Not Particularly Dangerous’

Two Years into His Drug War that Continues Today, Nixon Privately Stated that Marijuana is ‘Not Particularly Dangerous’

by | Sep 18, 2024 |

A newly reported on March of 1973 recording of a private conversation of then President Richard Nixon with some of his executive branch aides includes Nixon commenting that marijuana is “not particularly dangerous.” He also stated that penalties related to marijuana should be evaluated to make sure they are not too harsh. Nixon, as an example, described as “wrong” a Texas 10 year prison term for a marijuana offence. This private analysis is in sharp contrast to the language Nixon used about...

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Israel’s Threat To Wage War On Hizbullah Is Getting More Serious

Israel’s Threat To Wage War On Hizbullah Is Getting More Serious

by | Sep 18, 2024 |

Yesterday the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo threatened to fire his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to oust Defense Minister Yoav Gallant from his position, a senior political official said on Monday. Netanyahu planned to add Gideon Saar's New Hope party to the coalition adding four seats to his Knesset majority. The move raised concern among the families of hostages currently held in Gaza because of Saar's position opposing a deal...

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Closing Hatches Before Rains Founder the Western Vessel

Closing Hatches Before Rains Founder the Western Vessel

by | Sep 17, 2024 |

Israel is entering the next phase of its war on Palestine by completing its takeover of the Gaza Strip – from the northern border to the Netzarim corridor. It is likely that they intend for this area to then gradually be made available for Jewish settlement and annexation to Israel. In a piece titled, “Annexation, Expulsion and Israeli Settlements: Netanyahu Gears Up for Next Phase of Gaza War,” the Editor of Haaretz, Aluf Benn, writes, were the takeover to proceed, “Palestinian residents who...

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Ukraine War Turns into Russian Roulette

Ukraine War Turns into Russian Roulette

by | Sep 17, 2024 |

The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with the US President Joe Biden in the White House on Friday with the question of the use of long-range missiles by Ukraine to hit deep inside Russia on their agenda of conversation. But there were no announcements, nor was there any joint press conference. Starmer later told the media that the talks were “productive” but concentrated on “strategy” rather than a “particular step or tactic”. He did not signal any decision on allowing Kiev to fire...

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Homeschooling is Still Gaining Popularity…Thanks to Woke ‘Educators’

Homeschooling is Still Gaining Popularity…Thanks to Woke ‘Educators’

by | Sep 16, 2024 |

One of the few areas where liberty made gains in the COVID lockdown era was the increase in homeschooling. Many parents started homeschooling out of frustration with the failure of “virtual learning” to provide children with a quality education. Other parents withdrew their children from government schools when virtual learning allowed them to discover how teachers and administrators were prioritizing political indoctrination over education. According to the John Hopkins University’s...

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America the Unspeakable

America the Unspeakable

by | Sep 15, 2024 |

Some commentators who bothered to watch the Trump-Harris debate observed that both candidates adroitly maneuvered around saying anything that might be truly important. The issue of war and peace, meaning in this case nuclear war, appeared to be of no concern even though the Biden-Harris continuum and its British and French allies are reportedly considering allowing Ukraine to deploy NATO provided and possibly operated advanced missile systems that will enable devastating strikes deep...

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Free Speech and the Department of Political Justice

Free Speech and the Department of Political Justice

by | Sep 12, 2024 |

In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating propaganda against the Soviet state. The two were authors and humorists who published satire abroad that mocked Soviet leaders for failure to comply with the Soviet Constitution of 1936, which guaranteed the freedom of speech. Their convictions sparked international outrage. Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and then America’s U.N. ambassador, Arthur Goldberg...

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Police Have the Right to Lie and Slander

Police Have the Right to Lie and Slander

by | Sep 12, 2024 |

To serve and protect, police are allowed to slander and destroy. Cops in many states and localities have acquired the right to lie about their shootings, searches, and practically anything else. Police have routinely planted drugs, guns, and other evidence to incriminate innocent people, while police labs have engaged in wholesale fraud blighting tens of thousands of lives. From a trickle to a torrent Supreme Court rulings turned a trickle of police perjury into a torrent. In 1967, the Supreme...

