Recently the US Supreme Court declined to consider a challenge to the all-male draft. The plaintiffs in the case argued that excluding women from the draft was unconstitutional. Apparently the Court is simply letting Congress decide the issue. I’ve got an idea — an idea grounded in freedom. How about abolishing the draft — and, of course, draft registration? In fact, better yet, how about enacting a constitutional amendment prohibiting the draft from ever being enacted again? Young people...
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Five Minutes Five Issues: Pro-Clinton ACLU, Marijuana Poll, Blowback Report, Death Penalty, Kratom Update
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Thursday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher,...
Laurence M. Vance Reviews A Tipping Point for Liberty
The New American published on its website Thursday a review of my new book A Tipping Point for Liberty: Exposing and Defeating Leviathan Government. The review, written by...
After Attacking Yemen’s Houthis, US Admits They Don’t Know Who Fired Missiles
Yesterday, the United States attacked and destroyed a series of radar stations belonging to the Shi’ite Houthis in Yemen, along the Red Sea coast. This was described as...
How Soon Before Armed Drones Are Overhead in America? Time Now.
Protocols exist allowing the president to select American citizens, without a whit of due process, for drone killing.Only overseas, he says, but you can almost see the fingers...
‘Syrian War is Conflict Between West & Russia’
The real issue in the Syrian civil war, apart from the important one of Syria itself, is the struggle for power between Russia and the West, says John Laughland from the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Clinton-Weld, Marijuana Worry, Computers Destroyed, Filming Cops, Kratom Update
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Saturday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher,...
A Desperate Obama Administration Resorts To Lying And Maybe More
On September 28 the French mission to the UN claimed that two hospitals in east-Aleppo had been bombed. It documented this in a tweet with a picture of destroyed buildings in...
Ron Paul’s Gettysburg College Constitution Day Lecture
On September 29, libertarian communicator Ron Paul returned to Gettysburg College, from which Paul graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1957, and presented the college’s annual...
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