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Congress Secretly Expands the Surveillance State
“But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” — Matthew 13:25 While Americans slept, the enemies of liberty expanded the size and scope of the already sprawling surveillance state. As National Journal reported last week,...
We told you so: Bad version of USA Freedom is the one moving forward
NEWS: The Imperial Senate has agreed to end debate and hold a vote on a really awful version of the original “USA Freedom Act.” The bill not only doesn’t stop the NSA, it in some ways makes things worse. This is a bill that major privacy...James Madison on “Parchment Barriers” and the defense of liberty
Although in the Federalist Papers James Madison urged ratification of the U.S. constitution, he was also concerned about things it left undone. He thought that many of his contemporaries were too focused on the threats posed by the executive branch, which he thought...Don’t Bother Calling Congress
It looks like a recent study has confirmed something that the Tenth Amendment Center has said for a long time – calling Congress does the average person no good. According to The Hill, two political scientists recently found that, “when controlling for the...