Huckabee: It’s the ‘truth’ that Obama on guns is like Nazi dictatorship
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) declared on Wednesday that President Barack Obama and gun control advocates are possibly planning on confiscating the nation’s privately owned firearms and...
View ArticleA divide grows in Ohio over Rob Portman’s gay marriage reversal
Republican Sen. Rob Portman's reversal on marriage equality was applauded by gay rights advocates and others across the country, but conservatives in his homestate of Ohio have denounced the change and...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Why I Resigned from PEN
Chris Hedges: Suzanne Nossel, new head of PEN - which is supposed to defend human rights - supported war in Iraq and advocates use of military force in the name of democracy, lock step with Obama...
View ArticleIs Facebook’s smartphone just a new way to collect data about you?
Facebook’s move to launch a branded smartphone is raising concerns for privacy advocates. (Jeff Chiu/AP/File) Using Facebook on your phone? Soon, the company will… ; Read More
View ArticleKansas abortion crackdown: New bill says life begins at fertilization
The Kansas House of Representatives voted 90-30 for the bill, while the Senate approved it 28-10. Both the chambers have Republicans in majority. The bill is now sent to the State Governor Sam...
View ArticleHouse revives cyber bill maligned by privacy groups
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Intelligence Committee is trying to revive legislation that would let industry and the federal government swap information on the latest cyber threats.The bill stalled last...
View ArticleCongress nears deal on background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan deal seems imminent on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, an agreement that could build support for President Barack Obama's drive to curb firearms...
View ArticleBackground Check Compromise Would Close Nonexistent Online Gun Sale Loophole
Today Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.) are announcing a deal on background checks for gun buyers that is expected to be incorporated into the main gun control bill under...
View ArticleGovernment profits on student debt
Despite the havoc a generation of heavily indebted young people promises to wreak on the economy, commentators on the student debt crisis have for sometime pointed out that the federal government has...
View ArticleOccupy Eat-in
http://www.youtube.com/v/0exWh59mUaE?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Originally from: Occupy Eat-in
View ArticleAmended CISPA moves to House after closed-door vote
Members of the House Intelligence Committee accepted amendments to the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act Wednesday, voting to include the new provisions by an 18-2 margin...
View ArticleCritics rip Obama’s new budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the...
View ArticleCISPA, stripped of privacy protections, heads for House vote
Privacy advocates are up in arms after the House Intelligence committee overwhelmingly approved an updated draft of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, Wednesday afternoon by...
View ArticleWhite House calls ENDA a priority but has done little to prioritize it,...
White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett told Reuters in an interview on Sunday that President Obama is hoping to bolster his record on gay rights with a push for the Employment Non-Discrimination...
View ArticleCops in Schools, Kids in Court
The New York Times describes one of the worst byproducts of school security fears: As school districts across the country consider placing more police officers in schools, youth advocates and judges...
View Article‘Gang of 8′ immigration plan has something to ‘dissuade’ everybody
Immigration advocates and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expressed discomfort on Tuesday with the immigration reform bill set out by the bipartisan “Gang of 8″ for various reasons. “There’s...
View ArticleDavid Harsanyi Asks, Who Cares What the Majority Wants on Guns?
President Barack Obama has been struggling to wrap his head around the "unimaginable" idea that Congress may "defy" the American people and stop a vote on a gun control package compromise. Yesterday,...
View ArticleGay Marriage Advocates Embrace Federalism, Reject New York Times
Last week I criticized a column by New York Times legal pundit Linda Greenhouse which argued that “the campaign for marriage equality would be worse off” if the Supreme Court voided the Defense of...
View ArticleReport: Immigration ‘black hole’ forces hospitals to fly patients home...
Immigration advocates are concerned that the implementation of the Affordable Health Care act will bring with it an increase in “medical repatriation,” the practice of hospitals flying undocumented...
View ArticleThe money helping CISPA through Congress
As noted yesterday, while a cadre of privacy advocates, civil libertarians and Anonymous affiliates are pushing against the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act through...
View ArticleCISPA in limbo thanks to Senate apathy
The next step for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, after passing by a 288 to 127 margin in the House, is a Senate vote. However, the Senate has yet to debate the bill and...
View ArticleIs this the end of the dollar menu?
“Value menus” increasingly seem a bad physical deal for consumers—and now perhaps a bum fiscal deal for fast-food purveyors. The cheap chow, long a target for nutrition-focused researchers and...
View ArticleBloomberg: New Yorkers will ‘never know where our cameras are’
New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly announced the plan during a press conference with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in which the two announced that the suspected Boston Marathon bombers...
View ArticleOnline education is mostly a fantasy
If you listen to the advocates of online learning, MOOCs and Internet-based courses will cure all of our education problems. Just hand out some Android tablets, stream some courses in Python, and sit...
View ArticleHornless ‘Frankencow’: Genetic engineers aim to create super-bovine
Scientists have managed to single out DNA that suppresses horn growth in other breeds of cattle, which they now intend to implant into the genome of the Holstein cows – the world's highest-production...
View ArticleCISPA godfather claims Anonymous is after him
The cybersecurity act known as CISPA overwhelmingly passed in the United States House of Representatives earlier this month only to ultimately once again stall in the Senate. Citing the same privacy...
View ArticleThe More Vaccines An Infant Receives In Its First Year, The Higher The...
