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...
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The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
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...
A Coup Without Firing a Shot
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Apr 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
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...
Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Apr 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
“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...
CIA To Zelensky: ‘Please Stop Stealing So Much.’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 22, 2024 | The Liberty Report
Red Alert! Congress Goes ‘Full Stasi’ With New Spying Power!
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 17, 2024 | The Liberty Report
The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
If there is anything that confirms that the national-security branch of the federal government rules the roost within the federal governmental structure, it is the Pentagon/CIA torture and indefinite-detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That facility stands as an...
FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security.
by Ron Paul | Apr 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of...
Why the JFK Assassination Still Matters
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Someone might reasonably ask, “What difference does the JFK assassination make to those of us living today? The assassination took place more than 60 years ago. Everyone involved in it is now dead. Why not just forget it and move on?’ Those are reasonable questions,...
Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Apr 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that...
New Challenges to the First Amendment from the Biden Administration
by Peter van Buren | Apr 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
The great irony is despite all the fear mongering spewed out about Donald Trump ending democracy, it is mostly the Democrats who are taking shots at its most sacred freedoms, those of the First Amendment. The House recently passed a bill, HR 7521, seeking to...
Federal Judge Hits CDC Over Withholding Data on Adverse Vaccine Reports
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to resist disclosing information on claimed side effects and problems with its COVID-19 vaccines, including from healthcare workers. Due to a January order by U.S. District Judge Matthew...
The Death Of American Liberty, With Guest Jim Bovard
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 4, 2024 | The Liberty Report
‘#arrestme’: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed the growing anti-free speech movement in Scotland with the expanding criminalization of political and religious speech. The new Scottish law is a perfect nightmare for free speech, expanding the potential of a jail sentence for...
The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Apr 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or...
A Fauci for Every Farm Animal
by Joel Salatin | Apr 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
Mainline industrial confinement livestock producers routinely feeding subtherapeutic antibiotics to their animals have been desperate for an alternative for many years. As superbugs like cDiff and MRSA developed, consumer backlash against ubiquitous antibiotic use...
The Never-Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree
by James Bovard | Mar 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security Agency to vacuum up trillions of emails and other data. A bevy of...
Can Congress Ban TikTok?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” --First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When James Madison set about to draft the Bill of Rights -- the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- he was articulating what lawyers and...
The TikTok Totalitarians
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
A version of this article first appeared as an exclusive to Ron Paul Institute subscribers. Sign up for free here. On Wednesday, March 13th, a bipartisan group of US Representatives voted to give the US president the power to remove any website, computer or mobile...
How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Mar 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards. We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including webs, apps, search tools, and social media. But governments at all levels were stuck in...
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