What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a...
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The Right to be Left Alone
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
Don't miss Judge Napolitano LIVE at the RPI 2024 DC Conference! “Every move you makeAnd every vow you breakEvery smile you fakeEvery claim you stakeI’ll be watching you.” -- “Every Breath You Take,” song by The Police The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
US Calls For Ceasefire But Keeps Supporting War
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
On August 12, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, issued a press statement commemorating the anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions. He said: “The 75th anniversary of the adoption of the 1949 Geneva Conventions is a fitting occasion to reaffirm...
Washington Needlessly Entangles Its Small Allies
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
America’s founders were extremely worried that the Republic might become entangled in quarrels that were, or should be, irrelevant to America’s own security and well-being. Several prominent founders, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, emphasized that...
The EU Just Declared War on Free Speech in America. It is Time to Fight Back
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on the move of the European Union to force Elon Musk to censor X users, including political speech leading up to the 2024 election. The column discusses this Rockwell painting, which we often use in discussing free speech controversies....
Anti-Democratic Dem Manipulators Strike Again (and Again)
by Peter van Buren | Aug 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Democrats continue to run to course — manipulating — most recently, Joe Biden out of the presidential race. Their history for the last decade has been one of manipulation and dirty tricks, false promises and anti-democratic actions. They campaign claiming Trump is...
Donald Trump Does Not Know the ‘Correct’ Interest Rate
by Ron Paul | Aug 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
Former President and current Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump recently renewed his criticisms of the Federal Reserve. He suggested that, if he returns to the White House next year, he will push Congress to pass legislation giving the president at least a...
America’s Search for New Enemies
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
Does anyone really think that Iran threatens the United States? It’s only plausible if you can be convinced by a congenital liar and war criminal like Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or by a buffoon like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. My head was...
Want More Freedom of Speech? Try Less Government.
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on my call for a bill that would bar federal funding of any program and grant to censor, blacklist, or target individuals or sites based on their content. It is time to get the U.S. government out of the censorship business. The column...
A 2003 Newsletter Still Accurate Today
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Almost every week, even now, someone will say to me, “I really miss your newsletter.” I am very grateful for those comments because I tried very hard to put out very detailed Washington Reports. Most members of Congress did not publish newsletters and the ones who did...
US has Ukraine’s Back in Kursk Incursion
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
As the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region rolls on, war conditions have appeared in Russia for the first time since the Second World War. It is a stunning experience that an estimated 180,000 people have become internally displaced. Ukrainian...
Peace Is Not On The Ballot In November
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
I keep seeing liberal commentators like George Takei trying to frame Kamala Harris as the best candidate to bring peace to the middle east, despite her coming directly out of the administration which has been lighting the region on fire with its insane...
The FBI ‘Visits’ Scott Ritter
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Aug 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between federal law enforcement and federal spies. The wall was erected in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which statutorily limited...
US Hypocrisy on Supposed Iranian Meddling in the US Election
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
The FBI is warning Iran not to meddle in the upcoming US presidential election. That’s rich given that it was the US government’s meddling in an Iranian election that is the root cause of the perpetual, ongoing, never-ending animosity between the two regimes today....
The Post-Ideological Age
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
Conventional wisdom has it that the US and much of the Western world has polarized into right and left. These tribes are hard-core and share mutual loathing. That model of understanding pervades all popular media and consumes the culture, such that everyone feels the...
Why Did Washington Memory-hole Gaza?
by Kelley B. Vlahos | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
Some are calling it Kamala Harris’s “Sister Souljah moment,” referring to when, in June 1992, then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly rebuked racist comments made by a popular female hip-hop artist as a way of distancing himself from extreme...
Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect
by James Bovard | Aug 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning that anything that arrestees say can be used against them in a court of law. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase can be used against you. And if you didn’t want to be...
‘An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand’ – So is War Inevitable?
by Alastair Crooke | Aug 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Walter Kirn, an American novelist and cultural critic, in his 2009 memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, described how, after a sojourn at Oxford, he came to be a member of "the class that runs things" – the one that “writes the headlines, and the stories under them.” It...
Tyranny in the UK – Can it Happen Here?
by Ron Paul | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
As the UK descends into tyranny, where just re-Tweeting something the government doesn’t like can land a person a multi-year jail sentence, Americans are wondering, “can it happen here?” After all, we have the guarantees of the First Amendment. But while we shake our...
Decay, Decrepitude, Deceit in Journalism
by Ray McGovern | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
Russiagate continues to survive like a science fiction monster resilient to bullets. The latest effort at rehabilitating it is an interview by Adam Rawnsley in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine of one Michael van Landingham, an...
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