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Liberty NewsWire: September 20, 2012
More and more people — especially young healthy people — will choose to pay the $695 fine instead of spending 10 times that on health insurance. As they do, the individual mandate will fail in its central purpose: forcing all [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 18, 2012
A federal appeals judge gave the Obama administration the OK to keep enforcing its indefinite detention policy Tuesday, issuing a temporary stay of a ruling that had found the practice unconstitutional. - Huffington PostIndividual [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 6, 2012
Apple on Wednesday denied claims that it had worked with the government to share millions of device identification numbers, a day after the hacking group known as AntiSec claimed to have obtained numbers from an F.B.I. laptop. - New York [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 4, 2012
In recent weeks, the Fed has given increasing signals that it is seriously considering the launch of another round of large-scale bond purchases, known in Fed-talk as quantitative easing. Some Fed members have argued against such action, fearing [...]
Liberty NewsWire: August 30, 2012
Sen. Rand Paul's biggest applause during his Wednesday evening speech at the Republican National Convention came from a line about protecting civil liberties... ‘To thrive we must believe in ourselves again, and we must never - never - [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 19, 2012
"There are contracts between the Department of Defense and companies that are developing facial recognition technology in order to put that technology on drones and they talk about identifying dissonance in crowds," she explained. [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 7, 2012
For August, the jobless rate fell to 8.1 percent, from 8.3 percent in July, but economists said that was a sign more unemployed workers were dropping out of the work force, rather than an indication that new jobs were being created. - New York [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 5, 2012
The Transportation Security Administration is back in the news again today, this time after NBC News ran a story about the agency's efforts to examine drinks fliers buy from post-security checkpoints. - USA TodayIndividual LibertyUSA [...]
Liberty NewsWire: August 31, 2012
For the second time this year, the Paul family has been harassed by the Transportation Security Administration. Rep. Ron Paul, his wife, and granddaughter were stopped by eight TSA workers at a small airport in Clearwater, Florida, and told [...]
Liberty NewsWire: August 29, 2012
At the Republican National Convention, the platform committee has called on Congress to establish a "gold commission" to examine restoring the country to the gold standard. Should the plank become law, the Federal Reserve would [...]