Homeland Security Sought Covert Body Scans

Tax money spent for clandestine digital strip search technology.

The Homeland Security Department paid contractors millions of dollars to develop and study surveillance systems that could covertly track pedestrians and check under people's clothing with airport-style body scanners as they enter train stations, bus depots or major events, newly released documents show. ...   MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - The Path to Socialism

SEE PART 2 OF MILTON FRIEDMAN - PATH TO SOCIALISM HERE

Michael Barone: Government Shutdown Not a Train Wreck

Sometimes you get an idea of the way opinion is headed by the phrases you don't hear. Case in point: In all the discussion and debate these past weeks about a possible government shutdown if Congress and President Obama fail to agree on funding bills, I don't recall having heard the phrase "train wreck." I think that's significant, because back in the 1990s, when then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich's  ...  MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Public Employee Unions

Herman Cain: In Defense of American Exceptionalism

There is no denying it: America is the greatest country in the world. 

We are blessed with unparalleled freedoms and boundless prosperity that for generations have inspired an innovative and industrious people. America is exceptional. American Exceptionalism is the standard that our laws reflect the understanding that we are afforded certain God-given rights that can never be taken away.  ...  MORE

VIDEO: Will Net Neutrality Save the Internet?