US citizens: call for amending the Constitution to reverse the Corporations United and McCutcheon decisions.

The Irish national thug unit recorded phone conversations in jail. Here's an analysis of what happened, and perhaps why.

Venezuela is introducing purchase-tracking cards for subsidized supermarkets.

I don't see anything wrong with rationing subsidized goods. (US food stamps are not provided in unlimited quantities.)

However, this is no substitute for correcting the cause of the shortages, which I believe is price control.

The biometric and tracking aspects seem very dangerous.

Arizona has restricted the use of RU-486, using an obsolete high dose as an excuse.

Clapper admits that the NSA uses a backdoor search loophole to search for Americans' communications data within its massive collections.