I think that the NSA's metadata program is legally dubious and worse than dubious as public policy. But trying to stop it through nullification, as several state legislators have proposed, is a cure that would be substantially worse than the disease. Beauchamp and Milhiser: Wielding state...
Only, it's more like "every time as farce, and hopefully not tragedy." And leaving aside the fact that they've already had their bluff called twice, the nominal basis of their.
I have a longer piece about the report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board up. To me, the key takeaway is that even if we assume arguendo that.
It's entirely likely that if the United States government ever does anything about climate change, it's going to be spurred by corporations worried about how it will affect their future profits. That doesn't mean I'm optimistic. For every company that sees threat in climate change, others...
This is cute and all, but San Francisco landowners are not failing to invest in the development of their property because they haven't been sufficiently incentivized to so. They're failing.
In the music and theater business, "papering the house" means giving away a bunch of free tickets in order to make demand for a show look much higher than it.
Radical cleric Mike Huckabee has some deep thoughts: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says that Democrats are pushing women to believe “they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system withwout the help of the government.” The onetime presidential candidate made the comments to the Republican...
The Republican Party's message to women has really improved. So much evidence. Exhibit A: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said that the government shouldn't help women who can't control.
My latest at the Diplomat: The announcement in the Business Standard that the Indian Air Force was less than interested in continuing its relationship with Russia over the PAK FA came.
This story is fantastic in every possible way: A ghost ship carrying nothing but disease-ridden rats could be about to make land on Britain’s shore, experts have warned. The Lyubov Orlova cruise liner has been drifting across the north Atlantic for the better part of a...
Kurt Raschke pushes back against the notion (which I suggested yesterday) that real time arrival data can serve as a substitute for frequency: Telling people to plan their lives around.
In an ideal world, Obama's NSA speech last week would have reached the same conclusions as independent analysts did: An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security.