It’s Been a Weird Day in a Good Way: Two Court Rulings Represent Hope for Privacy

by Eileen | 7:06 pm, March 15, 2013

In one day, two major court decisions have put Executive overreach on the defensive and given civil liberty advocates momentum. In California, a federal judge held that National Security Letters, with their built-in gag orders, are unconstitutional. (Decision, here.) Meanwhile, federal courts also reinstated an ACLU lawsuit challenging the CIA’s ‘Glomar’ response of targeted drone [...]

John Kerry: Bitterly Clinging to the Right to Be Stupid

by Eileen | 8:23 pm, February 26, 2013

John Kerry has assured the Germans that Americans have the right to be stupid.  Read into that what you will.  It certainly continues a tradition of wannabe statesmen making asses of themselves to Berliners. To wit, Kennedy’s moronic ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ comment.  This was profoundly stupid (as was his right) not because the President [...]

Yet Another Child Exploitation Video for Obama

by T.L. James | 2:16 pm, October 27, 2012

Do the people who put these things together still not realize, after all the flack the previous videos received, just how creepy and off-putting this kind of propaganda is? There’s a reason videos like this prompt comparisons to Hitler Youth or Young Pioneers. Imagine an America Where strip mines are fun and free Where gays [...]

So, What Do You Do If He Loses?

by T.L. James | 8:36 am, October 27, 2012

This is just dumb, no matter your political persuasion: Man Gets Romney ‘R’ Tattooed On His Face For $15,000. Good thing tattoos weren’t such a big fad in 1988 or 1996 – can you imagine how embarrassing it would be to have “Dukakis-Bentsen” or “Dole-Kemp” tatooed on your face nowadays? Of course, the bad part [...]

Steven Crowder Does Lena Dunham

by T.L. James | 5:27 pm, October 26, 2012

No, not like that, I mean he parodies her performance in the Obama campaign’s utterly nauseating “first time” video: The comments at YouTube are comedy gold – several commenters criticize Crowder for being sexist by parodying an official Obama campaign video that equates young women’s voting decisions to losing their virginity to Barack Obama and [...]

A Postcard From the Communist Utopia

by ComradeZ | 7:30 am, October 26, 2011

America is a very interesting place.  In America people have become so comfortable and so rich that they have the luxury to engage in academic debates on the relative merits of various forms of socialist and communist policies as though the 20th century didn’t happen.  I’ve recently had the opportunity to visit with both the [...]

In which the Washington Bureau Chief speculates on private affairs

by Eileen | 4:29 am, August 26, 2011

Privately speaking, just between you and me, dear reader, I think the established activists of the right have a problem with privacy.  Privacy rights, that we are living in a culture creeping toward a surveillance state, have long interested me.  I’ll say right now that the right is hardly keen in funding any serious study [...]

Barack Obama will have a second term. Here’s why: Part One in a Diagnostic Manual for the Center-Right

by Eileen | 2:23 pm, July 19, 2011

Our American President is just horrid. Arrogant, unlikeable, not nearly so savvy or clever as he fancies, bubbling over with damning character flaws, getting friendly with all the wrong people, and disgustingly lazy – more given to the “see-the-world-and-have great-parties” aspect of the gig and not so fond of the “get-your-ass-in-the-office-by-seven-and-work” part. Fine, so what. [...]

There is a reason Washington treats you like an idiot…

by Eileen | 5:18 pm, July 18, 2011

DC treats us all with contempt, treats us like a piteous assortment of fools and incompetents. How dare they, for shame, and all the stock cries of dismay. Just look at what we allow them to get away with. Consider the outrageous lies they tell, and our blase complacency – a bit of yelping from [...]

In which PPC’s in-house privacy nut muses on the folly of airport security.

by Eileen | 2:41 pm, July 6, 2011

The TSA has a record of failure so blatant that only a seasoned Washington insider could ignore it. No doubt, there’s plenty of theft and a surfeit of unimaginative sexual assault. Yet, aside from what may be explained by perversion and greed, a lot of what happens at airport security recalls a bad Keystone Kops [...]

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