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The Plunderbund's Persecution of Phil Hart

The memory of man runs not to a time when an elected representative faced an ethics inquiry over official actions involving the theft and redistribution of the property of other people.

By way of illustration, consider * if you can sta...

An American Stasi?

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported on July 25 that "there are 72 fusion centers around the nation, analyzing and disseminating data and information of all kinds. That is one for every state and others for large urban cities."

What is a fusion...

A Police State You'd Better Believe In

When our nation is waging "war on" so many things (drugs, crime, poverty, terrorism), it's hard to know where to enlist and when to defect. Or put another way, when should a patriot oppose his government? One answer, which we may hope is obvious, is ...

Climategate, Amazongate, Bob Ward and the Murdoch empire

To the colourful Daily Telegraph blogger James Delingpole, it was winner of the coveted award for the "Biggest front page non-story in history of journalism". What he was referring to was a tale published a week ago under the by-line of The Times's e...

Know Your Enemy

Neoconservative Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer has been exercised lately (*Terror and Candor,* National Review Online, July 3)* about the *cowardice* of the Obama administration in refusing to identify *Islamic extremism* as the* enemy...

From Freedom Fighter to Terrorist

The Washington Post yesterday profiled a Pakistani man named Hamid Gul, who served as head of Pakistan*s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 1987 to 1989. The article pointed out that Gul is viewed by U.S. officials as a terrorist, one who ...

Is an Internet sales tax coming?

A movement is slowly building in Washington to banish one of the biggest perks of shopping online: not paying sales tax.

That's because the perk has also cost states as much as $23 billion in lost revenue by some estimates, and they want it back. ...

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*Worst Bush-era policies* becoming the *new normal*: ACLU

From the point of view of civil libertarians, the Obama administration has been an exercise in frustration, with every hopeful sign followed by failures to live up to its own promises.

The ACLU has just issued a report (pdf), titled "Establishing ...

K Street goes to the defense of Charlie Rangel

Every person accused of a crime or an ethics violation deserves a competent defense. Charlie Rangel's legal defense, fittingly, comes from K Street.

Two of the three firms providing legal counsel to Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., in his pending ethi...

Thomas Jefferson Quote of the Day

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

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