In Which the Washington Bureau Chief Mocks a Terrible Law Article for Fun

by Eileen | 12:46 am, March 1, 2013

Blogging is easy.  Just tool around the ‘net until you see something that reaches new heights in stupidity – won’t take long – and then spleen about it. Today’s new least favorite human is Jana M. McCreary, authoress of  “Mentally Defective” Language in the Gun Control Act in the newest issue of the Connecticut Law [...]

Drones Over America: Obama Won’t Absolutely Rule out Domestic Drone Assasinations, and That’s Tell Us All We Need to Know

by Eileen | 9:17 pm, February 16, 2013

Does Barack Obama hold that he can order the use of drone strikes to assassinate Americans on U.S. soil? This is a crystal clear yes-or-no question.  But Barry won’t answer it.  That, itself, is the answer. Make no mistake, both he and his flunkies have been asked to provide a real answer to that question, [...]

Privacy, Protest, and Male Nudes

by Eileen | 3:20 am, January 27, 2013

Barack Obama’s government is accelerating its crackdown on civil liberties.  A lot of people who were strongly against surveillance and fear-mongering when George Bush was doing it to stop foreigners with weapons are much quieter when Barack Obama does it to take weapons away from Americans.  For one thing, Bush supported at least one Amendment.  [...]

In Which the Washington Bureau Chief Marshalls the Evidence

by Eileen | 2:04 am, January 13, 2013

So this is an interesting decision, especially given the TSA’s recent announcement that, yet again, it wants to use private companies and private datasets to profile airline passengers. Rahinah Ibrahim, a Malaysian national, has been fighting her inclusion on a secret no-fly list since 2005.  She was arrested and held after trying to fly home [...]

Ihre Papiere or GTFO: Micro-tracking students in Texas survives legal challenge

by Eileen | 5:18 pm, January 9, 2013

Some of you are perhaps aware of a case in San Antonio, Texas where a student, a minor at a public school, refused to wear an ID tag embedded with an RFID chip.  With her parents’ support, she sued, taking the interesting legal angle that such a requirement violated her religious freedom.  Specifically, Andrea Hernandez [...]

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