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Here is your weekly update on the
politics and policies affecting our liberties. 
It's not an issue most Republican or Democratic
politicians are eager to discuss, but the protections guaranteed to us
in the Fourth Amendment are under assault. It didn't happen overnight,
but rather by a slow, steady, accumulation of laws, regulations, and
court opinions. But the end result is the same: the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and we all now live in what can only be called a "soft police state" . . .
We've all read the stories about how governments
intrude, snoop, spy and pry on private citizens (all in the name of
keeping us safe). But governments aren't the only people out there
gathering your information. One of the biggest, and most powerful, is
Google. And contrary to its company motto of "Don't Be Evil," Google is
definitely becoming creepy:
Between
Google Search, Gmail, Maps, Android, YouTube, Glass, Now, Books,
Wallet, Chromecast, Wear, Nest and its alliance with car companies,
Google now knows more about you than you do . . .
We have written extensively about government abuse of power. This article
describes what has been going on in Wisconsin, where a county D.A. bent
the full powers of the state to nail Gov. Scott Walker for daring to
question the privileges of state employees unions -- and any individual
citizen who supported him in that fight. It is one of the most malicious
and arrogant abuses of power you will ever read. Here is a sample . . .
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign took a shot below the waterline from, of all places, the New York Times. It's a story of money, cronyism, and uranium. With a guest appearance by Russian President Vladimir Putin:
The
[Pravda] article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic
energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with
uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to . . .
Tom Coburn may have retired from the Senate, but he still has some pointed words for his former colleagues. In an interview
regarding his new project with the Manhattan Institute on reforming the
Food and Drug Administration, Coburn had this advice for the Congress:
My
advice is come home. You're more likely to fix the problems at home
than you are there. Until the American people see transparently . . .
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