This is a good overview of how the US gubment has been disregarding the 4th Amendment since the 1940's.

http://www.infowars.com/cia-pays-telecoms-millions-for-your-personal-inf...

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File this in the "anyone who understands economics and government regulations applied to businesses told you so years ago" department.

The pop media has a lot to answer for on this. It's simple logic. Mandates mean higher prices and a decrease in those covered. It has happened everywhere such regulations have been applied to businesses.

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-...

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Not all libertarians think this is a "good" idea. In a world of government-run roads, it might help reduce the problem of charging people don't use the roads (via general taxation), but it invades privacy and does not address the fundamental issue: the gubment has no place running, building or supposedly "keeping up" (poorly so) roads.

If the roads were run privately (as thousands of miles of roads were in the US), the choices coul dbe made voluntarily, and differing degrees and combinations of privacy and ease coul dbe achieved. Not so with gubment. It's one size fits all, and force. Simple as that.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-roads-black-boxes-20131027,0,6090226...

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Some of these are governments that must have already been aware of, or working with, the NSA, but others are not. Good to see this...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/10/24/obama-germany-edward-sn...

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Note Feinstein's deflection. First of all, the meta-data is not all that is collected. The Prism program goes further than that, and so do the secret warrants issued by the so-called "FiISA Court". Second, the Supreme Court decision to which she refers is a mighty stretch from the concept of privacy that is supposed to be protected by the 4th Amendment.

If police were to enter any random house, not knowing who lived there, to search for contraband, it would be an infringement of the 4th Amendment. That analogy is akin to the NSA collecting so-called "anonymous" meta-data...

Check out the piece. Ed Snowden continues to do good work.

Note Feinstein's deflection. First of all, the meta-data is not all that is collected. The Prism program goes further than that, and so do the secret warrants issued by the so-called "FiISA Court". Second, the Supreme Court decision to which she refers is a mighty stretch from the concept of privacy that is supposed to be protected by the 4th Amendment.

If police were to enter any random house, not knowing who lived there, to search for contraband, it would be an infringement of the 4th Amendment. That analogy is akin to the NSA collecting so-called "anonymous" meta-data...

Check out the piece. Ed Snowden continues to do good work.

And it's about time. Libertarians have been trying to warn people about this for years. The government/Fed control of the money supply is a big mistake. Currency should be allowed to be a competitive market, with private banks issuing redemption slips for stores of gold or other valuables, and competing with each other. If government, or a government-granted monopoly like the Fed, controls the issuance of the currency people use to trade, it will inflate the supply of the currency, destroying the buying power of it, and making it worth less and less over time.

This is why two years ago, the Chinese gubment dumped over 90% of its US bonds. They knew that if they kept them to term, the return would be in less valuable Fed reserve Notes.

She is just a class act, all the way.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/17/pelosi-pork-project-what...

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That's the "Peace Prize" winner making that choice, in case any of your leftist friends forgot.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-nominate-jeh-johnson-for...

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Great job, Mr. Cuban! A libertarian strikes back!

Please lisen to our pod about this story, and about how so-called "insider trading" bans are anti-freedom and bad economics!

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/sec-cuban-idINL1N0I620D20131016

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A very good move from folks who are near the nexus for the NSA: its new Data Collection Center.

By paying ransom to the state in an "Adopt-A-Highway" system, they're making room to walk by the side of the road and show signs opposing the NSA. Interesting. What do you think about the idea?

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Whether you like the idea of this study or not, is it appropriate to tell other citizens they MUST pay for it?

http://freebeacon.com/feds-studying-how-to-use-twitter-for-depression-su...

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But don't forget, the "FISA" court that issues secret "warrants" (otherwise known as NOT warrants) says collection of data is fine. Sure, they didn't mean personal contact data, they meant so-called meta-data. Funny that meta-data is ALSO private. Sooooo, both kinds of collection are... um...

...UNCONSTITUTIONAL. And beyond that, even if they were, where, exactly, did you or any of us sign the so-called "social contract"?

Wait. You mean it's just a fictitious veneer painted on coercion via gubment? It doesn't exist?

You must be one of those anarchists Harry Reid warned us about.

Nothing like letting the state control who can try to influence it.

http://benswann.com/senate-votes-to-ban-the-libertarian-party-from-ohio-...

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This is a corporation that has been using the feds and other gubments to gain market advantage. Free markets don't welcome that kind of behavior.

http://rt.com/news/monsanto-march-berlin-protest-115/

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Here's a piece to start the thought-investigation: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/9/rangers-arrest-21-venturi...

You'll see that the Grand Canyon federal Park Rangers have arrested 21 people for venturing onto lands that their own taxes have paid to supposedly keep the place going.

We have tried to tell people that since the bogusly titled Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the federal gubment has claimed the statutory power to collect your private data. It began doing so last year. Now, it claims the statutory power to share that with police agencies as part of the also bogusly named "Affordable Care Act".

Nothing like that 4th Amendment, and those warrants to collect personal information, huh?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-marketplace-personal-data-...

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It's amazing how people can take their dedication to their superiors to such lengths that they will actually force people to stay in hotels, and brandish weapons against them if the people try to leave.

http://www.newburyportnews.com/local/x1442580373/Gestapo-tactics-meet-se...

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Here's a link to the latest ins-and-outs of the group, as depictd by the pop media:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/07/truckers-for-the-constitu...

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Take a look!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/6/national-park-rangers-ord...

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