When she was a member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard was a fierce defender of personal privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment. She consistently opposed permitting federal agents to spy on Americans without search warrants, and she...
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Killing the Constitution at Gitmo
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
When British kings wanted to dispose of troublesome enemies -- real or imagined -- they often had them or their colleagues arrested on pretextual charges and then brutally tortured until confessions were extracted. The confessions were then read aloud during so-called...
Office Pool 2025
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
1. On Jan. 1, 2026, Joe Biden will bea. A criminal defendant in a case brought by the Trump DoJ.b. Generally regarded as smarter than he appears to be today.c. Gone from this vale of tears.d. In hospice. 2. On Jan. 1, 2026, Donald Trump will still bea. Blaming JD...
Taking Christmas Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
We all know that God works in mysterious ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge...
Shoot the Drones!
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
The skies over New Jersey have been littered with strange flying objects during the past two weeks; and the feds are either hiding the truth from terrified folks on the ground or scratching their collective heads along with the rest of us. Since early December, there...
Will Donald Trump Stop Domestic Spying?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about the trade names and suppliers of surveillance software the FBI had purchased, the government has yet again quietly acknowledged its antipathy to constitutional provisions...
Three Cheers for Hunter’s Pardon
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
My initial reaction to the issuance of a full pardon by President Joe Biden to his son Hunter was emotional. What father wouldn’t pardon his own son, if he could? I suspect that the president has harbored these paternal thoughts even while he denied numerous times...
Less Government Brings a Happy Thanksgiving
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
Government requires make-believe. Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the...
Biden’s Lust for War
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
The war in Ukraine is an American war for which the United States government should be ashamed and blamed. It was initiated by President Joe Biden and then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, both of whom advised Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that if he...
Gitmo Continues to Haunt
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
Here’s a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week for probably the first time in modern history. The short answer is: Even in the military, the Secretary of Defense cannot change the rules and procedures for criminal...
What If Voting Is Fruitless?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
What if you were allowed to vote only because it didn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you voted, the elites always got their way? What if the concept of one person/one vote was just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance? What if...
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
My family and friends are angry with me because I won’t tell them for whom I plan to vote for president. I have not voted for the Republican or Democrat for president since 1984, when I happily voted for Ronald Reagan. Since those days, the Democrats have gravitated...
War and the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in...
Who Cares What the Government Thinks?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution -- which would become known as the Bill of Rights -- he insisted that the most prominent amendment among them restrain the government from interfering with the freedom of...
The Government Compels Silence Again
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
When Congress enacted the Stored Communications Act of 1986 (SCA), it claimed the statute would guarantee the privacy of digital data that service providers were retaining in storage. The act prohibited the providers from sharing the stored data, and it prohibited...
Deal or No Deal?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Oh, what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practice to deceive.”--Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) The case of the Gitmo plea agreement keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. A few weeks ago, we learned that a plea agreement had been entered into by way of a signed...
A Brief History of Free Speech in America
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”--First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When James Madison agreed to be the scrivener at the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, he could not have known that just...
Gitmo and Politics
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Sep 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
It is always dangerous to human freedom and due process when politics interferes with criminal prosecutions. Yet, present-day America is replete with tawdry examples of this. The recent exposures of the political machinations of the Chief Justice of the United States...
Free Speech and the Department of Political Justice
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Sep 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
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...
Now, the Feds Are Spying on Congress
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Sep 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Those who have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.”-- Hosea 8:7 The federal antipathy to compliance with the Constitution is well known and well documented. Presidents have declared war in contravention of the constitutional command that only Congress may do so....
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