Zach Weissmueller: Oakland vs. Government Surveillance!

Defeating the Domain Awareness Center.     "Whether it's going back to the free speech movement, the Black Panthers, Occupy Oakland... we fight back," says Brian Hofer, an attorney affiliated with the Oakland Privacy Working Group, an association of Oakland residents fighting against the city's proposed Domain Awareness Center.    ... MORE

Cops Go Car To Car Conducting Warrantless Searches

Twelve lanes of traffic brought to standstill.      Thousands of motorists were brought to a standstill when police conducted a massive roadblock to find three crime suspects.  Twelve lanes of traffic were shut down and swarms of armed government agents combed through a giant traffic jam performing warrantless vehicle-to-vehicle searches.   ... MORE

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - Losing Liberty

Ann McFeatters: Those Revenue-Generating Traffic Cams

Something we all can hate.        Finally. An issue that unites both rabid Democrats and rabid Republicans: Those demon traffic cameras. Not too long ago in the otherwise very nice state of Ohio, on a quiet Sunday morning with no other cars in sight, I made a right-turn-on-red maneuver after slowing to 2 mph. A traffic camera caught me. A few weeks  ... MORE

Eric W. Dolan: House GOP Passes Bill To Force Obama To Crack Down On Marijuana In States That Have Legalized It

Tyrants say there's too much freedom going on.     Legislation approved by House Republicans would seek to force President Barack Obama to crack down on marijuana in states that have made the drug legal for medical or recreational use. The House passed the Enforce the Law Act by a vote of 233-181 on Wednesday. The bill was      ... MORE

VIDEO: You Gotta Fight For Your Property Rights


Smart meters are not so smart for the citizen. 

Ronald Bailey: Thank You, Edward Snowden!

Who betrayed the oath to protect the Constitution?      Since November, advertisements featuring the face of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have been wrapped around several city buses roaming the streets and avenues of Washington, D.C. The can't-miss ads featuring whistleblower Snowden's goateed visage cover ... MORE

Matt Welch: Obama's Mourning In America

Presiding over diminished expectations.     One of the best ways to survive the grotesque and empty power pageantry of Washington's annual State of the Union extravaganza is by visiting the University of California, Santa Barbara's online archive of past addresses and looking up the speeches that corresponded to where the current POTUS     ... MORE

Ben O'Neill: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Courts

Gov't barriers cover lawlessness.     Many commentators following the NSA scandals have been eagerly awaiting the recommendations of the US government task force on the matter, and the proposed reforms to be implemented by President Obama to bring the spy agency under control. If you’re interested in this kind of thing, you can watch the     ... MORE

Nick Sibilla: Cops Deploy Traffic Stops To Seize Millions From Drivers Who Are Never Charged With A Crime

Highway robbery.      Incentives for cops to see you as the enemy. A deputy for the Humboldt County’s Sheriff Office in rural Nevada has been accused of confiscating over $60,000 from drivers who were never charged with a crime.  These cash seizures are now the subject of two federal lawsuits and are the latest to spotlight a little-known police      ... MORE

VIDEO: MIlton Friedman - The Real World Effects Of Unions

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ObamaCare Ruins More Than Health Care

by Richard E. Ralston.      Law helps take down privacy and liberty. No government intrusion in our lives is more direct, personal and threatening than Obamacare’s intrusion in the care of our own health. But Obamacare will harm us on a broader scale, as the underlying nature of the health law’s provisions, and the tactics used to implement     ... MORE

Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt?

by Brian Doherty.      A labor of love over money. John Aglialoro is a businessman, and a very successful one, named by Fortune magazine in 2007 as the 10th richest small business executive in the country. But his latest project is, he says, about “love.” It’s the film Atlas Shrugged III: Who is John Galt?, the conclusion of a trilogy of movies based    ... MORE

VIDEO: Garden Variety Congressional Nitwittery

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U.S. Congresswomen thinks Constitution is 400 years old.

Andrew Napolitano: A Rivalry Of Government Hackers

More evidence the government is not us.      The government is caught up in another scandal in which federal agents have been accused of hacking into one another's computers. When the CIA was established in 1947, Congress and President Truman were concerned that it might not confine itself to spying. Its sole statutory purpose was to   ... MORE