by Michael Hastings. Besides Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, most Democrats abandoned their civil liberty positions during the age of Obama. With a new leak investigation looming, the Democrat leadership are now being forced to confront all the secrets they’ve tried to hide. For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the last 48 hours has ... MOREWhy Democrats Love To Spy On Americans
by Michael Hastings. Besides Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, most Democrats abandoned their civil liberty positions during the age of Obama. With a new leak investigation looming, the Democrat leadership are now being forced to confront all the secrets they’ve tried to hide. For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the last 48 hours has ... 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
Nick Gillespie: GOP - Go Young Or Go Home!
Party must channel their inner libertarian. Earlier this year, Bobby Jindal, the GOP governor of Louisiana,
surveyed the wreckage of Mitt Romney’s sad-sack presidential
campaign and told his fellow Republicans that if they ever want to
capture the White House again, “we
must stop being the stupid party.” While Michele Bachmann’s ... MORE
Matt Welch: Baseball's Steroid Collusion With The Feds
Partners in the public-shaming biz. Tucked away inside ESPN's
blockbuster report last night that Major League Baseball is
preparing to hand out an unprecedented 20 or so steroid
suspensions—including to Hall of Fame talent Alex Rodriguez and
former Most Valuable Player Ryan Braun—as part of an agreement
reached with a performance-enhancing ... MORECIA Chief: We'll Spy On You Through Your Dishwasher
by Spencer Ackerman. More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the
internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your
light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them. Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an
“Internet of Things” — that is, ... MOREThe ObamaCare Gift To Planned Parenthood Clinics
by Paul Bedard. Most of Planned Parenthood's 750 health and
abortion clinics around the nation will be covered under Obamacare,
imposing a new demand on insurers who want to participate in the health
care exchanges that will provide insurance coverage to millions of
Americans. While insurers currently cover doctors and health ... MOREThe War On Pot Is Insanely Racist & Insanely Expensive
by Mike Riggs. Across the United States--north, east, south, west--blacks are more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession. That's the conclusion of a new ACLU report that compares arrest data from 945 counties across the country. "In 2010, the Black arrest rate for marijuana possession was 716 per 100,000, while ... MOREBarry Farber On The Perils Of Making On-Air Bets
A debt paid and a lesson learned. It may have been the best magazine cartoon – ever! Penguins are the only animals in tuxedos. Imagine an Antarctic ice cap with hundreds of tuxedoed penguins, and one penguin wearing a natty beret, a gold chain, sunglasses and a checkered vest while sporting a rhinestone-studded cigarette holder. A curious gaggle ... MOREGene Healy: Obama's Flight From Responsibility
"Hey, don't look at me -- I'm just the president!" That's the common thread in President Obama's response to his recent scandal eruptions, from IRS harassment of Tea Partiers to his Justice Department's spying on AP reporters. Like everybody else, Obama learns about these things via cable news, according to press secretary Jay Carney. ... MORETwenty Years Of Non-Stop Regulation
by Wayne Crews & Ryan Young. Twenty years ago saw the release of the first edition of Ten Thousand Commandments, an annual report that tracks the cost and scope of the federal regulatory state. It’s been a very busy two decades for Washington, with 81,883 new regulations hitting the books during that time. That’s a new regulation ... MOREPoll: Americans Angry With DOJ's Intimidation Of Media
Federal tyranny is the only thing transparent. The Internal Revenue Service scandal is just one hot-button issue that the Obama administration is facing. The other is the government investigating reporters. And new poll new numbers indicate, many Americans are not happy with the Justice Department snooping on the press, CBS ... MORE
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