The Curious Case of Julian Assange
BY BOB BARR
Last week, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London by a phalanx of British police officers; abruptly...
Excellent 2nd Amendment Opinion Lasts Only One Week
BY BOB BARR
As the saying goes, “it was great while it lasted.” On Friday, March 29th U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez issued an 86-page Order declaring...
The Real Problem with Immigration Policies? — Judges
BY BOB BARR
If you were to guess the most critical problem faced by President Trump in dealing with the flood of illegal immigration at...
Are “Red Flag Laws” a Solution in Search of a Problem?
BY BOB BARR
In the aftermath of the February 2018 mass murder at a Parkland, Florida high school, it became readily apparent that danger signs...
America’s Bill Of Rights Prevents Erosion Of Civil Liberties As In New Zealand
BY BOB BARR
Every day, I thank America’s Founding Fathers for their prescience in providing a Bill of Rights to protect against the government arbitrarily...
Let’s Treat The Admissions Scandal As A Criminal Enterprise — Not A Reality Show
BY BOB BARR
The college-admissions scandal announced this month involved public and private colleges and universities from coast to coast. It netted the perpetrators tens...
‘For the People’ Legislation is Really ‘For the Government’
BY BOB BARR
In an iconic scene from the 1980s comedy classic “The Blues Brothers,” Jake (John Belushi) and his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) are...
The Democratic Party’s Existential Identity Crisis
BY BOB BARR
The year before what likely will be the most contentious presidential election in modern history is not a good time to suffer...
House Democrats Propose Using Holidays to Virtually End Future Gun Purchases
BY BOB BARR
Have you ever been trapped in one of those endless automated answering service loops? A new background check system for firearms purchases...
Democrats Again Chase the Holy Grail of “Universal” Background Checks
BY BOB BARR
While establishment Washington remains focused on the growing scoreboard of Democratic presidential wannabes, and the media frets about whether actor Jussie Smollett...
The Muddy Waters of the Supreme Courts Next Gun Decision
BY BOB BARR
When it comes to the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court moves with the all the dispatch of a giant tortoise; slow, plodding...
Massachusetts Enhances the Right to Secretly Record Government Officials
BY BOB BARR
They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right...
“New Satanism” Filling America’s Moral Vacuum
BY BOB BARR
You could say Satanism has undergone a “rebranding” since the 1980s and 90s, when devil-worshipping occultists were supposedly to blame for a...
‘Emergency Powers’ – Be Careful What You Wish For
BY BOB BARR
It’s a universal law of politics – every president considers the powers he inherits from his predecessor as the “floor,” not the...
Roger Stone’s Indictment Shows Mueller Isn’t Looking for Justice
BY BOB BARR
“I hit Ali with everything and he said, ‘Is that all you got?” and I said, ‘Yeah, that’s pretty much it’”
— George...
The Art of the Un-manly Shave
BY BOB BARR
We live in the Age of the Lecture; an era in which virtually every forum or opportunity for communicating, becomes a vehicle...
Reserve Police Officers – A Timely Resource for Combatting Crime
BY BOB BARR
On the surface, national crime statistics confirm that violent crime rates have decreased significantly from their peak in the early 1990s. The...
Democrats Readying Multi-Pronged Attack on Second Amendment
BY BOB BARR
When Democrats took control of the U.S. House as a result of last November’s election, many Republicans assumed, perhaps optimistically, the danger...
Federalist’ Principles of Governing Are Dead
– Consider the Impasse Over ‘The Wall’
BY BOB BARR
Two hundred and thirty years ago, three of our Founding Fathers authored a series of essays...
Democratic Party Has Become a Cartoon Version of Its Former Self
BY BOB BARR
There was a time long, long ago in which the national Democratic Party actually stood for something. Real ideas. Not necessarily...
Have Federal Courts Become the ‘Tyrants’ Our Founders Feared?
BY BOB BARR
In many ways, President Donald Trump’s border fight is a battle on two fronts; one at the border with Mexico, and the...
Birthright Citizenship Is No Constitutional Guarantee
BY BOB BARR
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution has been part of our Constitution for 150 years, but the “birthright citizenship” language it contains...
Socialism’s Rise Due as Much to Republicans as Democrats
BY BOB BARR
Venezuela. A country possessed of all the natural attributes providing a foundation for economic prosperity; yet whose citizens (except for the privileged...
Dangerous Collusion Between Liberal Attorneys General and Federal Judges
BY BOB BARR
The latest liberal outrage changes as often as the daily special at a diner. One day it is Cecil the Lion and “big game”...
A Jittery Adam’s Apple May Land You on a TSA Watch List
BY BOB BARR
Next time you board a commercial airliner, be careful not to sweat too much, glance out the window nervously, visit the bathroom...
Cronyism at the Defense Department Puts National Security at Risk
BY BOB BARR
The famous adage admonishing us not to “put all your eggs in one basket,” may seem childish and outdated to 21st-century brainiacs...
The Slippery Slope of Social Media Censorship
BY BOB BARR
When it comes to identifying fake news, it is less science than alchemy; a task residing somewhere between asking “What is art?”...
Congress Colluded With IRS to Strip Citizens of Passports
BY BOB BARR
In an extremely troubling move three years ago, the Republican-controlled Congress handed the Internal Revenue Service the power to strip individuals of...
Unseal the Clinton Impeachment Files Now
BY BOB BARR
Twenty years ago this December, William Jefferson Clinton became the first elected President to be impeached by the United States House of...
Congress Should Stop the Drama and Take Action to Force Justice to Comply With...
BY BOB BARR
Last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing - during which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray were grilled for...