In The Runoff For Georgia’s US Senate Seat…
I am proud to have voted for Allen Buckley on election day, and I am trying to decide whether to abstain, write in Mickey Mouse, or vote for Jim Martin. I DO KNOW that I am extremely tired of Georgia...
View ArticleThere's Nothing Wrong with Spying
It appears that the Chinese continue to collect intelligence on the United States. It also appears that some people are shocked and appalled. Alas, intelligence-gathering is a very natural and normal...
View ArticleWhat Orwell Got Wrong
In this video, writer Cory Doctorow muses on the thought-provoking roles of technology, the state and the individual in the twenty first century.
View ArticleThe CIA and Libya
There’s been a lot of buzz regarding word that the CIA is currently operating inside of Libya’s borders. I can certainly understand that, especially since there aren’t supposed to be any “boots on the...
View ArticleWelcome to 1984 -- The CIA to spy on you through your TV
The CIA may soon have a new way to spy on Americans. According to a new report from Wired, the intelligence agency will be using the Internet through electronic devices, including TVs and alarm clocks,...
View ArticleThe Senate’s Rushed Debate on NSA Spying Powers
Written by Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institute. Posted with permission from Cato @ Liberty.As I write, the Senate is gathering in an unusual special session to debate the...
View ArticleCato Institute: Rushed FISA debate a disservice to Americans
In the waning days of 2012, the United States Senate pushed through renewal of FISA for another five years. As privacy advocates in the chambers sought to improve the legislation with sensible...
View ArticleObama Wants a Look at Your Bank Account
The Obama regime is drawing up final plans to create a massive database and give access to it to government agencies. What will be in this new database?:The Obama administration is drawing up plans to...
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Bill Kristol's State of Denial about the Conservative Movement
During an appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and a prominent neo-conservative, knocked Sen. Rand Paul, who led a 13-hour filibuster over the nomination...
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Americans for Tax Reform, ACLU Team Up for Internet Privacy
Should the government be snooping around you e-mails and cloud accounts? Given that there are constitutional safeguards in place to guarantee our privacy, one would think that the answer to this...
View ArticleUntappable Apple or DEA Disinformation?
Written by Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institute. Posted with permission from Cato @ Liberty.Tech news site CNET has an interesting, but I suspect somewhat misleading, story today...
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IRS Taking Steps to Surveil Americans
Do you have a Facebook or Twitter page? If so, you may want to be careful about what you’re putting out there because the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) — perhaps the most hated bureacratic institution...
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NSA Probably has Your Phone Records
Just last week a friend joked, “Between you, me, and the NSA reading this text message right now.” It’s a joke that has become common in the post-9/11 world, but we got a sobering reminder as to why...
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Americans Not Happy about NSA Snooping
It seems that Americans have finally awakened to the abuses of their civil liberties. Two new polls show that a solid majority of the public isn’t happy about revelations that the National Security...
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IRS has Well-Armed Enforcement Division, Rep. Jeff Duncan Wants to Know Why
While we are still digesting the recent discoveries concerning the IRS and the targeting of its political foes, the agency continues to scramble to respond to an ever-increasing number of questions...
View ArticleReason: Tap It: The NSA Slow Jam
Remy and Reason TV have teamed up to bring us this hilarious take on the NSA surveillance scandal. What better way to a very serious issue than a little comedy, right?H/T: Ron Paul Problems
View ArticleWhy Should We Care? We Have Nothing to Hide…
The consistently principled Glenn Greenwald recently broke the story that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly collecting phone records of millions of U.S. Verizon customers daily....
View ArticleGovernment Sucks, But At Least You Get Your Money’s Worth
The number of bizarre, outrageous, infuriating, and baffling stories flooding the news cycle over recent weeks is so surreal that one could be excused for thinking the online parody site, The Onion,...
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We Already Knew About NSA's PRISM Program
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the National Security Agency (NSA) has been using a program called PRISM to collect “metadata,” under a broad interpretation of Section 215 of the...
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Cato Institute scholar explains the threat of NSA spying
Americans have been lied to about the vast surveillance that their government has been conducting. While politicians and intelligence officials have said in the past that only those suspected of...
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