Court Overturns Injunction Against NSA Phone Surveillance Program
The battle over the legality of NSA surveillance is heating up again. Just last week, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ordered the NSA to stop collecting the telephone...
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Surveillance Hawks Blame Cryptography for Paris Attacks
Unsurprisingly, in the wake of last week's deadly attacks in Paris, there has been an escalating demand — by those always in favor of such things — for an increase in...
CIA Director: Paris Attacks Result of Too Little Gov’t Surveillance
After the deadly attacks in Paris last week in which nearly 500 people were either killed or injured by ISIS terrorists, CIA director John Brennan wasted no time in...
Net Neutrality Puts Political Websites in the Crosshairs of Censorship
When Net Neutrality was sold to the American people, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler promised there would be no regulation of content. No censorship. The rules would allow the FCC...
Net Neutrality Faces New Challenges
With a 3-2 vote on February 26, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reclassified the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the Communications Act. Now, almost...
Is Your Smart TV Watching YOU?
It's one thing to watch television; it's another thing altogether for your television to watch you. Unfortunately, that is what is increasingly happening. As Internet-connected devices become more commonplace,...
Non-Disclosure Agreement: Hillary Knew She Was Breaking the Law
During her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton stored classified information on her unsecured, unauthorized, private e-mail server. Though she has steadfastly maintained that she "never sent or...
Microsoft: Windows 10 Reports on Users; Can’t Be Stopped
When Microsoft released Windows 10 on July 29, the new operating system was already mired in controversy due to the way it monitors users' activities and reports back to...
Obama Was Against Putting Troops in Syria Before Being for It
After the White House announced last week that nearly 50 Special Operations advisers are being deployed to Syria, White House press secretary Josh Earnest went into full spin in...
FBI Director: “Ferguson Effect” Endangering America’s Cities
In the year since the Ferguson riots, public sentiment toward law enforcement has deteriorated. At the same time, violent crime has risen in many of America's cities which had...
CISA Passes Senate, Threatens Liberty and Privacy
On Tuesday, the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by a vote of 74-21. It has the tech industry and the internet community worried. ...
Texas Ends Planned Parenthood Funding; Louisiana Ordered to Continue
Last week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott cut off all state and local funding to Planned Parenthood in response to the 10 videos that show, in vivid detail, that the...
Study: Psychiatric Drugs Linked to Violent Crime
While the gun control crowd continues to repeat the mantra that guns are responsible for the increase in mass killings, a new study from Sweden shows the more likely...
Trial of Paul Staffers Highlights Selective Enforcement of Campaign Laws
Ronald Reagan once famously quipped, "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." The...
Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock Story Was Skewed to Fit the Narrative
The treatment of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed by the police and school officials on September 14 seems like an obvious case of "Islamaphobia," based on what almost all of us have thus...
Police Perspective
Is it possible to truly understand the inherent difficulties and dangers of police work without looking at it through the eyes of those who wear a badge? ...
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SEC, Other Agencies Trying to Block Bipartisan Bills to Protect E-mail
For as long as e-mail has been a regular form of communication, Congress has allowed the Fourth Amendment to protect some e-mail, but has also allowed any messages stored...
North Carolina Police Chief Fired for Being Politically Incorrect
Police Chief Mike Halstead in Surf City, North Carolina, was forced to retire after posting a statement to his private Facebook page calling the Black Lives Matter movement "an...
Ferguson Commission Calls for Regionalizing Police and Courts
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon's "Ferguson Commission" has released its report which includes 198 "calls to action." The most important of those "calls to action" involve the commission's recommendations for...
Microsoft Forces Windows 10 “Upgrade” Even When Users Refuse It
As more and more people have become aware of the spyware nature of Windows 10, many have decided not to take Microsoft up on their "free upgrade." People all...