from the New York Times. NOW that we sense the magnitude of our government’s effort to track Americans’ telephone and Internet transactions, the issue finally and fully before us is not how we balance personal privacy with police efficiency. We have long since surrendered a record of our curiosities and fantasies to Google. We have ... MOREMax Frankel: Where Did Our 'Inalienable Rights' Go?
from the New York Times. NOW that we sense the magnitude of our government’s effort to track Americans’ telephone and Internet transactions, the issue finally and fully before us is not how we balance personal privacy with police efficiency. We have long since surrendered a record of our curiosities and fantasies to Google. We have ... MORETibor R. Machan: How To Secure A Free Country
We need protection from unlimited government. NSA’s excuse for snooping on innocent citizens — namely, that it can prevent serious harm to us, might even save lives — is spurious. If you incarcerated us all, that, too, might do all that. Free men and women are, of course, capable of violence, even murder, but unless it is ... MOREMatt Rousu: Time For Feds To Legalize Internet Gambling
A nanny state is no friend of liberty. While Americans love to wager money, our country has an interesting relationship with legalized gambling. Though it’s legal in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, many Indian Reservations, and other places in the US, it is illegal elsewhere. Further, the legality of online gambling sites has also been questioned. ... MORE
Congress Killed Our Privacy And Empowered The NSA
by Andrew Napolitano. Which is more dangerous to personal liberty in a free society: a renegade who tells an inconvenient truth about government law-breaking, or government officials who lie about what the renegade revealed? That's the core issue in the great public debate this summer, as Americans come to the realization that their ... MORER. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.: Justice Thomas Echos JFK
Quotas and affirmative action cause nothing but trouble. For four decades the American people have been perplexed by “affirmative action,” “quotas,” and all the circumlocutions that have accumulated around them. Reading about them is painful. Living with them is worse. What has the Supreme Court trying been trying to tell us with ... MORE
Folks Use 'Incompetent' And 'Liar' To Describe Obama
Jennifer Harper on Pew Research findings. One gauge of a president’s favorability is the assorted descriptors the public volunteers to a pollster about the leader of the Free World. The Pew Research Center has tracked the assorted description of President Obama over the years, and has this to say: “The survey finds that the one-word ... MOREJulie Borowski: Knowing Your Rights Gets More Important
Freedom is under attack incrementally. Many Americans have probably read about oppressive governments in history books and thought, “Why didn’t the people stand up and stop this from happening?” In hindsight, it just seems so obvious that the people should have noticed and protested government overstepping its bounds. But often, ... MORESpying's The Real Story, Not Edward Snowden
by Gene Healy. I promised myself to stay away from Orwell metaphors for the duration of the latest surveillance-state controversy. But the punditocracy's recent "two-minutes hate" against National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has me backsliding already. Judging by the vicious -- and irrelevant -- attacks on Snowden's character, all too ... MOREEmily Miller: Using Taxes To Threaten 2nd Amendment
Making self-protection unaffordable. Liberals are trying every tool at their disposal this year to go after guns. They have failed on Capitol Hill to restrict the Second Amendment, so they are moving through the states to enact their agenda. The latest maneuver is to hike the tax on guns and ammunition to dissuade the law-abiding ... MORE
John Stossel: Banning The Things That Make Us Happy
People say America is a free country. But what if you want to drink, have a cigarette or make a bet? Government often says "no" to protect us from ourselves. It's as if the government is still run by the Puritans who settled this land four centuries ago. They said pleasure and luxury are sinful. Today's government has a better argument ... MORE
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