It is up to you to protect liberty. With Jury Rights Day just around the corner on September 5, it is a good time to reflect upon a Jury’s Duty. Our Founding Fathers, in all their wisdom, gave us a Constitution
with layers of safeguards, so that if we erred, we could correct the
error, peaceably – without a shot being fired. ...MORE
Brad Bannon: Building The American Police State
The Founders' worst nightmare has begun. These days the Constitution isn't worth the parchment it's written on. The Fourth Amendment is currently under siege in New York City and
in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story which
indicated that the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance
operation ... MORE
VIDEO: Milton Friedman - A Conversation On Equality
From the award-winning series "Free To Choose," featuring Thomas Sowell.
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Doug McKelway: Cell Phone Data Latest Threat To Privacy
Introducing warrantless searches of your phone. Amid concerns from privacy advocates about the government’s sprawling
surveillance programs, the Obama administration earlier this month
petitioned the Supreme Court in support of a federal court ruling that
allowed police searches of cell phones records without a warrant. ... MORE
Larry Bell: What The Global Warming Hysteria Ignores
What about 17 years of flat global temperatures? The New York Times feverishly reported on August 10 that the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is about to issue another scary climate report. Dismissing the recent 17 years or so of flat global temperatures, the IPCC will assert that: “It is extremely ... MORE
Emily Goff: The Top 10 Ways Washington Wastes Money
Lawmakers have lost control. Whether it’s negotiating over how much to spend on government operations or the government’s borrowing limit, we hear a familiar refrain in Washington these days: There is absolutely no room to cut federal spending. This is not the case. Many people remember the millions spent on the infamous “Bridge ... MORE
A Rare Stand For Free Speech Over Political Correctness
Unpopular speech is what needs protection. Councilwoman Elisa Chan defended anti-gay remarks made during a
secretly recorded staff meeting, saying at a news conference Tuesday
that she won't change her “values or beliefs for political gain or
survival.” The statements mark Chan's first public appearance since San Antonio Express-News ... MORE
John Stossel: Beware The Warrior Cop
To serve and protect who? We need police to catch murderers, thieves and con men, and so we give them special power — the power to use force on others. Sadly, today's police use that power to invade people's homes over accusations of trivial, nonviolent offenses — and often do it with tanks, battering rams and armor you'd expect ... MORE
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Jacob Sullum: Seattle Gives Pot Peace A Chance
What the country can learn from Hempfest. Crossing the West Thomas Street Overpass into Seattle's Myrtle Edwards Park on Friday afternoon, I hear a guy remark, "Next year, I'll be turning 23, and so will Hempfest!" His companion seems unimpressed by this discovery. "That's because Hempfest started the same year we were born," he ... MORE
NSA Surveillance Reach Far Greater Than Thought
The spies are everywhere. The National Security Agency's surveillance network has the capacity to spy on 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Citing current and former NSA officials for the 75 percent figure,
the paper reported that the agency can observe more of Americans' online
communications than ... MORE
Jesse Walker: The Leak Scare
A government afraid of themselves. In the popular stereotype, conspiracy theorists direct their
paranoia at the government: The CIA shot JFK. NASA faked the moon
landing. Sept. 11 was an
inside job. But the most significant sorts of political paranoia are the kinds that catch on with people inside the halls of power, not the folks on the ... MORE
New Zealand Joins America In Spying On Its Citizens
America has always been a trendsetter. Controversial new legislation allowing the Government Communications Security Bureau to spy on New Zealanders has passed its final vote in Parliament tonight. The GCSB amendment Bill passed its third and final reading by 61 votes to 59 following another heated debate between MPs. National, ... MORE
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UPS Drops Spousal Coverage Due To ObamaCare
Teachers get hours cut for same reason. Thanks to the delayed employer mandate in ObamaCare, we are now sixteen
months away from enforcement of those statutes, even though they go into
effect in four months. Are employers taking a break from ObamaCare
prep? Not hardly. Today we have three new stories about how the
perverse ... MORE
Forfeiture Laws Turn Public Officials Into Profiteers
by Steven Greenhut. The federal agents who cracked down on the illegal distribution of alcoholic beverages traditionally were called “revenuers.” I always liked the simple honesty of the term, given that the main goal of the revenuers was, as the name implied, to track down moonshining scofflaws who didn’t pay their taxes. ... MORE
Bob Barr: The U.N. Comes After America's Guns
A gun control treaty to destroy the 2nd Amendment. The true scope of the anti-firearm crusade of the United Nations, which began more than a dozen years ago, finally is coming into clear focus, as the White House readies to sign the Arms Trade Treaty adopted with U.S. support this past April by the U.N. General Assembly. The reach ... MORE
ObamaCare Provision: "Forced" Home Inspections
by Joshua Cook. “Clearly, any family may be visited by federally paid agents for almost any reason.” According to an Obamacare provision millions of Americans will be targeted. The Health and Human Services’ website states that your family will be targeted if you fall under the “high-risk” categories below: Families where mom is not yet 21. ... MORE
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ABC TV: America's Speed Traps
Politicians thirst for more dollars to spend. So many American families
