TSA Whistleblower: Agents Laugh at Naked Body Images
There’s a former TSA agent turned whistleblower that’s created a blog called Taking Sense Away (TSA). His blog postings reveal that he was just as much or more incensed as many passengers have been...
View ArticleWashington DC to Add 134 More Traffic Cameras
DC police say their speed and red light cameras that are distributed around the city are working to help decrease traffic fatalities. In the last 10 years, they say that auto accident related deaths...
View ArticleMissouri Considering Taxing “Violent” Video Games
So my state of residence is catching one version of the “Legislative Sandy Hook Panic Virus” and is considering a tax on violent video games. “A Missouri State lawmaker from Taney County wants to tax...
View ArticleObama Gives Fighter Jets to Islamic America-Hating Egypt
On January 22nd four of the proposed 20 F-16 fighter jets were delivered to Egypt. The jets, decorated with Egypt’s flag on their tails, are part of a $213 million “gift” from the United States,...
View ArticleNPR: Surveillance On Other Side Of Planet Is Newsworthy
There is nothing wrong with this story on China’s growing surveillance grid, except that it was produced in America for Americans without any sense of irony. “Today, in Chinese cities, cameras are...
View ArticleA Technological Privacy Breakthrough that Scares Our Government
Anything that worries our government, I’m for. The old ways of resisting government have to change. Long-term planning needs to be part of the equation. A strategy to replace the existing government...
View ArticleHottest Idea In Immigration Reform: Turn US Into Giant Prison
Apparently, there is suddenly a bipartisan agenda for “immigration reform.” As far as I can tell, this involves insisting on “a path to citizenship” for people who are in the United States illegally....
View ArticleCIA Head Nominee: No 5th Amendment For Drone Strike Victims
In John Brennan’s Senate committee hearing, he was questioned by Senator Angus King, an Independent from Maine. Senator King raised concern over the fact that drone strikes on American citizens are...
View ArticleGovernment Waste: From Broadband To Security
In theory I understand that there are certain needs a society has that cannot be provided by a free market. But what are those needs? And even if the government should provide them, is it automatically...
View ArticleBig Brother Buys End to Your Freedom — With Your Money
“So this is how liberty dies … with thunderous applause,” said the character Senator Amidala in Star Wars Episode Three. As ominous as her comment was, reality has a way of one-upping art, and the...
View ArticleBig Brother In A Maryland County! Is A Surveillance Conspiracy That Easy?
Since this story has just begun, it is hard to know where it will go. But as first reported it seemed that The Anne Arundel County Executive, John Leopold managed to acquire a publicly-funded camera...
View ArticleObama Fires First Shot In Executive War On Nature
Carbon Dioxide is a natural gas that plants use to grow and thrive—in which case they produce more oxygen as a byproduct. Obama has found a Nixon-era law to try to treat this natural compound that is...
View ArticleThe Surveillance State Is Not Just A Violation; It Is Unsafe
So, at first, we heard speculations and excuses about how and why Tamerlan Tsarnaev was able to go to Russia and back without raising more suspicion on the part of the FBI. Now we have yet another...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Boston Bombing Amputees
Your life changed in a split second. A beautiful April day was ravaged by two bombers intent on doing harm to no one in particular. You got caught in the crossfire. While your life will never be the...
View ArticleWhy Corporations Love Big Government: The Internet Sales Tax
People who believe in free markets commonly make the mistake of assuming that successful businessmen also believe in free markets. But the sad truth is that a successful businessman is often someone...
View ArticlePoliticians Threaten Apple Over Misusing Money: Taste The Irony!
I pretty much despise Apple’s political culture, so I’m tempted to just laugh at them in their troubles with the Washington Bully Club (i.e. the Federal Government). They want to be cool progressives...
View ArticleIowa City Stands Against National Security Regime
On the first reading the bill passed unanimously. It has to undergo a second and third reading to become a city ordinance. If it becomes law it will be the first city ordinance of its kind,...
View ArticleDid The Director Of National Intelligence Lie To Congress About Spying On...
With the sudden revelations of how the government is culling the records of all Verizon customers without any probably cause, and how Prism is used to spy on people (Americans?) via Google, Facebook,...
View ArticleWhy I Fear Edward Snowden Will Be A Martyr
I consider Edward Snowden a global hero who has stood against the enemies of the human race. Maybe you think my estimate is too high. Maybe it is. But I doubt it. What the NSA is building on planet...
View ArticleFox News Analyst: NSA Whistleblower Deserves Death Penalty
If you’re like Lindsey Graham, and you think that there’s nothing at all wrong with our over bloated, corrupt, scandal-ridden government snooping on, collecting, and storing electronic data on every...
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