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NY Times v. Sullivan Decision: The 1st Amendment Prohibits Damages to Public Figures for Defamation unless Resulting from “Actual Malice”

LeeF March 9, 1964 April 8, 2023

The 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan has since protected many media outlets from lawsuits in spite of their intentional ‘hit pieces.’ D.C. Circuit …

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Murray v. Curlett Ruling: School Prayer Removed from School by Supreme Court

LeeF June 17, 1963 April 8, 2023

Madalyn Murray O’Hair, a militant left wing atheist with close ties to the American Communist Party, took the school board of Baltimore to court for …

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Abington Township School District v. Schempp “Bible Reading in School” Ruled Unconstitutional by Supreme Court

LeeF June 17, 1963 April 8, 2023

The Pennsylvania school system complied with a state law requiring that ten verses of scripture be read every day. The readings were without interpretation, comment …

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Torcaso v. Watkins: The Supreme Court Ruled it Unconstitutional for a Person Seeking Public Office to Have to Declare Their Belief in the Existence of God

LeeF June 19, 1961 April 8, 2023

In A.D. 1961, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Torcaso v Watkins. The case hinged on the right of a man who …

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren Delivered the Unanimous Ruling Ending the Plessy v. Ferguson “Separate But Equal” Ruling

LeeF May 17, 1954 April 8, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned …

Everson v. Board of Education: Landmark SCOTUS Decision Applying the Establishment Clause in the Bill of Rights to State Law Effecting the Separation of Church and State

LeeF February 10, 1947 April 8, 2023

Everson v. Board of Education, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which applied the Establishment Clause in the country’s Bill of Rights to State law effecting a separation of Church …

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The Supreme Court Rules in Reynolds v. United States making it a Crime to Practice Polygamy

LeeF January 6, 1879 April 8, 2023

Reynolds v. United States (1878) was a test case put forward by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) in an attempt …

Marbury v. Madison: The Supreme Court Case that introduced Judicial Review

LeeF February 24, 1803 April 8, 2023

The first pivotal case by a young U.S. Supreme Court was Marbury v. Madison – a landmark case in United States law and in the …

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Johnson v. Parker: Black Slave Owner Becomes First Legal Slave Owner in America After Winning Suit to Keep Parker, also Black, as His Slave for Life

LeeF March 8, 1655 May 28, 2022

Anthony Johnson (AD 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia. Johnson was captured in his …

U.S. Surveillance Bill 6666 Introduced in Congress: The Devil in the Details

4 years ago

As if vaccine passports, COVID-19 contact tracing apps and the Rockefeller Foundation’s plan to reopen America don’t already pose enough of a threat to civil liberties and democratic society, here comes a new bill, H.R. 6666, the COVID-19 Testing, Reaching And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act. The bill was introduced and referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., May 1, 2020. As of May 25, 2020, (when this article was written) the bill had 64 cosponsors—all Democrats. Originally, there also was one Republican, but he withdrew … Read More

HR2232 – Vaccinate All Children Act of 2015 Introduced

9 years ago

A Florida Congresswoman has introduced legislation that will send chills down the spine of any liberty-loving American. On May 1, Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL-24) presented H.R.2232 – Vaccinate All Children Act of 2015. From the bill: REQUIREMENT.—For a State or a political subdivision or other public entity of a State to be eligible to receive a grant under this section, the applicant shall demonstrate to the Secretary’s satisfaction that, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the State requires each student enrolled in one of the State’s public elementary schools … Read More

China passes Mental Health Law Legalizing Caging & Drugging of Political Dissidents whom Psychiatry will Label ‘Mentally Ill’

11 years ago

On October 26, 2012, after working on a draft law for close to 27 years, China finally passed its first Mental Health Law; that law took effect on May 1, 2013. Hopes were that the new law would change the political psychiatry of caging, drugging, or both to political dissidents and the lack of care for the actual mentally ill. Neither of those has changed since the law went into effect. In “Cage People,” the Chinese reporter estimates that in Hebei Province alone 100,000 ‘mentally ill’ individuals are … Read More

