Swiss Politician Seeks to Change 600-year-old Coat of Arms in Name of “Progress”
A Swiss cantonal parliamentarian has proposed changing the coat of arms and flag of his canton, Bern, to make it more “gender neutral.” ...
Record House Retirements Signal Deep Institutional Decay
The 120th Congress that convenes in January will do so with an unusually large share of institutional memory walking out the door. ...
Alarmist Post Headline on the Arrest of “Noncriminal” Illegal Aliens Amusingly Undermines Story’s Point
The Washington Post lamented that the majority of arrests ICE made last month were of “immigrants with no criminal record.” ...
ICE Moves to Buy Robot Quadrupeds As Federal Police State Expands
Once robotic surveillance becomes an ordinary tool of federal law enforcement, the line between legitimate tactical use and a militarized police infrastructure becomes easier to cross. ...
Which is a greater threat to US Sovereignty?
Jefferson was not offering an opinion. He was stating a law, as fixed and unforgiving as gravity. A people may be ignorant. A people may be free. None has ever been both for long.
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The Bunker State: The Government Will Survive, but Will the Constitution?
If the Constitution cannot survive above ground, there is little reason to believe it will somehow be resurrected underground in the wake of a national catastrophe. ...
Are AI and its Massive Data Centers the Answer for a Free Society or Its Greatest Threat Ever?
The gathering of data on every single American and more is the reason for massive data (surveillance) centers. ...
Nothing to Fear but Article V Itself
Convention of States Action, promoters of an Article V Convention, have accused The John Birch Society of "dangerous pessimism." ...
The Death of Political Debate in the Modern World
Consider, for a moment, the dry Mediterranean sun bearing down upon the people of fifth-century Athens. In the crowded agora, a young man pauses to observe a heated exchange between a gray-haired, portly old man and a prominent politician. There is no stage, no podium, and no deliberately assembled audience. The crowd around them shifts ...
The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump’s Standing Army on American Streets
One year after President Trump deployed military troops to the nation’s capital, we find ourselves navigating a posse comitatus presidency in which the visual trappings of martial law are the norm, not the exception. ...
America Reaps What Trump Sows: The Price of Policing the Globe
What goes around comes around. That is the terrible law of blowback. When the United States bombs another country, threatens its government, kills its people, occupies its territory or attempts to dictate its future, the consequences do not remain safely contained thousands of miles away. They come home. They come home in flag-draped coffins and ...