If we are to ever see America return to a land of liberty and freedom, we need a revival of the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a federal holiday signed into…
In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ruler who believed power flowed from his own will rather than the consent of the governed. Paine’s…
Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off. 2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution—when executive power expanded openly and unapologetically, surveillance became ambient, dissent became dangerous, and the machinery of…
For years now, Donald Trump and his nationalist buddies in the Republican Party have pretended to oppose the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 and the government spying programs it created for the NSA, CIA, and other government agencies.…
If we are to have any hope of restoring both the structural and freedom foundations of this nation, we’ll need to start by restructuring America’s national priorities. A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and…
When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed by the government, one can only conclude that you shouldn’t trust the government with your privacy, your property,…
This is Part 2 of John Whitehead’s excellent commentary pointing out the many ways government worked to overthrow the Constitution while waging war on our freedom ever since 9/11. When we left off yesterday, Whitehead had concluded that government’s plan…
