Politics

Europe has no countries that offer “birthright citizenship” anymore. The US and Canada are rare exceptions. Most countries that still have it are countries with net out-migration like Mexico.

What a week! While the Trump administration has several issues for concern—the role of the Fed and tariffs, for example—there are some wins for liberty: Ross Ulbricht released, pardons for J6 offenders, declassified files, the TikTok ban postponed, exiting the Paris Climate accord and WHO.

In the 1870s and 1880s, and through the 1920s, it's clear that many legislators and judges did not agree that birthright citizenship applied to everyone born in the borders of the US. The modern interpretation is highly debatable. 

Not only was Joe Biden a failed president domestically, but he also was a failure in his foreign policy. From sending troops to Haiti, to the Ukraine war, to conflict in the Middle East, Biden never missed an opportunity to make a bad situation worse.

Biden‘s last-minute pardon of Anthony Fauci was not done to spare an “innocent” person from abuse by dishonest politicians.

Dinesh D'Souza and guest Ryan McMaken discuss the issue of birthright citizenship.

Has the statist tide turned from where we were culturally and politically four years ago? Or is this just a temporary lull before the political culture takes another hard left turn?

Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A closer look gives us a different picture of “Honest Abe.” David Gordon reviews a book that very much questions the Lincoln mythology.

Mark Thornton appears on Freedom Works! with Paul Molloy.

The Biden presidency is over and not a minute too soon. Biden‘s five decades of public life has always been one of a mediocre grifter, but he saved his worst for his four years in the White House, where he managed to combine incoherence and incompetence with a lust for power.