Frick might be better than Frack. Mid-term elections are right around the corner. The Republicans are salivating because they can smell blood in the water and victory in the air. The House will probably stay in the Republican column and the Senate could move there also. Governorships and State Houses seem to be moving also in the ... MOREBill Tatro: Does It Really Matter?
Frick might be better than Frack. Mid-term elections are right around the corner. The Republicans are salivating because they can smell blood in the water and victory in the air. The House will probably stay in the Republican column and the Senate could move there also. Governorships and State Houses seem to be moving also in the ... MOREJoshua D. Filler: Time To Call In SWAT Team Reform Crew
Excessive force by cops becoming widely recognized. In February 2013, an armored vehicle and a special weapons and tactics
(SWAT) team funded in part by a Department of Homeland Security grant
were deployed by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department during
the manhunt for domestic terrorist Christopher Dorner.
Dorner ... MOREAsset Forfeiture: Legalized Theft Funding the Police State
by Kelli Sladick. Asset forfeiture is a form of legalized theft that serves as a major funding source for the rapidly expanding police state. Through asset forfeiture, law enforcement agencies can essentially take your money, your house, or any other property you own and keep it unless you can prove your innocence and that your property ... MOREAnthony L. Fisher: 3rd Generation Kennedy Fears End Of Prohibition Might Lead To People Making Lots Of Money
Head-exploding irony and hypocrisy. Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) has just published an op-ed in Ozy titled, "What No One is Saying about Marijuana," where he sounds the alarm that "Addiction is big business, and with legal marijuana it’s only getting bigger." A recidivist drug and alcohol abuser (who has miraculously avoided jail time ... MOREScientology Scheme: Foundation For A Drug-Free America
Propaganda machine is religious front group. Pamphlets passed out with Halloween candy. The Foundation for a Drug-Free World -- at drugfreeworld.org -- is an anti-drug organization with links to and funded by the Church of Scientology. As such it is considered one of the cult's front groups. The Church of Scientology has a history of ... MOREThe Walking Dead in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead. The zombies are us. Fear and paranoia have become hallmarks of the modern American experience, impacting how we as a nation view the world around us, how we as citizens view each other, and most of all how our government views us. Nowhere is this epidemic of fear and paranoia more aptly mirrored than in the culture’s ... MORECops Do 20,000 No-Knock Raids Against Citizens Each Year
by Dara Lind. Most of the time, when a person kills an intruder who breaks into his home, dressed in all black and screaming, the homeowner will avoid jail time. But what happens when the break-in was a no-knock SWAT raid, the intruder was a police officer, and the homeowner has a record? A recent pair of cases in Texas are an example of how ... MOREFederal Agencies Just Doing Whatever They Want Now
by Lucy Steigerwald. On October 26, The
New York Times published an article on the close ties between
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and ex-Nazis after World War II. This
wasn’t news, except for the fact that there were more Nazis poached by the CIA
and other intelligence services, then brought to the US, and protected from ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: The Presumption Of Liberty
The presumption has become tyranny. In the years following the adoption of the Constitution, before he was Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson and then president himself, James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, was a member of the House of Representatives. During that period of his life, he gave ... MORE
The Guardian: Citizenfour Documentary Utterly Engrossing
Edward Snowden and patriotism in the 21st century. Last year, UK cinemagoers were treated to two competing accounts of the story of Julian Assange: Bill Condon’s oddly inert drama The Fifth Estate, and Alex Gibney’s more pointedly dramatic documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks. Although very different in form, ... MOREMick Hume: The Awful Truth About Free Speech
So your offended? Deal with it. Time to stop paying lip service to the principle and take a stand in practice. Almost everybody in Western society with more than two brain cells to rub together supports freedom of speech. Or so they say. Blasphemers might be sentenced to death in Islamic states, and the internet might be censored to death in ... MORELA County Wants Warrantless Searches Of Hotel Records
Government's war against privacy marches on. Los Angeles County will file a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court
supporting an argument by the city of Los Angeles that police should be
allowed to inspect hotel guest registries on demand without a warrant. The Board of Supervisors passed the resolution on Tuesday. The motion says ... MOREFederal Court: Doctors Testify War On Pot Defies Science
by David Downs. Separating propaganda from science. Three medical experts testified in federal court in California Friday and Monday that modern science renders the war on marijuana unconstitutional. Decades of medical research show the drug is not the danger the government has made it out to be, they told a federal judge. ... MORE
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