True Civil Libertarians Must Oppose the IRS
Progressives who work to end individual rights violations committed by the NSA, FBI, DEA, CIA, and other federal agencies usually overlook, or even support, the routine violations of Americans’ rights ...
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Authoritarians Drunk on Power
It is time to recalibrate the government. For years now, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the ...
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Neither Necessary nor Proper
It was sixteen years ago last month that the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Gonzales v. Raich (2005), ruled that the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801) did not exceed ...
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President Biden Wants to Boost Funding for National Police State
Remember when Democrats were going to take away funding for the police? In fact, the first proposed Biden budget more than doubles funding for a federal program that doles ...
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National Park Service Joining the National Surveillance State
The U.S. National Park Service is joining the ever-growing national surveillance state. According to a notice published in the Federal Register, the Department of the Interior (DOI) is turning the ...
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Restoring the Fourth Amendment’s Oath or Affirmation Clause
The Fourth Amendment’s requirements for obtaining a warrant have been subverted in practice and in legal theory. That’s the argument made in “The Broken Fourth Amendment's Oath” paper written by ...
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THERE ARE TWO AMERICAS ~
In early January 2020, Bob Lonsberry, a Rochester talk radio personality on WHAM 1180 AM, said this in response to Biden’s Income inequality speech: Two Americas The Democrats are right, ...
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Partisan Hackery Blinds People to the Real Problem
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently went to Capitol Hill and testified before a House committee. The questions asked by Republicans and Democrats along with their accompanying spin once again ...
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Why a Standing Army and a Welfare State?
One of the major distinguishing characteristics, philosophically speaking, between our American ancestors and today’s Americans is with respect to the national-security establishment. Our ancestors fiercely opposed that type of governmental ...
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