During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about the trade names and suppliers of surveillance software the FBI had purchased, the government has yet again quietly acknowledged its antipathy to constitutional provisions...
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When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Dec 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch. It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on...
Less Government Brings a Happy Thanksgiving
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Nov 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
Government requires make-believe. Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the...
Who Cares What the Government Thinks?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Oct 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution -- which would become known as the Bill of Rights -- he insisted that the most prominent amendment among them restrain the government from interfering with the freedom of...
No, It’s Not Time to Ban Sports Gambling Again
by Laurence M. Vance | Oct 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
Writing for The Atlantic, Charles Fain Lehman claims that legalizing sports gambling was a huge mistake. “If you follow sports, gambling is everywhere. Ads for it are all over broadcasts; more than one in three Americans now bets on sports,” he laments. Lehman, a...
Homeschooling is Still Gaining Popularity…Thanks to Woke ‘Educators’
by Ron Paul | Sep 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
One of the few areas where liberty made gains in the COVID lockdown era was the increase in homeschooling. Many parents started homeschooling out of frustration with the failure of “virtual learning” to provide children with a quality education. Other parents withdrew...
Fortress DC: Homeland Security To Lock Down Washington After Election!
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 12, 2024 | The Liberty Report
Police Have the Right to Lie and Slander
by James Bovard | Sep 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
To serve and protect, police are allowed to slander and destroy. Cops in many states and localities have acquired the right to lie about their shootings, searches, and practically anything else. Police have routinely planted drugs, guns, and other evidence to...
The First Steps Toward a Liberty Platform
by Ron Paul | Sep 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last weekend several hundred of us gathered in Washington, DC, at the Ron Paul Institute conference to again proclaim our dedication to the cause of liberty and our opposition to constant US government assaults on that liberty. Our collaborators included old friends...
The 2024 Ron Paul Peace and Prosperity Conference: The Liberty Platform Revealed
by Ginny Garner | Sep 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
For two days it felt like heaven was a place on earth: I was at the Ron Paul Institute (RPI) for Peace and Prosperity Conference. More than 300 liberty-loving individuals from all over America and beyond – for example, London – ranging in age from senior citizens to a...
Will The Real Tim Walz Please Stand Up?
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 8, 2024 | The Liberty Report
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Problem of Torture
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Aug 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating them on Osama bin Ladin. Then, after it murdered bin Ladin, the government decided that the true mastermind was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By the time of bin Ladin’s death,...
Can Liberty Beat The House? With Guest Stewart Jones.
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 6, 2024 | The Liberty Report
Deborah Birx Is Back: Humans and Cows Be Warned
by Adam Dick | Jun 5, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Remember Deborah Birx, the “scarf lady” United States bureaucrat who joined President Donald Trump and chief coronavirus fearmonger Anthony Fauci for regular televised briefings to whip up fear of coronavirus and support for crackdowns and new health practices...
‘Hell No, We Won’t Go!’ – Most Americans Would Not Serve If War Broke Out
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 28, 2024 | The Liberty Report
Serfdom under the TSA
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
By now, I’m sure that most Americans have their own personal stories about TSA abuse. The U.S. government’s takeover of airport security after the 9/11 attacks has made flying an unpleasant experience. This past weekend, I was flying back to Virginia. A TSA agent took...
The End of the End of Ideology
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time to put aside all our ridiculous arguments of the past – socialism, fascism, liberalism, anarchism, technocracy, etc. – and just recognize that elites like...
Taking Rights Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.” -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world is filled with self-evident truths --...
COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Three Years Later, We’re Still Failing
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Feb 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil...
Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials, b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops, d) purchased tickets to travel by...
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