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	05/15/13 - Jon Stewart Understands Just How Destructive IRS Scandal Really Is Jon Stewart Totally DESTROYS Obama Administration Over IRS Scandal − YouTube Dominant Social Theme: The US government is pretty benevolent and mostly gets it right. ...

	05/11/13 - IRS Scandal: What Does the US Congress Expect? Scandal. The IRS has been targeting US constitutionalists for further scrutiny by tagging certain names. This is a big deal. Unlike other IRS problems throughout the years, ...

	05/03/13 - Law Enforcement's Anti-Business Turn Q&A: The FBI's role in 'manufacturing' Terrorism ... An interview with Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory – By Daniel Schwartz, CBC News ... ...

	04/22/13 - Congress Exploits Our Fears to Take Our Liberty This week, as Americans were horrified by the attacks in Boston, both houses of Congress considered legislation undermining our liberty in the name of "safety." Gun control ...

	04/08/13 - Homeschooling: The Future of Liberty A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to ...

	03/14/13 - Solari Story: Federal Finances and Law This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "Federal Finances and Law." Here's a bit of the transcript: "The federal finances are subject to constitutional ...

	03/11/13 - Congress, Drones and The Imperial Presidency Last week the US Senate took a break from debating the phony cuts known as "sequestration," for Senator Rand Paul to hold a 13-hour filibuster to force the Obama administration ...

	03/04/13 - Brilliant Polemic Defends US Freedom ... and Demands Appropriate Incarcerations Americans – Like Nazi Germans – Don't Notice that All of Our Rights Are Slipping Away ... Americans Are Acting Like Slowly Boiling Frogs ... The German citizens ...

	02/25/13 - Swartz is Dead, White House Adjusts Rules Scientists have long published the results of their work in scholarly journals, and many such publications have warned that open access would destroy them and the function they ...

	02/20/13 - Axiom 4: A Blueprint To Restore The Articles of Confederation This is the fourth of the "12 Axioms of Freedom Restoration" set forth in my introductory article on this topic, "How to Restore the West." The restoration of America's first ...

	02/19/13 - The Drone Threat Last week, senators threatened to put a "hold" on the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director over his refusal to answer questions about the use of drones to kill ...

	02/18/13 - Down With the Presidency The modern institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust ...

	02/10/13 - Edwin Vieira on His New Book, 'The Sword and Sovereignty,' and Where the US Went Wrong The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Edwin Vieira, Jr. Introduction: Dr. Vieira holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), ...

	02/04/13 - Elite Description Problem - Why the System Needs a Full Explanation Commentary ... The Age of Neo-Feudalism: A Government of the Rich, by the Rich, and for the Corporations ... The pomp and circumstance of the presidential inauguration has died ...

	01/31/13 - In Amerika Law No Longer Exists: The Extermination of Truth In the 21st century Americans have experienced an extraordinary collapse in the rule of law and in their constitutional protections. Today American citizens, once a free people ...

	01/29/13 - Axiom 3: Back to the Articles of Confederation as America's Central Government Americans demanding a return to limited government, a balanced budget and an end to spiraling sovereign debt have been voting for the GOP for decades and the result has been ...

	01/17/13 - Media Mogul Stewart Calls NRA a False-Flag Operation – Is It? Jon Stewart: "NRA is a false flag operation run by Michael Moore" ... The NRA came out with a disgusting new commercial in which it called Obama an "elitist hypocrite" because ...

	01/15/13 - Do Sandy Hook and Additional Gun Control Illustrate Directed History? N.Y. Assembly Speaker Silver: "We Are Going To Ban Assault Weapons." Among New Laws, Gun Owners Would Have To Renew License Every 5 Years ... The New York State Legislature was ...

	01/11/13 - Future of Gun Control? DOC List of Unapproved Guns In general, rifles, shotguns, revolvers and handguns may be registered in the District of Columbia. Per DC Official Code ... as amended by the Firearms Control Amendment of ...

	01/03/13 - Jettison the Constitution? Let's Give Up on the Constitution ... As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. ...

	12/31/12 - New Year's Resolutions for Congress As I prepare to retire from Congress, I'd like to suggest a few New Year's resolutions for my colleagues to consider. For the sake of liberty, peace and prosperity I certainly ...

	12/27/12 - The Erosion of Our Freedom Often when I argue that governments must not violate our rights – they are supposed to be unalienable, after all – statists have a ready retort: Government is ...

