Evading Communist Censorship with Samizdat Flash Drives
The Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez gave a speech in Mexico last weekend, and The Miami Herald reports that she painted a gloomy picture of the civil liberties situation in her country. "Often,...
View ArticleRand Paul: Not One Penny To Countries That Burn Our Flag
At the opening of CPAC 2013, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) picked up where he left off in his 13 hour filibuster last week. … Read More
View ArticleTed Cruz to CPAC: I filibustered too!
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz couldn't have known the results of the CPAC straw poll before he wrote his keynote address he delivered here Saturday evening, but he could hardly have targeted his message better...
View ArticleWho Protects Freedom Of Speech When It Isn’t Profitable To Do So?
Barely a week passes without yet another website being taken down because somebody objected to its existence. This would have been conceptually unthinkable two decades ago, but the copyright monopoly...
View ArticleFederal court rules “national security letters” unconstitutional
Reporters Without Borders hails a March 14 ruling by a federal district court judge in San Francisco that it is unconstitutional for the FBI to use national security grounds to request information...
View ArticleWhy Do Liberals Keep Bugging Ruth Bader Ginsburg About Retirement?
In April 2011, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy published a surprising article in The New Republic urging Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to stop being so selfish...
View ArticleUS news media has devolved to ‘carnival act’– Hedges
RT: I want to start off by reading a quote from one of your articles on this very topic, you say: “The celebrity trolls who currently reign on commercial television, who bill themselves as liberal or...
View ArticleCovered at Reason 24/7: Police Want Traffic Cameras Used for Wider Surveillance
Traffic cameras. Don't you hate the damned things? It's bad enough having some robo-snitch ratting on you for going a few miles over the limit on an open road or shaving a yellow without worrying that...
View ArticleFeds Routinely Track Cell Phones Without Telling Judges
Stingray technology, also referred to by investigators with a confusing array of other names including "WIT" and "Triggerfish," is interesting and creepy stuff. It mimics cell phone towers to get...
View ArticleFBI being sued over powerful Stingray cellphone tracking system
The technology in question, known formally as International Mobile Subscriber Identity locators, allow both the FBI and, in at least several documented cases, local law enforcement the capacity to...
View ArticleRand Paul’s ‘crazy salad’ Giving Lefties Uncomfortable Aftertaste
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) continues simultaneously climbing up the GOP totem pole and assaulting the traditional (and traditionally unsatisfactory) left-right spectrum on issues ranging from civil...
View ArticleACLU: Email reveals feds misled judges to abuse wiretapping powers
Federal law enforcement agents misled judges for years on what type of wiretaps they were carrying out when they requested permission for so-called “pen register” searches, an email obtained by the...
View ArticleWhy the No-Fly List Doesn’t Fly
Flying commercial can be a terrible hassle these days, but not for Steven Washburn. The people in charge of airport security have decided to spare him all the inconveniences. No taking off his shoes...
View ArticleJustin Amash: Meet the New Ron Paul, Same as the Old Ron Paul?
Politico ;profiled Michigan Rep. Justin Amash last night as the "new Ron Paul," and focusing on his forthcoming decision to seek--or not seek--a Senate seat in 2014. (I am quoted in the story.) Amash...
View ArticlePolice Union Director Jokes on Facebook About Two Women Being Sexually...
A Texas state trooper charged with sexually assaulting two women during a traffic stop was providing them with "customer service," says Dale Roberts, the executive director of the Columbia Police...
View ArticleCovered at Reason 24/7: ACLU Strategist Praises Rhode Island Domestic Drone Bill
Allie Bohm of the ACLU has praised the domestic drone bill being considered by legislators in Rhode Island. The bill requires public accountability for the use of drones by law enforcement officials,...
View ArticleACLU: Unhappy with Background Checks in Potential Reid Gun Control Bill
The ACLU talks some sense about gun control, civil liberties, and privacy, as reported by Daily Caller: As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control legislation, the American...
View ArticleACLU catches Ohio jailing those too poor to pay fines
Entitled “The Outskirts of Hope,” the report also accuses Ohio judges of consistently denying those locked up in such circumstances court hearings to prove their financial status.“Supreme Court...
View ArticleACLU accuses Ohio courts of enacting ‘debtors’ prisons’
A report by the American Civil Liberties Union has accused courts in Ohio of jailing indigent defendants for not being able to pay court fines, an apparent revival of the 19th century practice of...
View ArticleRand Paul to speak at black university
Republican Sen. Rand Paul will make a pitch to minority voters this week at Howard University, the historically black college in Washington, D.C. The potential 2016 hopeful's message Wednesday will...
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