An old family home in Washington DC has become the latest center in the battle over home equity theft—a practice where government can legally seize a property to cover an unpaid tax debt, sell it for far more than the amount of the debt, and then keep all the money...
Criminal Justice
Marco Rubio’s Hunt for Renegade College Students
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jun 3, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Given Marco Rubio’s long history of subservience to the State of Israel—which has earned him a mountain of campaign cash from the country’s U.S.-based collaborators—many Americans were understandably wary that his ascension from senator to secretary of State portended...
COVID Doubts Made You a ‘Violent Extremist’
by Jim Bovard | Jun 2, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Biden administration policymakers hated you more than you knew. Four years ago, I warned at the Libertarian Institute: “Libertarians are in the federal crosshairs…Many libertarians assume they have nothing to fear because they are not engaged in seeking to violently...

On Free Speech, Trump’s as Bad as Biden
by Jack Hunter | Apr 30, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In September, candidate Donald Trump vowed, “I will bring back free speech in America...I will sign an executive order banning any federal employee from colluding to limit speech, and we will fire every federal bureaucrat who is engaged in domestic censorship under...

Trump Revives the Alien and Sedition Acts
by Thomas Eddlem | Apr 29, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
President Donald Trump promised to revive the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 during his campaign last fall. “To expedite removals of this savage gang,” Trump pledged in an October campaign stop, “I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and dismantle every...

On Tax Day, Never Forget IRS Culture Bingo
by Jim Bovard | Apr 15, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On Tax Day, politicians and mainstream media will hector Americans to be grateful for the opportunity to pay their taxes. The Internal Revenue Service website touts a moth-eaten quote from a dead Supreme Court Justice: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”...

Only Thomas Massie Understands the Problem of Tesla ‘Terrorists’
by Jack Hunter | Apr 1, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
As Donald Trump's administration rushes to call the vandalism of Teslas across the country “terrorism,” at least one Republican is not comfortable with doing so. In a recent story for Semafor on Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), reporter David Weigel highlighted...
The First Amendment Protects Mahmoud Khalil
by Gary Chartier | Mar 26, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
One of Donald Trump’s first official actions as president was to sign an executive order designed to protect freedom of expression against government pressure. Soon after, Vice President J.D. Vance issued a vigorous challenge at the Munich Security Conference to...