In return for the privilege of being sandwiched together with a bunch of strangers, their personalities, and their bodily functions, we ‘agree’ to look away – literally – as another complete stranger touches us in ways we spend a good number of years teaching our kids are not okay. But it’s about to get worse.
Even in Communist Cuba, sometimes freedom wins, even if just for a second.
Chelsea, Chelsea. When will it end? When will someone love you enough to tell you to stop talking to the general public on Twitter? Apparently one hundred forty characters is not enough for Chelsea to explain herself. Then again, maybe it’s just enough. Chelsea took to Twitter Monday morning to ‘educate’ someone on Andrew Jackson, but it all went horribly wrong.
Many people who were aghast at the idea of Hillary “Hack My Emails Please” Clinton in the Oval Office saw Donald Trump as the one who would preserve liberty. Trump himself claimed to value privacy, and took to Twitter to condemn the fact that his own affairs were spied on by the government before the election. But is he really in favor of the constitutional right to privacy, or is he furthering the surveillance state? And how have his actions as President in this first one hundred days lined up with his campaign promises on the privacy front?
The Liberty Nation Editorial staff has been hard at work reporting and analyzing the first of several trials in the case of the United States v. Cliven Bundy et al. Today we offer you a point-counterpoint discussion offering two perspectives on the same event.
A jury delivered a verdict today against six men charged with conspiring against the United States, as well as assault on federal officers, for their part in the 2014 Bundy Ranch Standoff. The case has been hotly contested by those who say that the men were defending themselves against government agents who assaulted, tazed, and threatened them.
By now you’ve probably heard about the Burger King TV commercial, in which a young employee says, “Ok, Google, what is the Whopper burger?” His sentence triggered Google-enabled devices to pull up the Wikipedia entry for the Whopper sandwich, which the Burger King marketing director had conveniently just edited to reflect more commercialized text…and then it all went wrong.
The manhunt for Steve Stephens is over; the man who killed an elderly man on the side of the street in Cleveland and then posted it to Facebook killed himself as police followed his vehicle in Erie, PA.
Closing arguments ended today for six men in Nevada at the center of a very controversial trial involving a 2014 standoff between federal agents and a group of ranchers and supporters. Not their fate is in the hands of the jury.