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Obama Administration Restricts Spying In Mosques 13 Jun 2013 | 12:43 pm
When the revelations first came out that the NSA was spying on Americans by collecting phone records from Verizon, the Obama administration has defended their actions. They have made the claim, repeat...
It’s All About Trust 10 Jun 2013 | 12:51 pm
President Obama came out last Friday and defended his administration’s unprecedented grabbing of phone records and Internet data. He basically said we could not have 100% security and expect to keep 1...
How Much Secrecy Is Too Much? 7 Jun 2013 | 12:47 pm
I do not consider myself a naive person, in that I understand our government can not tell us everything it is doing. There are sometimes, realities that can not be ignored, and national security dicta...
Nidal Hasan Will Represent Himself In Court 6 Jun 2013 | 05:45 pm
I haven’t followed the court proceedings concerning Major Nidal Hasan as closely as some. I do know he is facing a court-martial for killing 13 and wounding 32 others November 5, 2009. There are a cou...
NSA Collecting Verizon Phone Records 6 Jun 2013 | 11:32 am
We know that the Department of Justice has been after phone records at the Associated Press and Fox News. We know they used a court order, one they attempted to keep secret, to obtain the emails of Ja...
Jim McDermott Blames Conservative Groups For Targeting 6 Jun 2013 | 01:59 am
I have sat here listening to the remarks made by Representative Jim McDermott and a couple of things jump out at me. First, I find it hard to believe one of our elected officials is so callous to the ...
From The IRS To The EPA – Bias Against Conservative Groups 5 Jun 2013 | 12:36 pm
At the risk of boring my regular readers with the same news, over and over and over, here we go again. We know the IRS intentionally targeted conservative groups. Some of the low-level IRS employees a...
First Amendment Is Under Attack 4 Jun 2013 | 12:27 pm
We have already discussed how Senator Dick Durbin seems to believe the First Amendment may not apply to bloggers. Newsflash to the good Senator, but the First Amendment applies to every American, no m...
IRS Scandal About To Explode 4 Jun 2013 | 03:37 am
There is every indication that the IRS scandal is about to blow wide open. Until now, the Obama administration and IRS officials have claimed the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS was done b...
We The People Are Being Played For Fools 3 Jun 2013 | 12:38 pm
I’m sure I am not alone in this, but I have watched the ongoing scandals coming out of the IRS with more than a little interest. This is a government agency that is charged with administering our tax ...