	12/24/12 - The NRA's Sorry Tale ... In its 141st year, the NRA has risen to become one of America's most powerful lobby groups. Now the NRA is responding to a massacre that has President Obama advocating for more ...

	12/24/12 - Government Security is Just Another Kind of Violence The senseless and horrific killings last week in Newtown, Connecticut reminded us that a determined individual or group of individuals can cause great harm no matter what laws ...

	12/20/12 - Massive Psy-op? Obama Can Ban Guns By Himself – And He Will Even without Congress, Obama could act to restrict guns ... Unburdened by re-election worries and empowered by law to act without Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama could ...

	11/21/12 - A Trio of Outrages: How a Country Dies 'Unskewed Polls' founder sets up site claiming Obama stole the election ... Dean Chambers, the man behind the "Unskewed Polls" website, has a launched a new website declaring ...

	11/17/12 - Secession's Violent Subtext "Post-election secession talk misses the point," writes the Nashua Telegraph in a guest editorial from The Keene Sentinel . It pulls together a lot of secessionist strands from ...

	11/08/12 - Reexamining Democracy Over the last several decades of American political life the idea of liberty has taken a back seat to that of democracy. Liberty involves human beings governing themselves, ...

	10/28/12 - Robert Gibbs Blames the Victim? "A 16-year-old American boy killed in an Obama administration drone strike 'should have [had] a far more responsible father,' Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs says in ...

	09/11/12 - A Republic, Not a Democracy Last week marked the conclusion of the grand taxpayer funded spectacles known as the national party conventions. It is perhaps very telling that while $18 million in tax ...

	09/04/12 - End of the GOP? Rubio introduces Romney, vision of GOP future ... Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is one of the GOP's fastest-rising stars ... Rubio used his Cuban immigrant parents' story as his ...

	08/29/12 - The American Onslaught Against International Law A new film, "Compliance," examines "the human desire to follow and obey authority." Liberal institutions, such as the media, universities, federal courts, and human rights ...

	08/28/12 - Meaningless Words in Politics As we enter the fall political season, we will hear a great deal of rhetoric from both major political parties and their many candidates for office. It's important for us to ...

	08/10/12 - The Dispossessed Majority The bumper sticker on the beat-up pickup truck read: "Friends don't let friends vote Democrat." The driver was obviously not affluent. Yet, despite all the news about ...

	07/26/12 - Press Release: House Votes Overwhelmingly to Audit the Fed! WASHINGTON, July 24 – Congressman Ron Paul today applauded the passage by the House of Representatives of H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. The bill, which ...

	07/16/12 - Constitutional Anomalies As a lay student of the law, it has always struck me odd that in the US system the First Amendment to the Constitution exempts the ministry and journalism from government ...

	07/10/12 - The Final Executive Order: Death of the Republic T his is a fictional story showing how the last vestiges of the republic, your personal wealth and gold could disappear in 24 hours. "The illusion of freedom will continue as ...

	07/04/12 - An American Declaration of Independence From Big Government The Declaration of Independence, signed by members of the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, is the founding document of the American experiment in free government. What is ...

	07/02/12 - My Fourth of July Reflections For some people the Fourth of July is the most important holiday in America. Sadly, not for all, especially not just now when most of the leadership of the country has made it ...

	06/28/12 - Anticipated Reasoning by the Court A few weeks ago I wrote in one of my columns as follows: "...[T]he discussion of President Obama's federal policy requiring that everyone obtain health insurance has frequently ...

	06/24/12 - Ron Holland on Moving Offshore, Executive Orders, Rand Paul, TSA and Political Eunuchs The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Ron Holland. Introduction: Ron Holland is the author of three books, numerous special reports and ...

	06/05/12 - War Drums for Syria? War drums are beating again in Washington. This time Syria is in the crosshairs after a massacre there last week left more than 100 dead. As might be expected from an ...

	06/04/12 - You Must Watch '2012 A World In Turmoil' Video Will America be next? Here at the Daily Bell we believe the West is facing payback time for the forced, non-democratic and now failing EU experiment as well as the central ...

	05/31/12 - Let the UN Tax the US Continental Shelf? In 2012, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will recognize the 30th anniversary of its opening for signature to the Convention; as of today, the United States ...

