Those who retain a semblance of individual thought after seven years of being brainwashed by our brave truth-telling journalists may recall that all of history collapsed on the morning of September 11, 2001. The public was, therefore, denied a frank natio

In Bush-speak, national security has come to mean having big guns, lots of heavily armed troops, cruise missiles, nuclear weapons, naval armadas and a bully's willingness to use these weapons on a whim, with no thought of consequences.

Corruption and disregard for the Constitution has become the status quo in Congress. It has become acceptable practice by most politicians, therefore they are rarely called on it by others. Politicians in Congress have gotten used to the idea that their j

The shortest line between power and criminality is zero accountability, which is exactly what "judicial independence" means. We have allowed the federal bench to demonstrate the truth of that statement too many times.

The framers believed that no single official, including the President, should ever have sole authority over this most crucial of all constitutional powers because of how easily it can be abused. In 1793, James Madison wrote that the "fundamental doctrine

Liberty is not a child of militarism. The liberty of a people in any society, a rarity to be sure, is dependent on the character of the free members of that society. Liberty sought by use of bombs and other instruments of terror is liberty sought in vain.

Except in time of war, the United States will provide no weapons or other resources to foreign governments, will engage in no military action outside the borders of the United States, and shall deploy no military personnel or weapons outside the boundarie

Yes, without America there would be no war in Ossetia and no war between Russia and its former constituent part. Without America there would be no war in Afghanistan. No war in Iraq. Without America there would not be 1.2 million dead Iraqis and 4 mill

Neocons still run things. Dick Cheney leads them, and he claims Iran needs to be addressed (along with Syria) as the next phase of "the road map to war."

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”