American History

John Whitehead In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.—Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials, b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops, d) purchased tickets to travel...

John Whitehead No president from either party should have the sole power to shut down or take control of the internet or any other of our communication channels during an emergency. — Senator Rand Paul What’s to stop the U.S. government from throwing the kill switch and shutting down phone and internet communications in a time of so-called crisis? After...

LUNAMARINA/iStock/Getty Images Plus Are we truly a nation of, by, and for the people, as Lincoln put it, if our elected representatives aren’t the ones actually making the decisions affecting our lives? For a long time they haven’t been making many of those decisions, too, having essentially “outsourced” them to judges and bureaucrats. But two cases currently before the Supreme...

AP Images Javier Milei Argentine self interest or fundamental principles? Having taken the time to research and cover (in this substack essay) the CV and anarcho-capitalist logic of Argentine President (and economist) Javier Milei, I was familiar with most of the points made during his speech at the WEF earlier this week. However, his comments supporting monopolies were new to me,...

Bill Hahn At a time when property rights and standards of living are under attack due to environmental extremism, freedom-lovers all around the world are pushing back. From farmers and truckers in Germany and the Netherlands, to farmers here in the Midwest and Plains states, much concern is being raised about the United Nations Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. Last...

AP Images Mike Johnson House Speaker Mike Johnson, confronted with a “gotcha” question, remained calm, cool, and collected. A reporter asked him on Thursday if he believed that “Joe Biden’s presidency is God’s will?” The reporter was referring to Johnson’s forthright claim to be a believer in the Holy Scriptures during his inaugural address in November: I believe that Scripture...

AP Images Javier Milei The following is a transcript of Argentinian President Javier Milei’s January 17 speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Good afternoon. Thank you very much. I am here today to tell you that the West is in peril. It’s in peril because those who supposedly ought to defend Western values are being...

AP Images A Maine Superior Court judge issued a stay on the decision by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to block former President Donald Trump from the Maine GOP primary ballot. Justice Michaela Murphy denied Trump’s appeal of Bellows decision, and also stayed Bellow’s decision to remove him from the Maine ballot. Murphy wrote in her decision that she...

If you think our elections are safe from non-citizens voting, think again. An unprecedented move by Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes just opened the way for non-citizens—legal or otherwise—to register for and cast a ballot in the 2024 election. That includes Arizona’s Republican primary in March, meaning the same illegal aliens flooding across our open border could vote...

Official Navy Page/Wikimedia Commons U.S. Navy ships in Mediterraean Thomas Jefferson, the Barbary Pirates, and the Constitution “Yemen’s Houthis Become Today’s Red Sea Version of the ‘Barbary Pirates‘” “The US Must Uphold Freedom of Navigation” Those headlines and dozens like them introduce stories from both conservative and liberal media outlets praising Joe Biden for ordering airstrikes against Houthi interests in...

Gage Skidmore/flickr “ a traitor. He’s an absolute traitor. He lies under oath. He says that the border is secure. It’s not. He took an oath to protect us, and he’s not doing it…. The whole administration is the same way. Even our president, the president of the United States, I call him a traitor too.”  Texas rancher Wayne King...

KeithBinns/iStock/Getty Images Plus The civil war in Yemen, in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, after years of U.S. support for one side in the conflict, is threatening to become a much more serious war for the United States and other Western nations. After the Iranian-supported Houthis began launching drones and cruise missiles in November to disrupt Western shipping...

Paul Dragu Remember Mr. Science? Mr. Mask Off-Mask On? Mr. Let’s Force the Vax on People?   Dr. Fauci spent many hours behind closed doors on Monday and Tuesday answering questions of Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic about his power reign during the NWO totalitarian trial run, otherwise known as the Covid years.   Among the congressional members...

AP Images The joint military operation on Thursday evening by the United States and the U.K. against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have been disrupting international shipping in the Red Sea for several weeks, has received mixed reactions from Congress. There is bipartisan support but also some concern over President Joe Biden’s decision to take this action without broader...

Larry Elder President Joe Biden, on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol building riot, gave a fiery speech in which he condemned former President Donald Trump for allegedly causing an “insurrection.” Biden said: “For the first time on our history, insurrectionists had come to stop the peaceful transfer — transfer of power in America — first time...

Twitter/X The National Park Service has scrapped its plan to remove a statue of William Penn from Welcome Park in Philadelphia. NPS’s release suggest that it never really had a such plan, and that whoever posted the news that the statue of Pennsylvania’s founder was coming down, to be replaced with “Native American” hokum, did so “prematurely.” That’s bureaucratese for...

By Richard W Hawkins, Lt Col, USAF (ret) “Biblical methodology with Biblical content results in a Christian worldview and Dialectic methodology, even with Biblical content, leads to good little socialists.”          — Dr Marlene McMillan, whylibertymatters.com Discussions ensue regarding whether conservatives or Christians should run for local school boards with the belief that government-controlled K-12 schooling can be reformed at...

AP Images Soviet-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff used to tell a joke about choice in the USSR. “In Soviet Union, there are two television stations,” he said (I’m paraphrasing). “Channel One is government propaganda.” Channel Two is a man wagging his finger and sternly saying, “Turn back to Channel One!” With respect to elections, Western pseudo-elites today do aim to offer...

Selwyn Duke When a child isn’t punished for throwing a tantrum and instead gets his way, he repeats the behavior in the future. So it will be with the Left, too, should Donald Trump win the presidency this year. Having gotten away with roiling the country in 2020 and driving him from office (by hook and crook), writes commentator Rich...

Mariusz Kielbowicz/iStock/Getty Images Plus Are ballot initiatives another characteristic of modern American politics that sounds good on paper but in reality has a disastrous effect on the Republic? Over the last few years, Florida has earned a reputation as one of the most conservative states in the Union. For decades, the Republican Party has dominated the Legislature and the governorship,...