A New Conversation on Civil Rights by Lawrence Henry

That cozy voyage with the Commission will undoubtedly come to crash on two conspicuous rocks: The Commission now has a black conservative face, which much of the entrenched culture finds intolerable. And, by emphasizing the inequities of K-12 education, the Commission will find itself identified with the President's No Child Left Behind Act, a lightning rod for liberal criticism in politics and the press.

Do They Know It’s Christmas? by Pat Buchanan

While Christmas often brings forth the best in some of us because of who and what is being celebrated, that is not true for all of us. For some it brings forth the purest malevolence. Why? Sadly, because they do not know Him. Nevertheless, Merry Christmas—to all.

Confused About Democracy by Alan Bock

In short, the insight that freedom and the emergence of a civil society are more important than elections and the outward forms of democracy seems not to be widespread. The idea that a country can afford democracy or even representative government only after a civil society characterized by personal freedom, tolerance, and a firm commitment to liberty has been established and become part of the fabric of a society, seems not to have occurred to most so-called experts.

Anti-Gun Academics by John R. Lott, Jr.

This month the National Academy of Sciences issued a 328-page report on gun-control laws. The big news is that the academy’s panel couldn’t identify any benefits of the decades-long effort to reduce crime and injury by restricting gun ownership. The only conclusion it could draw was: Let’s study the question some more (presumably, until we find the results we want).

‘Reconstruction’, or just another bloody revolution? by Cliff Jones

A lot of people are aware that a necrotic smell wafted out of Washington, D.C during the period known as "the reconstruction." Specifics abound, there's a mass of "laws" passed during the period that raise serious questions as to whether there was a functional constitution in place at the time or not. (turns out no) Banking comes to mind, look into what "double standard" really means for instance, you'll see the term was slandered, given a major bum rap for all time. The "double standard" would have made you and me rich beyond our wildest dreams, but then the central bank crowd would have had to find new work.

Congressman, Professor Join In Opposition To Patriot Act

Republican US Representative Butch Otter and a progressive University of Idaho law professor have co-written a law article critical of the Patriot Act.

Otter's co-author is professor Elizabeth Brandt. She's a longtime American Civil Liberties Union activist who served on the organization's national board for a decade.

Hands Off the Electoral College by Ron Paul

Not surprisingly, calls to abolish the Electoral College system are heard most loudly among left elites concentrated largely on the two coasts. Liberals favor a very strong centralized federal government, and have contempt for the concept of states' rights (a contempt now shared, unfortunately, by the Republican Party). They believe in federalizing virtually every area of law, leaving states powerless to challenge directives sent down from Washington. The Electoral College system threatens liberals because it allows states to elect the president, and in many states the majority of voters still believe in limited government and the Constitution.

The Patriot Act Recission Bill of 2005

The Legislative Development Committee of the Independent American Party has drafted a "Patriot Act Rescission Bill of 2005" and mailed it to a number of members of Congress. The intent is to get one or more Congressmen to sponsor and introduce this or a similar Rescission Bill before the U.S. Congress.

AMERICAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT

Only the restoration of the pre-1776 constitution stands a chance of releasing the American Nation from the DEATH-GRIP of the politicians of the republic, who are now engaged in a building spree constructing prisons, prisons designed to hold all the dissidents the politicians KNOW there will be when their policies have their effect.

The Emperor-in-Chief by Marjorie Cohn

Now that Bush has secured a second term, it is no longer necessary to hide behind the subtle flight suit that bedecked him on the deck of the aircraft carrier declaring "Mission Accomplished" in May 2003. He can now come out of the closet as full-fledged Emperor of the World.

Notwithstanding the United States Constitution and the United Nations Charter, Bush nicely qualifies as "the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire," as required by Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary.

The Fountainhead Of Peace by James Neff

The Fountainhead Of Peace

Peace is the only path; those who seek peace are blessed by God. Those who war will die by war, they bring upon themselves their own penalty and curse. Obey the wisdom of God, follow his commandments, for they are not a burden and lead to a happy life free from want and free from misery.

Rise of the Amerikan Nazis: Part III of III: Amerikan Terrorists, American Tragedy by Manuel Valenzuela

Rise of the Amerikan Nazis: Part III of III: Amerikan Terrorists, American Tragedy

When the thunderous clouds of fascists past and corporatists present finally dissipate over the vast lands of the United States, leaving in its wake a nation recovering from the violent downpours of mass lunacy, fear and collective schizophrenia that have caused a dustbowl-style drought of humanity in the nation of gluttonous undertakings, it will finally be seen, beyond the enveloping haze of post 9/11 hypnosis hindering American visibility, the devastation of what was done to us and what has been done to the world in our name, oftentimes with our willing consent and through our complicit guilt through silence and acquiescence.

Bush Administration Allies With Abortion Industry

Bush Administration Allies With Abortion Industry

“Congress chose to enact an unconstitutional statute which permits [the federal government] to do exactly what our Framers would have been appalled by, which is to regulate local violent criminal conduct,” argued Bird’s public defender, Brent Newton. “We still believe there are 50 states that are separate sovereigns in this country. That is what is at issue here. It’s not about abortion rights.”

