Free Republic

What if one of the Constitution’s most important safeguards has been quietly ignored, not through open defiance, but through misunderstanding, neglect, and the slow erosion of historical memory? For more than eighteen years, independent researcher Tracy Fair (writing under the pen name Lexi Fehr) has investigated the historical, legal, and constitutional foundations of presidential eligibility and the true meaning of the Constitution’s “natural-born Citizen” requirement. We the Sheeple takes readers back to the intellectual roots of the American Republic, exploring how the Founding Fathers relied on Emmerich de Vattel’s The Law of Nations to define citizenship, domicile, and political allegiance....

Judge Andrew Napolitano is one of American media’s most tenacious defenders of Americans' rights. His official title at Fox News, where he appears regularly on Fox and Friends and The Big Story, is “Senior Judicial Analyst.” But at the often Bush-besotted network, the decidedly skeptical Napolitano thinks of himself more as “House Civil Libertarian.” He’s the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in New Jersey history, and a former teacher of constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School. He also writes books alerting Americans to how their own government threatens their liberties, including The Constitution in Exile and Constitutional Chaos: What...

MARCH 26, 2003Polls Suggest Media Failure in Pre-War CoveragePublic Believed Saddam Was Behind 9-11, Has Nukes By Ari Berman NEW YORK -- Opinion Thousands of American soldiers have marched into Iraq, bombs are falling, and oil fields are ablaze. After the shooting stops, press attention probably will focus on our pursuit of Saddam Hussein's henchmen, our search for hidden stocks of weapons of mass destruction, and our "securing the peace" for a democratic Iraq. But when the war dies down, editors and media analysts should catch their breath and ask themselves: How much did press coverage (or lack of...