by Nat Hentoff & Nick Hentoff. On January 8, the Associated Press reported that President Barack Obama “may travel to Cuba as early as this spring if he feels the rights situation here is improving and a presidential trip will help.” The Castro dictatorship’s response was immediate and severe. According to Elizardo Sanchez, the president of the ... MORE
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Obama's Feckless Defense Of Human Rights In Cuba
by Nat Hentoff & Nick Hentoff. On January 8, the Associated Press reported that President Barack Obama “may travel to Cuba as early as this spring if he feels the rights situation here is improving and a presidential trip will help.” The Castro dictatorship’s response was immediate and severe. According to Elizardo Sanchez, the president of the ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Art Of Trump
Hooray for Donald Trump! I can ice skate in Central Park because Trump got the skating rink fixed after New York City couldn't. Couldn't, you ask? Really? How is that possible? New York City government couldn't fix an ice rink? Sad, but true. Despite six years of effort and fiddling with 13 million taxpayer dollars, government's bureaucracy was unable ... MOREIBDaily Editorial: Obama's False Equivalency
1776 wasn’t anything like Castro’s 1959 Putsch. In one of his last acts in Havana, President Obama threw out a false equivalency between the American Revolution and Cuba’s 1959 communist takeover. What are we to make of a U.S. president who embraces such hoary Marxist equivalencies? In his Tuesday address to the Cuban people, ... MOREObama And The Justice Dept. May Be Losing The P.R. Battle Over Encryption, But Watch The Larger War
by Scott Shackford. Nobody believes it’s ‘just one phone.’ The government fight to access your private digital data has another front brewing. The Department of Justice wants to be able to listen in on conversations on WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging and phone service owned by Facebook. Everybody who knows anything about ... MORE
Obama Advocates Government Access To All Devices
by Jeff Mason. No surprise that privacy invasion is the tyrant's choice. U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a passionate case for mobile devices to be built in such a way as to allow government to gain access to personal data if needed to prevent a terrorist attack or enforce tax laws. Speaking at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, Obama ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Sparks of brilliance! The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this
year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have
saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an
"under-representation" of any group is evidence of discrimination? Here is a trick question: What ... MOREProtesting Donald Trump Is Now A Federal Crime
by Anthony L. Fisher. The state of free speech in America. The Orwellian-named "free speech zones" on college campus and political rallies are nothing new to regular readers of Reason, and suppressing political dissent with the brute force of government has been a feature of the American system since shortly after 9/11/01, when the ... MORE
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama - The Lamest Duck
He has neither the power to act or inspire. President Obama is boxed in a state of paralysis—more so than typical lame-duck presidents. His
hard-left politics have insidiously eroded the Democratic Party, which
has lost both houses of Congress and the vast majority of the state
legislatures, state elected offices, and governorships. ... MOREObama To Trash Reagan’s Restrictions On Domestic Spying
by Chriss W. Street. A tyrant's sneaky misdirection play. With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others. At a secret meeting of the United States National ... MORETed Rall: What The Apple Vs FBI Flap Is Really About
[Hint: Edward Snowden] The fight between Apple and the FBI has
been framed as an epic battle between big tech and big government.
Apple, says the Obama Administration, is siding with “its business model and public brand marketing strategy” ahead of public safety. That’s not it, says Apple CEO Tim Cook. He says his company is “a staunch ... MOREFast And Furious Court Victory For Judicial Watch
by Tom Fitton. Government's gun-running op. This is an important story about Judicial Watch’s complicated and
complex investigation into the Obama administration’s deadly Operation
Fast and Furious scandal. And this is one story that should be shared
far and wide. Earlier this week Judicial Watch was pleased to
announce that we scored a victory ... MOREHans A. Von Spakovsky: The Obama Administration Wants To Make Sure Non-Citizens Vote In The Upcoming Election
Why Democrats hate voter ID. Several well-funded organizations — including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP — are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting illegally in the upcoming presidential election. And the United States Department of Justice, under the direction of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, is helping ... MOREU.S. Backed Troops Fighting With Each Other In Syria
by Mike Giglio. Obama administration nitwittery on display. American proxies are now at war with each other in Syria. Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of the U.S. government told BuzzFeed News that they recently began fighting rival rebels supported by another arm of the U.S. government. The ... MORE
John W. Whitehead: The People Vs The Police State
The struggle for justice in the Supreme Court. The untimely death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has predictably created a political firestorm. Republicans and Democrats, eager to take advantage of an opening on
the Supreme Court, have been quick to advance their ideas about Scalia’s
replacement. This is just the beginning of the ... MOREHow The Politics Of The Next Nomination Will Play Out
by Tom Goldstein. Excellent analysis! This post substantially revises and supersedes my earlier one
on how the political parties will likely approach the Scalia vacancy,
in which I had concluded that Ninth Circuit Judge Paul Watford was the
most likely nominee. On reflection, I think that Attorney General
Loretta Lynch is more likely. I also ... MOREObama Will Seek $11 Billion For Homeless Families
by Nikita Stewart. Growing the welfare state. After
making progress in reducing homelessness among veterans, the Obama
administration is turning to the larger and more complicated challenge
of homelessness among families with young children. In his 2017 budget, to be presented on Tuesday, President Obama
will propose spending $11 billion over ... MOREObama May Be Ensnared In The Clinton Email Scandal
by Jonathan F. Keller. Perhaps President Obama’s involvement is the reason that the FBI has not yet referred charges to the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case. It may be metastasizing so quickly and so dangerously that not only are agents and lawyers within the agency having trouble keeping up with new evidence of wrongdoing, but that ... MORE
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