For years, several federal agencies have been spending US tax dollars to buy Americans’ data from private bulk sellers. As some members of Congress seek a new law against the practice, the Joe Biden administration is pushing back on the effort to curtail the power to...
Constitution
Will the Ghost of Duncan Lemp Haunt Gun-Grabbing Politicians?
by Jim Bovard | Mar 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
If you post a photo of a rifle on Instagram, tag it to your hometown, and add a caption like “green tip armor piercing gets the girls wet," Maryland police can cite that to get a no-knock search warrant and kill you in a pre-dawn assault on your bedroom. In his novel...
Best of the Best, Worst of the Worst
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, History
The past few weeks have seen a predictable reaction to the release of (yet another) survey of “experts” regarding the proper ranking of United States presidents. Apart from the inherent problems any such attempted ranking poses, problems my colleague Hunter DeRensis...
Biden’s Yemen Policy Isn’t Working
by Trenton Hale | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For the last several weeks, the country of Yemen and their Houthi government have been in the news far more than they were during their war with Saudi Arabia. This is because the Houthis began to attack ships in the Red Sea, a frustrated reaction to the United States’...
Will Any ‘Last Rights’ Epigram Go to the Moon?
by Jim Bovard | Feb 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
Epigrams are excellent propellants for seditious ideas. How far can one line go? Thirty years ago, I casually appended a sentence to the end of a paragraph in the final chapter of my book, Lost Rights: The Death of American Liberty. I was amazed: “Democracy must be...
Protect the First Amendment: Impeach Joe Biden!
by Ron Paul | Feb 20, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Protecting democracy and the Constitution from Donald Trump and the “MAGA extremists” is a major theme of President [Joe] Biden’s reelection campaign. As is often the case in American politics, President Biden is just as, if not more, guilty of posing an “existential...
Washington, Pro-Democracy? Depends on the Country
by Ted Snider | Feb 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Pakistan just held an election; Venezuela is about to. Both incumbent governments have banned the leading opposition figure from competing. The United States sanctioned one and was silent on the other. What was the difference? Not international law or responsible...
The Stronger the Government, the Weaker the Nation
by Jacob Hornberger | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
For all of our lives, it has been the aim of most Americans to make the federal government stronger, especially with respect to the warfare state. The principal justification for an ever more powerful government is that it keeps the American people safe from the likes...
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Israeli War Crimes Documented by the Israeli Defense Forces
There’s no sense denying Israel’s indiscriminate attacks and wanton destruction when its war crimes are documented by its own armed forces.
Government Subsidy of K-PhD: The Suicide Pact of Western Civilization
The German Empire arranged passage for Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, to Russia to try to seize power from the government. They traveled on an armored train through Germany then took a ship to Sweden where...
Money to Burn: Pentagon Blues
I often quip to the TSA slack-jawed shamblers at the airport when I fly that I am happy the TSA exists because think of how much more homelessness there would in the USA if the unemployable weren't in shitty government jobs hassling peaceful travelers. The DoD has...
Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don't hold your...
Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater
I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...
Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On
The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...
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