Bradley Manning Finally Gets a Hearing
Next week, as the country's Christmastime frenzy is in full swing, a 24-year-old American Army private will be on trial for his very life. His supporters say “we are all Bradley Manning,” and perhaps they are right. His first hearing since he was arrested in May 2010...
War on Terror Keeps on Giving
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. - Thomas Jefferson The United States has entered a period of unparalleled tyranny for the nation, and a shotgun blast of it...
Can Congress Steal Your Constitutional Freedoms?
Can the president use the military to arrest anyone he wants, keep that person away from a judge and jury, and lock him up for as long as he wants? In the Senate's dark and terrifying vision of the Constitution, he can. Congress is supposed to work in public. That...
Setting the Trap
Buried in the annual defense appropriations bill is a provision that would give the President the power to use the military to intern anyone – including American citizens – indefinitely, and hold them without charges or trial, anywhere in the world,...
What If the Constitution No Longer Applied?
What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to limit the government? What if Congress' enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limited Congress, but were actually used as justification to extend Congress' authority over every realm of human life? What if...
Is Canada’s Attorney General Illiterate?
Supreme Court of Canada Case Information Docket 34357: Attorney General of Canada on behalf of the United States of America v. Abdullah Khadr Nov. 3, 2011: Decision on the application for leave to appeal, Bi De Ro. The application for leave to appeal from the judgment...
The Imperial Boomerang Returns
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. – James Madison House Raids, Murder, and Other Aggression The war in Iraq has been conducted using “urban warfare” tactics including the raiding of Iraqi homes. On...
Madison and Jefferson Were UnPATRIOTic
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” - Thomas Jefferson As a history teacher, I spend a great deal of time with the Founding Fathers, and, as an American citizen, I was raised to see them, their ideas, and the...
TSA Releases VIPR Venom on Tennessee Highways
Listen to Rep. Ron Paul deliver this address. If you thought the Transportation Security Administration would limit itself to conducting unconstitutional searches at airports, think again. The agency intends to assert jurisdiction over our nation’s highways,...
