The IRS scandal is not going away any time soon, much to the chagrin of the Obama administration. After the initial media bombshell about the Internal Revenue Service targeting Tea Party, patriot, and other conservative groups dropped, more information about politically motivated misdeeds have surfaced. Yesterday Off The Grid News was among the first to publish details about the amazingly quick IRS processing of Malik Obama’s, Barack H. Obama Foundation tax-exempt application. The foundation garnered non-profit status in just a single month, despite telling potential supporters that their donations were tax exempt for several years
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Americans who want to know what future gun control laws might look like should look north of the border. Canada’s gun control laws give us a good look at what future US gun control efforts look like. Even though Canadian gun control laws are stricter than those in the US, they’re just as inconsistent. The enforcement and implementation of Canadian gun laws is just as confusing and illogical as gun control legislation in the US. As in the US, gun control efforts in Canada are driven by emotion and often swing to extremes. Canada’s Illogical
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“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government,” Supreme Court Justice William Douglass lamented over sixty years ago. Unfortunately, he was right, as former Sun Microsystems chief said in 1999: “You’ve got zero privacy . . . so get over it.” Well, nearly fifteen years later, I can’t get over it. There are many reasons we’re losing individual privacy in the United States. Many of the reasons have rational explanations. For example, the Supreme Court’s legal standard for
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Imagine a national crisis has occurred: FEMA has actively suspended the Constitution, rounding up all dissenters. The Bill of Rights is suspended, as anyone caught in protest or in possession of a firearm are immediately scooped up and taken to a FEMA internment camp for “reeducation.”  Their reasoning is that it will maintain order, and the suspension of liberties is only “temporary” …but martial law seems indefinite.  The formation of a one-world government is making headlines as a realization, and it is no longer just a conspiracy theory. What’s a patriot to do in such
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Both the United States and Canada offer a lot of opportunities for off-the-grid living. There are vast rural areas in both countries, where families can easily homestead and hide from society. So which country is a better place to go off the grid? Well, Canada is colder, but it has far more empty wilderness to hide in. Some of these wilderness areas, such as Northern Ontario and much of Quebec, are fairly close to large urban areas such as Toronto in case you have to work. Even though Northern Ontario has some rough winters, it
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The so-called fiscal crisis in Washington is nothing but politics. Even though Congress and President Obama claim that the country is out of money, politicians on both sides of the aisle seem to be able to come up with money for pet projects. An investigation by Senate Republicans found that the Labor Department had enough funds to spare to promote unions and collective bargaining overseas. Republicans learned that the Department had given $2.2 million to the Solidarity Center (an AFL-CIO organization set up during the Cold War to help workers in Communist countries) to promote
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the first time in years, Democrats and Republicans are in agreement about the effectiveness of the federal government. According to a recent Pew Research study, neither side has confidence in Washington. In the first years following 9/11, favorable ratings for the federal government rose dramatically, but they have been only a steady decline ever since. In November 2001, 82 percent had a favorable opinion of the government and in December 2002, 73 percent viewed the federal government in a positive light. Positive opinions of the federal government declined through the remainder
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Because there is too much money to be made and too many special interest groups that want them, drones are here to stay. Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution sees drones as a “game-changing technology, akin to gunpowder, the steam engine, the atomic bomb—opening up possibilities that were fiction a generation earlier but also opening up perils that were unknown a generation ago.” Before 2010 there was some small hope that the massive deployment of domestic drones could be avoided. That hope was lost when President Obama signed the FAA Reauthorization Act into law in
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While everyone that uses a computer (and almost everyone does in one form or another) should take active measures to secure their information, the hard truth is that it is next to impossible to avoid being tracked by your cyber-footprint. All of us are being watched, all the time, and that data being stored forever. The surveillance state is efficient beyond anything George Orwell imagined. Yes, you can take measures to prevent cyber-snooping. You can limit what you search on Google from your smart phone and tablet and use computer web browsers that allow you
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The hypocrisy of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the animal rights movement in general is once again on display for all to see. One of Britain’s leading newspapers, The Daily Mail, just ran an excellent expose on how PETA really treats animals. The article features a number of shocking, disgusting, and disturbing photographs taken by PETA critic Nathan Winograd. Among other things, it shows pictures of dozens of trash bags found in a garbage dumpster behind a supermarket in North Carolina in 2007. The bags were full of cats that PETA
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