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What If We Have Only Memories of Freedom?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (May 24, 2012)

What if Memorial Day reminds us of times when we had more freedom? What if freedom is dying right under our eyes? What if the memory of the past is more fulfilling than... more

Is There a Drone In Your Backyard?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (May 17, 2012)

Earlier this week, the federal government announced that the Air Force might be dispatching drones to a backyard near you. The stated purpose of these spies in the... more

What Constitutes a Fair Trial?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (May 11, 2012)

The trial of the alleged masterminds of 9/11, which began last week at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will address some of the most profound issues of our... more

The President's Private War

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (May 04, 2012)

Did you know that the United States government is using drones to kill innocent people in Pakistan? Did you know that the Pakistani government has asked President Obama to... more

Rick Perry Was Correct

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Apr 26, 2012)

When Texas Gov. Rick Perry, then in the early stages of his short-lived quest for the Republican presidential nomination, referred to Social Security as "a Ponzi... more

A Government of Waste

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Apr 19, 2012)

What can we learn from allegations against a half-dozen supervisors in the Government Services Administration for wasting, and perhaps stealing, taxpayer dollars on... more

What If the Government Rejects the Constitution?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Apr 12, 2012)

What if the government never took the Constitution seriously? What if the same generation -- in some cases the same human beings -- that wrote in the First Amendment,... more

Hope For the Dead

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Apr 05, 2012)

What does freedom have to do with rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain,... more

Can the Government Force You to Eat Broccoli?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mar 29, 2012)

This week, the Supreme Court measured Obamacare to see whether it fits within the confines of the Constitution. The big picture is whether the Constitution limits the... more

Is the CIA in Your Kitchen?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mar 22, 2012)

If this question had been asked by a fictional character in a spy thriller, it might intrigue you, but you wouldn't imagine that it could be true in reality. If the... more

Can the Secret Service Tell You To Shut Up?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mar 15, 2012)

The First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from infringing upon the freedom of speech, the freedom of association and the freedom to petition the... more

Can the President Kill You?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mar 08, 2012)

Can the president kill an American simply because the person is dangerous and his arrest would be impractical? Can the president be judge, jury and executioner of an American... more

Spies in New Brunswick

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mar 01, 2012)

On June 2, 2009, a janitor in an office building in New Brunswick, N.J., noticed what he thought was terrorist-related literature and sophisticated surveillance equipment in... more

What If Democracy Is Bunk?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Feb 23, 2012)

What if you are only allowed to vote because it doesn't make a difference? What if no matter how you vote, the elites get to have it their way? What if "one person, one vote"... more

Time to Tame the Federal Beast

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Feb 16, 2012)

When the federal government was created, those who risked their lives and their fortunes and their scared honors to secede from England were animated by recent events. The... more

Do Catholics Have Too Many Babies?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Feb 09, 2012)

When we were colonists and fought a war against the king and Parliament so that we could secede from the British Empire and be independent of it, we also fought for the value... more

What Is a Just War?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Feb 02, 2012)

When President Obama announced last April that he was sending the United States military to bomb Libya, he not only violated the United States Constitution, which... more

A Few Words About Abortion

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Jan 25, 2012)

Last week marked the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that permitted abortions. Prior to that case, abortion was regulated by each state, and... more

How Much Economic Freedom Do We Have in the United States?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Jan 20, 2012)

The root of economic freedom is the recognition of the right to own private property. That includes the right to utilize it unmolested, to dispose of it without anyone's... more

What If Elections Don't Matter?

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Jan 12, 2012)

What if Democrats and Republicans were two wings of the same bird of prey? What if elections were actually useful tools of social control? What if they just provided the... more

Big Government Cannot Pay Its Bills, Again

By Judge Andrew Napolitano (Jan 05, 2012)

Since Barack Obama became president on Jan. 20, 2009, the federal government has not had a budget. It did not have one for the first two years of his presidency, when... more