Category Archives: Constitution

NY Times Says Surveillance Is A Threat To Democracy

OK, OK, we know that this is a Republic, but it is a democratic Republic, part of the Democracy political model. And we do have to give them style points for going against Obama and other Democrats on this issue (NY Times) A new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll found that a majority of Americans […]

Mukasey: If You Don’t Give Up Your Privacy The Terrorists Win

Ever since the NSA programs were revealed we’ve seen a steady stream of Big Government elitists coming forward and telling us things like “everything’s OK, it’s no big deal”. And “we’re not listening to your phone calls.” And “it’s called protecting Amerika.” Things like “we have to do everything and anything necessary.” And here’s Michael […]

Lawmakers: Nope, We Haven’t All Been Briefed On NSA Spying Programs

As the UK Guardian continues to release information on the NSA programs (such as Boundless Informant), Obama and his team attempt to deflect attention away, including say “hey, they’re just modest encroachments on privacy, liberty, your 4th Amendment rights”. DNI James Clapper whined about the “rush to publish“. And then there was the notion that […]

NY Times: Congress Can Stop The Privacy Abuse

The question is, will Mr. Obama and his team go along with any plans to stop the over-broad fishnet surveillance of the US citizenry? Here’s the Times’ editorial board Over the last three years, several measures were introduced in Congress that would have helped reduce or eliminate the abuses of communications surveillance revealed this week. […]

Michelle Obama Has Fit Over Heckler

Granted, there’s a time and place for everything, and heckling someone giving a speech can be rude, but, it is protected by 3 parts of the 1st Amendment (free speech, redress of grievance, and protest peaceably) (Washington Post) First lady Michelle Obama experienced a rare face-to-face encounter with a protester late Tuesday – approaching the […]

NY Times: Holder Won’t Leave Because That Might Embolden Obama’s Critics

What this all shows is that Obama and his top people are more concerned with politics than doing what is right. The original headline, per the URL and the webpage header was “Goals to fulfill and foes to foil keep Holder going, changed to Seeking a Fresh Start, Holder Finds a Fresh Set of Troubles […]

DOJ Wants You To Know That Insulting Islam Means You Might Have Broken Civil Rights Laws

Has anyone at the DOJ, especially the leadership, actually read the Constitution and the part about Free Speech? (Judicial Watch) In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation […]

The Lois Lerner State Of Oppression

Rich Lowry provides an opinion piece over at The Politico on the real problem with Big Government, entitled The Lois Lerner State It is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration— the IRS targeting of conservatives — is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless people endowed with immense power over […]

6 Year Old Given Detention And Forced To Apologize After “Traumatizing” Other Kids With Gun

The only one traumatized in this whole affair is the 6 year old, who was the recipient of unhinged anti-gun behavior by adults who care little for the mental affairs of children (The Blaze) A 6-year-old kindergarten student in Massachusetts is accused of causing a “disturbance” and “traumatizing” other students by bringing a very tiny […]

Dick Durbin: Should Bloggers And Tweeters Be Shielded Like Journalists?

Loathsome Senator Dick Durbin (D-Il), who at one time compared the military members at Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Nazis, isn’t quite ready to call for a special council regarding the DOJ’s investigations into journalists, as he said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. And (Daily Caller) “But here is the bottom line — […]

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