Rockefeller Report: Operation Lockstep Scenario Scripts Blueprint of Covid-19 as Pandemic for “tighter top-down government control”

14 years ago

There is little doubt that technology will continue to drive change across the developing world. However, uncertainty exists about the role of technological advances in alleviating poverty. To uncover the range of possibilities that may emerge, novel approaches like scenario planning are essential. “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development,” a new report, features four very different – yet very plausible – visions of how technology could profoundly alter how we address some of the most pressing challenges in the developing world. Scenario planning – an … Read More

Tony Blair Faith Foundation created for Advancement of One World Religion

16 years ago

Globalist puppet Tony Blair founded a new organization called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. He stated, “Because of globalization moving us all closer together, we need a foundation that will re-educate the world so that religions can learn how to get along together in this ever-closer society.” Blair launched a curriculum at Yale University called “Faith and Globalization”, becoming the key guest lecturer there. The course has since spread to other prestigious colleges. Why does Blair excuse western violence while pushing an “interfaith” agenda where “religious extremists” take … Read More

DC Madam, Escort Agency Owner, Threatening to Expose Political Clients, Found Hung

16 years ago

Deborah Jeane Palfrey (dubbed the D.C. Madam by the news media) operated Pamela Martin and Associates, an escort agency in Washington, D.C. Although she maintained that the company’s services were legal, she was convicted on April 15, 2008 of racketeering, using the mail for illegal purposes, and money laundering. Slightly over two weeks later after threatening to expose her client list, she was found hanged in an alleged “suicide,” despite the fact that Palfrey had complained of a contract being out on her life and multiple predictions that she would be “suicided” (murdered but made to look like suicide) and that … Read More

New Jersey Kids See Porn Instead of Cartoons on Disney Channel

17 years ago

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. – Children here got more than they bargained for when they tuned into “Handy Manny” on the Disney Channel this week. Now cable giant Comcast is investigating how hardcore pornography was broadcast during a popular cartoon program. Customer Paul Dunleavy would also like to know. He was stunned Tuesday morning to find his 5-year-old son watching something other than a cartoon about a bilingual Latino handyman, Manny Garcia, and his talking tools. “It was two people doing their thing, it was full-on and it was disgusting,” the Middletown father … Read More

Brigadier General Montague Winfield is Promoted after Neglecting his Duties on the Morning of 9/11, Leaving a Rookie in Charge

21 years ago

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are technically advisers to the executive and theater command, which under law “runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense; and from the Secretary of Defense to the commander of the combatant command.” As the theater of combat on Sept. 11 was domestic, the function of combatant command resided at the Pentagon in the NMCC. The attacks made use of passenger transport, a realm supervised by the Federal Aviation Administration. Once it was clear that attacks were underway, the responsibility for aerial defense resided … Read More

Study: Central Nervous System Disease Caused by Reaction to Intramuscular Injections of Aluminium-Containing Vaccines.

23 years ago

Abstract Macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF), a condition newly recognized in France, is manifested by diffuse myalgias and characterized by highly specific myopathological alterations which have recently been shown to represent an unusually persistent local reaction to intramuscular injections of aluminium-containing vaccines. Among 92 MMF patients recognized so far, eight of them, which included the seven patients reported here, had a symptomatic demyelinating CNS disorder. CNS manifestations included hemisensory or sensorimotor symptoms (four out of seven), bilateral pyramidal signs (six out of seven), cerebellar signs (four out of seven), visual … Read More

A U.S. Government Geo-engineering Document Discussing Weather Modification as a U.S. Military Weapon in Spite of Evidence of Related Diseases and Cata…

46 years ago

A US government document on Geo-engineering, 750 pages in length, from a congressional report shows government involvement in the climate. It documents 6 law enactments for weather modification in spite of documentation of increased cancer, emphysema, mental retardation, and many other diseases in high cloud seeding areas. Droughts and flooding, among other catastrophes, air pollution and poisoning of all living matter, and destroying of crops have all resulted in US cities from weather modification programs. Five states at this time had made themselves immune to liability from risk … Read More