Mixing two non-lethal levels of chemicals inside a vaccine can lead to an extremely toxic mixture. The medical community appears to gloss over this very pertinent fact that appears to be progressively...
View ArticleSilicon Valley stomps on digital disclosure bill
Known as the “Right to Know Act,” the bill was introduced in February, and was lauded by privacy advocates for offering a pathway to greater transparency for consumers. The legislation is designed to...
View ArticleFDA ‘concern’ over caffeinated food prompts investigation, still ignoring GMOs
Categories: Editor's Choice, HealthDespite Americans' concerns over real food safety issues, like other additives such as Aspartame, a substance shown to cause gastrointestinal, neurological and...
View ArticleCalifornia Domestic Workers Demand Bill of Rights
Workers and advocates host Mother's Day brunch with legislators to urge passage of bill … Read More
View ArticleObama’s media shield law makes prosecuting journalists even easier
After the Associated Press revealed on Monday that they are the target of a US Department of Justice probe, Obama asked lawmakers to consider a would-be media shield law that fell apart in Washington...
View ArticleSpontaneous Pledge Of Allegiance Interrupts NJ Gun Control Hearing
The video not only shows Kaleda’s removal by New Jersey State Troopers, it also shows an amazing Patriotic moment as members of the audience spontaneously interrupt the proceedings by standing and...
View ArticleNew York City shocked as anti-gay hate crimes come out of closet
The brutal slaying marked the 22nd hate crime targeting gays in New York City this year, compared to 13 incidents at the same time last year, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, as...
View ArticleTurkish police ‘attack’ protesting lawyers at courthouse, many arrests
The lawyers were seized at the Caglayan Courthouse on Tuesday by troops of the special forces unit, reports Hürriyet Daily News. The newspaper says at least 20 people have been arrested, while other...
View ArticleWhy Kelly Ayotte Sold Out On Immigration & Can’t Be Trusted
Immigration wasn’t the main issue in the 2010 New Hampshire Senate race. But it was a topic of great interest for many Republican voters, and GOP candidate Kelly Ayotte took a pretty hard line. … Read...
View ArticleLaw enforcement officials hope kill switches will deter phone theft
Law enforcement officials and consumer advocates have come together as part of a new initiative called Secure Our Smartphones. The goal here is to help to curb rising phone thefts by getting...
View ArticleSt. Louis police chief wants drones to monitor city
“To help keep officers safe, to help keep the community safe. For monitoring public spaces – things like the upcoming Fair St. Louis [and] baseball games – for terrorists, suspicious activity,” St....
View Article#Restorethe4th: Anti-NSA protest LIVE UPDATES
The ‘Restore the Fourth’ campaign was born on Reddit last month and is being supported by Mozilla, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and other US and international press freedom organizations....
View ArticleObama considers ending NSA surveillance programs, Democratic senator says
The long-time member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that privacy and civil liberties advocates could be on the verge of “making a comeback” due to the blowback caused by recent...
View ArticleFAA warns Colorado town that shooting down drones could lead to prosecution
The small town of Deer Trail, Colorado is currently weighing an ordinance that would grant residents permits to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, and even encourage the practice by...
View ArticlePennsylvania cop under fire for provocative pro-gun videos
The borough council of Gilberton, Pa.,on Wednesday voted 5-1 to suspend Chief Mark Kessler for 30 days without pay, claiming he misused property by taking police weapons without permission. The...
View ArticleOnline guns sales pose larger threat than gun shows – study
A new study conducted in 10 states over the past two months has found that, at any given time, 15,000 guns were for sale online without requiring a background check. Approximately one-third of the...
View ArticleSochi, Sport and Security: Russia bans protests during Winter Olympics,...
The official government newspaper, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, published the presidential decree on Friday. The edict includes security measures such as limited access into Sochi for the time of the...
View ArticleNSA pays major telecom companies for access to data networks
The relationship with major telecom companies is part of a Corporate Partner Access Project -- funded under the NSA’s Special Source Operations -- in which the US government sets the financial terms...
View ArticleLeading Russian rights activists stand Obama up
The three people whom the mass media call the symbols of the Russian HR movement – Lyudmila Alekseyeva of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lev Ponomaryov of the For Human Rights Movement and Svetlana...
View ArticleLegal loophole: US offers no apologies for hacking internet encryptions
Intelligence agencies in the US and United Kingdom have spent millions to bribe technicians - perhaps even planting agents inside telecommunication companies - in a bid to penetrate the encryption...
View ArticleFacebook, Yahoo CEOs speak out against NSA surveillance
http://www.youtube.com/v/KaZCHgkr5Is?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Link: Facebook, Yahoo CEOs speak out against NSA surveillance
View ArticleDHS to test facial recognition technology at hockey game
The 6,000 seat Toyota Center in Kennewick, Washington will be the site on Saturday for more than just the Tri-City American’s season opener. In addition to hosting a junior ice hockey game, the arena...
View ArticleDisruptions: Guided by Touch Screens, Blind Turn to Smartphones for Sight
Advocates for the blind say smartphones and tablets could be the biggest assistive aid to come along since Braille was invented in the 1820s. … Read More
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Rush for gun permits following overturn of California firearms law
Approximately 56,000 residents in the state of 38 million currently have concealed weapons permits, which allows residents to carry weapons “capable of being concealed on the person,” (i.e. handguns)....
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