Obama Acts Like Bush, Liberals Suffer “Cognitive Dissonance”
Writing in Sunday’s New York Times, Peter Baker reports on the fallout among American liberals after the news broke last week about the Obama administration’s secret memo justifying the use of drones...
View ArticleDHS engages ‘Constitution free’ zones around US border
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View ArticleMichael Bloomberg, Frequently Exhausted Champion of Civil Liberties
In a post at The Atlantic ;that I initially took to be a joke because it is headlined "Michael Bloomberg, Tireless Champion of Civil Liberties," Wendy Kaminer praises the New York mayor's support for...
View ArticleBloomberg Won’t Stop Bogus Pot Busts, but He Will Make Them Gentler
Yesterday, reviewing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record on civil liberties, I noted that he has presided over an unannounced crusade against pot smokers, featuring illegal "public display"...
View ArticleDOJ: John Brennan Didn’t Officially Disclose CIA Drones Program
WASHINGTON -- John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, didn't officially acknowledge the CIA's role in the use of drones in the targeted killing...
View ArticleWhile Left And Right Fight, Power Wins
Both are concerned with restraining the power to oppress, but they take opposite positions on the source of the oppressive power and remedy. … Read More
View ArticleCrossTalk: Orwellian Skies
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View ArticleSteven Greenhut on the Supreme Court’s Spotty Civil Liberties Record
The Supreme Court handed down two major decisions regarding police powers and civil liberties this week. And as Steven Greenhut reports, the results were decidedly mixed, thus offering a reminder to...
View Article5 Foreign Libertarians Making a Difference Around the Globe
Libertarians in the U.S. have no shortage of bad and worrying developments to rail against; wars abroad, irresponsible government spending, the war on drugs, and the erosion of civil liberties. But...
View ArticleCriticize a Judge (or Anyone Else), Go to Jail?
Daniel Brewington was not happy with the way that Dearborn County, Indiana, Judge James D. Humphrey handled his divorce case, during which he lost custody of his children, and he explained why at...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement Targets Inc. Discontinues Line of Targets Featuring Mom,...
In response to criticism from civil liberties advocates and law enforcement groups alike, Law Enforcement Targets Inc.--a supplier of targets to the local, state, and federal law enforcement...
View Article‘Rand Paul and Ron Wyden, Drone Odd-Couple’
So goes the headline on this interesting Eli Lake article at The Daily Beast about an emerging bipartisan civil liberties working group in the Senate. Excerpt: For some time now, Wyden and Paul—along...
View ArticleBritain will release parts of secret report on rendition flights
The British announcement came after a demand from the UNinvestigator that the US and Britain reveal their finding onrendition, according to Reuters.The counter terrorism investigator at the UNHCR, Ben...
View ArticleTen weirdest Swedish movie title translations
Movies aren't dubbed in Sweden, but that doesn't mean Swedes don't take certain liberties when translating the titles. We've collected ten of the strangest examples of when titles have really been lost...
View ArticleMassive ACLU initiative aims to measure police state’s growth
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Wednesday that chapters in 23 states have filed over 255 open records requests pertaining to the militarization of local police departments around the...
View ArticleA very modern filibuster
At the time of writing, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is still holding the Senate floor with a good old-fashioned filibuster to block John Brennan's confirmation as CIA director. Although a traditional tool...
View ArticlePaul ends filibuster after nearly 13 hours
Escalating his war with the administration over civil liberties and drone strikes, Sen. Rand Paul took to the Senate floor today to engage in a rare talking filibuster in opposition to CIA nominee John...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean When Wealth Flees Democracies for an Authoritarian City-State?
It's probably not news to anybody who followed the soap opera over Eduardo Saverin's renunciation of U.S. citizenship or who knows that Jim Rogers decamped with his family from the land of the free,...
View ArticleNew York’s finest Islamophobes
Imagine living in a small American community, innocently minding your own business, while constantly worrying that your government is monitoring how you meet with others in your community, speak about...
View ArticleFear of a Skeleton Saint
Russell Contreras at the AP explores the world of La Sante Muerte: Popular in Mexico, and sometimes linked to the illicit drug trade, the skeleton saint known as La Santa Muerte in recent years has...
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