Rep. Mike Rogers: ‘Significant improvements’ to CISPA over privacy concerns
Backers of a cybersecurity bill which stalled in Congress last year offered changes in an effort to ease concerns of privacy and civil liberties activists. The two top lawmakers on the House...
View Article‘Day of Action to Close Guantanamo’: US cities protest Obama’s inaction
The rallies – held in New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Yemen – saw demonstrators dress in the orange jumpsuits worn by detainees, with some donning the black hoods made...
View ArticleLobby group representing Google, Yahoo backs CISPA
Rey Ramsey, the CEO of TechNet, sent a letter to Representatives Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger praising the controversial cyber-security bill - which both the American Civil Liberties Union and...
View ArticleCalifornia Liberty Preservation Act Passes Committee 6-0 to Nullify the NDAA
Now California has taken a much-needed step toward rebuking federal overreach. And, once again, the protections afforded by the Liberty Preservation Act are seeing support from a wide spectrum of...
View ArticleHas American freedom reached the finish line?
The irony that lurks behind the attack on the Boston Marathon is a cruel one: no other sport better represents the spirit of individual freedom than that of running. The competitor is locked into a...
View ArticleCivil Liberties Fears Dooms House Cybersecurity Bill
The White House again threatens to veto a bill on sharing cyber threat information, in a nod to civil liberties groups that worry about government surveillance over the Internet use of American...
View ArticleTom Friedman Writes a Post-Boston Bombing Op-Ed Straight Out of 2001
The bombing of the Boston marathon is yielding the usual post-tragedy op-eds. The most important message after incidents like this is to not be terrorized. As Jesse Walker noted yesterday about the...
View ArticleWhite House threatens to veto cybersecurity bill
The White House has threatened to veto a controversial act due to go before the House of Representatives this week. … Read More
View ArticlePatients, Patents, and the Supreme Court
Should human genes be patentable? That's the central question in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The lawsuit was...
View ArticleAlex Jones is phoning it in
Alex Jones must be either getting lazy or think his readers are really dumb, because his grand theory about the Boston Marathon bombings is the sloppiest concocted narrative we've seen since that dog...
View ArticleUK ‘snoopers’ charter’ under revision amid harsh criticism
The legislation is currently being revised by a commission of MPs after a torrent of criticism over the scope of the law. The prime minister received a letter from cyber security experts on Monday,...
View ArticleBritish ‘snoopers’ charter’ under revision amid harsh criticism
The legislation is currently being revised by a commission of MPs after a torrent of criticism over the scope of the law. The prime minister received a letter from cyber security experts on Monday,...
View ArticleRand Paul’s missing spine
I was on vacation when Rand Paul staged his filibuster to get more answers about drones from the Obama administration, or else I probably would have embarrassed myself by praising him. I’m concerned...
View ArticleIdaho drops surgery requirement for transgender driver’s licenses
The Idaho state government has dropped its requirement that people undergoing gender reassignment produce proof that they have been surgically altered in order to change the gender their driver’s...
View ArticleBloomberg: New Yorkers will ‘never know where our cameras are’
New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly announced the plan during a press conference with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in which the two announced that the suspected Boston Marathon bombers...
View ArticlePennsylvania law evicts minorities, domestic violence victims who call the...
The suit, filed Friday in federal court, charged Norristown, Pennsylvania with allowing police to accuse Lakisha Briggs with a “disorderly behavior ordinance” after she called police for a third time...
View ArticleCondoleezza Rice defends torture, confirms Bush’s role in the program in new...
In a video for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Condoleezza Rice defends the United States’ torture program and confirms the role of Bush in the program itself. …...
View ArticleRon Paul slams Boston bombing response
The deadly blasts killed three people, injured more than 200 and caused 16 victims to undergo limb amputations. Paul says the Boston Marathon bombing was tragic, but that law enforcement’s response...
View ArticleMexico – Barbarism at your gates – who will end the torment of Mexico’s...
Open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama Dear President Obama, Your two-day official visit to Mexico this week coincides with World Press Freedom Day. Reporters Without Borders, an international...
View ArticleHow Many ‘Patriots’ Want an ‘Armed Revolution?’
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