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NSA Surveillance, If Ungentlemanly, Is Not Illegal

“Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.” That’s what Secretary of State Henry Stimson said to explain why he shut down the government’s cryptanalysis operations in 1929. Edward Snowden, who leaked National Security Agency surveillance projects to Britain’s Guardian, evidently feels the same way. “I can’t in good conscience allow the U.S. government,” he explained, […]

Pro-Amnesty Senate Speech Given in Spanish

Whose side is the federal government on, that of Americans, or that of the welfare-subsidized Third World colonists who are displacing us from our own country? As if it weren’t already obvious, Senator Tim Kaine makes the betrayal even more clear with symbolism that hits the forehead like a two by four: Sen. Tim Kaine, […]

Suspicions Confirmed: Academia Shutting Out Conservative Professors

Conservatives have long suspected there is discrimination against conservative professors in academia, and now there is evidence to prove it. Sociology professor Neil Gross, a self-described liberal, reveals the results of surveys showing this bias in his new book, Why Professors are Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care? :  Sociologist George Yancy asked professors if […]

Gore Says Obama Needs To Get Serious On Dealing With Hotcoldwetdry

Alternate headline: Man with massive “carbon footprint” and lots of money at stake says other man with largest “carbon footprint” in the world needs to Do Something about no statistically significant warming in 15+ years (Politico) Add Al Gore to the chorus of environmentalists who say it’s time for President Barack Obama to get serious […]

NY Times Says Surveillance Is A Threat To Democracy

OK, OK, we know that this is a Republic, but it is a democratic Republic, part of the Democracy political model. And we do have to give them style points for going against Obama and other Democrats on this issue. (NY Times) A new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll found that a majority of Americans […]

Impeach Obama Rally Causes 10 Mile Traffic Jam

It’s probably not a good sign for Obama that so many people are showing up for an impeachment rally that it’s causing a MASSIVE traffic jam. A Southern California “Impeach Obama” demonstration coordinated by the local TEA Party caused traffic to back up for miles over the weekend. Participants flew American flags and the TEA […]

Obama’s Definition of “Smarter Enforcement”: None

Welcome to Opposite World again. As the U.S. Senate geared up yesterday for the Gang of Eight illegal alien amnesty bill debate, President Obama goaded Capitol Hill to pass what he called “smarter enforcement, a pathway to earned citizenship and improvements to the legal system” of immigration. Bullcrap. The White House has already bulldozed a […]

Terror and Safety

This week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the National Security Agency’s data mining violates our Fourth Amendment right to be “secure in their persons, houses, papers” and is “tyranny that our founders rebelled against.” Good for him. In an op-ed, he adds, “We fought a revolution over issues like generalized warrants, where soldiers would go […]

Unnecessary Tragedy

Last week a federal judge ordered Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to allow 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, to be moved to the adult lung transplant list. That gives her a better chance of receiving a potentially lifesaving transplant. Sarah Murnaghan’s fate should force us to examine our organ […]

Rachel Marsden: NSA’s PRISM Program Falls Victim To An Ego Trip

PARIS — Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor on the lam for having dumped some classified documents on the desk of a British reporter, says that he doesn’t consider himself a hero, but his girlfriend’s blog paints a different picture, with delusions of grandeur dating back more than three months. If only the […]

We can’t trust Obama

The contradictions at the heart of the Obama presidency are finally out in the open. As a result, a man who came into office hell-bent on restoring faith in government is on the verge of inspiring a libertarian revival. There have always been (at least) two Barack Obamas. There is the man who claims to […]

Sex and the Military

The headline on the front page of the New York Times said it all: “Women in the Senate Confront the Military on Sex Assaults.” In a triumphalist article showcasing the growing numbers of women on the Senate Armed Services Committee, “one of the Senate’s most testosterone-driven panels,” the story line presents female Senators attacking male […]

7 Reasons to Worry About Federal Surveillance

With leaker Edward Snowden revealing to the world that the National Security Agency has been both monitoring phone records for all Americans and obtaining emails, videos, voice chats and other private communications between American citizens and those outside the United States under the so-called PRISM program, controversy has broken out over the scope of government […]

The Inspiration Networks Sends Care Packages To American Soldiers

The staff of: The Inspiration Networks: has sent 409 “care” packages to soldiers in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Qatar. This represented the latest in a series of activities undertaken by the family-friendly network INSP to honor and encourage American servicemen and women. The organization’s commitment to this patriotic cause found expression with its short-form program, “Thank You for […]

Bikinis Banned From Miss World Pageant to Placate Muslims

What won’t we let them take away? Add bikinis to the long list of things that will not be allowed in an increasingly dhimmified world: Miss World contestants will not wear bikinis when they vie for the pageant’s crown in Indonesia this September to avoid causing offence in the world’s most populous Muslim country. … […]

A California School Has A Toy-Gun Buyback

Where do the taxpayers get a “buyback” for all the money we’ve apparently wasted training idiots like this guy to run our schools? A Hayward, Calif., elementary school principal is making an afternoon game of cops-and-robbers considerably more difficult: An elementary school will hold a toy gun exchange Saturday, offering students a book and a […]