Israel immediately barred foreign journalists from reporting in Gaza after the start of the war in October 2023. Meanwhile, Israelis now openly call for censorship in the United States also.
As was the case the morning after “Shock and Awe” signaled the start of the Iraq war, many are cheering the US military raid on Venezuela and capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro. Overwhelming US military power – and likely some bribed Venezuelan officials – ensured that the operation was swift and dramatic.
This was not a war, we were told. It was just a surgical operation to remove a criminal dictator and restore democracy to the country. American oil companies would soon get even richer exploiting the country’s vast oil reserves. This time it will be different!
There is much to agree with in both Matt Walsh’s comments and Phil Duffy’s “Ken Burns Plays the “Founding Chaos” Card” criticisms of Ken Burns’s “The American Revolution,” flawed in the politically correct ways you would expect from PBS. Duffy focuses on Burns’s simplistic generalization “The Constitution saved the nation from chaos.”
Ludwig von Mises’s Omnipotent Government did not merely sharpen my intellect; it gave language to an experience I had liv
In the absence of effective checks on government power, all governments tend towards tyranny. This explains why John C. Calhoun defended the constitutional principle of limited government, emphasizing the importance of restraining the power of the majority. Calhoun argued that the aim of a constitution is not merely to confer power, but also to restrain it, hence a constitution that fails to limit the power of the majority has failed in its essential purpose.
On Saturday morning, the US military attacked Venezuela. After bombings of Venezuelan infrastructure, a small US force landed in Caracas and abducted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Trump has characterized the attack as a “law enforcement” action although Secretary of State Marco Rubio has not been able to state what legal authority has authorized the invasion, or how the United States government has jurisdiction to do so.
