The Police State

Solzhenitsyn had enough courage to equate socialism and Nazism as equally evil and morally reprehensible.

The truth is that the state must hide not only its wars but all of its activities. It hides its inflation. It hides the effects of its taxation and its protectionism. It fears anyone who draws the cause-and-effect connection between its activities and their deleterious consequences for the rest of us. It is the most destructive force in our world. Because that truth is so momentous, the state does everything possible to hide the smallest drop of blood.

There is a further problem: to concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

But even if you are not likely to be among them, consider the loss of privacy, the loss of liberty, the loss of independence, the loss of all that used to be considered truly American, in the course of building prison nation.

As Glenn Greenwald makes clear, Bush has applied his claim to be above the law far beyond the issue of wiretaps.

Greenwald has rendered an inestimable service by his clear and cogent analysis of gross presidential usurpation of power.

I can vaguely recall a time when the person who helped kids across the street was called a “crossing guard.” It seems like not to long

Ian Bernard, host of the internationally syndicated radio show and podcast “Free Talk Live” has produced a free audiobook of Linda and

Skip Oliva is giving us regular updates on the writers’ guild strike, from an informed perspective.

A Russian correspondent sent me a translation of a Russian blog entry by Marina Litvi