By Author "Norm Singleton" - page 96
Campaign for Liberty supports bipartisan amendment to end warrantless searches
Campaign for Liberty has joined a broad-based coalition of groups in sending a letter to the House leadership in support of an amendment being offered by a bipartisan group of legislators (led by Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and California [...]
Want to pay for the Roads? Sell the Federal Lands
Last month, the Senate passed legislation extending the authorization of the Highway Trust Fund for two months. Extending the trust fund is considered must-pass legislation because without the federal government, who would build the [...]
Pentagon wants less transparency, Campaign for Liberty disagrees
Campaign for Liberty has joined a collation in of groups from across the political spectrum in opposing adding language to the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) changing the rules governing how the Pentagon handles Freedom of [...]
USA FREEDOM may bring bulk collection back from the dead
Not even George Orwell could make this stuff up..... Next time someone tries to tell you that the USA FREEDOM Act somehow protects our liberty, remind them that bill is actuality being used by the Obama Administration to justify resuming bulk [...]
Who closed the NDAA mark-up?
Following passage of the misnamed "USA FREEDOM Act," the United States Senate has turned its attention to the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This bill was marked up in secret, following a roll-call vote that was taken several [...]
Will the Fed take orders from the IMF?
Maybe... International Monetary Fund President Christine Leadgard has some advice for Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen: do not raise interest rates: The International Monetary Fund wants the Federal Reserve to wait until 2016 before it [...]
Is Bob Dylan a supply-sider?
Maybe not, but the legendary singer-songwriter sort of sounds like one in this interview with the AARP magazine (hat/ tip: Rolling Stone): "The government's not going to create jobs," he said. "It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs, [...]
Did Freedom Act kill Freedom?
According to Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity it did: By a vote of 67-32 the Senate today passed the USA FREEDOM Act, just days after the expiration of key elements of the USA PATRIOT Act. The FREEDOM Act is [...]
While you weren't looking Congress endorsed Global ID cards
This week the US House passed the "Girls Count Act "(S. 802), legislation that already passed the Senate and so was sent directly to the President for his signature. This legislation passed the House last November, but was not taken up by the [...]
TSA Fails to Detect Bombs 95 Percent of the Time
Not that we are surprised but according to a recent internal study by the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA failed to detect fake bombs and explosives 95 percent of the time. From NBC News: In all, so-called "Red Teams" of Homeland [...]