Rand Paul has had enough with the people who use every terrorist attack as a chance to steal your liberty. by Joey Clark After the terrorist attacks in Paris, there has been a predictable and steady drum beat by the power-hungry to further curtail Americans’ liberty in the name of security. Even though those calling for…
Steve Ambrose The director of the National Security Agency and Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, Admiral Mike Rogers said that in 2014, 91 percent of software vulnerabilities discovered by the NSA were publicly disclosed. He made the comments at the Reagan National Defense Forum Nov. 7, where a gathering of national security officials discussed the…
Jacob Bojesson While watching the Oct. 13 Democratic debate from his refuge in Moscow, Edward Snowden got a glimpse of hope for the future. Edward Snowden commented on the chances of him returning to the U.S. one day in an interview published Friday by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He said the words of Bernie Sanders and…
The Government Took Orwell as a Guide, Not a Warning [dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hen George Orwell wrote 1984, he told of totalitarian regimes, poor living conditions, and disregard for human rights. Unfortunately, some members of our government have interpreted Orwell’s books as more of a step-by-step instruction manual instead of a warning. At this point, people are…
Thinking, speaking, and acting freely in an unfree world is often seen as an act of rebellion by those who hold power, privilege, and fealty to the ideas that support a given society’s power structures. And that means there will be much acrimony, harrumphing, and even outright blood-lust displayed by those with power and those…
NSA Defeat Marks Victory for Fourth Amendment…for Now by Josh Guckert On Thursday, a three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act does not permit NSA bulk collection of domestic calling records. The ruling comes as the Section in question expires on…
by Jose Nino Girlfriends can be man’s most reliable partners, but at the same time, they can be man’s greatest nightmare. No man is complete without having his fair of bad relationships here and there. Some relations start out well and fizzle out, while others are just bad from start to finish. At times, a…
“If intelligence agencies are spying on Congress, they are circumventing oversight and usurping power from our elected leaders.” by Keith Farrell Follow TLR on Google+ New allegations of CIA spying on members of Congress have surfaced, the implications of which are alarming. It has been alleged that Central Intelligence officers hacked into California Senator Dianne…
#StopTheNSA Keith Farrell A large campaign against mass surveillance is coordinating call-ins and emails to Congress today. The cooperative effort is being undertaken by a group of leading tech giants, social media companies and civil rights groups. Mozilla, Reddit, the ACLU, Twitter, Amnesty International and Greenpeace are just some of the notable partners. The campaign…