What we are witnessing is not a government of the people, by the people, and for the people; it is a government over the people. Call it what it is: political gaslighting—the regime says one thing while doing the opposite, and insists on the citizenry’s trust while dismantling the very checks and balances that make trust possible. So when the powers-that-be claim to be protecting the Constitution, they’re dismantling it at every turn. In this way,...
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The US State Department’s Growing Thoughtcrimes Obsession
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...
Shades of Communism: The Effort to Destroy the Lives of People for Comments about the Killing of Charlie Kirk
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...
President Trump’s Terrible Miami Vice Reboot
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....
Gun Rights Are People’s Rights
“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...
Louisiana Surgeon General Warns Parents about ‘Authoritarian’ American Academy of Pediatrics
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...
Florida Surgeon General Announces Plan to End All Vaccine Mandates in the State
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...
President Trump May Be Turning Against the Coronavirus Shots, His Operation Warp Speed, and Big Pharma
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...
President Trump Bails on the Constitution
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...
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