Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Mary Theroux, of the Independent Institute, offers a creative and thought-provoking solution to America’s intrusive and liberty-destroying security network. Back in 1971, when I was ten, our whole family was glued to the TV every Sunday night, watching Masterpiece Theatre’s Six Wives of Henry VIII. It was that series that
Continue readingIn the wake of almost daily revelations about the scope of domestic spying during Obama’s watch, his apologists are scrambling to explain away an unavoidable truth about the difference between Obama, the successful presidential candidate, and Obama, the president of the United States who has been spying in just about
Continue readingA long time ago, I became friends with a man who worked as an electrical engineer in the aerospace defense industry. Beginning in the 1980s, he told me that the government was spying on us — and he knew, he said, because he worked on the technology that made it
Continue readingA friend sent me this link to a 2009 ACLU video that has more resonance today than it did when it was first created: Bizarrely, I feel as if the ACLU, which had lapsed into being an arm of purely Left wing politics, might be coming into its own again.
Continue readingOne of the things that characterizes the rule of law is that it applies equally to all citizens. The rich man’s son who vandalizes a shop is prosecuted as vigorously as the poor man’s son who does the same. That the rich man’s son can afford a good lawyer is
Continue readingI’ve commented often enough here that why someone fights is as important as the fact that he fights at all. I’ve always made this point in connection with the Left’s habit of likening the “insurgents” in Iraq to the Minute Men in America. Yes, both were fighting against the power
Continue readingThe one good thing about bad news is that it brings out the best in good writers. You really must read Mark Steyn’s whole column about Obama’s East German spy state, but I can resist cherry-picking for the best of it: So we know the IRS is corrupt. What happens
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