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.
Tag: corruption
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ICE WANTS OUR EMAILS
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.
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THE NORMALCY OF AMERICAN WARS
The war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. Here is the backstory.
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DISSENT IS NOT DISLOYALTY: THE RIGHT AND DUTY TO CRITICIZE THE GOVERNMENT
President Trump has no problem criticizing, condemning, insulting, demonizing and threatening those who refuse to fall in line.
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EMPIRE AT 250: CAN THE PRINCIPLES OF 1776 SURVIVE THE AMERICAN POLICE STATE?
This is a year of strange anniversaries. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a band of revolutionaries declared their independence from a king.
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AMERICA THE UNFREE—HOME OF THE POLICED, SURVEILLED AND OCCUPIED
“I love the inflation.”—Donald Trump (June 2026). America has become an occupied nation.
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A NATION OF SUSPECTS
Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
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THE TRUMP HUSTLE: DISTRACTION, DECEPTION AND THE HEIST OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
Call it what it is: a heist.
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UNFIT TO GOVERN: WE NEED A 25TH AMENDMENT FOR THE AMERICAN POLICE STATE
One week after posting a profanity-laced Easter message threatening to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, Donald J. Trump, the 47th president of the United States, spent the night of April 12 and into the early morning hours unleashing a barrage of AI-generated images, threats and insults.
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LOCKED DOWN. ROUNDED UP. WAREHOUSED. THE RISE OF AMERICA’S CONCENTRATION CAMPS
In 2021, amid a global pandemic, warnings that the federal government might repurpose warehouses into detention facilities on American soil were dismissed as speculative, alarmist, even conspiratorial.