Just fucking great:
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people’s emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, released the information on Wednesday.In a 2009 handbook, the IRS said the Fourth Amendment does not protect emails because Internet users “do not have
Going to be an interesting week for the Court. They are having hearings now on both DOMA and California’s same sex marriage ban. We won’t know their decision for a while. My guess is that they will strike down parts of DOMA and possibly California’s amendment but on very narrow grounds that fall short of declaring a “right” to marriage. That would be my preferred outcome at this stage. I would prefer that this issue … Read more
They’re called national security letters and the FBI issues thousands of them a year to banks, phone companies and other businesses demanding customer information. They’re sent without judicial review and recipients are barred from disclosing them.
On Friday, a federal judge in San Francisco declared the letters unconstitutional, saying the secretive demands for customer data violate the First Amendment.
The government has failed to show that the letters and the blanket
Looks like the DOJ has finally issued a report about the investigation of wide spread discrimination at the DOJ, and as those of us pointed out 4 years ago, it is damning. The report is some 250 pages long and clearly documents the dysfunctional and racist atmosphere at the DOJ.
One of the things that caught my attention was the mention of threats against African Americans at the DOJ, by their honkey supervisors. See … Read more
It heard this past weekend that it looks like in addition to the billions of bullets DHS was picking up that they have started taking delivery of the 2500 MRAP vehicles they ordered last year. For those that do not know, MRAP stands for Mine Resistant Armor Protected, and defines a special class of vehicle specifically designed to operate in a heavily contests urban/suburban environment where the enemy is going to use IEDs and … Read more
If government can’t run healthcare for the people that did something to actually earn the privilege of free healthcare, on a much smaller scale than what they really want to be doing, and is having all these problems, how well do you think they will do running a behemoth like Obamacare? From the article:
The processing time for disability claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs worsened in a majority its regional offices last
Another country run by someone I am sure Obama and so many Team Blue members love, is devaluing their currency because of the bullshit spread the wealth nonsense they have been up to, and the people are once again getting shafted.
Panic buyers thronged Venezuelan shops over the carnival weekend after the government of Hugo Chávez announced a surprise devaluation that analysts said was overdue but would only partly right the listing economy.
Domestic
In the a liberal utopian bastion where the murder rate is higher than in Afghanistan and the liberals have made it impossible for law abiding citizens without the right connections to them to own any kind of firearms, we now get this unbelievable news:
CHICAGO (CBS) – Starting this week, Chicago police are changing their responses to 911 calls. They’ll no longer come right away to reports of things like criminal damage to property,
My favorite organization has won again:
When prosecutors tried to seize his family’s Tewksbury motel where drug incidents had been reported, Russ Caswell couldn’t believe the feds had the right to take a property from someone who was never charged with a crime.
Well, it turns out Caswell was right after all: A magistrate judge in Boston federal court just ruled that prosecutors didn’t have enough evidence to justify seizing the Motel Caswell. They
If you remember the howling from the press and the left when Boosh was “destroying our country” with those once evil tax cuts for the rich, massive and out of control spending, insane wars, and horrible violations of our rights, you are going to really be scratching your head when you find out that now that things are worse, they don’t care much. We are now
