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Oligarchic Extraconstitutional Coup Under Way The US Constitution mandates that the Chief Justice of the United States presides over the impeachment trial of the president. Chief Justice John Roberts has said that Donald Trump is no longer “the president” and that he will not be involved in this extraconstitutional endeavor. The nation’s Capital is already under military occupation. “If Justice Roberts won’t preside over this sham ‘impeachment,’ then why would it ever be considered legitimate?” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said in a tweet last week. This extraconstitutional and abso...

A Defense of the Peaceful Transfer of War-Making Power Sheldon Richman Posted on Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that “war is a continuation of politics by other means.” I think we can reverse this: politics is war by other means. The ultimate aim of politics (in the narrow sense of the word; there’s a more elevated philosophical sense) is what Frederic Bastiat called “legal plunder.” Other thinkers have elaborated this idea. Franz Oppenheimer’s book The State comes to mind. Oppenheimer influenced Albert Jay Nock, Frank Chodorov, Murray R...