Judge grants government proceeds from Edward Snowden’s book Snowden, who leaked details of surveillance programs, is charged with espionage but has remained exiled in Russia since 2013. A federal judge ruled that the government is entitled to any money he makes from...
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Betraying the Constitution
“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”—Thomas Paine While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a...
DHS to Tell States How to Implement REAL ID Requirements
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is graciously willing to instruct states on how to implement plans to enforce the REAL ID statute requirements that go into force on October 2020. One of the suggestions being offered to states is the creation of online...
Death and Taxes? How About Life and Liberty? Join us as we build a better Institute.
On a shoestring budget since our founding in 2016, we have done our best to hold the line on libertarian principle while prioritizing the fight against the government’s worst depredations first. In 2017 we published our director Scott Horton’s acclaimed book Fool’s...
Betraying the Constitution: Who Will Protect Us from an Unpatriotic Patriot Act?
While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts. Case in point: while Americans have been fixated on the carefully orchestrated impeachment...
11/22/19 Michael Boldin on the PATRIOT Act
Michael Boldin describes the appalling state of an American government that has strayed so far from its founding principles as codified by the constitution. Today the federal government wields so much power over every aspect of our lives that the only rational choice...
OK Boomer, It’s Not Important to Respect (All) Your Elders
Now that I've reached the ripe old of age of 42, I've been married for twenty years, and I've partially raised four children. The older I get, the more I realize how very wrong I was to ever think that a disproportionate number of people older than me possessed some...
11/22/19 Peter Van Buren on the Lasting Damage of Russiagate
Peter Van Buren rehashes some of the details behind the surveillance of the Trump campaign through FISA warrants on Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, which originally opened up the "Russiagate" investigation into Trump. Now the same anti-Trump plot has expanded...
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