Constitutional News & Commentary

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Efforts at the national and state level to pass new gun-control laws have stirred up an unintended backlash – local officials who are not only rejecting the new legislation, but actively “nullifying” gun-control laws already in place. Read More...

In 2009 DHS and the FBI launched a nationwide counterterrorism operation with the purported objective of targeting "militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups." It has since come to light that the initiative, dubiously dubbed Operation Vigilant Eagle, actually targets combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who are speaking out politically against our governments' policies.  Read More...

It’s come to this: The two top U.S. Department of Justice officials in Tennessee have organized a meeting to discuss the fact that not all American Muslims are terrorists and those who trash Muslims on social media may be violating civil rights. Read More...

(VIDEO) An Oregon man has had rifle confiscated and is facing criminal charges after he attempted to stop a wanted felon from breaking into his home by firing a warning shot. Read More...

As The Washington Examiner‘s own Susan Ferrechio reports Friday most news organizations boycotted on principle Attorney General Eric Holder’s offer to join a press conference Thursday in which he discussed the Obama’s White House various efforts to monitor, intimidate and harass journalists. Holder’s condition was that the meeting be “off the record,” meaning none of the reporters would be allowed to report what was said at the meeting. Read More...

The Justice Department may soon be forced to reveal a classified document that details unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens. The Justice Department has fought to keep the document secret for about a year, but a recent court order demands that they respond to a formal request filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation by next week, June 7, 2013. Read More...

(VIDEO) “Unfortunately, I think it’s part and parcel of a pattern from this administration of not respecting the Bill of Rights,” Cruz added. “Not respecting the First Amendment, not respecting the Second Amendment, not respecting our Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights regarding drone strikes, regarding the IRS.” Read More...

WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain’s office is pushing back against reports that while visiting Syria this week he posed in a photo with rebels who kidnapped 11 Lebanese Shi’ite pilgrims.  Read More...

Social Study teacher John Dryden received a "Letter of Remedy" (a warning of improper behavior) for informing his students about their 5th amendment rights in regards to a survey administered to students in the Batavia Public School District in Illinois. Read More...

In 2009, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security began a program to monitor white supremacists and “militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups” for terrorist activities. Read More...

Judge Napolitano weighed in this morning after a leading Democrat raised questions about what defines a journalist nowadays. Read More...

The IRS is one of the two great instrumentalities of progressivism (the other is the Federal Reserve). Progressivism holds that, when they wrote the U.S. Constitution, James Madison and the other Founders basically got it wrong. Control over the lives of ordinary Americans should not be vested in the people themselves, but should instead be wielded by experts in Washington. Because Madison’s Constitution does not provide for this kind of government, the Constitution must be “progressively” dismantled and/or ignored. Read More...

No taxes? No oppression? There is an app for that! It's called internationalizing yourself and your wealth and learning to live more of a Permanent Traveler/Prior Taxpayer (PT) lifestyle that we always expound upon at TDV. Read More...

As 11-year-old Jayeon Simon and his friend rode bicycles three unleashed pit bulls attacked him. Seeing the attack, a neighbor, Mr. Srigley, used his Ruger 9 mm pistol from behind his fence of his front yard to kill the dogs. The result- $1000.00 fine, gun confiscation. Read More...

Recent revelations that IRS agents gave “special scrutiny” to organizations opposed to the current administration’s policies suggest that many in the IRS still believe harassing the President’s opponents is part of their job.  Read More...

By suffusing every act government doesn't like with so-called "national security" and "mental health" exceptions, the courts are allowing exceptions to swallow the Bill of Rights and constitutional due process protections. Read More...

Judge Napolitano: "Most people will think they have to answer. They don't need to answer under the law." Read More...

This woman's story (True the Vote Founder) is the story that expands IRS to OSHA, EPA, ATF and makes the Obama Bully-Administration a systemic cancer. Read More...

(VIDEO) There IS no "fixing" the IRS. We either eliminate it or live with its thuggery. You can't "fix" an inherently tyrannical operation.  Read More...

The bureaucrats at the Internal Revenue Service did exactly what the president said was the right and honorable thing to do. Read More...