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The Ongoing War on the American People

“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly...

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What I Don’t Like About Post-9/11 America

Photo Source Marcela | CC BY 2.0 “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” ―Edward Abbey Life in a post-9/11 America increasingly feels like an endless free fall...

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You Want to Make America Great Again? Start by Making America Free Again

Photo Source D.C.Atty | CC BY 2.0 “If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” —George Washington Living in a representative republic means...

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Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?

Still from “They Live.” “The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their...

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Badge of Shame: the Government’s War on Military Veterans

Photo Source Patrick Trujillo – Photography | CC BY 2.0 “For soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, coming home is more lethal than being in combat.” ― Brené Brown, research professor at the...

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Red Flag Gun Laws

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana We never learn. In the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes. Even the...

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Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You...

“The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police...

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Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” —Thomas Jefferson We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell...

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Government Shutdown or Not, the Police State Will Continue to Flourish

“There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.” —Ludwig von Mises The government has shut down again. At least, parts of the government have...

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Break the Cycle: Say No to the Government’s Cruelty, Brutality and Abuse

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” —Edmund Burke Folks, it’s time to break the cycle. Let’s make 2019 the year we say no to the laundry list of abuses—cruel, brutal, immoral,...

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Beware the Emergency State

“For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security institutions,...

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The Danger Within: Border Patrol is Turning America into a Constitution-Free...

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” — William Pitt How far would you really go to secure the nation’s borders...

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Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI’s Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects

As more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make...

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Jackboots in the Morning

“This is jackboots in the morning. This is an American nightmare that they would arrest somebody like this.” —Judge Andrew Napolitano The American Police State does not discriminate. Whatever dangerous...

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SOTU: These Are Dangerous Times, and Our Government is Largely to Blame

“As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.” —Bertram Gross, Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America These are dangerous times. Mind you, when I say that these are...

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We’ve Been Reduced to Enemy Combatants in Our Own Country

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “There’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that [America is] the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science,...

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Rule by Fiat: National Crises, Fake Emergencies and Other Dangerous...

“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.” —Richard Nixon Who pays the price for the dissolution of the constitutional covenant that holds the government and its agents...

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The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance

“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button.” —Former Google CEO...

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Forced Blood Draws & Implied Consent Laws Make a Mockery of the Fourth Amendment

“The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity...

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Pity the Nation: War Spending is Bankrupting America

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that raises...

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