Below is my column in the Hill on how the second Trump impeachment could become a trial over reckless rhetoric in America. The House managers may be playing into that very danger by selecting some managers who have been criticized in the past for their own over-heated...
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Troop Deployments in Washington Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen
by James Bovard | Feb 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
“Tyranny in form is the first step towards tyranny in substance,” warned Senator John Taylor two hundred years ago in his forgotten classic, Tyranny Unmasked. As the massive National Guard troop deployment in Washington enters its second month, much of the media and...
The Diplomacy of No Diplomacy
by Patrick Lawrence | Feb 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
A return to diplomacy: Let us hold this thought up to the light. Among all the promises President Joe Biden is going to break over the next four years, this will prove the most fraudulent and, in the larger scheme of things, the most consequential of his breaches. As...
The TSA’s New Mask Mandate
by James Bovard | Feb 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Transportation Security Administration announced last week that it will be fining travelers up to $1,500 for failing to wear a proper facemask. The TSA could also heavily fine people for wearing a facemask improperly and maybe also for some other offenses the...
Don’t Impeach Trump. Impeach the Deep State for Its Conspiracy to Kill the Constitution
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
“All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere,...
In Confronting Russian ‘Aggression’, Biden Forgets he is the Problem, not the Solution
by Scott Ritter | Feb 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
Joe Biden calls on American leadership to confront Russian authoritarianism that he claims threatens American democracy. But every problem between the two has its roots in US actions Biden once supported. Physician, heal thyself. “America is back. America is back....

The Trump Political Show Trial
by Ron Paul | Feb 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Senate trial for now twice-impeached former President Donald Trump is set to begin this week, with little doubt over the outcome. A procedural vote in the Senate on the constitutionality of “removing from office” someone who is not in office revealed that nowhere...
The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows
by Glenn Greenwald | Feb 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
A new and rapidly growing journalistic “beat” has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives...
The Worst Junk Mail: The Biden Administration Wants to Deliver Masks to All Americans
by Adam Dick | Feb 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
Talk about bad junk mail. President Joe Biden’s administration is considering delivering masks to all Americans — in the name of countering coronavirus, of course. The United States government’s distribution of these unneeded masks would be both a waste of money and a...
Masking America’s Greatest Natural Monuments
by James Bovard | Feb 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration just issued an edict that will spur endless pointless conflicts for Americans seeking to peacefully enjoy hundreds of national parks. On Groundhog Day, the National Park Service (NPS) mandated wearing face masks on all National Park Service...
Raskin: Trump’s Decision Not To Testify May Be Cited As Evidence Of His Guilt
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Over the last four years, we have seen an alarming trend of law professors and legal experts discarding constitutional and due process commitments to support theories for the prosecution or impeachment of Donald Trump or his family. Legal experts who long defended...
Seven Times ‘Superspreader’ Events Were Overblown
by Jack Nicastro | Feb 4, 2021 | Featured Articles
If Woodstock occurred today, it would be derided as a “superspreader” event. Superspreader events are events or gatherings (such as a sporting match, religious service, birthday or wedding) at which an infected individual(s) infects a disproportionate number of other...
Should College Application Be Required for a High School Diploma?
by Richard K. Vedder | Feb 4, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Wall Street Journal last week reported legislators in a growing number of states are trying to pass new laws requiring high school seniors to complete applications for college financial aid (mainly the federal FAFSA—Free Application for Student Aid—but also...
Why the Biden Administration Has Set itself up for Failure on the Iran Nuclear Deal
by Scott Ritter | Feb 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
By laying out unrealistic demands to Iran and engaging in fearmongering about its nuclear program, Secretary of State Tony Blinken has underscored America’s real intent about rejoining the controversial agreement. President Joe Biden has made rejoining the Joint...
The Flight of the Covid Quacks
by Robert E. Wright | Feb 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
A year on and Covid quackery remains a potent force in global public health discourse. We should not be surprised by this as quackery of all sorts suffuses the history of medicine in America and abroad. The recent mass exodus of public health officials from their...
The Largest Experiment on Humans Ever Seen
by Rob Slane | Feb 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Which is the more reasonable approach a society might take in the outbreak of epidemic: To quarantine the sick, and take reasonable precautions to stop those who are identified as vulnerable from contracting the illness. To attempt to “control the virus” by preventing...
DC Military Occupation Not a Good Look for America
by Cheryl K. Chumley | Feb 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
Concerns over “civil disturbance” have led the powers-who-be in Washington, DC, to extend the stay of members of the National Guard in the nation’s capital city. A military occupation in America — who knew. Military troops are not law enforcement officers. Nor should...
A Wave of Abusive Federal Prosecutions Is Coming
by William L. Anderson | Feb 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
The violent protest at the US Capitol on January 6 has long been over, but the upcoming Biden administration’s response to it is likely to do greater violence to the US Constitution and the rule of law than anything the worst of the protesters could have accomplished....

Libertarian Terrorists?
by Ron Paul | Feb 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Department of Homeland Security issued on Wednesday a nationwide terror alert lasting until April 30. The alert warns of potential terrorist attacks from Americans who are “ideologically motivated” and have “objections to the exercise of government authority and...
Would You Be Considered A Domestic Terrorist Under This New Bill?
by Robert Wheeler | Jan 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
After 9/11, the entire country collectively lost its mind in the throes of fear. During that time, all civil and Constitutional rights were shredded and replaced with the pages of The USA PATRIOT Act. Almost 20 years later, the US has again lost its collective mind,...
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