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News Roundup 5/5/17

by Kyle Anzalone | May 5, 2017 | Blog

The FOMC announced the FED is not raising interest rates. The FOMC believes the FED will raise interest rates later this year. [Link] The House has passed an Obamacare reform bill. The Senate will write their own healthcare reform bill. [Link] Mass spying in the US...

Feds Blame ‘Self-Styled FOIA Terrorist’ for Their Own Stonewalling

by C.J. Ciaramella | Mar 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics

Journalists shouldn’t have to sue to get public information. BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold is a prodigious Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requester who files hundreds of public records requests and dozens of lawsuits a year against federal agencies. In fact,...

News Roundup 2/7/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog

The FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email. The FBI is setting up a web portal that FOIA requests will go through. The web portal will allow people to only submit one request per day and only request one per submission. [Link] The City of Chicago will put...

News Roundup 1/7/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 7, 2017 | Blog

This article explains how Trump will have the ability to expose many secrets hidden by the Obama Administration. Trump could expose the memos that allowed Obama to do targeted drone strikes on American citizens, memos that expose the justification for the wars in...

Bovard to Trump: Open Obama’s Secret Records

by Sheldon Richman | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog, Sheldon Richman

My old friend Jim Bovard, a one-man watchdog against government wrongdoing, wisely calls on incoming president Donald Trump "to open the books and expose how the Obama administration commandeered far more power than most Americans realized." Bovard specifically refers...

News Roundup 12/29/16

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2016 | Blog

Trump has given his Supreme Court short list. [Link] The CIA sends a letter admitting that it has not looked at a FOIA request that was sent to the CIA over six years ago. [Link] This article details how al-Qaeda has grown while the world is focused on ISIS and how...

AT&T Operates Surveillance Program on Behalf of Cops

by Dave Maass and Aaron Mackey | Nov 29, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

Law Enforcement’s Secret “Super Search Engine” Amasses Trillions of Phone Records for Decades EFF Fights For More Disclosure About Hemisphere Program Although the government still hides too much information about a secret telephone records surveillance program known...

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Thomas Sowell on Keynesian “Economics”

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Production for Profit Is Production for People, part 2

"In his capacity as a businessman a man is a servant of the consumers, bound to comply with their wishes. He cannot indulge in his own whims and fancies. But his customers’ whims and fancies are for him ultimate law, provided these customers are ready to pay for them....

Production for Profit Is Production for People

"Profit and loss can be expressed in definite amounts of money. It is possible to ascertain in terms of money how much an individual has profited or lost. However, this is not a statement about this individual’s psychic profit or loss. It is a statement about a social...

Pseudo-Liberalism

"The detractors of liberty are in this sense right in calling it a 'bourgeois' issue and in blaming the rights guaranteeing liberty for being negative. In the realm of state and government, liberty means restraint imposed upon the exercise of the police power. "There...

Freedom and Competition

"The freedom of man under capitalism is an effect of competition. The worker does not depend on the good graces of an employer. If his employer discharges him, he finds another employer. The consumer is not at the mercy of the shopkeeper. He is free to patronize...

Do You Really Meme It?

I was going to write a comment on some current discourse, the usual diatribe of impulsive viral outrage invented by those who live online. A reaction to trending tantrums. The usual produce from memetards who vomit digital junk the algorithms, whether one follows them...

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