Joe Lieberman in 2011: ‘The threat of a bioterrorism attack keeps me up at night’
The consequences of a biological terrorist attack are nearly unimaginable and the possibility of such an attack remains frighteningly high, agreed several current and former Congressional members during a panel More...
The Chilling Effect of Privacy Invasion
Honestly, I thought I had personally put the NSA and Snowden topic to bed a couple of years ago. Thankfully the topic didn’t die. In fact, it keeps popping up in the news, directly and indirectly. Why do I say More...
Barbara Lee: ‘Members of Congress did not even know’ there were troops in Niger
Americans may be scratching their heads over the recent news from Washington as senior senators in both parties, including Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), said on Sunday that they were unaware More...
Liberty Counsel: ‘NFL Players Have No First Amendment Right to Protest’
While the issue of NFL players protesting the National Anthem is not an issue that Liberty Counsel has publicly commented on, the First Amendment is a core issue for Liberty Counsel. photo Beverly & Pack We More...
FBI’s James Comey: Americans shouldn’t have ‘expectations of absolute privacy’
FBI Director James Comey warned Wednesday that Americans should not have expectations of “absolute privacy,” adding that he planned to finish his term leading the FBI. “There is no such thing as More...
Michael Moore says Trump voters are ‘legal terrorists’ ignoring hypocritical support of Bernie Sanders
While promoting his latest film, Michael Moore in Trumpland, the provocative filmmaker took aim at the GOP and Donald Trump in particular, even calling them “legal terrorists.” Moore was quick to backpedal More...
Obama administration supports new bill to allow FBI access to Internet browser history without warrants
The Obama administration is seeking to amend surveillance law to give the FBI authority to access a person’s Internet browser history and other electronic data without a warrant, claiming that it will only be More...
Max Boot Quotes
In Iraq, Sunnis need to be offered a Sunni regional government, akin to the Kurdish regional government, with its autonomy protected by its own militia and ultimately guaranteed by the United States. If Baghdad More...
Rand Paul: The Lone Voice of Liberty at the Republican Debate
On Thursday night, 10 Republican Presidential wanna-bees met in front of a record television audience to “debate” the issues and let the American electorate know what they believe. While some candidates More...
Congress congratulates itself for passing ‘less illegal’ NSA spying ‘reform’
The National Security Agency lost some of its authority to collect the phone records from millions of Americans as a new reform measure Congress passed on Tuesday. President Obama signed the bill into law on Tuesday More...
Peter King’s relentless social media attacks on Rand Paul does not go without response
New York Congressman, Peter King, whose resentment and hatred for Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is not a new revelation; however, with the recent NSA filibuster by Paul and the end of the Patriot Act as we know it, More...
Jeb Bush on NSA monitoring Americans: no proof of civil liberty violations
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a likely 2016 presidential candidate, says Congress should reauthorize the Patriot Act “as is” and that the Obama administration should pursue a tougher strategy against ISIS. Bush More...
Chris Christie attacks Rand Paul on NSA, says Edward Snowden is a ‘criminal’
New Jersey Governor and likely 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Chris Christie took aim at Republican Senators over the National Security Agency’s data collection program, the Patriot Act and Edward Snowden. Christie More...
Rand Paul and Jeb Bush disagree on Patriot Act
Rand Paul may have angered Senate colleagues by seizing the floor for a 10-and-a-half-hour filibuster style speech on Wednesday as he forced attention to the fact that civil liberties remain at stake as Congress More...
Massachusetts court: NSA metadata collection not legal through Patriot Act
photo Donkeyhotey [email protected] The Patriot Act does not approve and authorize the collection of metadata by the government, according a court ruling in the Northeast. Massachusett’s Second Circuit More...
Minnesota man, Hamza Ahmed, charged in connection to ISIS
A Minnesota man pulled off an airplane bound for Turkey last year has been indicted on charges of conspiring to support Islamic State and lying to federal agents investigating recruitment by militant groups, prosecutors More...
Senate Republicans, including NSA opponent Rand Paul, kill surveillance limiting bill
Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a measure to overhaul the NSA monitoring program, the collection of records and phone calls. Democrats and a few Republicans failed to rally enough support to reach 60 votes More...
Ex-Obama supporter, Carey Wedler: ‘Mr. Obama, you are the biggest fraud that has ever been perpetrated on the American people’
Whether it’s referring to the President as the “war criminal-in-chief” or burning a “vintage” Obama shirt on a YouTube video, this former strong Obama supporter has had enough of the More...
Ron Paul: ‘The hypocrisy of Sen. Feinstein is astounding’
Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul is looking at the latest revelations and reactions by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) concerning the CIA secretly searched Senate Intelligence Committee computers, in other words, More...
Texas Rep Louie Gohmert says Obama administration conducting ‘war with Christianity’
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) guest-hosted the Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch” radio show last week and claimed that President Obama “has gone to war with Christianity.” photo More...