Florida Election Stolen by Christopher Bollyn

Florida Election Stolen

An affidavit signed by the programmer, Clinton Curtis, in Prince George’s County, Md., on Dec. 6, 2004, names the individuals involved in a computer vote fraud scheme that he worked with in “the early fall of 2000” as “lead programmer” for a company called Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), based in Oviedo, Fla.

The Revolution? It's Over by Dorothy Anne Seese

Grassroots Granny - Of Washington Grassroots Electronic Network

The cultural revolution is over. Without a shot being fired other than by government agents, America was changed, transformed, from a land of liberty to a nation of multicultural tolerance dolts with liberal educations and preemptive mindsets. There is still a bit of mop up work to do to clear out some radical free-thinkers (mostly pesky Christians and diehards of the Confederacy and its battle flag) but they will be eradicated within a decade. One way or another.

NATIONAL IDENTITY CARDS by S.R. Shearer

NATIONAL IDENTITY CARDS

The landmark U.S. intelligence overhaul that passed Congress recently contained a little-noticed provision regarding state drivers' licenses that is intended to refashion these licenses in the next 18 months into what amounts to be NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION CARDS.

What Your Government Is Doing for (to) You by Harry Browne

What Your Government Is Doing for (to) You by Harry Browne

Then we must create a tidal wave of public opinion that tells the people in Washington that we won't tolerate what they're doing. And don't be won over to the idea that people won't help us because they're too enamored with what little they get from government. All they have to do is look at their 1040 forms to see how much they pay for so little in return.

Government is a scam. And like any other scam, it can be exposed for what it really is.

How Secure is Social Security? by Marion Edwyn Harrison, Esq.

The Washington Dispatch

Predictably the political left, which wants more taxes on other people to fund more handouts, benefits, largesse, entitlements -- whatever one cares to term them -- opposes Social Security privatization or partial privatization, because self-determination is contrary to the Welfare State, Big Government or whatever invidious, if realistic, label one chooses to apply. The left predictably also would oppose any deferment of eligibility or reduced benefit.

CounterAttack on Gary Webb by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair: CounterAttack on Gary Webb

[What follows is an extended excerpt from Chapter Two of our book Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press. AC / JSC]

National Intelligence Reform Act Erodes Civil Liberties by Donald A. Collins

The Washington Dispatch

The bottom line on all this seems to be that Congress rushed to pass something, which many, perhaps most of Congress, were unhappy about, but what they passed is not clearly helpful in protecting us against terrorism or the loss of more civil liberties. Is this just a clandestine version of Patriot Act II? Sounds like it. And, taxpayers, wait til you see the cost!

Draft Registration for 15-year-olds?

Draft Registration for 15-year-olds? - Insider Report - December 13, 2004: "Draft Registration for 15-year-olds?"

During its 2003 session, the Louisiana state legislature passed a measure “dictating that all males 15 up to 18 seeking a first-time driver’s license or [a state-issued] identification card must register with Selective Service,” continued the report. Several other states require young men age 18 and older to register when they apply for a license, but “no other state requires males as young as 15 to register.”

Albany Woman Forcibly Injected With Drugs

Albany Woman Forcibly Injected With Drugs

The legal scholar and constitutionalist, with no apparent mental illness history, was originally committed to Kirby in September for a 90-day evaluation by Judge Keefe because he claimed two examiners from the Albany County Correctional Facility had determined she had no comprehension of the charges against her or of court procedure because she refused to discuss the case with them.

Civil Disobedience And The National ID by Devvy Kidd

Devvy Kidd -- Civil Disobedience And The National ID: "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND THE NATIONAL ID"

There comes a time when an individual either takes a stand against what they know is wrong or they may as well get down on their knees and clank their chains. This national id/driver's license must not be allowed to be implemented.

Democracy and a Free Press by Ryan McMaken

Democracy and a Free Press by Ryan McMaken

All this deference to government is the natural outcome of the democratic mentality. After all, many Americans have naïvely convinced themselves that they have something more than only the most minimal and oblique control over the government’s policies, The media remains, in their view, an independent and uncontrolled institution, often undermining the democracy the voters worship rather than enhancing it.

Licensure: A Lawyer Protection Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger

Licensure: A Lawyer Protection Racket

So what is the purpose and effect of occupational licensure? It’s very simple — licensure operates as a protection racket for attorneys, protecting them from unbridled competition. By limiting the supply of attorneys through a rigorous and expensive system involving getting into and attending law schools and then passing an extremely difficult, state-administered bar exam, lawyers are able to keep the number of practitioners artificially low, thereby enabling them to charge higher prices to the public.

Southerners should stop the pledge of allegiance by Rex Curry

Southerners should stop the pledge of allegiance

Francis Bellamy’s pledge is a chant of capitulation, and the U.S. flag in a school is a white flag of surrender, to government, to the Department of Education, to nationalization, to socialism, to militarism. The Bellamys gave the red stripes a loathsome connotation for socialized schools.

