By Author "C4L Member" - page 83
Liberty NewsWire: January 20, 2012
Most of the websites shut down by a hackers group were up and running early Friday, including the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and some entertainment sites after one of the federal government's largest anti-piracy [...]
So Much for Separation of Powers
Senator Mike Lee finally got his hands on the Office of Legal Counsel's (OLC) legal advice they gave to President Obama over his recent "recess" appointments to the CFPB and NLRB. From Senator Lee's office:WASHINGTON [...]
When Wealth Is Baggage
Under duress two days before the pivotal South Carolina primary, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney acknowledges he has part of his millions invested in the Cayman Islands, although his aides say he never used the location as a tax haven. [...]
The Web Blacks Out
Tomorrow, January 18, sites like Wikipedia, Reddit, and BoingBoing plan on going dark for 24 hours in protest of H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Even the search engine giant Google has [...]
A Stand For Internet Free Speech
The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today. With websites like Reddit and Wikipedia and gaming organizations like Major League Gaming prepared for a [...]
Reps Jones and McGovern call for 2011 Afghanistan National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to be declassified
The following letter was sent by Reps Jones and McGovern to President Obama-January 12, 2012The Honorable Barack ObamaPresident of the United StatesThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, D.C. 20500Dear Mr. President,Recent media [...]
Republicans Turn on Intervention
Neoconservatives would have us believe that all good God-fearing Americans want to kill a few foreigners--or at least invade a few foreign countries. But it turns out that even Republican voters are backing away from the promiscuous [...]
Republicans Oppose Imperial Presidency--Because the President Isn't a Republican!
Ain't politics wonderful? For eight years President George W. Bush asserted that he was the equivalent of an elected dictator, kind of a democratic George III. He could even order the arrest of an American citizen in America to be [...]
Stop SOPA & PIPA!
The copyright industries in America thought they could pressure Congress into fast-tracking a bill that would be detrimental to the very future of the internet as we know it before most Americans knew anything about it.This past weekend, the tide [...]
Question all spending -- including military
I'm trying my best to spread the word and get people to rethink our foreign policy. Here is a column I wrote in my local paper. http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=448664