Folks will raise hell on Capitol Hill on Saturday afternoon to protest NSA surveillance outrages. Weather forecast is encouraging – and it should be a fun time. Among the 100+ sponsoring organizations are Antiwar.com and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. They have a bevy of excellent speakers slated. Last I heard, neither Obama nor Joe Biden […]
The government shutdown sometimes looked like nothing more than a gambit to give a paid vacation to federal employees. However, a new poll shows that “Just 19% say that they trust the government in Washington to do what is right just about always or most of the time, down seven points since January.” Here’s the […]
The Washington Post has had endless sob stories on the government shutdown. Maybe they should survey federal workers to determine whether the shutdown is also causing a coitus deficit. Regardless, taxpayers are still getting screwed. (The great Weyant cartoon is from the new issue of the New Yorker.)
This cartoon is from a secret National Security Agency document detailing how the NSA is seeking to destroy TOR – which allows for anonymous Internet use. That purported terrorist looks too well-coiffed for me to ever trust him. [from the Guardian’s excellent expose today on the NSA] On the bright side, at least I have […]
Okay, so most writers don’t do muckraking or op-eds. But for those who do… And then there’s one of my ol’ favorites from Charles Schulz….
Does this great cartoon from last week’s New Yorker reveal Obama’s secret strategy for Syria? With today’s outlawing of the Muslim Brotherhood, this cartoon would not play well in Cairo.
From the Future of Freedom Foundation‘s magazine – DESTROYING FREEDOM IN THE NAME OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY by James Bovard The Obama administration is finding new ways to use civil-rights laws to attack freedom and common sense. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last year issued a byzantine “enforcement guidance” to browbeat businesses into ceasing to […]
R R Schoettker
The US congress ceased fulfilling its constitution
