United States Court System

John Whitehead Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before all hell breaks loose. Imagine it, if you will: It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a loud noise. Barely ten seconds later, someone or an army of someones has...

fstockfoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Supreme Court, in a rare move, agreed to hear Trump’s complaint over the ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court during its normal “break” period. The high court’s term runs from early October through the end of June the following year, with a breather taken between late January and the middle of February. This year is different, thanks...

Sean Pavone/iStock/Getty Images Plus Maine State House A bill that would have turned Maine into a “sanctuary state” for kids who want to change their gender went down to a resounding defeat Thursday at the hands of the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee. The majority-Democrat committee voted unanimously to prevent LD1735, which opponents dubbed the “Transgender Trafficking Bill,” from being sent...

vistoff/iStock/Getty Images Plus Having already stripped their state’s parents of many of their rights in furtherance of the transgender agenda, Maine lawmakers are now considering legislation that would make the Pine Tree State a haven for kids who want to change their gender — and the adults who enable them to do so. The worst of the transgender madness, it...

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,...

AP Images Fani Willis A former U.S. attorney says that the prosecutor in the election case in Fulton County, Georgia, against former President Donald Trump and his aides must recuse herself. Appointed by President Barack Obama, Michael Moore told CNN that prosecutor Fani Willis blew the case when she hired her married boyfriend as a special prosecutor, an allegation that...

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...

The US and “Israel” have been recently carrying out political assassinations in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. ISIS carried out a massive bombing in Iran during the same period, and there is a connection between ISIS and the US. On December 25, 2023, Razi Mousavi, a senior officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was assassinated by an Israeli airstrike in...

AP Images Mike Johnston The city of Denver has reached a breaking point, with illegal immigrants arriving in the sanctuary city placing a “huge strain” on city resources that could cost taxpayers an estimated $180 million per year. Continuing to support the illegals without federal support in 2024 would cost the city roughly 10 to 15 percent of its annual...

sshepard/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case in which the Biden administration is attempting to use a novel interpretation of federal law to preempt state abortion bans. The court also granted a stay of a lower court’s injunction against an Idaho abortion law until such time as the justices issue their decision in the case....

Kurt Kaiser/Wikimedia Commons January 6, 2021 has now been in the rearview mirror of history for three years, yet the events and fallout of that day are felt just as strongly today as they were in the immediate aftermath. Just look at the current political situation: Democrat-dominated states are scheming to keep Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United...

AP Images Local news outlets in Iowa have identified a suspect in the shooting at Perry Middle School & High School in Perry, Iowa. Seventeen-year-old Dylan Butler is suspected of killing a sixth grade student, and injuring five others on the Perry Community School District campus shared by the Middle and High Schools. Law-enforcement officers entered the campus immediately upon...

Liudmila_Fadzeyeva/iStock/Getty Images Plus An Oregon mom who was excluded from her state’s adoption program because of her Christian beliefs on gender and sexuality has filed an appeal with the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a lower court denied her request for a preliminary injunction. Widowed mother-of-five Jessica Bates is a Christian who, “inspired by the story of a...

Janis Abolins / iStock / Getty Images Plus The British tabloid Daily Mail reported on Tuesday the results of its most recent polling of American likely voters in November’s president election and noted that Donald Trump’s lead over incumbent Joe Biden continues to widen. Trump was two points behind Biden in June but was one point ahead of Biden in...

StephanieFrey/iStock/Getty Images Plus Dean Weingarten, a journalist at Ammoland, has been fighting to restore the Second Amendment to its fullest and broadest understanding: that sovereign citizens have the unalienable right to defend themselves against a tyrannical government with firearms. In November he wrote: “This correspondent has been involved in the struggle to restore Second Amendment rights for more than 50...

With inflation, debt, and financial instability continuing to make headlines, a new national scorecard exposes Vermont, New Jersey, Maine, and Minnesota as America’s absolute worst states for sound money… …while Wyoming, South Dakota, Alaska, and New Hampshire came out on top in the rankings. Money Metals Exchange, the top-rated precious metals dealer and depository in the United States, has partnered...

John Whitehead He says, “You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?” I said: “No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.”—Donald Trump to Sean Hannity on being asked if he would abuse power after being re-elected Once a dictator, always a dictator. Power-hungry, lawless...

AP Images Rand Paul As Congress debates whether to reauthorize the unconstitutional FISA program, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has introduced legislation to rein in the federal surveillance state and restore Americans’ Fourth Amendment-protected rights. Congress is debating the fate of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is scheduled to expire at the end of the...