‘Free trade’ isn’t what Trans-Pacific Partnership would deliver … Think the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a free trade agreement? Think again. In principle, almost everyone’s in favor of free trade. It promotes international harmony, raises wages, helps economies grow. It’s an article of historical faith that the enactment of harsh protective U.S. tariffs in 1930 contributed […]
Archives for February 2015
Thanks, EPA: Your New ‘Navigable Waters’ Rule Strengthens The Case Against Administrative Law
Posted on February 9, 2015 Written by
When Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, it was exercising its power to regulate interstate commerce by prohibiting discharges into the nation’s “navigable waters.” If a body of water could be used to transport goods from one state to another, it was covered by the Act. Like so many other statutes enacted over the […]
U.N. Climate Chief: We’re ‘Intentionally’ Transforming The World Economy
Posted on February 8, 2015 Written by
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years…” The United Nation’s top climate change official Christiana Figueres announced this week that the group is actively working to […]
Trading Away Their Oaths
Posted on February 8, 2015 Written by
On the opening day of each new Congress, every member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives takes an oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” For many members, no doubt, this solemn […]
In a First, Government Acknowledges the Limits of Section 215
Posted on February 7, 2015 Written by
Following EFF’s victory in a four-year Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the government released an opinion (pdf), written by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in 2010, that concluded that Section 215—the provision of the Patriot Act the NSA relies on to collect millions of Americans’ phone records—does have a limit: census data. The Commerce Department […]
Samsung SmartTVs can collect and transmit spoken words, personal information, and sensitive data to 3rd party sources
Posted on February 7, 2015 Written by
NEW SMART TVS OFFER A WINDOW INTO YOUR LIFE Smart TVs may be getting too smart as some now actually collect and transmit your spoken words, personal information, and sensitive data to other 3rd party sources. In fact Samsung, a major electronic manufacture, admits that they “collect, use, share, and store information through your SmartTV in […]
PA Press Release on ESEA Violations
Posted on February 6, 2015 Written by
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pennsylvanians Restoring Education February 5, 2015, Pennsylvanians Restoring Education, Pennsylvania Against Common Core, Citizens of Pennsylvania, parents and students are asking Senator Lamar Alexander to stop the REAUTHORIZATION of ESEA: Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015 which will amend No Child Left Behind. This legislation violates federal law, […]
16-Year-Old Launches Organization to Battle Warrantless Surveillance
Posted on February 6, 2015 Written by
Brandon Keibler is just your ordinary 16-year-old from Southern Indiana. At least that’s what some people might think. However, having become an activist at fourteen and helping to establish the Restore the Fourth organization, this young man has just launched an organization to encourage grassroots efforts aimed at a tyrannical government that wishes to disregard […]