	05/30/12 - Capital Controls Have No Place in a Free Society The characteristic mark of a tyrannical regime is that it eventually finds it necessary to erect walls to keep people from leaving. This is why we should be troubled by the ...

	05/29/12 - 17 Year Old Honor Student Jailed for Missing School A judge threw a 17-year-old 11th grade honor student from Willis High School in jail after she missed school again ... Diane Tran, a 17-year-old honor student in Texas, was ...

	05/26/12 - As Commandos Raid Tampa, US State Dept Demands Power to Declare War? Clinton Goes Commando, Sells Diplomats as Shadow Warriors ... Clinton, wearing pearls and a silver and black blouse, climbed the stage and began to speak. And soon it all made ...

	05/22/12 - On Indefinite Detention: The Tyranny Continues The bad news from last week's passage of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act is that Americans can still be arrested on US soil and detained indefinitely without trial. ...

	05/15/12 - The Fed: Mend It or End It? Last week I held a hearing to examine the various proposals that have been put forth both to mend and to end the Fed. The purpose was to spur a vigorous and long-lasting ...

	04/26/12 - The Economic Tyranny of the Interstate Commerce Clause Here is an instructive comment from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the recent oral arguments presented about Obamacare: "People who don't participate in this ...

	04/17/12 - Professor Obama Gets an F Last week President Obama made some rather shocking comments at a press conference regarding the Supreme Court's deliberation on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection ...

	04/03/12 - The Supreme Court and Obamacare Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare law, focusing on the mandate requiring every American to buy health insurance or ...

	03/29/12 - Genuine Military Defense, Anyone? As much as one may object to Iran's government's efforts to build atomic weapons, the American government isn't supposed to be some kind of meta-police that embarks upon ...

	03/26/12 - The Tenacity of the Nihilists In the book Reading Obama (Princeton, 2010), James T. Kloppenberg makes a case for how the kind of approach President Obama takes to public policy is now widely preferred, to ...

	03/20/12 - Demolishing Due Process It is ironic but perhaps sadly appropriate that Attorney General Eric Holder would choose a law school, Northwestern University, to deliver a speech earlier this month in which ...

	03/13/12 - An Administration Gone Rogue Have certain parts of the Constitution become irrelevant, as a former Republican leader once told me at a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing? At the time, I was told that ...

	03/01/12 - Delegitimizing Government Power Al Gore excoriates us on how we need to restrict our wasteful lifestyles and limit our "carbon footprint" while flying around the world in private jets, using orders of ...

	02/14/12 - The Latest Obamacare Overreach Many religious conservatives understandably are upset with the latest Obamacare mandate, which will require religious employers (including Catholic employers) to provide birth ...

	02/07/12 - Trust Us; We're the Government While much has been made recently of the President's unconstitutional appointment of Richard Cordray to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), lost in ...

	01/25/12 - NHL Hockey Star Endorses Ron Paul? Hockey is a game I know – rather well, actually. As a young person I excelled at the sport and even left home when I was 14 to live and play in a city that offered better ...

	01/24/12 - Stop Internet Censorship Although Congress was back in session for scarcely more than a day last week, private citizens across the country managed to cause an uproar felt across Capitol Hill. The ...

	01/20/12 - Internet Piracy – Who Are the Thieves? US Internet piracy case brings New Zealand arrests ... New Zealand—With 150 million registered users, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music superstars, ...

	01/11/12 - Emerging Totalitarianism Being over 70 years old and having lived through WWII in Europe and lived in Mexico, I have an excellent understanding of what dictatorships are and how they function. The fact ...

	01/10/12 - The Ultimate Consumer Protection This week, partisan games in Washington reached a fevered pitch as Congress acted to prevent recess appointments, yet the administration made them anyway. Congress has been ...

	01/03/12 - Debt Burden Threatens American Families Last week, as most Americans were celebrating the holidays with family and friends, the Obama Administration announced plans to seek yet another debt ceiling increase in the ...

	01/02/12 - So What's Wrong with That? So there is now concern by some so-called journalists that "in his 1987 manifesto 'Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution after 200-Plus Years,' presidential hopeful Ron ...

	12/26/11 - Libertarianism and Americanism Given that in the main the American political system is still the closest to protecting varieties of individual liberty – regarding speech, commerce, ...

	12/23/11 - Property Rights and the Free Press Not as if the point hasn't been made often by now, but repeating it may be of some benefit: Without a firm protection of the right to private property, the rights to freedom of ...

