Shielding State Secrets makes the Supreme Court the guardian of Leviathan Democracy. A State Secrets claim is the equivalent of a political command to a judge to shut down a case. The State Secrets doctrine presumes that "government knows best, and no one else is entitled to know." Not only are the feds above the law; they don't have to explain why they are above the law. Eventually, instead of a good excuse for breaking the law, all that is necessary is to claim that an excuse exists — even if the excuse is secret.
February 22, 2024 An Utterly Fantastic Book on Immigration
I just finished reading an utterly fantastic new book. With the possible exception of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s 1995 book The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, this new book is the best book on the issue of immigration I have ever read. It is entitled The Case for Open Borders. The author is John Washington, who has written ...
The Global Deep State by John W. Whitehead
The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction.That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign...
The Case for Open Borders by Jacob Hornberger, Richard Ebeling and John Washington
Although I am not quite old enough to qualify for Medicare, I recently received in the mail a 131-page large-size book titled Medicare & ...
Trampling on a Symbol of Liberty by James Bovard
Last August, 12-year-old Jaiden Rodriguez was kicked out of a public-school classroom in Colorado Springs after school officials...
Johnsoncare, Bushcare, Obamacare, and Trumpcare by Laurence M. Vance
Former president Donald Trump has vowed to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) with his own plan. Because “Obamacare ...
Two Important Insights of Friedrich Hayek by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the importance of Friedrich Hayek's concepts of "spontaneous ...
