NSA Surveillance Database: Backdoor to a National Gun Registry?
A large group of mostly Democratic U.S. senators penned a letter to National Intelligence Director James Clapper asking if the NSA had created a national gun registry by keeping...
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TWA Flight Conspiracy Theories Advanced in New EPIX Channel Video
The EPIX cable television channel will air the documentary, TWA Flight 800, on July 17, a video that claims the official investigation over the 1996 airline disaster needs to...
Markets Tumble After Fed Chair Bernanke Predicts the End of Quantitative Easing
Stock and commodities markets went into a two-day slide after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the United States would end so-called “quantitative easing” sometime during 2014. ...
U.S. House of Representatives Votes to Legalize Industrial Hemp
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 225-200 on June 20 to legalize the industrial farming of hemp fiber. ...
Top Democrat Claims White House Not Involved in IRS Scandal
Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, claimed on the CBS Face the Nation program June 9 that at least one employee...
IRS Scandal: It Wasn’t Just Cincinnati (and May Involve Other Federal Agencies)
The Obama administration's defense in the IRS scandal is falling apart. It is increasingly clear that targeting of conservatives was directed from Washington, as multiple IRS offices have now...
Lois Lerner Pleads the Fifth in Widening IRS Scandal
IRS official Lois Lerner pled her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at congressional hearings in the ever-widening IRS scandal May 22, as it became increasingly apparent that senior Obama...
Boston Bombing: The Action Is in the Reaction
None of the police-state measures in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing made Boston-area residents safer. But that hasn’t stopped new proposals to expand government. ...
If This Is the End of “Austerity,” When Did Austerity Begin?
Keynesian economist Paul Krugman crowed in the June 6 edition of the New York Review of Books that “the case for austerity has crumbled,” but careful analysts should be...
The IRS Scandal: Will It Sink Obama?
While Americans have gradually come to realize that the Internal Revenue Service was used as a partisan tool to attack the Tea Party movement over two election cycles, it...
Ableman v. Booth: How State Nullification Can Defy Tyrannical Government
In 1854, Wisconsin rejected the federal Fugitive Slave Act, which mandated Northern states return Southern slaves without due process, demonstrating both the validity and usefulness of nullification. ...
Fashioning a Prison of Twisted Words
Only a blockhead can unlearn the dictionary. But this is, increasingly, what many Americans have done on marriage, war, sexual relations — and even what constitutes “human life." However,...
The Republican Civil War
The war within the Republican Party between the old-guard establishment neoconservatives and the upstart constitutionalist/libertarian-leaning rebels is raging, and the liberty movement is gaining on the establishment. ...
Boston Bombing Lessons: Martial Law Doesn’t Work
Only after the curfew in Watertown, Massachusetts, was lifted and alert resident David Hanberry went outside his home to get a smoke, according to news reports, did the case...
Waco After 20 Years: A Warning Against Unrestrained Government
April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the Waco, Texas, massacre of Branch Davidian church members at the organization's Mount Carmel compound. Some 82 Davidians (including 26 children) and...