Actions taken – or not taken – by proponents of online freedom within the next six months will decide the fate of the Internet, according to Federal Communications Commission commissioner Robert McDowell. “Six months separate us from the renegotiation of the 1988 treaty that led to insulating the Internet from economic and technical regulation,” McDowell, […]
Mention creationism, and many scientists think of the United States, where efforts to limit the teaching of evolution have made headway in a couple of states. But the successes are modest compared with those in South Korea, where the anti-evolution sentiment seems to be winning its battle with mainstream science. A petition to remove references […]
With the Wisconsin recall election in the news, it is only fitting that we take a trip down memory lane. Anyone remember those Democrat senators fleeing to Illinois to prevent a quorum so the the Senate couldn’t pass Governor Walker’s reforms? Looks like the old guard in the Alaska GOP stole a page from their […]
Big news about the Obama Administration’s “Fast and Furious” scandal broke earlier this week, when the House Oversight committee finally got its hands on some of the documents it subpoenaed long ago – specifically, a set of wiretap applications that prove high officials at the Justice Department were very well aware of the deadly “gun […]
A comment by the commander-in-chief about his wife’s exercise routine sent snickers through a crowd of Hollywood’s gay and lesbian elite who gathered at an LGBT Leadership Council gala in Beverly Hills on Wednesday for a fund-raiser. After being introduced by emcee Ellen DeGeneres, Obama called the comedian “a great friend who accepts a little […]
The federal government is sticking to its guns and claiming that some violations of your rights are so super-secret that the government can’t be sued for them. Specifically, if government agents listened in on your communications without a warrant, say federal lawyers, you shouldn’t be allowed to seek redress in the courts bcause the U.S. […]
As bad as the headline unemployment numbers make the young adult jobs crisis seem, the reality is even worse. May’s jobless rate for those aged 16-24 was 16.1%. That’s bleak, but a big improvement from 19.6% in early 2010 and not much worse than the 15% touched in 1992. Yet when one focuses on the […]
News the EPA is conducting surveillance on farmers goes against our grain. Freedom means freedom of movement and the presumption of innocence. How can we have it if every move is monitored by government? Nebraska’s congressional delegation sent a justifiably angry letter to Administrator Lisa Jackson last week complaining that her Environmental Protection Agency had […]
Nearly one-quarter of Americans believe that states have the right to secede, according to a recent poll from Rasmussen Reports — up 10 percentage points in two years. The latest poll is just one of many that shows that Americans have “serious and growing concern about the federal government,” according to Scott Rasmussen, founder and […]
The U.S. State Department is highlighting “Pride Month” on its website with a link to President Barack Obama’s proclamation about June’s designation as the month to celebrate homosexuality and by posting profiles of department personnel who are gay, lesbian and transsexual, including an Obama political appointee whom the department describes as a transsexual who has […]