The Police State

The NSA admits it has “compliance problems” with the law, yet faces few sanctions.

The purpose of this postal monopoly was to enable officials to read the letters of private citizens.

Ayn Rand put things best: "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy."

The actions of US companies that have cooperated in the NSA’s mass surveillance operations calls into question the “private” status of these companies.

The actual purpose of Congressional oversight committees is to create a channel to divert and trap would-be whistleblowers.

Edward Snowden infiltrated the NSA in much the same way that an undercover police officer infiltrates a private criminal syndicate.

Interviewed by host Coy Barefoot, Mark Thornton talks about the NSA spying on Americans, and more.

Consider the sheer idiocy of paying legions of twenty-somethings who cannot speak Arabic, Farsi, or Pashtun, and who know practically nothing of the history, customs, folkways, and traditions of these places.

If law enforcement were to be governed by contractual principles, no one would need to fear that they were letting bulls into a china shop.

The efforts, spurred by Mayor Bloomberg, to ban large cans of drinks deemed too sugary have been much in the news lately; and a peculiar point in the mayor's defense of this measure is highly relevant to Laurence Vance's excellent book.