State Repression

From Presidential Power Grabs to Martial Law

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.
James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy [2006]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG

February 3, 2025
Abolish USAID (and End All Foreign Aid)
President Trump and Elon Musk have stirred up a hornet’s nest among statists and CIA assets in the mainstream press with their threat to abolish USAID, which Trump said is “run by a bunch of radical lunatics.”The statists and the CIA assets in…
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EXPLORE FREEDOM

PRESIDENCY
From Presidential Power Grabs to Martial Law
by John W. Whitehead
The Future of Freedom Foundation
FOREIGN POLICY
NATO — The Case To Get Out Now
by David Stockman
Committee for the Republic
The State of the Ukraine War, Blinken’s Failures and Trump’s Nuclear Doctrine
by Daniel Davis with Scott Horton
The Scott Horton Show
WORLD WAR II
Japanese Americans Returned from Prison Camps 80 Years Ago to Face One of the Country’s “Greatest Swindles”
by Patt Morrison
Los Angeles Times
FREE TRADE
Ideas Collide as Trump Lays Out a Pro-Growth, Anti-Trade Vision
by Veronique de Rugy
Creators
THE FREE SOCIETY
Democrats Waging ‘Holy War’ as Trump Ends 50 Years of Affirmative-Action Tyranny
by James Bovard
New York Post
PROTECTIONISM
The Dumbest Trade War in History
by Editorial
Wall Street Journal
Tariffs: Aiming at Mexico, Hitting Ourselves
by Binyamin Appelbaum
New York Times
JFK
JFK Most Wanted: The Schlesinger Memo
by Jefferson Morley
JFK Facts
IMMIGRATION
Guantánamo, a Synonym for Horror, Could Soon Be Used to Hold Thousands of Migrants
by Macarena Vidal Liy
El Pais

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