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Aren’t You Glad To Be A Gamma?
I had a really interesting philosophical discussion with Brad Warbiany, our curator at The Liberty Papers, over a Facebook status I wrote. I had just re-listened to the CBS Radio Workshop rendition of...
View ArticleSarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Goes To Prison For Doing Something Uncle Sam Does...
To paraphrase the sign on Ron Paul’s desk, don’t break into someone’s email account that’s the government’s job: A former University of Tennessee student who was convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: 4th Amendment Be Damned Edition
“Nobody likes the 4th amendment being violated when going through the security line, but the truth of the matter is we are going to have to do it.”-Former. Asst. TSA administrator Mo McGowan So when...
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TSA updates from people who opposed the TSA before opposing the TSA was cool
As Stephen Littau noted, November 24th (Wednesday) is the busiest travel date in the country and it’s also National Opt Out Day. To assist Opt Out Day participants, and all air travelers after...
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If You Don’t Fly, The Terrorists TSA Wins
If you want to get on an airplane in the US, you might be subjected to a radiation strip-search or a groping pat-down. Coming back on my recent flight from Vancouver I ended up in the scanner line, but...
View ArticleTSA Update: More Strip and Grope, Opponents are “Domestic Extremists”
Strip and grope to come to boats, trains, and more? “[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,” Napolitano said in an interview that aired Monday night on...
View ArticleThe saving grace of federalism
Were it not for our federalist system, the debate over Real ID would have been over long ago. Fortunately, it’s still going: The political problem for the GOP committee chairmen is that the 2005 Real...
View ArticleRon Paul CNN National Security Debate Highlights and Observations
For those of us who value our liberties, there were a plethora of things said in last night’s debate from candidates not named Ron Paul to be very distressed about. For starters, there was the debate...
View ArticleTweet of the Day: #heblowsalot Edition
“Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot.” I designated the above tweet by 18 year-old high school senior Emma Sullivan tweet of the day, not due to the...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day
Julian Sanchez on security theater: Security theater, then, isn’t only—or even primarily—about making us feel safer. It’s about making us feel we wouldn’t be safe without it. The more we submit to...
View ArticleGRANDMA GOT INDEFINITELY DETAINED (A VERY TSA CHRISTMAS)
Lyrics: Grandma got indefinitely detained now coming home to visit Christmas Eve You could say she had a right to counsel but some folks in the Congress disagree she was flying home to our house when...
View ArticleSCOTUS: Police Placing GPS Tracking Device on a Vehicle Without Warrant...
How about some good news on the civil liberties front to kick off the week for a change? Robert Barnes writing for The Washington Post reports that SCOTUS ruled 9-0 in United States v. Jones stating...
View ArticleRecovered from the Memory Hole: Rep. Paul Ryan Urges Congress to Pass TARP
Mitt Romney has selected Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his running mate with great fanfare among conservatives. Paul Ryan, someone with some fiscal sanity on a major political ticket who can offer an...
View ArticleIn the U.S. State Department’s De-listing of MEK as a Terrorist Group, the...
“In this world, there are good causes and bad causes, and we may disagree on where that line is drawn. Yet, there is no such thing as a good terrorist. No national aspiration, no remembered wrong can...
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“That’s a Violation of My Privacy!”
In Little Canada, MN the police are trying to argue that Andrew Henderson violated HIPPA (federal healthcare privacy law) when he recorded a police interaction with a third party which required an...
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The Best Defense Against Terrorism
The specter of terrorism, especially on the American homeland is very frightening. These fears are especially acute in the immediate aftermath of a terrorist attack such as the bombing near the finish...
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Libertarianism And Privacy In The Data Age
The world is changing. It’s happening rapidly. And it’s freaking people out. Libertarians are concerned that constant surveillance, like that which helped identify the Boston bombers, is an...
View ArticleYour Secrets Are Not Safe with the Government
During a recent show, Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes, made some very important points worthy of sharing here about government secrecy and the government’s inability to keep secrets: As of...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: “Highest Honor” Edition
“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American…” - Edward Snowden in response to Cheney and others calling him a traitor for his NSA leaking.
View ArticleYour Ox Will Eventually Be Gored
It seems logical that every American, regardless of political affiliation/philosophy, race, religion or creed, would be concerned about the revelations concerning domestic spying on the part of the...
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