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, [...]

Obama’s Justice Department Decides It’s Legal to Kill Americans for No Real Reason; the Left Shrugs

by Eileen | 9:51 pm, February 6, 2013

In 1209, at the Massacre at Béziers, the invading force’s commander ordered every inhabitant of the town slaughtered – “Kill them all, God will know his own”. Traditionally, this has not been used as a positive example. Barack Obama, though, is not a traditional president. Somehow, a 16 page white paper from the Department of [...]

Policy from a Politically Manipulative Fantasyland: the TSA’s Latest Bid for All Your Data

by Eileen | 5:06 am, January 12, 2013

The TSA is trying to resurrect a terrible program that been deservedly thwarted since its post-9/11 conception.  It was CAPPS, then CAPPS II, then Secure Flight.  Under all those guises, the goal was the aggregate any and all commercially available datasets into a behemoth database and then generate unique ‘aviation risk profiles’ for any airline [...]

CBS’ Lara Logan Debunks Obama Administration’s Lies about the War on Terror [VIDEO]

by Michelle Morin | 10:37 pm, October 12, 2012

CBS News’ investigative reporter Lara Logan spoke in Chicago this week.  She not only sounds the alarm, but she debunks any and all myths the Obama administration has put forth about terrorism, the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Afghanistan. Logan gives a remarkable speech based on years of inside, on the ground investigation with the Taliban. [...]

VIDEO: Kopel on How to Protect College Campuses

by Jon Caldara | 2:59 pm, September 24, 2012

Independence Institute Research Director, Law Professor, and Second Amendment expert Dave Kopel spoke at the University of Colorado at Denver on Sept. 11, 2012. The anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is a good time to consider how to enhance protection against all forms of terrorism through policy changes which safeguard civil liberties. One of [...]

Like Free Markets? Like Movies? Check This Out!

by Jon Caldara | 11:30 am, September 17, 2012

From September 28th- 30th, the Young Americans for Liberty at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs will host a weekend full of films, presentations, and thought provoking discussions at the Second Annual Free Minds Film Festival. The festival explores the ideas of a free society and the specific topics will include the war on [...]

The U.S. Constitution applies to citizens and non-citizens alike. Check the text.

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 5:30 pm, January 17, 2012

The notion that the U.S. Constitution only protects U.S. citizens is palpably false. It is an indictment of our education system that any American could think such an outrageous thing.The drafters of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were educate…

Osama bin Laden: A Critical Look at the AP’s Top Story of 2012

by Bob Adelmann | 5:57 am, January 2, 2012

The mainstream media powers ahead with its rendition of history while completely ignoring the substantial questions from credible sources about that history. I guess if they ignore the facts long enough they will just go away.

THE PROPRIETY OF AL-AWLAKI’S ELIMINATION

by Kelly Sloan | 10:56 am, October 10, 2011

Every once in a while, whether by accident or design, President Obama will lapse and do something that implies that, on the rare occasion, he can take the more salient parts of his job seriously. Such an episode occurred back in the spring of 2009 when Obama gave the green light for U.S. Navy SEAL [...]

Mencken’s imaginary hobgoblins of today

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 9:59 am, July 28, 2011

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”H.L. MenckenSee Warming, Global; Terrorism, War on; Drugs, War on…

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