“The American Revolution kicked off in 1761 with a single principle from James Otis Jr.: an unconstitutional law is NO LAW AT ALL. Any government act exceeding its legitimate authority is void the moment it is passed. It has no more legal power than a law passed by a foreign government. Call it what it is: usurpation, a theft of power. And stolen power is not to be obeyed, it is to be resisted.” (10/12/25)
“[T]here’s zero doubt whose shutdown this is. The Republicans control the White House. The Republicans control the US House of Representatives. The Republicans control the Senate, and as recently as last month, they’ve shown they’re willing to use the ‘nuclear option’ to get things done by majority, instead of super-majority, vote. The US government is (partially and cosmetically) shut down because the Republicans want it that way. The shutdown will end when the Republicans want it to end. It’s theirs. They own it. They (especially Trump) would look a lot better leaning into that ownership than they sound with their 24/7 whining about the Democrats.” (10/11/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Wendy McElroy
“On June 14, the House of Representatives passed a bill to automate the already mandatory registration of every male required to do so. The Senate is currently (July 10) working on a different version of the bill that requires women to register as well. Registration is not conscription itself, of course, but it is a prerequisite and often a harbinger of one. … Unfortunately, most debates about conscription today revolve around circumstantial matters, such as reaching recruitment goals, or around peripheral social controversies, such as drafting women. It didn’t used to be this way. In the mid-20th century, a remarkable decade of philosophical and moral debate about conscription occurred inside and outside of Congress. Within the House, no voice rang clearer on this issue than the four-term Representative Howard Buffett (1903–1964), to whom the iconic libertarian Murray Rothbard looked up in admiration.” (10/10/25)
“[Khalilah] Few graduated from beauty school in 2012 and in 2023 opened her own salon. Seeking to relocate, she invested more than $30,000 in renovating and renting a space that had previously been a barbershop. When in May this year she applied for a permit, she assumed approval would be perfunctory. In July, however, she was denied a permit for two reasons, one unintelligible, the other unconstitutional.” (10/10/25)
“Since the government partial shutdown began, we’ve been seeing panicked headlines about states being denied federal money for promised or already-started energy and infrastructure projects. Other sorts of subsidies are also in jeopardy. You’d think that not getting money from Washington was the worst thing that could happen. Oh my goodness, federalism might be breaking out! … It’s a good time to remember, or realize for the first time, that throughout the 20th century, American classical liberals, or libertarians, warned of the dangers of national funding for every sort of thing. ” (10/10/250
“During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the United States. The president revealed that the attacks were conducted without warning, were intended not to stop but to kill all persons on the boats, and succeeded in their missions. Trump has claimed that his victims are ‘narco-terrorists’ who were planning to deliver illegal drugs to willing American buyers. He apparently believes that because these folks are presumably foreigners, they have no rights that he must honor and he may freely kill them. As far as we know, none of these nameless faceless persons was charged or convicted of any federal crime. We don’t know if any were Americans. But we do know that all were just extrajudicially executed. Can the president legally do this? In a word: NO.” (10/10/25)
“It was fun watching Kaitlan Collins of CNN the other day as she marveled at Donald Trump’s boundless energy and accessibility. Collins recently said Trump (unlike his sleepy and media-shy predecessor) hardly ever sleeps and is super-accessible to the press. But I doubt if Ms. Collins has suddenly decided that Trump isn’t so bad after all. The CNN anchor and the rest of the liberal mainstream news media will never forgive Trump for his New York-size ego, his unfiltered talk, his mean public persona or his great sense of humor. And the most deranged of them will never stop believing he is a fascist who’s intent on becoming a dictator, which is absurd.” (10/11/25)
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“In our political system, impeachment is designed as a check on executive overreach, a constitutional remedy for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’ which has been understood to encompass abuses of office that threaten the foundations of a republican government. Importantly, the high crimes and misdemeanors standard doesn’t necessarily require criminal or unlawful conduct, and a president’s neglect of duty can meet the test. In Federalist No. 65, Alexander Hamilton, writing as Publius, made it clear that impeachment is a specifically political process of inquest into the public conduct of public officials, that is, again, that the conduct in question need not even break the law. I’m afraid it is time to impeach Donald Trump again, this time removing him from office.” (10/11/25)
“The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, has many striking similarities to two previous winners: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi and Iran’s Narges Mohammadi. Yes, all three are women. Yes, all are champions for democracy inside dictatorships. And all are either in prison or in hiding. On those aspects alone, they are worthy of a Nobel and inspiring to millions of followers. Yet what really links them in a meaningful way is how they describe a mental strength that helps them stand for civic virtues such as individual freedom and democratic equality.'” (10/10/25)
