Obama wins; America loses. People are arguing about what the United States got out of the deal that swapped five top level terrorist leaders for one American soldier who was, at best, absent from his post in a war zone. Soldiers who served in the same unit with him call him a deserter. The key to this deal, however, is less likely to be ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: The Prisoner Swap Deal
Obama wins; America loses. People are arguing about what the United States got out of the deal that swapped five top level terrorist leaders for one American soldier who was, at best, absent from his post in a war zone. Soldiers who served in the same unit with him call him a deserter. The key to this deal, however, is less likely to be ... MORERand Paul Is Right to Oppose Targeted Killing Of Americans
by Chris Edelson. Secret law has no place in a constitutional democracy. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has quite rightly called on the Obama administration to publicly disclose its legal justifications for the claimed power to order the killing, without trial or hearing, of U.S. citizens abroad who are suspected of being terrorist leaders planning attacks ... MORE
Greenwald's Finale: Naming The Surveillance Victims
by Toby Harnden. The man who helped bring about the most significant leak in American intelligence history is to reveal names of US citizens targeted by their own government in what he promises will be the “biggest” revelation from nearly 2m classified files. Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who received the trove of documents from ... MOREVIDEO: The REAL Bundy Ranch Story
The day free American citizens stood down their heavy-handed government.
CBS Sacramento: California Agency Taxes $3M By Mistake, Then Claims State Law Prevents Them From Giving It Back
California gets to keep what it can steal. A Sacramento fire district that wrongly taxed homeowners more than $3
million due to a clerical error will not be issuing a full refund of
that money, a Call Kurtis investigation has learned. Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said it will only return about
half of that money, angering some ... MORE
The Rise of Government-Sanctioned Home Invasions
by John W. Whitehead. Who will protect you from the police? It’s 3 a.m. You’ve been asleep for hours when suddenly you hear a loud “Crash! Bang! Boom!” Based on the yelling, shouting and mayhem, it sounds as if someone—or several someones—are breaking through your front door. With your heart racing and your stomach churning, ... MORE
This Powerful Jury Tool Can End The Drug War Today
by David Downs. A New Hampshire bill introduced in the legislature this month would
require judges to tell juries that they are free to use a time-tested,
and controversial power called “nullification,” the Wall Street Journal reported today. “Nullification” means jurors can vote to acquit defendants if jurors
don’t agree with the underlying law. ... MORE
Detroit Police Chief: Legal Gun Owners Can Deter Crime
by George Hunter. If more citizens were armed, criminals would think twice about attacking them, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Thursday. Urban police chiefs are typically in favor of gun control or reluctant to discuss the issue, but Craig on Thursday was candid about how he’s changed his mind. “When we look at the good .... MORE
Walter E Williams: Parting Company
Which approach, civil or barbaric? Here's a question that I've asked in the past that needs to be revisited. Unless one wishes to obfuscate, it has a simple yes or no answer. If one group of people prefers strong government control and management of people's lives while another group prefers liberty and desires to be left alone, ... MORE
Jury Duty Gives Us Power To Decide The Law
by Jonathan Carp. In Washington, D.C., Fully Informed Jury Association activist James Babb has placed informative billboards at Metro stations near the courts. These billboards tell passersby about jury nullification, the ancient right of jurors to judge both the facts and the law. The doctrine has a long and venerable history; the right of ... MOREA Look At The Jury System & Our Participation In It
by Graham Dugas. The jury system is one of the few remaining checks on the system available to those of us who love freedom. We must utilize this tool to the fullest measure if we ever hope to non-violently fight tyranny. Yes, it is a hassle but we needn’t look far to see all the evils visited upon us when this righteous check on tyranny and lunacy ... MORENSA 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
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, ... MORESteven Greenhut: Journalism Is An Act, Not A Profession
Great journalism can come from average citizens. Watching some recent debates about who is a “real journalist” and who isn’t has been a source of amusement for me given that being a real journalist has not always been that great of an honor. When I told Mom I was getting a job in journalism, she was miffed that her son would waste ... MOREMark Steyn: So Long, Self-Government
Might as well put the Constitution out of its misery. June 26, 2013 — just another day in a constitutional republic of limited government by citizen representatives: First thing in the morning, Gregory Roseman, Deputy Director of Acquisitions (whatever that means), became the second IRS official to take the Fifth Amendment, after he was ... MORELydia Warren: Government's $1.9 Billion Citizen Data Mine
Where our rulers store all of our information. The personal data and private online conversations that the National Security Administration is accused of mining could be stashed in a one million square-foot, $1.9 billion facility in the Utah Valley. Concerns over what the government will store at the Utah Data Center have been ... MORE
New York State Offers $500 Reward To Gun Tattletails
Government subsidizes citizen defenselessness. For more than a year, New York state has maintained a tip line allowing people to report illegal gun owners and collect a $500 reward. CBS-6 news reported the existence of the tip line on Wednesday. It was previously a “well-kept secret” that received little promotion from state officials or ... MORERasmussen Poll: 6% Rate News Media As Very Trustworthy
What are they thinking? Most voters still get their news from television and consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Likely U.S. Voters say they get most of their news from TV, including 32% who get it from cable news networks and 24% who get it from traditional network news. A new ... MOREMark Almonte: Why Do Civilians Need Assault Weapons?
Could you visualize yourself needing one? The two strongest reasons for civilians to own assault weapons are self-defense and defense against tyranny. One self-defense situation that comes to mind is the L.A. riots. Who can forget the nightly news's live footage of thugs hurling rocks at passing cars, buildings on fire, and looters smashing storefront ... MORE
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