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Podcast of My Interview with Brian Wilson on Mark Twain, Julius Caesar, and...

The podcast is now online from the Libertas Media interview today. Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good exchange about Obama, Mark Twain, Julius Caesar – with a triple heaping on the National...

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New Terrorist Suspect Definition: “Someone searching the web for suspicious...

The Guardian’s scoop today on the National Security Agency’s XKeyscore included documents that showed the “standards” that NSA employees can use to target Americans and others to vacuum up their email...

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Best Thumbnail Explanation of NSA Spying Scandal

The Onion has the best explanation I have yet seen on how the National Security Agency surveils average Americans. But to be honest, I’m not sure if “Step 9″ is accurate. From The Onion: Step 1: NSA...

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Me? Nihilist? Another NSA Slander

Former National Security Agency boss Michael Hayden denounced defenders of Edward Snowden as “nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite...

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Obama, NSA, Gulf of Tonkin, & Governing as Lying

This is the 49th anniversary of Congress’s passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, by which the Lyndon Johnson administration lied the nation into the Vietnam War.  The resolution was spurred by...

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MP3 of Today’s Ernie Hancock Interview on Freedom & Its Enemies

Ernie Hancock was at his dynamic best for this morning’s show.  It is always a mistake to drink decaf before going on the air with Ernie.   I appreciate his hearty laugh and his boundless faith in...

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My 2008 FFF Speech: Bush’s War on Civil Liberties – Transcript

The Future of Freedom Foundation is producing transcripts from its 2007 and 2008 conferences.  Following is the text of my speech at their June 2008 conference,  “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign...

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My 2007 FFF Speech Transcript: Foreign Warring vs. American Freedom

  Here is the transcript from my speech on  ”How Foreign Warring Subverts Freedom at Home” from the June 2007 The Future of Freedom Foundation conference on Restoring the Republic. This has lots of...

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What NSA Crime Spree Will be Revealed Today?

What National Security Agency crime spree will be exposed today? What crime will James Clapper next admit to inadvertently committing? And what howler will Obama next uncork to try to cloak his...

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New NSA Lies Exposed Just Before Obama “Credibility” Speech

To help set the tone for Obama’s lecture to Americans’ tonight about the importance of government credibility, the National Security Agency just released a batch of documents that shows another slop...

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Great Cartoon on our Obscene Surveillance State

This great cartoon from Tom Toles this morn almost compensated for all the idiotic editorials the Washington Post publishes on Syria and other subjects. The only thing the cartoon was missing was a...

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Revealed: What NSA Believes Terrorists Look Like

This cartoon is from a secret National Security Agency document detailing how the NSA is seeking to destroy TOR – which allows for anonymous Internet use. That purported terrorist looks too...

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Big Anti-Surveillance Rally in DC on Saturday

Folks will raise hell on Capitol Hill on Saturday afternoon to protest NSA surveillance outrages. Weather forecast is encouraging – and it should be a fun time. Among the 100+ sponsoring organizations...

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Photos from Today’s Stop Watching Us Rally in DC

Hundreds of folks turned out today in DC to protest NSA surveillance.   The sign makers outdid themselves for this worthy cause – Marching from Union Station to the base of Capitol Hill…     Plenty of...

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MP3 of Libertas Interview on NSA, Pasties & Freedom

Legendary talk show host Brian Wilson and I had a rowdy discussion today about this past weekend’s anti-NSA protests. Brian’s expertise as a top-ranked Baltimore radio host in the 1990s came in handy...

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YIKES! NSA Might be Tracking My Sheep Searches

YIKES! The NSA might be tracking the number of sheep photos I have viewed online. I swear – I was only doing research on agricultural policy….. Another great piece from Glenn Greenwald today: “The...

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Federal Judge Blesses Federal Seizure of Everyone’s Phone Records

If this isn’t a @#$@#$ anti-Constitution ruling, I don’t know what is.  Federal judge William Pauley upheld the  feds seizing all Americans phone records.  Why?  ““This blunt tool only works because it...

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A Helpful Chronology of Obama’s Sellout on Government Spying

The New York Times has a helpful chronology of how Obama has totally sold out Americans’ privacy and the Fourth Amendment.    I remember how George W. Bush would praise freedom at the same time he...

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How Many NSA Lies Will Be Necessary to Restore Trust in Govt.?

How many more lies about surveillance will Obama need to tell to restore trust in government? I was disappointed in Obama’s speech because I thought he might waive sovereign immunity & let...

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Obama’s NSA Reform Malarkey Nailed by Ted Rall

s “From this room to that room” is about the kindest thing that can be said about Obama’s proposed spying safeguards. The “Department of Public Trust” was a nice touch by Ted Rall. Lots of excellent...

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