When Germany says the United States is acting like the Stasi, it's clear that our hysterical pursuit of security is eroding whatever bump in international credibility we got by replacing George W. Bush with Barack Obama. German ministers are expressing…
Posts tagged as “privacy”
Hey, Annette! You want to be a change agent? Prove it.... Senator John Thune predictably responds to a constituent's inquiry about gun regulations by raising false constitutional concerns about a national gun registry that was not part of the bill…
Mr. Kallis quotes Justice Scalia's excellent dissent from the privacy-trashing majority in Maryland v. King: Today's judgment will, to be sure, have the beneficial effect of solving more crimes; then again, so would the taking of DNA samples from anyone…
Rep. Kristi Noem is showing her non-conservative stripes again. Ken Santema notes that South Dakota's lone Congresswoman voted for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) Thursday: Looking at today’s vote in the House I can’t help but notice…
Now that we've all paid our taxes, we can get back to challenging the government on its violations of the Fourth Amendment. According to internal documents obtained by our friends at the American Civil Liberties Union, the Internal Revenue Service…
Spread 'em: Supreme Court conservatives yesterday authorized prison officials to strip search anyone they arrest, no matter how minor the infraction. Albert Florence of New Jersey was arrested by a state trooper for an outstanding arrest warrant for failure to…
As the bad news rolls in about the South Dakota Republican Party's continuing war on teachers, I take small comfort in seeing our legislators having the good sense to whack at least a few bad ideas. I noted the demise…