Student Anti-War Rebellions Erupt Across the U.S. after Nixon Sends US Troops from Vietnam into Cambodia

54 years ago

On April 30, 1970, then President Richard Milhouse Nixon announced he was sending US troops from Vietnam into Cambodia, a diplomatically-neutral country. His announcement set off a month of intense protests by mainly college and university students across the country, from Maine to Southern California. What follows here is a sampling of the reaction by students on April 30 and May 1 of that year. It was a different time. The only people bringing guns to campuses then were cops and National Guardsmen. And on May 4, National … Read More

Humanist Manifesto I is Published in the New Humanist Magazine, Co-authored by American Education Reformer, John Dewey

91 years ago

HUMANIST MANIFESTO I was originally published in 1933 in the NEW HUMANIST (VOL. VI, #3 MAY/JUN, 1933: Yellow Springs, Ohio), the main publication of the American Humanist Association. Co-author John Dewey, the noted philosopher and educator, called for a synthesizing of all religions and a “socialized and cooperative economic order.” Humanism was “codified” by 34 of its leaders in 1933. Although many other versions of humanism have appeared before and since, here are some excerpts from the original Humanist Manifesto I: FIRST: Religious humanists regard the universe as … Read More

Executive Order 6102 – The Great Gold Robbery of 1933: FDR and the Federal Reserve Confiscates All Gold in Exchange for Depreciable Fiat Dollars

91 years ago

It’s been 75 years (2008 article) since the federal government, on the spurious grounds of fighting the Great Depression, ordered the confiscation of all monetary gold from Americans, permitting trivial amounts for ornamental or industrial use. This happens to be one of the episodes Kevin Gutzman and I describe in detail in our new book, Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush. From the point of view of the typical American classroom, on the other hand, the incident … Read More

The Forgotten Depression of 1920

104 years ago

[This article was first published in the Fall 2009 issue of The Intercollegiate Review.] It is a cliché that if we do not study the past we are condemned to repeat it. Almost equally certain, however, is that if there are lessons to be learned from an historical episode, the political class will draw all the wrong ones — and often deliberately so. Far from viewing the past as a potential source of wisdom and insight, political regimes have a habit of employing history as an ideological weapon, … Read More

Communist Rules of Revolution are Captured in Dusseldorf by Allied Forces

105 years ago

In May 1919 at Dusseldorf, Germany, the allied forces discovered a copy of these ‘Rules.’ They were first printed in the United States in the ‘Bartlesville (Oklahoma) Examiner-Enterprise’ the same year, 1919. Almost 20 years later, in 1946, the attorney general of Florida obtained them from a known member of the Communist Party, who acknowledged that the ‘Rules’ were then still a part of the Communist program for the United States. Communist Rules for Revolution Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex … Read More

French Police Investigator Discovers the Illuminati and Reveals Some of their Secrets

214 years ago

Francois Charles de Berckheim, special commissioner of police at Mayence, a Freemason, had his attention drawn to the activities of the Illuminati, and began an investigation to determine whether or not the sect still was an active movement. He found that there were initiates “all over Europe” and that, instead of dying out, he stated that “Illuminism is becoming a great and formidable power and I fear, in my conscience, that kings and peoples will have much to suffer from it unless foresight and prudence break its frightful … Read More

Adam Weishaupt Establishes a Secret Society called the Order of the Illuminati in the Bavarian Town of Ingolstadt

248 years ago

On the night of Wednesday, the first of May 1776, three men gathered at the house of a young law professor, Adam Weishaupt, in the Bavarian town of Ingolstadt and established a secret society called the Order of the Illuminati. Weishaupt was the Professor of Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, part of Germany. It was secret order to undermine the social system, at first called the Orden der Perfektibilisten (The Order of Perfectibilists). Weishaupt had been working on the plans for this order ever since … Read More