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Former U.S. Senator Sends Message of Support to NSA Whistleblower Snowden
Former U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire sent an e-mail to Edward Snowden, expressing his support of the former National Security Agency contract worker's action in exposing the...
News Media Try Hard to Pin “Racist” Tag on Zimmerman
Various news media are trying to make the facts of the Zimmerman case fit the preordained conclusion of racism. ...
Zimmerman May Face Federal Civil Rights Charges, Civil Suit
Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, acquitted Saturday in a Florida court of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges, may yet face criminal prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice for...
Unauthorized War on Syria Would Be Impeachable Offense, Rep. Warns
President Obama will be guilty of an impeachable offense if he intervenes militarily in Syria's civil war without authorization from Congress, according to a resolution introduced in Congress. ...
Justice Thomas Likens Affirmative Action to Segregation Laws
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas likened the rationale for an affirmative action admissions policy to segregationist arguments of previous decades. ...
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." ...
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...