Category: Constitution

Obama’s Intelligence Agency Looking to Hire ‘Digital Exploitation Specialist’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The National Security Agency (NSA) has been in the spotlight since news broke that the agency has been collecting massive amounts of data from everyday Americans and with some of the worst timing ever, the NSA is now advertising for new employees for positions as “Digital Exploitation Specialists.” According to the NSA job description, the […]

 

Mukasey: If You Don’t Give Up Your Privacy The Terrorists Win

Posted on by William Teach

Ever since the NSA programs were revealed we’ve seen a steady stream of Big Government elitists coming forward and telling us things like “everything’s OK, it’s no big deal”. And “we’re not listening to your phone calls.” And “it’s called protecting Amerika.” Things like “we have to do everything and anything necessary.” And here’s Michael […]

 

Lawmakers: Nope, We Haven’t All Been Briefed On NSA Spying Programs

Posted on by William Teach

As the UK Guardian continues to release information on the NSA programs (such as Boundless Informant), Obama and his team attempt to deflect attention away, including say “hey, they’re just modest encroachments on privacy, liberty, your 4th Amendment rights”. DNI James Clapper whined about the “rush to publish“. And then there was the notion that […]

 

How Much BS Do They Expect Us To Buy?

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

It seems that every Democrat politician in America operates under the assumption that our nation is populated entirely by idiots who will believe anything we are told.:  The only difference is, some Americans require the story to be repeated a few more times than others…but as a whole, Americans will buy into anything, true or […]

 

Michelle Obama Has Fit Over Heckler

Posted on by William Teach

Granted, there’s a time and place for everything, and heckling someone giving a speech can be rude, but, it is protected by 3 parts of the 1st Amendment (free speech, redress of grievance, and protest peaceably). (Washington Post) First lady Michelle Obama experienced a rare face-to-face encounter with a protester late Tuesday — approaching the […]

 

LET’S ALL SUE THE I.R.S.!

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Unless you have been living under a rock or in a cave somewhere you have heard all about the I.R.S. scandals. The Internal Revenue Service, or should it be renamed the Internal Rectal Service has been intentionally performing financial colonoscopies on Conservatives from all walks of life for the past few years. The so called […]

 

Marshall University Professor Suggests Using Military to Kill NRA Members/Conservatives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Charlestown Gazette recently published the editorial by a Marshall University professor who advocated using an “M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles” to kill NRA members, Republicans, Conservatives, and those who support the Second Amendment. In an anti-gun piece that could best be described as a foaming-at-the-mouth tirade, Professor […]

 

DOJ Wants You To Know That Insulting Islam Means You Might Have Broken Civil Rights Laws

Posted on by William Teach

Has anyone at the DOJ, especially the leadership, actually read the Constitution and the part about Free Speech? (Judicial Watch) In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation […]

 

The Lois Lerner State Of Oppression

Posted on by William Teach

Rich Lowry provides an opinion piece over at The Politico on the real problem with Big Government, entitled The Lois Lerner State It is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration– the IRS targeting of conservatives – is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless people endowed with immense power over […]

 

New York Times: IRS Scandal Ignored Because of Rush Limbaugh

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There has been much speculation in the media on why Obama’s current scandal of the IRS targeting conservative groups for attack didn’t come out last year when the initial flurry of reportage on the incident was seen. Well, The New York Times thinks it has the answer: it was Rush Limbaugh’s fault. When the IRS […]

 

WaPo/ABC Poll: Obama Lying About Benghazi, IRS Targeting ‘Inappropriate,’ Media Still Distrusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi, a majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by targeting conservative groups, and the media is still distrusted with a majority feeling that the […]

 

NY Times Publishes Op-Ed Supporting The Justice Dept. Going After Reporters

Posted on by William Teach

Most in the press are taking a position similar to Brit Hume’s (Mediaite) “That places this administration in the position of saying normal news gathering activities are criminal. That is chilling.” Juan Williams, who likes to tick off both sides, said something earlier on Fox News about 20 minutes ago. Others are saying similar things. […]

 

Piers Morgan: This IRS Thing is ‘Vaguely Tyrannical Behavior by the Government’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN’s chief anti-gun zealot Piers Morgan may have been loathe to admit it, but this IRS scandal seems to validate some of his detractor’s distrust of government. During his evening show on May 16, Morgan’s guest was magician Penn Jillette and the discussion turned to the admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it had […]

 

As Gangs Flourish, Displaying Historical Firearms Illegal in Chicago Museums

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Outside of Chicago’s museums gangs are killing each other at an alarming rate. But due to Chicago’s strict gun ban policies, inside those museums curators are not allowed to display historical firearms. In fact, in some cases the museums are not even allowed to store their collections inside the city limits. The matter has become […]

 

Feds Killing Off Private Bus Lines Based on Fraudulent Study

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The story of the coming demise of Chinatown bus lines in New York City is a tale of multiple failures in both government and the media and shows that both have a bias against entrepreneurs that kills new, start up ideas with unfair regulations, faux public advocacy, and dismal reporting. A “Chinatown buss” was a […]

 

Square Mobile Payment Systems Modifies User Agreement to Prohibit Gun-Related Purchases

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Square payment services is one of those new payment applications that merchants can put on a smart phone and, along with the plug-in hardware, is used like a credit card swipe machine to accept payments made by their customers. This month, however, Square has changed its user policy and is now prohibiting merchants from using […]

 

Gov’t Obtains Phone Records of 100 Associated Press Reporters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the newest overreach perpetrated by the Obama administration, the Associated Press has discovered that some 100 of its Washington-based reporters have had their phone records–both personal and business–secretly obtained by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. The AP reports that the phone records were subpoenaed as a result of a DOJ investigation into who inside the […]

 

NY Times: If You Think The 2nd Amendment Is There To Protect You From Government, You’re Un-American

Posted on by William Teach

Here’s Stanley Fish, writing an op-ed for the far left NY Times: Is the N.R.A. Un-American? The more militant members of the N.R.A. and most of its leaders may be un-American. By “militant” I don’t mean those who wish to protect recreational shooting and hunting; nor do I mean those who, like Justice Antonin Scalia, […]

 

3D-Printed Gun Plans Downloaded 100,000 Times in Two Days

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The 3D-printable gun craze is just beginning as the blueprint plans for the new “Liberator” plastic gun were downloaded nearly 100,000 times in just a two-day period this month. Cody Wilson, founder of the 3D-Printed firearm company Defense Distributed, announced the creation of the first fully printable gun on May 3 and in only a […]

 

New ‘Explosives’ License Impinges on Gun Owners that Load Own Ammo

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Before the smoke had cleared after the terror attacks during the Boston Marathon last month, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg employed Obama’s favorite axiom of never letting a good crisis go to waste by immediately proposing major changes to federal laws pertaining to loose gun powder and explosives. Reports quickly emerged after the bombing that […]

 

Newspaper Union Declares Koch Brothers Unfit to Own Newspapers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the heels of reports that “half” the staffers at the L.A. Times would resign if the paper was sold to conservative billionaires the Koch brothers, the Newspaper Guild—Communications Workers of America, a journalist labor union, have issued a statement declaring the pair unfit to own a newspaper. At the end of April, reports on […]