Virginia Tea Party Patriots

Maryland is rolling out license-plate scanners mounted on police patrol cars. The vehicle-mounted scanners are said to each be capable of scanning 5,000 plates in an eight-hour shift. The data will be transmitted in real time to a central database for analysis. The database will also record each event “by registering their GPS locations when [...]

Top Ten Reasons Why Congress Hates the Tea Party & Patriot groups (and why you should register for the Oct. 8-9 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention at www.vateapartyconvention.com):
10. Most Tea Party & Patriot group supporters actually work for a living, and it’s human nature not to like people who are so very different from you.
9. [...]

Humanevents.com recently posted a three-part video interview of Dr. Thomas Sowell about his book, “Dismantling of America.”  We blogged earlier this week about Sowell’s series of columns on the same topic.  The links to the interviews: Part One, Part Three (Part Two and Part Three are the same), Part Four.  Each part is a little [...]

            Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world?’ You are.
Say whatever you want about Ayn Rand, some of the ideas in her epic tome “Atlas Shrugged” should be required reading in American schools. In our previous post, we introduced the idea of money and the manipulation (destruction) of its value. Without further comment, [...]

Last week, Thomas Sowell, a leading conservative intellectual, published a four-part series of columns titled “Dismantling of America,” distributed by Creators Syndicate.  The first of these is here; each column has links to the other three.
Following are excerpts from each of his “Dismantling of America” columns, as published by Townhall.com:
Part I–
The Constitution was not only [...]

The insight of the founding fathers into the nature of man and man’s government inspired them to enshrine into the fabric of the federal government the right to free speech, for they knew that there would come a time, even within the free country they had just brought into being, that those in government would [...]

Wired Magazine is just out with this article about how the CIA is “investing” in online monitoring: 
Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
* By Noah Shachtman
America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.
In-Q-Tel, the investment [...]