are thinking about that last dash of summer. One more road trip during
the warm days. But we know the
frustration of rolling down the road only to discover you've just sped by a
trap you never saw coming. ABC's Steve Osunsami heads
out in search of real answers about ... MORE
Rasmussen Poll: 82% Realize U.S. Is Not Winning Drug War
The people seem to be educable. Americans continue to overwhelmingly believe the so-called war on drugs is failing, but they are more divided on how much the United States should be spending on it. Just four percent (4%) of American Adults believe the United States is winning the war on drugs, according to a new Rasmussen Reports ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: The Reality Versus Mirages In Egypt
So far, the mirages seem to be winning. Nothing symbolizes the Utopianism of our times like both liberals and some conservatives calling for us to cut off aid to the Egyptian military, because of the widespread killings in what is becoming a civil war in Egypt. Such utter lack of realism from the left is not new, but hearing some ... MORE
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LA TIMES OP-ED: How Obama Has Abused The Patriot Act
by Jim Sensenbrenner. On Aug. 9, the Obama administration released a previously secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that it used to justify the bulk collection of every American's phone records. The strained reasoning in the 22-page memo won't survive long in public light, which is itself one of the strongest arguments for transparency ... MORE
Tim Lee: Obama Asks For Warrantless Cellphone Searches
Requests permission to ignore the Fourth Amendment. If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through
your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the
Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and
rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches. ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: AWESOME! TSA Creepers Just Got Creepier
Government gropers to become ubiquitous. Janet Napolitano’s TSA agents won’t keep their blue, latex-covered
paws to themselves. The TSA is now expanding its grope to rodeos, sports
stadiums, music festivals and train stations. The TSA’s signature move is like the signature move of a guy who
“accidently” brushes his hand against a woman’s ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Blacks And Progressives
On excuse-making and dependency. Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN's Piers Morgan's interview with the key witness in the George Zimmerman trial, he said: "Rachel Jeantel is not uneducated. She's a smart cookie." That's a remarkable ... MORE
Steve Chapman: Drug Warriors In Retreat
Their drug-induced haze couldn't last forever. When it comes to Eric Holder, Republicans are divided between the radicals and the moderates. One group regards him as a lawless black power zealot intent on subverting the Constitution and stripping us of our liberties. Then there are the radicals... So when Holder gave a speech ... MORE
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Regulation Nation: Obama Expands The Regulatory State
By Ben Goad and Julian Hattem. President Obama has overseen a dramatic expansion of the regulatory state that will outlast his time in the White House. The reach of the executive branch has advanced steadily on his watch, further solidifying the power of bureaucrats who churn out regulations that touch nearly every aspect of American ... MORE
Sen. Rand Paul: The Madness Of Mandatory Minimums
Lives needlessly ruined by rigid sentencing. I applaud President Obama’s recognition that mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders needs to end. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s announcement Monday to change federal drug-sentencing policy hopefully signaled a significant shift toward justice in ... MORE
Peggy Noonan: What We Lose If We Give Up Privacy
The danger of amping up what government can do. What is privacy? Why should we want to hold onto it? Why is it important, necessary, precious? Is it just some prissy relic of the pretechnological past? We talk about this now because of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency revelations, and new fears that we are ... MORE
VIDEO: Fox News - The Prying Eyes Of Lawless NSA
Government listens to phone calls and reads e-mails of innocent Americans.
How Political Correctness Is Destroying America
Michael Snyder provides 19 shocking examples. If you say the “wrong thing” in America today, you could be penalized, fired or even taken to court. Political correctness is running rampant, and it is absolutely destroying this nation. In his novel 1984, George Orwell imagined a future world where speech was greatly restricted. ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Barack, The Unmerciful Drug Warrior?
Why doesn't Obama pardon more drug offenders? This week Eric Holder said something that critics of our criminal justice system have been saying for decades but no other U.S. attorney general has managed to say while still in office. “Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement ... MORE
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The NSA Has Violated Privacy Rules At Least 2,776 Times
by Scott Shackford. The Washington Post has the latest Edward
Snowden-provided
bombshell: The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or
overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since
Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to
an internal audit and other top-secret documents. ... MORE
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DOJ Seeks To Protect Bernanke From Testitmony
Politicians have each other's back. The government is trying to block questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a lawsuit by the former head of American International Group Inc. The Justice Department told a federal appeals court Friday that high-ranking officials should not have to testify except in extraordinary ... MORE
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