California Selling Social Security Numbers
Local Lawmaker Wants To Stop The State’s Four-Year-Long Practice. Today, a Sacramento lawmaker showed how you could go to the …
Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One
The “wisdom of crowds” is a popular web 2.0 buzzword. At its most basic, the term means that two heads …
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New Telescope Discovers Energy Particles Flying around the chromosphere
“Everything we thought we knew about X-ray images of the Sun is now out of date,” says Leon Golub from …
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FBI Decides Due Process Is Unnecessary
The FBI apparently does not believe in due process when gathering phone records in terrorism cases. The agency has a …
Domestic Spying Too Secret Even for the Courts
AT&T and the government tell an appeals court that the case against the telecom for allegedly helping the government spy …
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80% of Federal Agencies Flunk E-FOIA Test
According a report published today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, only one in five government agencies …
DOJ report finds Patriot Act ripe for abuse
A new Department of Justice report finds evidence that the FBI violated the law dozens of times in its use …
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Ben Stein Digests Our Terrifically Broken Economy
There are soldiers’ wives selling blood to buy toys for their kids. There is a man selling non-functioning body armor …
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No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance
People who refuse to give up their bank records, tax records & details of any benefits they’ve claimed, and the …
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PATRIOT Act redefines “Domestic Terrorism”
Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT expanded the definition of terrorism to cover “domestic,” as opposed to international, terrorism. According …
House Democrats introduce bill to restore habeas corpus
Powerful House Democrats have introduced legislation intended to restore the right to habeas corpus. Rep. Jane Harman (D), who chairs …
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Warrantless wire-tapping: NSA+AT&T update
From Wired News: Spy Docs Stay Sealed For Now – UPDATED A federal judge rebuffed an effort by media organizations, …
