The Department of Homeland Security has recently announced the creation of a program called “If You See Something, Say Something.” This catchy title comes from an agreement that the DHS has reached with Walmart, in which the store promises full ...
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What are the Limits of FBI Terrorist Entrapments?
by Felix Moyer Bureaucratic minds everywhere regularly miss the biggest issues of justice. Jesus skewered the religious bureaucrats of his day for fussily keeping lesser laws while neglecting “the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith.” (Matthew ...
Read More »Obama’s “Civilian National Security Force” Finds New Life
It’s hard to put a good face on a “Civilian National Security Force” like the one candidate Obama promised to create during the 2008 campaign. The media didn’t pay much attention then, and most of us have forgotten all about ...
Read More »Why Obama, Palin and Their Minions Are Dead Wrong About WikiLeaks
You know you’ve hit something deep when so many natural political enemies discharge the same denunciation at the same time. The WikiLeaks revelations hit a magma reservoir. The revelations have united the fury of the Obama administration with that of ...
Read More »Equal Taxation for All
The debate between those comfortable with the current progressive system of taxation and those pushing for a fair and equitable flat tax is nothing new. Unfortunately the debate takes on an added fervor in light of our current economic dilemma ...
Read More »Earmarks – an insanity that will not die
The House Republicans are not even in the driver’s seat yet. The 112th Congress has not even been sworn in and already we have representatives bemoaning the fact that “it’s just hard to be a congressman without resorting to earmark ...
Read More »It’s All Suspect….Or Is it Just Suspicious?
by Doreen Hannes The issues that brought a tiny Missouri farmstead cheese plant to the forefront in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s war on raw dairy continue to expand. This “war” remains troubling, if not more so. As a ...
Read More »Which Kettle is Blacker?
When someone visits your home, there are certain rules they are expected to follow. A good guest will ring your doorbell and wait to be invited in. If a visitor decides to breech that protocol and climb through your window ...
Read More »The Tyranny of S510
If you thought of one thing that the government was doing or attempting to do, what would you consider the most serious threat to your well-being? You could point to health care and say that government usurpation of your right ...
Read More »Reality Check
We all know the story of the tortoise and the hare. The United States has always been the hare. We have been out in front of the rest of the world for the past two centuries, setting the standards in ...
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