Rule by Fiat: National Crises, Fake Emergencies and Other Dangerous Presidential Powers
By John W. Whitehead “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”—Richard Nixon Who pays the price for the dissolution of…
By John W. Whitehead “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”—Richard Nixon Who pays the price for the dissolution of…
By John W. Whitehead “As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.”—Bertram Gross, Friendly Fascism: The New…
By John W. Whitehead “This is jackboots in the morning. This is an American nightmare that they would arrest somebody like this.”—Judge Andrew Napolitano The…
By John W. Whitehead “As more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will…
By John W. Whitehead “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of…
By John W. Whitehead “For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but…
By John W. Whitehead “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”—Edmund Burke Folks, it’s time to break the cycle. Let’s make 2019 the…
By John W. Whitehead “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.”—Ludwig von Mises The government…
By John W. Whitehead “Once upon a midnight clear, there was a child’s cry, a blazing star hung over a stable, and wise men came…
By John W. Whitehead “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana We never learn. In the right (or wrong) hands,…
By John W. Whitehead “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly…
By John W. Whitehead “The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and…
By John W. Whitehead “If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George Washington…
By John W. Whitehead “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful,…