I know I said on Fridays I would post, but I was literally singing one song too much to calm down and write. (What song, you ask? Well…let’s just say if I linked it here you guys would be too busy singing along for the rest of the day to read the rest of this post!…
Quick, what do the People’s Republic of China, Soviet Russia (along with the rest of the Warsaw Pact states), Iran, and Britain in Orwell’s 1984 all have in common? They all censor ideas that they don’t want their citizens to hear about. Soon, if the US Congress gets its way, the United States could join…
Forget about Occupy Wall Street for a moment. Forget Protect IP and SOPA for a moment as well. There is, lurking in the halls of Congress at this very moment an all-too-serious threat to our rights as Americans. Watch the first minute or so of the above video, and pay special attention to Senator Rand…
Perhaps you’ve already heard about the growing movement known as Occupy Wall Street. This broad social movement has protested against a variety of social problems in the heart of New York City’s Financial District since mid-September, and it has since spread to a variety of other cities in the US and around the world. I’m…
Ever since May 2010, Private First Class Bradley Manning has been held in custody at the Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Virginia. Manning, of course, is the one accused of leaking the “Collateral Murder” video, as well as the Afghanistan and Iraq War Logs to Wikileaks, and the State Department cables. So far, however, Manning…
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of Cablegate, the release of some 250,000 United States diplomatic cables to the whole world via the internet. Just like the Afghanistan and Iraq War Logs, various newspapers got early access to them, and are slowly reporting what they find; of course, the rest of the media is picking…
When will it end? The Transportation Security Administration, the organization that mans the airport security checkpoints, appears to be just throwing new regulations and procedures at us, the American public, with the usual national security excuse. Seriously, the conduct that the TSA now considers Standard Operating Procedure is so offensive, it was difficult to think…
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of the Cordoba House, the name of the proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero. What began as a simple local zoning matter became the latest flash point in our post-9/11 society almost overnight. What’s striking to me isn’t the fact that some religious organization wants to build…
It’s been a crazy week in politics, particularly in Texas; the “silly season of politics”, as various people have called it, is in full swing. Unfortunately, as much as I’d love to repost that video, I have no activists in chicken suits, nor do I have anything connecting certain politicians to chickens at all. As…
[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Well, this is a dangerous ruling. Today, The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Presidential power to detain terrorists goes beyond even the Geneva Convention and other “rules of war”, according to the New York Times. This is especially interesting in that it was just about a unanimous…
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