Michael D. Brown

Protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) an appropriately misnamed piece of legislation designed to give the federal government censorship over the Internet, former Senator Chris Dodd, now the CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today showed us just how perverted some people view the Constitution. Wikipedia and other Internet sites went [...]

Debate has quietly gone unnoticed about S.1867, the Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012 which provides for defense appropriations and other matters, including, shockingly, language befuddling language that may actually authorize the United States Armed Forces to detain U.S. citizens on American soil. When I started hearing about this language I was skeptical, believing that [...]

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution reads as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of [...]

Judge Napolitano, who was been a strong supporter of me, makes this incredibly reasoned and impassioned statement to House Speaker John Boehner. After all the noise and fear mongering, here is a simple, straightforward direction for the Congress to take. In the course of his open letter, Judge Napolitano instructs all of us in the [...]

Time Magazine (which I quit reading a few years ago after it erroneously and maliciously reported information about my resume’) recently ran a cover story asking whether or not the Constitution of the United States still matters. A provocative question for certain. I read the article out of curiosity and was astounded at the inaccuracies [...]