By Andrew P. Napolitano  

October 22, 2026

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture, even when it invokes national security, public order, economic necessity, emergency or the will of a popular majority.

By Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us  

October 22, 2026

Over the years, I have written frequently about what I call the "Pillager Class" and the "Producer Class" in an attempt to explore the reasons why certain people, groups and cultures always seem to turn to looting and destruction rather than building anything of value of their own.

It is a threat the west has been dealing with for thousands of years: We engineer and create and plan for the future, and instead of doing the same, the pillager class decides it's easier to take what we have.

Why would citizens defend governments that abuse them ?  

By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker  

October 22, 2026

Western governments have put themselves in mortal danger.

They are actively doing things that are destroying their countries: (1) replacing their native citizens with unassimilable foreigners; (2) centralizing government power in unelected and unaccountable bureaucracies; (3) censoring and criminalizing public dissent; (4) offshoring industrial and manufacturing jobs; (5) exacerbating energy costs and general inflation by demonizing hydrocarbons and pushing "global warming" delusions; (6) increasing taxes, government spending, and public welfare in unsustainable ways; (7) demolishing their nations' historical identities, traditions, beliefs, and common cultures; (8) providing foreigners with "free" homes, food, and educations, while accusing native citizens of being "racists," "xenophobes," and "white supremacists"; (9) discouraging healthy marriages and stable families; and (10) indoctrinating the youngest generations to believe that war, "climate change," overpopulation, and economic collapse will prevent them from ever having happy, hopeful, purposeful futures.

By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute  

October 22, 2026

"The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own Constitution."-cornellpress.cornell.edu