When the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that God was dead, he didn’t mean it literally, as that would have been impossible. He meant that God’s creatures have so failed to acknowledge Him and relate to Him, it is as if He decided to end His own...
Andrew P. Napolitano
Taking Free Speech Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
Can the government prevent Big Tech from censoring political and cultural voices on their platforms? Can the government regulate these platforms to compel speech the government wants to hear and to prevent speech it believes may harm innocents? If you believe -- as I...
The Feds Are Buying Our Emails!
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
“The Framers ... conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.” -- Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) While we are all consumed with Joe Biden’s bumblings and Donald...
Government by Experts
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship -- during which the federal government...
The Emperor’s New Clothes
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Just as a fictional emperor paid his tailors a fortune for clothes that no one could see, and then marched naked in a grand public procession while his subjects roared with laughter, so, too, is President Joe Biden attempting to march clothed with the Constitution he...
Milk and the Police State
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last week, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, state troopers and investigators executed a search warrant on the farm of Amos Miller. Miller has been producing fresh unadulterated dairy products and grass-fed beef for 40 years. He does not sell to the public. Rather,...
Nikki Haley, American History and Intellectual Honesty
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
When Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley answered a question last week in which she stated that the American Civil War was fought over "government,” “rights” and “freedoms," she was correct. Yet, like most politicians, when she realized that the popular...
In Defense of Free Speech and Free Silence
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 14, 2023 | Featured Articles
“I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” -- Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists’ grievances with the British government. Notably absent...
American Hubris
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured Articles
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” -- Hosea 8:7 The debacle of the nearly 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan continues in Joe Biden’s America today. This disaster began when President George W. Bush -- stung deeply by the...
Hey, Mike Johnson: It’s the Constitution You’re Trashing!
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 1, 2023 | Featured Articles
The right to privacy -- to be left alone, to engage in personal behavior and communications immune from government regulation or surveillance, to be yourself -- is a fundamental human right that we all exercise every day. It is also a constitutional right since it is...
What Ever Happened to the Freedom of Speech?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 18, 2023 | Featured Articles
“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech.” -- First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Here is a pop quiz: If the states ratified an amendment to the Constitution repealing the First Amendment, would we still enjoy the freedom of speech?...
Unconstitutional Killings
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is killing people, openly in Ukraine and Gaza and secretly around the world. It has continued to use the killing machinery crafted by President George W. Bush, expanded by President Barack Obama and employed by President Donald Trump. These...
A Great Man in Moscow
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 2, 2023 | Featured Articles
When the Trump administration obtained an indictment of Edward Snowden for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917, many of us who believe that the Fourth Amendment means what it says were deeply critical of the government, and we remain so today. Snowden is the former...
Biden, War and the Constitution
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 26, 2023 | 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? Can the United States legally attack an ally? These questions should be critical to a public...
The Gathering Storm of Rage
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 19, 2023 | Featured Articles
The savage attacks Hamas inflicted upon the Israeli military and civilian population last week are utterly without justification, but not without explanation. The Arab/Israeli bloodlust has been going on since the end of World War I, most pointedly since 1947 when...
Guantanamo: A Constitutional Debacle
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured Articles
When President George W. Bush formulated the concept of an American Devil’s Island in Cuba, he did so heedless of the damage to the Constitution his experiment in torture and confinement without end would bring about. Bush made the case that torture and confinement at...
A Constitution the Government Evades
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
Six months ago, FBI officials boasted that in 2022 their agents had spied on only 120,000 Americans without search warrants! Under the Constitution, that number should be ZERO.This revelation is supposed to give members of Congress comfort that the folks we have hired...
Can the Government Cut Off Personal Liberty?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Sep 15, 2023 | Featured Articles
Last week, the Governor of New Mexico confronted what she claimed was a health crisis, and her solution was to deny law-abiding folks the right to bear arms. The health crisis she identified was an uptick in the murder rate in the city of Albuquerque. And her solution...
What Did the FBI Know?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
The New York Times recently reported that the FBI had an undercover informant amid the protestors that entered the US Capitol on Jan. 6 who had related to them his knowledge of the demonstrators’ plans beforehand and his observations of events in the building in real...
Judge Andrew Napolitano Explains the FISA Court Scam
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 4, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, an RPI Advisory Board member, explains the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court scam in his latest masterful column. Napolitano reviews the evidence and concludes that the FISA court, which is routinely referenced to legitimate the US...
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