In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump received rapturous applause from Republicans for his declaration: “America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free.” But this uplifting sentiment cannot survive even a brief glance at the federal statute book or the heavy-handed enforcement tactics by federal, state, and local bureaucracies across the nation. In reality, the threat of...
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Obama Taps the Clapper to Present Syria Intelligence Dossier
President Obama, stung by the defection of the British government from his very tiny "coalition of the willing" to attack Syria, has decided to push on ahead without allies. To...
NYPD Muslim Surveillance and Mosque Infiltration Exposed
On the heels of a court deciding the New York City police department's stop-and-frisk program violates constitutional search and seizure limitations, the Associated Press reports...
The Last Secular Arab Country
The US regime, with its trained and financed local jihadi army, is in the process of destroying the last non-Islamist Arab regime: Syria. Like all empires, the US seeks to make...
RPI’s McAdams Talks Syria with VoiceAmerica’s Jay Taylor
Listen to RPI Director Daniel McAdams discuss how we got to this mess in Syria -- the lies behind the Administration's push to war -- with VoiceAmerica Radio's Jay Taylor, host...
Who Cares if Someone Somewhere Used ‘Chemical Weapons’?
A reader writes to make an excellent point about the pitfalls of focusing on the chemical weapons issue in Syria: What difference does it make if Obama has “evidence” or not that...
US Bombing Syrian Chemical Weapons Stockpiles Will Kill Many Thousands
The Obama Adminsitration is reportedly planning a cruise missile attack on what it believes are the Syrian government's chemical weapons stockpiles. This is said to be in...
‘Antiwar’ Hagel: Pushing for War on Syria
Several months ago, a large chunk of the antiwar movement expended a great deal of "ink" arguing that the confirmation of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense would be a great...
Kerry’s Syria Morality Tale Carries Scent of Hypocrisy and Mendacity
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that it was undeniable that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons earlier this month, killing anywhere from a few dozen to...
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