We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President

Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

President Trump’s flag burning fight is a constitutional bait-and-switch--a culture-war diversion to distract from the Deep State's authoritarian power grabs.

COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Four Years Later, We’re Still Failing

COVID-19 was a test to see how little resistance the citizenry would offer up to the government’s power grabs when made in the name of national security. “We the people” failed that test spectacularly. Four years later, we're still failing.

We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President

Any presidential candidate who promises to be a dictator on day one, if elected, will be a dictator-in-chief for life. Then again, the president is already a dictator with permanent powers: imperial, unaccountable and unconstitutional.

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. 1984 has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state.

Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do

SWAT team raids have become a thinly veiled, court-sanctioned means of giving heavily armed police the green light to crash through doors in the middle of the night.