National Blog - page 254
Minutes From the Federal Reserve's July Meeting Released Today
Today the Federal Reserve released the minutes from its July policy meeting, which showed disagreement among policymakers as to when to taper the Fed's unprecedented $85 Billion per month bond-buying program. From The Associated Press: A few [...]
Surprise! The NSA Can Spy on More People than they Admit
The Wall Street Journal reports: The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have [...]
NSA Surveillance is Unconstitutional
In an interview with John Roberts on Fox News Sunday, Senator Paul questioned the constitutionality of the NSA's domestic surveillance program and called for a review of the whole program. The Senator went on to chastise the administration for [...]
Obama Administration Wants to Search Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant
So we can now add cell phones to the growing list of things the federal government believes it can search and seize without a warrant. As the Washington Post reports: Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the [...]
Why Are We At War In Yemen?
Here is Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk on the follies of US intervention in Yemen: Most Americans are probably unaware that over the past two weeks the US has launched at least eight drone attacks in Yemen, in [...]