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 ... 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
Unless Political Correctness Ends, America Dies
by Tim Powers. America was founded on rugged individualism and a drive to keep all people free. What has happened to a great nation that created the industrial revolution, was the leader in technology, and the captain of industry? What has happened to a great nation that suffered greatly during the Great Depression and stock market crash ... MORERand Paul: Conservative Realist?
by Matt Welch. On Oct.
23, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) gave a
major address in front of the Center
for National Interest, a "realist" foreign policy think tank
founded by Richard Nixon. As he did in a similar
February 2013 speech in front of the conservative Heritage
Foundation, the libertarian-leaning presumptive 2016 GOP
presidential ... MORE
John Stossel: Incumbents Always Win
Politicians and their stranglehold on power. I'm told that the public is "angry" at today's politicians. Eighty-two percent disapprove of the job Congress is doing. So will Tuesday's election bring a big shakeup? No. Congressional reelection rates never drop below 85 percent. The last big "wave" election was 1994, when Democrats lost control ... MOREWind Turbines are 'Expensive, Unreliable and Inefficient'
by Donna Rachel Edmunds. Study reveals another inconvenient truth. Wind power is too variable and too unpredictable to provide a serious alternative to fossil fuels, a new study by the Scientific Alliance and the Adam Smith Institute has confirmed. The researchers concluded that, although it is true that the wind is always blowing ... MOREThe Police Are Still Out of Control (I Should Know)
by Frank Serpico. In the opening scene of the 1973 movie “Serpico,” I am shot in the face—or to be more accurate, the character of Frank Serpico, played by Al Pacino, is shot in the face. Even today it’s very difficult for me to watch those scenes, which depict in a very realistic and terrifying way what actually happened to me on Feb. 3, 1971. ... MORE
Katrina Vander Heuvel: Justice For Edward Snowden
What if truth mattered to Obama? It is time for President Obama to offer clemency to Edward Snowden,
the courageous U.S. citizen who revealed the Orwellian reach of the
National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance of Americans. His
actions may have broken the law, but his act, as the New York Times editorialized, did the nation ... MORETim Stanley: Numbers Prove Life Under Obama Sucks
America is so over Obama. In 2008, the media and a majority of the voters were head-over-heels in love with the man who told them that “yes, we can” overcome war and recession. By 2012, the amour had cooled but they were willing to give four more years to the guy who was – if nothing else – way hotter than Mitt Romney. But now it’s 2014 ... MORE
Veronique de Rugy: Government Failure Is Baked In
Why the least government is the best government. On July 14, The New York Times reported that scientists at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had mishandled dangerous strains of anthrax and bird flu, failed to follow correct safety procedures after employees were exposed, and neglected to notify the appropriate ... MOREGrant Duwe: The Truth About Mass Public Shootings
Why do the numbers appear to be going up? Because previous shootings have been underreported. The findings from two separate reports
released in the last month—one
by the FBI and the other by progressive investigative media
outlet
Mother Jones—have been offered up as evidence that
"mass shootings" are occurring more ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Insights derived from wisdom. The great boxing champion Joe Louis once said about one of his opponents, who was known for his speed: "He can run but he can't hide." In the Congressional elections this year, many Democrats are running away from Barack Obama, but they can't hide their record of voting for Obama's agenda more than 90 percent ... MORESpecial Report: America's Perpetual State Of Emergency
by Gregory Korte. The United States is in a perpetual state of national emergency. Thirty separate emergencies, in fact. An emergency declared by President Jimmy Carter on the 10th day of the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 remains in effect almost 35 years later. A post-9/11 state of national emergency declared by President George W. Bush — and ... MORE125 Seattle Cops Sue For Right to Use Excessive Force
Fortunately, they were shot down. Wow... who could've foreseen this happening in our nation? But some 125 Seattle police officers responded by filing a lawsuit challenging the new laws. In their view, the new policies infringe on their rights to use as much force as they deem necessary in self-protection. They represent about ten percent ... MORELaw Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts; No Crime Required
by Shaila Dewan. For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away — until last year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they had seized her checking account, almost $33,000. ... MOREAmericans Are Renouncing Citizenship At A Record Pace
by Laura Saunders. Significant numbers of people are continuing to renounce their U.S. citizenship or end their long-term U.S. residency. There are 776 names on the Treasury Department list published Friday for the third quarter of 2014. That’s the third highest quarterly figure ever, according to Andrew
Mitchel, an international tax lawyer in ... MOREWalter E Williams: Africa - The Tragic Continent
And why it is no surprise. Here's how my Aug. 11, 2003, column began: "Anyone who believes President Bush's Africa initiative, including sending U.S. troops to Liberia, will amount to more than a hill of beans is whistling Dixie. Maybe it's overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people." More than a ... MORENew Cop-Detection Device Warns When They Are Lurking
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by John Vibes. The Blu Eye system works by monitoring frequencies that are used by emergency vehicles and then alerts the driver when those frequencies are nearby. It does not allow the driver to listen in on the encrypted communications, but will simply give a signal when those frequencies are nearby. This is far more advanced and accurate ... MOREDisapproving Judge Argues Against Warrantless Searches
by Mary Ellen Godin Record. City police in Meridian, Connecticut would not comment on remarks made by a Superior Court judge Wednesday who called a police report about a warrantless drug raid “unbelievable” before adding, “I don’t want to live in this police state.” In open court, Judge Philip Scarpellino questioned why city ... MOREDemocracy Is Neither Freedom Nor Prosperity
by Jacob Hornberger. Consider this excerpt from a New York Times article on the recent success that Tunisia has had in adopting a democratic system: Many young Tunisians say that the new freedoms and elections have done little to improve the daily life, create jobs, or rein in a brutal police force that many here still refer to as “the ruler, ... MORE
Flashback: When Presidents Respected the Constitution
by Jeffrey Folks. “I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. That is the chief meaning of freedom.” Those words are taken from Calvin Coolidge’s Inaugural Address of March 4, 1925. Even then, conservatives like Coolidge were battling ... MOREOne More Unwarranted, No-Knock Raid Ends In Murder
by Stirling Watts. Cop gets a pass on killing of 7-year-old. The frequency of civil rights violations carried out daily across
this nation by out-of-control police departments is as alarming as is
their sickening and shocking natures, but unwarranted no knock raids are
the worst kind. Just over four years ago, an innocent seven year old girl
was shot in ... MOREThe Messy Politics of California's Overcrowded Prison Crisis
by Zach Weissmueller. "A prison that deprives prisoners of basic sustenance, including
adequate medical care, is incompatible with the concept of human
dignity and has no place in civilized society," wrote Justice
Anthony Kennedy for the majority in a Supreme Court ruling against
Governor Jerry Brown and the state of California in the ... MOREJ D Tucille: NH Supreme Court Guts Jury Nullification Law
The judges want more law enforcement, less justice. State snatches more power from the people. Insisting "It is well established that jury
nullification is neither a right of the defendant nor a defense
recognized by law," the New Hampshire Supreme Court this morning
eviscerated a law
that was openly intended and
widely ... MORE
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