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Tampa Trial on Free Speech Exposes US Hypocrisy

Tampa Trial on Free Speech Exposes US Hypocrisy

by | Sep 11, 2024 |

As I have written in my last two blog posts (here and here), the US government is prosecuting members of a small political group named the African People’s Socialist Party and its related “Uhuru” movement. The trial is taking place in US District Court in Tampa. The group has been advocating socialism and opposing US imperialism for around 50 years. The feds are prosecuting them as part of their anti-Russia crusade that US officials have been waging since even before the end of World...

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‘Perceived Criticism’: CEO Katherine Mayer Defends NPR’s Coverage and Culture

‘Perceived Criticism’: CEO Katherine Mayer Defends NPR’s Coverage and Culture

by | Sep 11, 2024 |

National Public Radio has had a rough go in the last few years with declining audiences, financial shortfalls, and the recent exposure of its political bias by longtime editor Uri Berliner. However, if you tuned into the comments of NPR CEO Katherine Maher this week at the Texas Tribune Festival,  you would think that the only challenging decision for NPR is picking the design of the next pledge drive tote bag. Despite comments that were repeatedly evasive...

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Enabling a ‘Brutus’ to Slay the Elon Musk ‘Caesar’

Enabling a ‘Brutus’ to Slay the Elon Musk ‘Caesar’

by | Sep 10, 2024 |

In the Washington Post on Monday, the headlines read: Musk and Durov are facing the revenge of the regulators. Former US Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, in the British Guardian newspaper, published a piece on how to “rein-in” Elon Musk, suggesting that “regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest” on lines of that which befell Pavel Durov recently in Paris. As should be clear to all now, “war” has broken out. There is no need for further pretence about it. Rather, there is...

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Pro-War Lobby Attacks Russian Influencers

Pro-War Lobby Attacks Russian Influencers

by | Sep 10, 2024 |

In recent weeks, there has been a surge of allegations that Moscow has long orchestrated an illegal campaign to influence U.S. public opinion. On September 4, 2024, the Justice Department charged two Russian media executives with an alleged scheme that authorities say illegally funneled millions of dollars to a Tennessee-based company [Tenet] to create and publish propaganda videos that racked up millions of views on U.S. social media. In a separate legal action, prosecutors seized...

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Homeschooling is Still Gaining Popularity…Thanks to Woke ‘Educators’

The First Steps Toward a Liberty Platform

by | Sep 9, 2024 |

Last weekend several hundred of us gathered in Washington, DC, at the Ron Paul Institute conference to again proclaim our dedication to the cause of liberty and our opposition to constant US government assaults on that liberty. Our collaborators included old friends like Judge Andrew Napolitano, who explained that the Bill of Rights was not added to the Constitution to grant Americans liberties, but to recognize liberties already existing for all persons – regardless of nationality – by virtue...

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Trump Winning the Presidential Debate May Be No Big Deal

Trump Winning the Presidential Debate May Be No Big Deal

by | Sep 7, 2024 |

When Donald Trump debated Joe Biden in June in their one and only debate of this year’s presidential contest, the outcome was monumental. Biden’s very diminished state shone through clearly, leading to him being forced out of the race by people in his own party. It is important to understand that Biden’s withdrawal did not follow alone from Trump winning the debate. Just about everyone expected that Trump would win the debate. The key additional issue was whether Biden would perform at a level...

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The 2024 Ron Paul Peace and Prosperity Conference: The Liberty Platform Revealed

The 2024 Ron Paul Peace and Prosperity Conference: The Liberty Platform Revealed

by | Sep 7, 2024 |

For two days it felt like heaven was a place on earth: I was at the Ron Paul Institute (RPI) for Peace and Prosperity Conference. More than 300 liberty-loving individuals from all over America and beyond – for example, London – ranging in age from senior citizens to a crying baby – gathered at the event. The conference was held 20+ miles from where the Pentagon plots its wars and the rest of the federal government violates the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In this presidential election...

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US Military to Leave Iraq

US Military to Leave Iraq

by | Sep 8, 2024

In August, the news arrived that United States military forces and assets had been removed from Niger. Writing about this development, I opined on August 6 that “the US would be...

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