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Born in a Police State: The Deep State’s Persecution of Its Most Vulnerable Citizens

by John W. Whitehead January 3, 2024

“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace ...

Conservatives Just Don’t Get It on Discrimination

by Laurence M. Vance December 20, 2023

Liberals, progressives, and other left-leaning individuals have made discrimination a dirty word. Their crusade against all forms of discrimination in employment, in housing, in public accommodations, in private organizations, and in life in general is an attack on private property, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, free enterprise, and freedom of contract. This does not mean, however, that conservatives are ...

The Police State Wants Us To Be a Nation of Snowflakes

by John W. Whitehead December 13, 2023

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”—Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol What a year. It feels as if government Grinches and corporate Scrooges have been working overtime to drain ...

Tyranny Comes to Main Street

by James Bovard December 8, 2023

The following is the first chapter of the new book by James Bovard, Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty. Americans today have the “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, wiretapped, injected, censored, injected, ticketed, disarmed, beaten, vilified, detained, and maybe shot by government agents. Politicians are hell-bent on protecting citizens against everything except Uncle Sam. Is America ...

Freedom’s Greatest Hour of Danger Is Now

by John W. Whitehead December 6, 2023

“What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Founders? What if the government was the reason we don’t have a Constitution anymore? What if freedom’s greatest hour of danger is now?”—Andrew P. Napolitano We are approaching critical mass, the point ...

Conservatives, Hate Crimes, and Victimless Crimes

by Laurence M. Vance December 1, 2023

Libertarianism and conservatism have been described as “uneasy cousins.” There are some issues where they can unite in opposition to the terrible policies of progressives: the green new deal, universal health care, free college tuition, gun-control laws, taxpayer-funded abortions, defunding the police, etc. But even when they seem to agree on something — like hate-crimes laws — the inconsistency ...

The U.S. Government Buys and Sells Its Citizens for Profit and Power

by John W. Whitehead November 29, 2023

Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists. But don’t be fooled into thinking the government is protecting you. To the contrary, the U.S. government is selling us (or rather, our data) to the highest bidders. By the way, those highest bidders also include America’s political class and the politicians aspiring to get elected or re-elected. As ...

Stop Drinking the Political Kool-Aid, America

by John W. Whitehead November 15, 2023

“We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.”— A Face in the Crowd (1957) We are one year out from the 2024 presidential election and as usual, the American people remain eager to ...

Authoritarians Drunk on Power

by John W. Whitehead November 3, 2023

“There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame?”— V for Vendetta We have ...

Evil Walks Among Us

by John W. Whitehead October 25, 2023

“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Enough ...

Postcards from a Police State: 22 Years of Blowback from the USA Patriot Act

by John W. Whitehead October 18, 2023

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."—Hermann Goering, German military commander and Hitler's designated successor For those ...

This Is Not Freedom, America: The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State

by John W. Whitehead October 4, 2023

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ― Frédéric Bastiat, French economist Pay no heed to the circus politics coming out of Washington DC. It’s just more of the ...