	12/22/11 - Why Ron Paul Can Win If you have been watching the news, you know that Ron Paul is now beating both Gingrich and Romney in the polls and could walk away with a win in Iowa. Some say he could also ...

	12/16/11 - Finis America: Year End Report 2011 It's over, and I mean all of it. If Obama is re-elected, America is doomed. The progressive process begun by President Wilson and then carried forward by FDR, Carter, Clinton ...

	12/07/11 - Wall Street Buys Up Guns Mystery company buying up U.S. gun manufacturers ... Some gun enthusiasts have claimed that the power behind the company is actually George Soros, the hedge-fund billionaire ...

	12/01/11 - NDAA, Smell of Fear The New National Defense Authorization Act Is Ridiculously Scary ... Fellow entrepreneurs, Americans, anyone who still cares about this country at all – this is a must ...

	11/28/11 - Robespierre's War on Terror Preparing for the Final Takedown? ... There is a shocking piece of legislation working its way through Congress. A Defense Authorization bill for 2012 allows for military ...

	11/09/11 - Imperialism, Left and Right No, I am not talking about foreign policy. My concern is with how both Left and Right seem to have their straightjackets into which they want everyone to be strapped, like it ...

	10/24/11 - Occupy Wall Street to Attack US Freedoms With Constitutional Convention? So, what can we do to regain our ability to make our votes count and take back our democracy? We have to concentrate all of our resources into one single attack – making ...

	10/21/11 - VIDEO: Occupy Wall Street's Bill Black Wants More FBI In a revealing interview with DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman, famous criminal attorney Bill Black makes it very clear where he stands as regards the criminal justice system in the ...

	10/11/11 - A Dangerous Precedent According to the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, Americans are never to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Constitution is not ...

	09/20/11 - Government as a Venture Capitalist In January 2009, the administration claimed that if Congress passed a rush stimulus bill, the United States would be saved from economic catastrophe that was threatening to ...

	09/01/11 - In Defense of the Right to Assisted Suicide Should aiding suicide be illegal? That is the question which faces legislators who are being urged to repeal statutes which state, basically, "Every person who deliberately ...

	08/15/11 - Fables of the Fourteenth Amendment The more I peruse the current public discourse about the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to the present quandary of public debt that confronts this country, the more I ...

	08/09/11 - Super Congress a Gift to K Street The Super Congress created by the recent debt ceiling increase deal is a typical example of something nefarious attached to a bigger bill that is rushed through Congress ...

	08/08/11 - The Moral Defense of Capitalism One reason that our founding principles are in such deep trouble today is that many years ago our parents and grandparents... and great grandparents, conceded to the enemies of ...

	08/05/11 - The Cost of Liberty Is the Acceptance of Human Nature Self-acceptance involves accepting personal limitations and possibilities. It is a crucial step in any personal development – you first have to be aware of and accept ...

	07/26/11 - The Debt Crisis and the Fiscal Leviathan State The current fiscal crisis that fills the pages of the newspapers and the news shows on television has all been revolving around the issue of raising the government debt limit. ...

	07/11/11 - Live and Let Live: Not in Silverado Where I live quite a few neighbors are what are affectionately called Tree Huggers. What such neighbors, by no means even the majority, have in common is that they oppose ...

	06/29/11 - How Real Freedom Works Part II R. Lee Wrights, a candidate for the U.S. Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, took some time to speak with Accredited Wikinews Reporter William Saturn about his ...

	06/21/11 - Self-Defense vs. Isolation Where the idea comes from is not really relevant – it could be neo-conservatism, imperialism, compassion, whatnot. But it is right that it should be debated, especially ...

	06/02/11 - After the Dollar: What Comes Next? The Dollar's Terrible Fate My readers are familiar with my forecast that the US dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without ...

	06/01/11 - Enabling a Future American Dictator These are truly troubling days for liberty in the United States. Last week the 60 day deadline for the president to gain congressional approval for our military engagement in ...

	08/15/10 - Larry Pratt on the GOA, the Constitution and Gun Control The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Larry Pratt. Lawrence D. Pratt (born November 13, 1942) is the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, a ...

	06/06/10 - Judge Andrew Napolitano on Chaotic Courts and Unconstitutional Justice in the United States The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. Introduction: Judge Andrew P. Napolitano joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in January ...

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