By Geoff Watkinson According to NPR, on the morning of June 11 , “Amazon sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 had jumped 6,021 percent in just 24 hours, to No. 213 on Amazon’s bestseller list.” Some may think that this is American paranoia. Some may think that “Big Brother” isn’t applicable here.  Some may […]

In a CNN interview about the Boston Bombing , former FBI Counterterrorism Agent, Tim Clemente stated, “All digital communications are uhm… there is a way to look at digital communications in the past. I can’t go into detail on how that is done or what’s done, btu I can tell you […]

By Richard Manning “Informed consent is at the heart of ethically engaging in any kind of human testing.” National outrage over the federal government’s abuse of power has seemingly hit critical mass over the past month as news about the Internal Revenue Service engaging in […]

By David Bozeman The most annoying cliché in American politics has to be that Republicans are — cue the fright music — too extreme.  Former Senator Bob Dole, who is so moderate and conciliatory that his two national campaigns (1976 and 1996) both crashed and […]

By Robert Romano “If we didn’t collect that ahead of time, we couldn’t make these connections, so what we create is a set of data and we put it out here and then only under specific times can we query that data.” That was National Security Agency […]

By Robert Romano So how deep does the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden really go? Are they downloading every email and phone call out there? Just communications to and from foreign targets? The American people are rightly wondering just how far this […]

By Howard Rich As originally published at Investors.com. After years of ignoring increasingly dire warnings, America is now facing a debilitating disability crisis — one draining tax dollars (and workers) from our economy. Yet rather than reforming our broken entitlement programs, policymakers continue turning a blind eye to the root […]

By Robert Romano Let us take Edward Snowden at his word. For a moment, assume he disclosed publicly the National Security Agency’s (NSA) broad, sweeping surveillance of all telephone, Internet, and email communications everywhere — not to hurt people or undermine security but to stop an unconstitutionally […]

By Robert Romano Did Obama admit that the National Security Agency (NSA) is recording everything? Here was the President’s charitable explanation at a June 7 press conference of recent disclosures that the agency is collecting phone records and Internet communications on millions of Americans and non-Americans alike. “What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and […]

By Willie Deutsch In what  looks eerily similar to  the  Wisconsin protests of 2011 , union members and the NAACP are holding weekly protests at the North Carolina capitol against the conservative policies of the Republican legislature. While the Wisconsin protests were specifically against the repeal of collective bargaining for certain public sector […]