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Want More Freedom of Speech? Try Less Government.

Want More Freedom of Speech? Try Less Government.

by | Aug 16, 2024 |

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 discusses the proposal in my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” to block any further funding for the current system of corporate, academic, and government programs targeting...

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A 2003 Newsletter Still Accurate Today

A 2003 Newsletter Still Accurate Today

by | Aug 16, 2024 |

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 usually produced very short puff pieces filled with non-controversial things like military academy appointments. I was told once that my newsletters had too much print in them, mainly because I very seldom ran a photo in them....

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US has Ukraine’s Back in Kursk Incursion

US has Ukraine’s Back in Kursk Incursion

by | Aug 16, 2024 |

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 military was apparently gasping for breath, per Russian narrative. But Ukrainian mastery of combined arms warfare is on display and it is impressive — deploying everything from air defence to electronic warfare and armour and infantry....

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Peace Is Not On The Ballot In November

Peace Is Not On The Ballot In November

by | Aug 15, 2024 |

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 warmongering. So let’s be clear here: Peace is not on the ballot in November. Americans are voting for Red War or Blue War. That’s it. Those are the choices. I repeat: Peace. Is. Not. On. The. Ballot. Nobody who stands an actual chance...

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The FBI ‘Visits’ Scott Ritter

The FBI ‘Visits’ Scott Ritter

by | Aug 15, 2024 |

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 all federal domestic spying to that which was authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The wall was intended to prevent law enforcement from accessing and using data gathered by America’s domestic spying agencies....

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US Hypocrisy on Supposed Iranian Meddling in the US Election

US Hypocrisy on Supposed Iranian Meddling in the US Election

by | Aug 14, 2024 |

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. While US officials and US interventionists love to point to the 1979 Iranian revolution as the start of the adverse relationship between Iran and the United States, that’s only because they are loathe to recognize wrongdoing on the...

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The Post-Ideological Age

The Post-Ideological Age

by | Aug 14, 2024 |

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 need to choose. It’s simple, harkens back to Cold War binaries, drums up media attention, and further divides the population in ways that benefit the leaders of both sides.  The reality underneath the surface is otherwise....

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Why Did Washington Memory-hole Gaza?

Why Did Washington Memory-hole Gaza?

by | Aug 14, 2024 |

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 elements of the Democratic base.  For her part, Harris appeared to be drawing her own line Wednesday, shutting down chants from pro-Palestinian protesters at a Detroit rally on Wednesday, with a firm, “I’m speaking now.” The...

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Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect

Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect

by | Aug 13, 2024 |

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 categorized as a “lone wolf” potential terrorist, you never should have bought that Bass Pro hat. Federal agencies have long kept an eye on suspicious purchases by Americans considered potential troublemakers. Flash back 50 years, and...

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‘An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand’ – So is War Inevitable?

‘An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand’ – So is War Inevitable?

by | Aug 13, 2024 |

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 was the account of a middle-class kid from Minnesota trying desperately to fit into the élite world, and then to his surprise, realising that he didn’t want to fit in at all. Now 61, Kirn has a newsletter on Substack and co-hosts a...

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Tyranny in the UK – Can it Happen Here?

Tyranny in the UK – Can it Happen Here?

by | Aug 12, 2024 |

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 heads at UK authorities jailing people for their social media posts this past week, we should not kid ourselves. The answer is that silencing dissent can happen here and it is happening here. Here are just three recent examples of...

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Decay, Decrepitude, Deceit in Journalism

Decay, Decrepitude, Deceit in Journalism

by | Aug 12, 2024 |

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 intelligence analyst who is proud of having written the first draft of the cornerstone “analysis” of Russiagate, the so-called Intelligence Community Assessment. The ICA blamed the Russians for helping Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in...

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There Is Something Rotten in Washington

There Is Something Rotten in Washington

by | Aug 12, 2024 |

One thing you can say about the Administration of President Joe Biden is that nearly every week there is something new and exciting to discuss. Galloping dementia recently gifted us with Joe’s 11 minute abdication speech in which he announced that he would not be running for another term as president. He babbled about how he was taking the step in spite of his desire to continue. The president, who is 81 and recently best noted for his failing mental state causing him to fall down stairs,...

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I’m Speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Annual Conference

I’m Speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Annual Conference

by | Aug 10, 2024 |

In three weeks, I will have the honor of again speaking at the Young Scholar’s part of the Ron Paul Institute’s annual conference at Dulles, Virginia. I’ve had the good fortune of speaking there for the past several years. I will be speaking on “A Limited Government Republic versus a National-Security State.” As longtime supporters of The Future of Freedom Foundation know, I contend that the biggest mistake America has ever made, in terms of destroying our freedom, peace, and prosperity, was...

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US Policy: Let Israel Escalate Against Iran, Then Tell Iran Not To Escalate Back

US Policy: Let Israel Escalate Against Iran, Then Tell Iran Not To Escalate Back

by | Aug 9, 2024 |

In an article titled “U.S. Warns Iran of ‘Serious Risk’ if It Conducts Major Attack on Israel,” The Wall Street Journal reports that officials within the Biden administration have been warning Iran not to “escalate” against Israel in its planned retaliatory strikes for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran. “The United States has sent clear messaging to Iran that the risk of a major escalation if they do a significant retaliatory attack against Israel is extremely high,” an anonymous...

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American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion

American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion

by | Aug 8, 2024 |

“You shall have no other gods before me.”—The Ten Commandments “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.”—Donald Trump Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come from an altogether different direction: our constitutional republic has given way...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

New Jersey Eliminates a Tax

New Jersey Eliminates a Tax

by | Jul 16, 2022

New Jersey has a reputation as a high tax state. This month, something happened that should pare back that reputation some: The state eliminated its sales tax on medical...

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