Constitution Butchered in Winter of 2004

Never before in US history have the Congress and the President done so much to destroy the rights that make America America.

The struggle to keep our American Heritage by Joyce Morrison

Federal Observer Articles - Federal Observer: "The struggle to keep our American Heritage"

A major threat before Congress could be S 1521, the Heritage Areas legislation.

The APC alert stated that representatives and senators think Heritage Areas are simply convenient little bundles of pork that they can carry back to their districts. While that would be bad enough, Heritage Areas are far worse than "pork." They empower the National Park Service to control land use in your community, and dump money to beneficiaries to enact whatever radical environmental or preservational agenda that is nearest and dearest to their hearts.

Passports go electronic with new microchip by Susan Llewelyn Leach

Passports go electronic with new microchip | csmonitor.com

Although the data on the chip will not be encrypted, for the sake of easing "interoperability" across international borders, Ms. Shannon says, the government does plan to incorporate a security feature that will largely prevent skimming. Embedded fibers in the front and back covers will shield the passport from electronic probing, at least while it is closed. Other security features in the new passports include a digital or electronic seal that will ensure the document is authentic and smart-card technology that renders the chip inoperable if it is tampered with using energy waves or radio waves.

The Real Matrix, Part 1 by Steven Yates

Steven Yates -- The Real Matrix, Part 1:

"Let's now go beyond the thought-experiment stage. Does this super-elite really exist, or is this just more armchair "conspiracy theory"? It is not a theory. It is now quite well documented. The information is available to anyone willing to seek it out. To paraphrase what Trinity told Neo in their initial conversation, the answers are out there, and will find you if you want them to. Or, you can find them, if you go looking. "

The Decline and Fall of the United States Empire by Jason Gonella

The Decline and Fall of the United States Empire by Jason Gonella

Today, class, we will continue our discussion of the decline and fall of the United States in the first quarter of the 21st century. Yesterday we discussed military adventurism and how the Imperialist Wars severely weakened the United States. Tomorrow we will discuss the economics of the fall. Today we will discuss my favorite aspect, the fractures in the political landscape.

Half-truths vs. True Facts: The One & Only Presidential Museum In The World

The toughest thing to get across to people when you teach true history is to wipe out the things that they have been taught in the past. Many of the anecdotal historical "facts" that we think we know deal with half-truths, something the average person believes and perhaps take for granted. read now

Having the Gall To Speak One's Mind by Harry Browne

As far as we're concerned, the world changed because American Presidents from Roosevelt to Bush have stuck their nose in the affairs of other countries. Isolationism is in fact the only way to stop the threats and dangers that have been created by those Presidents. Switzerland is a country that is as free, as prosperous, and as democratic as the United States, but is a military weakling – and yet it has suffered no terrorist attacks and is in no danger. Why? Because it doesn't meddle in other countries' business.

San Diego-based sailor refuses deployment in protest of war

"I don't want to be a part of a ship that's taking 3,000 Marines over there, knowing a hundred or more of them won't come back," he said. "I can't sleep at night knowing that's what I do for a living."

Baby Gap by Steve Sailer

Now illegal immigrants are flocking to other pro-growth red states, such as North Carolina and Georgia, and may eventually turn those states Democratic due both to the Democratic-voting immigrants’ very high birthrates and to a California-style drift toward environmentalism among its white voters as laissez faire proves inadequate to keep out illegal aliens.

Nobody noticed that the famous blue-red gap was a white baby gap because the subject of white fertility is considered disreputable. But I believe the truth is better for us than ignorance, lies, or wishful thinking. At least, it’s certainly more interesting.

Pity the poor Founding Fathers by Dave Gorak

The Knight Foundation wants to financially support the meddlers. In additional to grants awarded to individual cities, the foundation It will further award $8 million in grants among several "immigrant-friendly" organizations, including The National Council of La Raza ($1.25 million) and the National Immigration Forum ($1.75 million), both of which make no attempt to hide their disdain for our immigration laws while demanding "dignity and respect" for the millions of illegal workers who come here to steal jobs and wages from our own working poor.

21st Century American Revolution, 2 by Michael Hasty

In a very real sense, the Constitution was a coup d'état by the bankers and other "moneyed interests" who were trying to protect their investments in the collapsing post-Revolution economy. The original charge to the Constitutional Convention was simply to correct the flaws in the Articles of Confederation—not to write a new Constitution. Two centuries later, the Anti-federalists who opposed adopting the Constitution, but lost the vote, have turned out to be more prescient about the tyrannical potential of federalism than the Federalists.

72nd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2003 Regular Session

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's brief statement of the essential features of the measure as introduced.

Speaking English Preserves Our National Heritage by Nathan Tabor

An Official English laws will not only preserve our cultural heritage, historical documents, and uniquely American way of life, it will also enable immigrants to fit in and flourish here. At a bare minimum, Official English legislation would:

1) Promote unity within the society;
2) Empower immigrants to prosper in the community;
3) Produce efficient, common-sense government.