Category: politics

Holy crap. If you have any sort of background in economics, the figures laid out in that website are terrifying.

Could someone explain to me why more surveillance of U.S. Citizens seems to be necessary? Isn’t a foreign enemy by definition not a citizen?

“[T]he president has forfeited his right to be trusted as a custodian of the Constitution. The forfeiture occurred March 27, 2002, when, in a private act betokening an uneasy conscience, he signed the McCain-Feingold law expanding government regulation of the timing, quantity and content of political speech.”

Bruce Schneier links to another chilling story of security gone too far.