America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars.
The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture, even when it invokes national security, public order, economic necessity, emergency or the will of a popular majority.
A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has made a startling claim about the nature of political power.
A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere.
President Donald Trump ran for office the first time promising Americans that he would “drain the swamp” in Washington if elected, but he has failed to deliver, and more voters believe government corruption is more widespread than ever before, according to a newly released Gallup poll.
The freedom of speech and of the press is not a gift bestowed by a president, Congress or a federal agency. It is a natural right of all persons.
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that the government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully.
When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone.
The war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. Here is the backstory.
President Trump has no problem criticizing, condemning, insulting, demonizing and threatening those who refuse to fall in line.