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Timely Lessons About Tyranny from the Father of the Constitution

by John W. Whitehead June 21, 2024

“Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” — James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive generations of Americans. How right he was. Although Madison initially felt that the inclusion of a bill of rights in the ...

Should There Be Laws against Adultery?

by Laurence M. Vance June 19, 2024

The Supreme Court of India a few years ago struck down a colonial-era adultery law that made it illegal for a man to have sex with a married woman without the permission of her husband. Laws that criminalized adultery in Taiwan and South Korea have likewise recently been overturned by their constitutional courts. It is too bad that laws ...

What’s Next for Battlefield America?

by John W. Whitehead June 14, 2024

“I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. been watching us for years from the sky with their drones. They have been watching us gardening and going to schools and kissing our wives. I feel like I have been watched for so long.”—Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet If you want a ...

Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them

by John W. Whitehead June 7, 2024

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”—Thomas Jefferson If America’s schools are to impart principles of freedom and democracy to future generations, they must start by respecting the constitutional rights of their students Take the case of Lucas Hudson. With all the negative ...

Two Payments, More Payments, Higher Payments, or No Payments?

by Laurence M. Vance June 5, 2024

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is often confused with Social Security. Although both programs are administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA), and both programs provide Americans with cash from the federal government, that is where their similarity ends. According to the SSA, the main differences between SSI and Social Security are: Social Security benefits may be ...

The Kennedy Assassination: Fraudulent Photos, X-Rays, and Film

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2024

I highly recommend a new book on the Kennedy assassination entitled The Final Analysis by David W. Mantik and Jerome R. Corsi. It provides a critically important evidentiary building block that reinforces other circumstantial evidence and establishes beyond a reasonable doubt the criminal culpability of the national-security establishment in JFK’s assassination. First of all, however, let me provide some detailed ...

Merle Haggard and the Lost “Free Life”

by James Bovard June 1, 2024

“Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song. Nine years earlier, Haggard had scoffed at potheads and draft dodgers in a White House performance of his song “Okie from Muskogee” for President Richard Nixon. But reflecting widespread loss of faith in the American dream ...

What Trump Didn’t Say about NATO

by Laurence M. Vance June 1, 2024

During his first presidential campaign in 2016, former president and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump berated NATO member counties for failing to increase their defense spending to 2 percent of GDP. He took some heat for his remarks but never seriously questioned the existence of the military alliance. Now Trump has done it again — and then some. At ...

The Global Economy: Free Trade versus Managed Trade

by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 2024

In 1831, Sir Henry Parnell (1776–1842), a long-time chairman of the Financial Committee of the House of Commons, published On Financial Reform, in which he made the case for freedom of trade at a time when trade protectionism was mostly the order of the day in Great Britain, especially in agriculture: If once men were allowed to take their own ...

“Who Will Build the Roads?” Part 1

by Wendy McElroy June 1, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Everyone who argues for the free market over government involvement in the economy has heard this common comeback: “Who will build the roads?” Sometimes, the question is sincere and deserves to be answered with patience. Much of the time, however, it is the dismissal of a complex argument and is intended ...

How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech

by John W. Whitehead May 31, 2024

“Politicians of both parties want to use the power of government to silence their foes. Some in the university community seek to drive it from their campuses. And an entire generation of Americans is being taught that free speech should be curtailed as soon as it makes someone else feel uncomfortable.”—William Ruger, “Free Speech Is Central ...

A Nanny State Idiocracy

by John W. Whitehead May 24, 2024

“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”—Simone Weil, French philosopher We are caught in a vicious cycle of too many laws, too many cops, and too little freedom. It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by ...