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My Salute to Joseph Farah and WND

May 11, 2017

We celebrate the 20th anniversary of WND with congratulations and a well-deserved tribute to its founder Joseph Farah and its dedicated staff and contributing authors. Today, the American news media have been turned upside down. WND has been one of the leaders in an unexpected and surprising transformation. Today, the historic role of a vibrant free press has been taken over by dedicated news outlets like WND once dismissed as experimental “new media.” The fossilized[…]

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The Dark Intelligence State and the Judiciary

March 19, 2017

This morning I turned on Fox News only to watch Rep. Peter King of New York trash some in the Republican Party and the so-called “far right,” undoubtedly meaning yours truly, over our outrage over the apparent misuse of the nation’s intelligence agencies to not only wiretap President Trump and his associates, like Gen. Michael Flynn, but also to conduct surveillance on the populace as a whole. Apparently, King has spent too much time in[…]

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Obama has the nerve to lecture journalists

April 13, 2016

President Obama lecturing journalists on how to do their jobs is like Goldfinger lecturing James Bond. This past week Obama presented a journalism award along with a 30-minute speech at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. In it he bemoaned the vulgar rhetoric and circus atmosphere of the current political campaign and talked about how important it is for professional journalists to do their jobs. “Part of the independence of the Fourth Estate is that it is[…]

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Reaction to Obama’s NSA speech ranges from lukewarm to skeptical

January 22, 2014

President Obama has set new surveillance policy in response to National Security Agency spying unveiled by Edward Snowden. Critics aren’t convinced that it will make much difference. By Brad Knickerbocker As experts and advocates wade through the details of President Obama’s big speech on the National Security Agency, reviews are decidedly mixed. There’s something for everybody to like — and to dislike, it seems. Matt Sledge at the left-leaning Huffington Post writes, “For Snowden, whose[…]

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10 top stories Americans followed in 2013

December 31, 2013

Here are 10 top stories Americans followed in 2013, ranked by respondents to a Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll according to the percentage who said they followed the story very closely. It was a year of stormy headlines in 2013, from the fierce partisan rancor surrounding “Obamacare” to the emotionally charged divisions over guns, gay marriage, and race — as well as the devastating weather that afflicted the nation’s heartland. But 2013 also saw some new[…]

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Federal judge rules NSA data sweep an ‘indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion’

December 18, 2013

The judge, ruling in an ongoing civil lawsuit, ordered the NSA to stop collecting the plaintiffs’ telephone metadata, saying the intelligence gathering likely violates Fourth Amendment privacy guarantees. By Warren Richey In a forceful rebuke of the government’s controversial collection of telephone metadata, a federal judge in Washington has ordered the National Security Agency to stop collecting bulk call information on two individuals and to destroy any metadata already collected about them. U.S. District Judge[…]

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Why the tech giants are now uniting against US surveillance

December 11, 2013

Technology firms like Google and Facebook on Monday called on the U.S. government to curtail its online surveillance. If users no longer trust them, such companies could face big problems. By Harry Bruinius NEW YORK — The corporate giants of technology are urging the U.S. government to change its surveillance ways — and leading the way are the primary architects of the social networks now generating a distinctly modern mingling of commerce, selfies, and status updates. On[…]