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What Ever Happened to the Freedom of Speech?

What Ever Happened to the Freedom of Speech?

by | May 2, 2024 |

When James Madison was a member of Congress in 1791 and charged with drafting the Bill of Rights, he made two grammatical demands. One was that the word “the” precede “freedom of speech” in the First Amendment, and the other was a command in the Ninth Amendment that the “rights retained by the people,” rights too numerous to enumerate, “shall not be disparaged” by the government. This principle -- that our rights preexisted the government -- would be played out over and over in litigation in...

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The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z

The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z

by | May 1, 2024 |

The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer towards a pervasive authoritarianism. The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State. This steady slide towards tyranny, meted out by militarized local and federal police and legalistic bureaucrats, has been carried forward by each...

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A Day in the Life of a ‘Foreign Adversary Controlled’ Application

A Day in the Life of a ‘Foreign Adversary Controlled’ Application

by | Apr 30, 2024 |

What is truth? Those were the famous words from Pilate to Jesus Christ. Like Pilate, we seek truth yet while the paths to truth may diverge at times, one thing is sure: they cannot be determined by governmental authorities. Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams spoke earlier this month at the Mises Institute/Ron Paul Institute Lake Jackson, TX, conference on the topics of the recently-extended Section 702 of the FISA Act allowing the government to spy without a warrant and the recent...

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The Interlocking of Strategic Paradigms

The Interlocking of Strategic Paradigms

by | Apr 30, 2024 |

Theodore Postol, Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy at MIT, has provided a forensic analysis of the videos and evidence emerging from Iran’s 13th April swarm drone and missile “demonstation” attack into Israel: A “message,” rather than an “assault.” The leading Israeli daily, Yediot Ahoronot, has estimated the cost of attempting to down this Iranian flotilla at between $2-3 billion dollars. The implications of this single number are substantial. Professor Postol...

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‘Disinformation Czar’ Jankowicz Returns as Head of New Project Before Election

‘Disinformation Czar’ Jankowicz Returns as Head of New Project Before Election

by | Apr 29, 2024 |

Nina Jankowicz  is back . . . with a vengeance. The former head of the infamous “Disinformation Governance Board” within the Department of Homeland Security is now heading a private disinformation group called the American Sunlight Project. With a close election looming in November, Jankowicz has found funding to “to expose and oppose efforts to weaponize disinformation in the United States.” The establishment of the group is only the latest example of how many in politics and media are...

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TikTok Hypocrisy

TikTok Hypocrisy

by | Apr 29, 2024 |

President Biden’s campaign will continue using the popular social media site TikTok even though the president supported a provision in the military aid bill he recently signed forcing TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok within 270 days. If ByteDance does not sell TikTok within the required time, TikTok will be banned in the USA. Biden’s continued use of TikTok to reach the approximately 150 million American TikTok users, is not the only example of hypocrisy from politicians who...

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American Spring?

American Spring?

by | Apr 27, 2024 |

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”--The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified Dec., 15, 1791. An open assault on the First Amendment is occurring across America, as college students who are peacefully exercising their Constitutional right to...

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Students Go After the Hypocrites

Students Go After the Hypocrites

by | Apr 27, 2024 |

New York – I was kicked out of New York’s prestigious Collegiate private school many moons ago for "revolutionary and disruptive activities." Thank goodness my wise parents sent me to the International School of Geneva, Switzerland where I thrived. The underground French fascist group, "la Main Rouge" repeatedly threatened to kill me for organizing student demonstrations against France’s colonial war in Algeria. But I survived. Being a life-long rebel and hell-raiser, I am naturally...

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Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming…

Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming…

by | Apr 26, 2024 |

A version of this article first appeared as an exclusive update to RPI subscribers. Subscribe for free here. Student action on university campuses against US involvement in Israel's slaughter of Gaza has exploded across the country. Suddenly there is the distinct feel in the air of the anti-Vietnam war protests once they finally caught on in 1968 and soon thereafter changed the course of US history.Both protest movements were fully demonized by the same forces of the mainstream...

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The New ‘Texas Antisemitism Lottery’ Should Pay Out Big in Lawsuit Awards and Settlements

The New ‘Texas Antisemitism Lottery’ Should Pay Out Big in Lawsuit Awards and Settlements

by | Apr 26, 2024 |

The Texas Lottery has paid out many millions of dollars to winners of its games of chance since voters in the state approved its creation in 1991. This week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a new lottery of sorts — the “Texas Antisemitism Lottery” — that could rival and maybe even surpass the original Texas Lottery in cash payouts. One of the more sure things in constitutional law is that a person subjected to punishment by government because of the content of his communication has had...

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Now We Are Supposed to Cheer Government Surveillance?

Now We Are Supposed to Cheer Government Surveillance?

by | Apr 26, 2024 |

They are wearing us down with shocking headlines and opinions. They come daily these days, with increasingly implausible claims that leave your jaw on the floor. The rest of the text is perfunctory. The headline is the takeaway, and the part designed to demoralize, deconstruct, and disorient.  A few weeks ago, the New York Times told us that “As It Turns Out, the Deep State Is Pretty Awesome.” These are the same people who claim that Trump is trying to get rid of democracy. The...

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Genocide games: Srebrenica gambit and reigniting the Bosnian War

Genocide games: Srebrenica gambit and reigniting the Bosnian War

by | Apr 26, 2024 |

The UN General Assembly will soon be presented with a draft resolution declaring July 11 the “International Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide,” referring to events that allegedly took place in 1995. Germany and Rwanda supposedly decided on their own to dredge up this episode from the Bosnian War at this particular time for no particular reason whatsoever. Considering that Rwanda is best known for a genocide that took place in 1994, while Germany’s conduct during WW2...

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A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman

A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman

by | Apr 25, 2024 |

A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times demonstrates what is a warped interpretation of the term “patriotism.” The op-ed is about former football player Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan twenty years ago. It’s written by Bill Dwyre, a former sports editor for the Times. Dwyre reminds us that Tillman was motivated to join the military after the 9/11 attacks. He gave up a $3.6 million football contract to join the U.S. military and was hoping to be sent to...

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Killing the Constitution

Killing the Constitution

by | Apr 25, 2024 |

In the last days of East Germany, when government officials detected that their power was unraveling, they ratcheted up enforcement of the nation’s reporting laws. The reporting laws made it a felony to know of a crime and fail to report it. It was also a crime to tell the person of whose crime you learned that you had done so. There was no right to privacy and there was no freedom of speech. This Orwellian tangle resulted, of course, in many false reports of crimes. It also resulted in many...

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A Coup Without Firing a Shot 

A Coup Without Firing a Shot 

by | Apr 24, 2024 |

The last few years can be tracked at two levels: the physical reality around us and the realm of the intellectual, mental, and psychological.  The first level has presented a chaotic narrative of the previously unthinkable. A killer virus that turned out to be what many people said it was in February 2020: a bad flu with a known demographic risk best treated with known therapeutics. But that template and the ensuing campaign of fear and emergency rule gave rise to astonishing changes in...

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Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News

Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News

by | Apr 24, 2024 |

“Nothing is real,” observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics. Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population. Take the media circus that is...

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