A Legacy of Violations of the U.S. Bill of Rights, Hyperlinked
Rampant government violations of the U.S. Bill of Rights are an indication that the Bill of Rights is facing greater threat today under manufactured “necessity” than ever before in...
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Nancy Pelosi’s Attack on the First Amendment
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Maryland Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) signed on to the national leftist movement to amend the U.S. Constitution to repeal the Supreme Court's...
Mark Meckler Ridicules Those Opposed to Constitutional Convention
Mark Meckler of Citizens for Self-Government has inaugurated a pattern of ridiculing constitutionalists such as Phyllis Schlafly and The New American's own Joe Wolverton for being skeptical of pushing...
Congresswoman: Drafting Executive Orders “Number One Agenda”
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) told a meeting of the new Congressional Full Employment Caucus on January 29 that the chief job of Congress in the coming months should...
Democrats: Kings of Crony Corporatism
Though both Republicans and Democrats have backed crony capitalism with tax dollars, the Democratic Party has been a more reliable supporter of crony capitalism than the Republican Party. ...
The War on the Tea Party
The Tea Party coalition in Congress is reviled by both establishment Democrats and Republicans — as well as mass media — but most claims against it are untrue. ...
Obama’s NSA Speech: You Have No Privacy in Your Data
President Obama delivered a wordy and categorical defense of NSA warrantless snooping on Americans' data privacy January 17 in a speech at the Justice Department, reiterating the longtime executive...
Rep. King Says Sen. Paul Tells “Absolute Lies” About NSA Surveillance
In a January 5 Fox News Channel interview, New York Republican Congressman Peter King claimed that Senator Rand Paul tells “absolute lies” with respect to NSA surveillance of Americans,...
Has the Pope Gone Socialist?
Pope Francis denounced capitalism in his Evangelii Gaudium letter to Catholics worldwide, and his statement was a shocker to some laissez-faire economists. ...
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NSA Admits Spying on Congressional Phone Habits
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont wrote to the NSA asking if the agency collects the telephone records of members of Congress, and CNN received a response claiming that it...
Apple Strikes Back at NSA’s “Malicious Hackers”
Apple Inc. executives have labeled leadership of the U.S. government's National Security Agency “malicious hackers” and have vowed to fight against reported NSA software hacks of all of Apple's...
Last Innocent Uighurs Leave Guantanamo Prison
The Eastern European nation of Slovakia agreed to take the last three ethnic Uighur prisoners who have been detained at Guantanamo since 2002, according to the Associated Press December...
NSA Unit “TAO” Seeks “Pervasive” Access to Internet
The German magazine Der Spiegel revealed extraordinary details about the NSA's TAO program, which is tasked with “pervasive” penetration of the Internet and global telephone traffic. This most aggressive...
Establishment Terrified Tea Party Won’t Back Unnecessary Wars
The interventionist establishment is terrified that a reinvigorated Tea Party may prevent new unnecessary wars and foreign military interventions in the coming years, according to an article in Democracy...
Snowden Says He “Won” Contest With Obama
After six months of silence, National Security Administration (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has begun speaking publicly about how he “won” a debate over massive warrantless surveillance of Americans by...