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My 2011 Warning: Feds Seize Americans Cell Phones at the Border

In 2008, the Bush administration decreed that federal agents could copy Americans’ cell phones and laptop data when they cross the US border. Same policy is now in effect and getting far more controversial. Here is my 2011 smackdown of the policy from a speech at George Mason University that was sponsored by the Future […]

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2011 My Speech on Obama’s War on Prosperity and Freedom

Obama had far worse economic policies than most Americans recall, beating the bushes to sway more Americans to take federal handouts. His civil liberties policies were also dreadful. Hat tip to Muriel for the great question after my speech that spurred my riff on dodging border guards and sub-machine guns in the East Bloc in […]

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