A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
-- James Madison

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Above all things I hope the #education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of #liberty. #ThomasJefferson, letter from Paris to #JamesMadison, December 20,1787

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NFL Draft Summer Scouting Report: D’Angelo Ponds, CB, Indiana

Summer is here, and it is everyone’s favorite time of the year, scouting time. Every year, we do…
#nfl #nfldraft #NFLDraft #Bears #bucs #Football #JamesMadison #NFL #Ponds #Steelers
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/207235/

A Police State Coming to a Town Near You
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/26/a-police-state-coming-to-a-town-near-you/
Andrew P. Napolitano examines the moral and historical errors in the argument that less freedom produces more safety. By Andrew P. Napolitano We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its…
#Politics #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AmericanRevolution #AndrewP.Napolitano #BillOfRights #DeclarationOfIndependence #JamesMadison #NaturalLawTheory #ThomasJefferson
A Police State Coming to a Town Near You

Andrew P. Napolitano examines the moral and historical errors in the argument that less freedom produces more safety. By Andrew P. Napolitano We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated th

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@mina

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#JamesBuchanan

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You are quite right in your assesment, Mina, though you focus on the 1 of 3 #neoliberal
strands that is the pillar of #Reagonomics and #Trumpism, #Buchanam's #VirginiaSchool:

"...unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 👉#Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.👈" 1)

@number6
@fosstodon.org

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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598606864037745

Enforcing Silence
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/09/enforcing-silence/
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today. By Andrew P. Napolitano All attempts by the government…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AndrewP.Napolitano #DeclarationOfIndependence #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #JohnStuartMill #NaturalLaw #St.ThomasAquinas #ThomasJefferson
Enforcing Silence

Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today. By Andrew P. Napolitano All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and dete

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A 21st Century Stamp Act
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/22/a-21st-century-stamp-act/
Andrew P. Napolitano on returning to the dark days of pre-revolutionary law enforcement due to the Constitution’s failure to protect the quintessentially American right to be left alone. By Andrew P. Napolitano A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #Surveillance #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UnitedKingdon #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AndrewP.Napolitano #F.b.i. #ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceAct #FourthAmendment #JamesMadison #NaturalRights #ProbableCause #StampAct #WritsOfAssistanceAct
A 21st Century Stamp Act

Andrew P. Napolitano on returning to the dark days of pre-revolutionary law enforcement due to the Constitution's failure to protect the quintessentially American right to be left alone. By Andrew P. Napolitano A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the F.B.I. for invadi

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Former Nevada basketball player Justin McBride transfers to James Madison - NBA

Justin McBride, who played for the Nevada men's basketball team last season, has committed to James Madison, per a post on his Instagram page.

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