The VMI Controversy by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2021 Last year, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Virginia, came under scrutiny for alleged acts of racial discrimination against black members of the corps of cadets. The controversy began with an article in the Washington Post, which was followed by a call by the governor of Virginia for an official state investigation into racism at VMI. Under pressure, ...
The Uyghurs as Victims of Chinese National Socialism by Richard M. Ebeling February 10, 2021 News outlets in the United States and in Europe have again been drawing attention to the oppression and persecution being suffered by the Uyghurs in the western region of China known as Xinjiang. Somewhere between one and two million of them have been rounded up and placed in “reeducation” camps by the Chinese government, with smuggled out stories telling ...
The Hazards of Government Wage Mandates by Michael Tennant February 9, 2021 President Joe Biden is trying to get Congress to pass an increase in the federal minimum wage as part of a COVID-19 “stimulus” package. However, a recent experiment in mandating higher wages at the local level ought to make him think twice about doing so on a national basis. In January, the city of Long Beach, California, ...
The Patriot Party Platform by Laurence M. Vance February 8, 2021 Within a week after moving out of the White House, Donald Trump announced the creation of the “Office of the Former President.” According to an official statement dated January 25, “The Office will be responsible for managing President Trump’s correspondence, public statements, appearances, and official activities to advance the interests of the United States and to ...
The Government’s War on Domestic Terrorism Is a Trap by John W. Whitehead February 5, 2021 This is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends. What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical ...
Biden’s Executive Orders vs. American Public Opinion by Richard M. Ebeling February 3, 2021 In the first ten days of his new administration, following his inauguration on January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed more than 25 executive orders changing the direction and content of federal government activities. That is four times as many executive orders as were signed in the same number of first days in the White House as Donald Trump, ...
The Real Problem with Biden’s “Buy American” Policy by Laurence M. Vance February 2, 2021 Joe Biden has already issued more executive orders during his first two weeks in office than any previous president. One of them is something that Donald Trump could have issued verbatim. On April 18, 2017, Trump issued Executive Order 13788, “Buy American and Hire American.” The policy statement is found in Section 2: It shall be the policy ...
The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes by John W. Whitehead February 1, 2021 You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country…why in the name of God don’t you have any faith in the system of government you’re so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ...
Free Labor Markets vs. Biden’s Push for Compulsory Unionism by Richard M. Ebeling January 29, 2021 We have now entered the Joe Biden presidency in the United States. Calling for a restored unity among the American people, the new president has come out of the starting gate with a plethora of executive orders and legislative policy proposals being sent to the Democratic Party-controlled Congress. Virtually all of them involve increased government spending, regulation, and planning ...
The Right to Refuse Service Should Be Universal and Absolute by Laurence M. Vance January 27, 2021 From New York to Florida, businesses are asserting what they believe is their right to refuse service. It brings up a number of questions. Do these businesses have such a right? Should they have such a right? Should such a right be universal? Should such a right be absolute? What about discrimination? What about fairness? What about equality? What about ...
Black Lives Matter, But Not to Everyone, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger January 26, 2021 Part 1 | Part 2 Some people argue that the solution to the problem of police abuse of blacks is to defund or dismantle the police. But that is no solution at all. That only opens the door to those who violate the rights of others through the commission of violent crimes. As we have seen in Portland and ...
Federal Censorship Protects Leviathan’s Crimes by James Bovard January 25, 2021 Ever since the 9/11 attacks, Republicans and Democrats have conspired to keep Americans increasingly ignorant of what the federal government does. The number of secret federal documents skyrocketed, and any information that was classified supposedly cannot be exposed without dooming the nation. Politicians and federal agencies recognize that “what people don’t know won’t hurt the government.” James Madison, the father ...