civil liberties

Is the First Amendment Dead? America’s First Jailed Blogger Would Say Yes

A few months ago, Circuit Judge Claud Neilson jailed Robert Shuler under a contempt charge for refusing to comply with orders to remove an inflammatory blog post on his website. Shuler, 57, is an ultra-liberal blogger from Alabama and has been incarcerated since October after he refused to comply with a judge’s orders to remove blog posts …

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Millennials Approval Of Obama Plummeting – And They Really Don’t Like the NSA

Lights are twinkling on tree branches, calendars have reached their last pages, and — soon enough — there will be nostalgic columns written about the year just passed. These columns would be remiss to skip over Edward Snowden’s leaks regarding the National Security Administration’s domestic surveillance of American citizens. It isn’t necessary to regale you …

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A Cultural Shift on Surveillance?

Are we as a culture becoming more and more resigned to a surveillance state? Who hasn’t seen the crime dramas or shows revolving around anti-terrorism in which someone pulls up satellite imagery, traffic camera footage, or triangulates the position of a cell phone in order to determine someone’s location? Law enforcement or national security agencies …

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217 Democrats and Republicans: “We Love NSA Data Collection!”

Representative Justin Amash wanted to end the NSA’s data collection program. Basically, the NSA collects billions of phone records and houses them, sorting through the data and writing algorithms that look for particular patterns. These patterns apparently allow the NSA to detect when terrorists are communicating with each other. The problem is, it’s a sweeping program that …

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