Obama’s Willing Executioners of the Fourth Amendment
It’s now painfully clear that the president has put out a contract on the Fourth Amendment. And at the Capitol, the hierarchies of both parties are stuffing it into the trunks of their limousines, so each provision can be neatly fitted with cement shoes and delivered...
Iraq Coffee Shops Targeted; 55 Killed, 89 Wounded
The Battle for the Amash Amendment: Victory in Defeat
In the aftermath of the Amash Rebellion, there are two new parties in Congress: the authoritarians and the Americans. The vote on Rep. Justin Amash's LIBERT-E Act, which would have gutted the National Security Agency's phone records dragnet, drew a clear line of...
The Lobby Never Sleeps
Developments in Syria and Egypt have been a godsend for Israel. The bloodshed and political turmoil have meant that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can continue with business as usual, with no one paying much attention to what is going on as he dismembers Palestine....
Fake Iraq Checkpoints Signal Return to Old Tactic; 66 Killed in Fresh Attacks
Reforms of Domestic Government Surveillance
In the National Security Agency (NSA) domestic snooping scandal, at least two major issues exist: 1) warrantless government "traffic" analysis of patterns of potentially all Americans’ phone calls, from which new technology allows authorities to assemble a...
Kafka’s America: Secret Courts, Secret Laws, and Total Surveillance
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men...
Iraq: 40 Killed, 118 Wounded as Sunni Mosques Get Targeted
Libertarians Leading the Fight Against the NSA
Edward Snowden's sacrifice was not in vain – because many thousands in the United States are rising to take up the battle he started. And they mean to win. At the head of the libertarian army that's storming the gates of the Leviathan: Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan),...


