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The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom

The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom

by | Aug 22, 2024 |

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 government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American...

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The Right to be Left Alone

The Right to be Left Alone

by | Aug 22, 2024 |

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 guarantees the right to privacy. Like other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it doesn’t create the right; it limits government interference with it. Shortly before he announced his withdrawal from the presidential race, President Joe...

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US Calls For Ceasefire But Keeps Supporting War

US Calls For Ceasefire But Keeps Supporting War

by | Aug 22, 2024 |

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 our commitment to respecting international humanitarian law … We call on others to do the same.” Except Israel. Blinken added: “Faced with the horrible reality of war, parties to armed conflict must comply with international...

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Washington Needlessly Entangles Its Small Allies

Washington Needlessly Entangles Its Small Allies

by | Aug 20, 2024 |

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 danger. Today’s proponents of a new foreign policy based on realism and restraint highlight similar concerns. That worry is entirely legitimate. Since World War II, U.S. leaders have meddled in quarrels around the world, snaring...

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The EU Just Declared War on Free Speech in America. It is Time to Fight Back

The EU Just Declared War on Free Speech in America. It is Time to Fight Back

by | Aug 20, 2024 |

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. Here is the column: Eighty years ago, the U.S. government launched a war bond campaign featuring a painting by artist Norman Rockwell in the struggle against the authoritarian threat from Europe. The picture they chose was...

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Anti-Democratic Dem Manipulators Strike Again (and Again)

Anti-Democratic Dem Manipulators Strike Again (and Again)

by | Aug 19, 2024 |

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 out to destroy democracy when at the same time can’t seem to find enough anti-democratic ways to behave themselves. Dirty tricks have long been a part of politics, but in the last decade the Democrats have turned the machine up...

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Donald Trump Does Not Know the ‘Correct’ Interest Rate

Donald Trump Does Not Know the ‘Correct’ Interest Rate

by | Aug 19, 2024 |

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 say in the Fed’s decisions regarding interest rates. President Trump thinks that because he “made a lot of money” in business he has “a better instinct” as to what interest rates should be than do the members of the Federal Reserve...

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America’s Search for New Enemies

America’s Search for New Enemies

by | Aug 17, 2024 |

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 still throbbing recently due to the damage done while watching Netanyahu’s 56 standing ovations from a bought and paid for Congress when I came across among my old books a volume bearing a title that summed up what I have been...

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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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