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Commentary: Do we need the First Amendment?

By Jacob G. Hornberger

February 3, 2020 - Many years ago, I was giving a lecture on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to a class at a public high school in Virginia. During the course of my talk, I made the following statement: “The First Amendment does not give people the right of free speech.”

I asked the students whether my statement was correct or incorrect.

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Commentary: School vouchers versus educational liberty!

By Jacon G. Hornberger

January 31, 2020 - It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Amerika’s public school systems are in perpetual crisis. That’s what socialism does. It produces crises or what the economist Ludwig von Mises called “planned chaos”.

It would be difficult to find a better model for socialism than public schooling. We call it “public schooling” but th

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93 Vermont towns have no public schools but great education!

How do they do it?

PUTNEY, Vermont (PNN) - January 31, 2020 - In just a couple of weeks, 50 boys with learning disabilities will take to a stage in Vermont, one after the other, to recite the Gettysburg Address from memory. It’s a daring experiment undertaken each February at the Greenwood School and its population of boys who’ve struggled in public schools. Diag

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40 privacy groups warn that facial recognition is threatening freedom!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - January 31, 2020 - On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on Fascist Police States of Amerika government use of facial recognition technology.

The letter was drafted by the digital privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and signed by organizations including the El

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Commentary: Brexiteers want Freedom not democracy!

By Stephen MacLean

LONDON, England (PNN) - January 30, 2020 - When the Fascist United Kingdom exits the European Union late on Friday, Brexit will be hailed as a victory for British democracy. Three times Britons voted to leave the EU and “take back control”: in June 2016, when the Leave campaign won at the EU referendum; in the general election the following June, when the vast

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Thomas Paine on government, liberty and power!

January 29, 2020 - January 29 is the birthday of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), the fiery rhetorician of America’s Revolution whose importance was such that John Adams said, “[W]ithout the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”

Common Sense, first published in January 1776, argued strongly for Independence from England and was the most widel

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Commentary: Gun control folly in D.C.!

By Jacob G. Hornberger

January 29, 2020 - Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that the homicide rate in Washington, D.C. in 2019 was higher than it was in 2018. There were 166 people killed in 2019, compared to 160 in 2018. In fact, the 2019 D.C. homicide rate is the highest number since 2008.

But isn’t that impossible? After all, our nation’s cap