Scalia: Judges Should Not Be “Mullahs of the West.”
Judges are not fit arbiters of moral issues, Justice Scalia said in a speech titled, "Mullahs of the West: Judges as Moral Arbiters." ...
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Obama Comment on Ireland’s “Segregated” Schools Still Rankles in U.S., U.K.
One week after President Barack Obama made his controversial remarks about religiously "segregated" schools in Northern Ireland, the comments continue to draw sharp rebukes on both sides of the...
Water Complaint Could Be “Act of Terrorism,” Official Warns
If you're ever in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, don't complain about the water there. A state official recently warned that an unfounded complaint about water quality could be considered an...
Anti-gun Group Names Boston Bombing Suspect as Victim of Gun Violence
A group representing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign named alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a victim of gun violence. ...
Obama Planning New Carbon Curbs on Power Plants
President Obama is preparing regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the New York Times reported Thursday. ...
Doubt Surrounds Claims of NSA Success in Foiling Terrorist Attacks
Though National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander (testifying along with officials from the Justice Department in a rare public oversight hearing by the House Intelligence Committee) claimed that...
Would the NSA’s PRISM Have Prevented 9/11?
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Fox News Sunday this week that if the National Security Agency's controversial program PRISM — a daily collection of private telephone records...
U.S. and Russia in Showdown Over Syria?
The civil war in Syria is a growing source of tension between the United States and Russia. ...
Big Government Is Watching the Watchdogs
Though most media have almost disregarded out of hand the government’s daily violations of the Fourth Amendment, they don’t like it when journalists are spied upon. ...
U.S. Troops, Missiles at Syrian Border
A task force of 300 U.S. Marines and a Patriot anti-aircraft missile system have been deployed along Syria's border with Jordan as the United States prepares to ship weapons...
Feinstein Wants to Limit Contractors’ Access to Classified Info
Following news accounts of how the government has been collecting and storing millions of phone call records, e-mail messages and other forms of electronic communications every day, the chairman...
Attorney General Holder: “No Intention to Spy” on Congress
Attorney General Eric Holder offered to answer in closed session when asked in a Senate hearing if the executive branch had been monitoring the phone calls of members of...
Obama Defends Mass Surveillance; Internet Firms Deny Playing Part
"Nobody is listening to the content of people's phone calls," President Obama said Friday as he sought to allay concern arising from news reports over the previous two days...
Mayor Bloomberg Named “Nanny of the Month” — Again
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been named Reason magazine's "Nanny of the Month" for May. ...
NSA Mining Data of Nine Internet Companies, Post Reports
The NSA and FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts...
Secret Records Seizures Called “Critical Tool” in Protecting America
In what President Obama has called "the most transparent administration in history," a secret order from a secret court, authorizing the secret collection of untold millions of Americans' phone...
Congress Looks to Revise, Expand President’s War Powers
The Constitution requires that Congress decide whether and when we will go to war, yet Congress chooses instead to "authorize" and expand power for the president to decide. ...
Iraq War Paying Off — for China
Remember those assurances that the Iraq War would pay for itself, once those oil revenues began gushing forth from a liberated Iraq? Well, a decade later the Iraq War...
Obama’s FBI Pick No Friend of the Constitution
James B. Comey, the man reported to be President Obama's choice to succeed Robert Mueller as director of the FBI, vigorously supported the decision to imprison José Padilla indefinitely...
Behind Eric Holder’s Closed Door, News Execs Plead Case for Free Press
Representatives of several major news organizations went behind closed doors Thursday in an off-the-record discussion with Attorney General Eric Holder on the rules governing Department of Justice searches of...