Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist?

Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist?

In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.” Unless, of course, federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. The Transportation Security Administration has vexed Americans for more than twenty years. Last week, three separate idiotic TSA surveillance programs were exposed by Congress and the Trump administration. In 2021, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) created a secret watchlist of individuals who publicly opposed President Joe...

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Trump Pulls Plug on Hunger Hucksters

Trump Pulls Plug on Hunger Hucksters

The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced that it is canceling that annual survey because "the data is rife with inaccuracies slanted to create a narrative that is not representative of what is actually happening in the countryside.” That annual survey was “costly, politicized, and [does] nothing more than fear monger," USDA said. Those were some of the most honest...

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Is Cover-Up of Epstein’s Financial Crimes Finally Collapsing?

Is Cover-Up of Epstein’s Financial Crimes Finally Collapsing?

In 2025, the Justice Department declared that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein "harmed over one thousand victims”—mostly young females, many of them underage. But a dozen years before his suspicious death in a New York prison cell, Epstein "was granted immunity from federal charges, as were all of his potential co-conspirators,” as The New York Times reported in July. That bizarre blanket immunity was a “get out of jail free” card for scores of men who sexually abused under-age females. But the Trump administration announced in July that the subject was closed. President Donald Trump has since...

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Canadian Hikers Get the COVID-Style Tyranny Treatment

Canadian Hikers Get the COVID-Style Tyranny Treatment

Canadian politicians are creating one bonfire after another of freedom and individual rights. COVID crackdowns established persecution precedents that politicians in some provinces refuse to allow to gather dust. Politicians are claiming the right to financially cripple anyone who makes a single misstep in violation of the latest idiotic decrees. On August 5, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston decreed a $25,000 fine for anyone walking in the woods or otherwise violating a new prohibition that covered both government and private lands. The prohibition will continue until October. Houston...

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Politicians Multiply Mental Illness

Politicians Multiply Mental Illness

Almost 25% of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot to parents across the nation. Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Shrier warned that the new Illinois law will mean “tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or...

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Waco and the Death of Congressional Oversight

Waco and the Death of Congressional Oversight

How many atrocities can the federal government get away with? Americans are still vexed by the answers that Congress failed to deliver in 1995. Thirty summers ago, Washington was fixated by a Capitol Hill showdown over the greatest federal abuse of power of the decade. Unfortunately, trusting congressional hearings to discover the truth is like trusting a roomful of monkeys with typewriters to write great novels—it might happen, but only in an eternity. As comedian Milton Berle quipped long ago, “You can send a man to Congress but you can’t make him think.” On February 28, 1993, scores of...

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The 1775 Two Step That Led to American Independence

The 1775 Two Step That Led to American Independence

As Americans prepare to celebrate the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should also toast the 250th anniversary of a savvy political two-step that paved the way to formally breaking with Britain the following year. “We, your Majesty’s faithful subjects...” began the petition beseeching reconciliation with King George from the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775.  That offering became known as the Olive Branch Petition.  The following day, Congress issued its  Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, explaining why hostile British troops would...

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Mencken’s Forgotten Wisdom on War

Mencken’s Forgotten Wisdom on War

As a stampede of weasels just sought to con America into supporting another Mideast war, it is time remember America’s most underrated critic of bellicose folly. H.L. Mencken is famous for his smackdowns of politicians and ridicule of government and of much of American culture. But he also offered sage advice for citizens judging officialdom itching for carnage. On May 9, 1939, The Baltimore Sun published Mencken’s essay on “The Art of Selling War.” This piece, included in the Second Mencken Chrestomathy published in 1995, deserves a far higher position in the Mencken and antiwar pantheon....

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