VIDEO: Can Cops Search Your Cell Phone?

How Jury Nullification Would Work In Anti- SAFE Act Case

by Frank Parlato.     At last opponents of the NY SAFE Act have a case that they can use to overcome the vicious, draconian, unconstitutional NYS SAFE Act, the monster child of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Brenden Morgan, 22, of Medina, NY, was charged by State Police with criminal possession of a weapon in the 4th degree, a Class A misdemeanor. Morgan   ... MORE

Katherine Mangu-Ward: Guy Who Tried To Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand Gets Taste Of Own Medicine. And It Sucks

Smothered by regulation.       Remember Doug Wilkey, the grumpy Floridian who tried to get a lemonade stand that was operating next door to his house shut down by local authorites? Whelp, looks like he's getting a taste of his own medicine. A tipster contacted the city and pointed officials toward records that show Wilkey, as recently as March,   ... MORE

New Hampshire: A Hotbed for Liberty

by Shem Kellogg.       The United States was once a constitutional republic, and today New Hampshire is on the forefront in the battle to return the U.S. to its original principles of state sovereignty, limited federal government and individual liberty. The year Thomas Jefferson was elected President, eleven out of sixteen states didn’t have     ... MORE

Cops Barge Into Woman's Home Because Grass Is Too Long

Your public servants at work -- see video. Police officers barged into a woman’s home because they wanted to arrest the owner because of the length of the front lawn.  A tenant answered the door and recorded the rude, obscenity-spewing cops making demands and entering her home, despite the fact that she wasn’t even the person listed  ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - Government's Hate Speech Tracker

U.S. Army Drills To Battle Domestic Political Dissent

by Eric Blair.  Government prepares for citizen confrontation. As we've witnessed recently in Ferguson, Missouri, the difference between police and military is already nearly indistinguishable. In other words, the Army is already taking on peaceful citizens in domestic cities. Tank-supported SWAT teams already grenade and raid homes to serve warrants   ... MORE

Ryan Gallagher: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google

The surveillance search engine.       The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The    ... MORE

VIDEO: How To Refuse Un-Constitutional Checkpoint

Laura College: How To Find DUI Checkpoints

Or, how to avoid warrantless searches.   The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that DUI checkpoints, also called "sobriety roadblocks," are legal and minimally invasive. Of course, for a motorist who is late for a meeting or eager to get home, the inconvenience is subjective. Fortunately, there are ways to find out if there are DUI         ... MORE

Homeland Security Loses Track Of 6,000 Foreigners

by Brian Ross and Matthew Mosk.      But they have your e-mails. The Department of Homeland Security has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who entered the United States on student visas, overstayed their welcome, and essentially vanished -- exploiting a security gap that was supposed to be fixed after the Sept. 11,    ... MORE

Feds Creating Database To Track Hate Speech On Twitter

by Elizabeth Harrington.  The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter. The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major   ... MORE

Gene Robinson: Is America A Police State? For Many, Yes

An everyday reality for millions.      I don't know what it's like to live in a police state. But some people who live in America do. This week, a video surfaced of an event that occurred in St. Paul, Minnesota, back in January—and it's as horrifying as anything I've seen and heard in a long time. I've watched it several times because (1) I can't believe   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Cops and Racism

Thomas Sowell: Irresponsible Choices

So now we want the first woman president?  The latest Gallup poll indicates that 14 percent of the people "moderately disapprove" of Barack Obama's performance as president and 39 percent "strongly disapprove." Since Obama won two presidential elections, chances are that some of those who now "strongly disapprove" of what he    ... MORE

U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422%

by Robert W. Wood.   Government looks to cash in on bonanza. Over the last two years, the U.S. has had a spike in expatriations. It isn’t exactly Ellis Island in reverse, but it’s more than a dribble. With global tax reporting and FATCA, the list of the individuals who renounced is up. For 2013, there was a 221% increase, with record numbers of       ... MORE

VIDEO: One Citizen Crushed By Civil Asset Forfeiture


Policing for profit. More evidence the government is not us.

David Rose: The Myth Of Global Meltown

Al Gore's predicted it would be ICE-FREE by now.  The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.’ Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his      ... MORE

Jeff Mizanskey Is Serving Life in Prison for Marijuana

by Aaron Malin.    Rapists and murderers come and go, but he's there for the duration. As I prepared to leave home for my interview with Jeff Mizanskey I looked up the address of the prison where he is held. In disbelief, I typed the characters into the GPS on my phone: 8200 No More Victims Road. Jeff Mizanskey is serving a life sentence without   ... MORE