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Rick B
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Mr. Lowenthal was once very high ranking in the intelligence community. He is now a professor, of course. The academic and publishing credentials are very impressive. And, like any good leftist, he is incredibly ignorant of anything that belies the chosen beliefs in his little world. On a recent Jeopardy tournament, when Alex Trebek spoke […]

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Recently, a Swiss startup produced and marketed a new smartphone, designed to maximize user privacy. It was sold out in the preorder phase. Not even vaguely resembling a techie, I wonder if a computer and/or operating system or software exist which provides users with more online privacy and which is accessible to ordinary users. It […]

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In case you missed it, Amazon recently announced their own take on the smartphone, which turns out to be pretty much like everyone else’s take on the smartphone. It’s called (brace yourself for this one) the Fire phone and it does come with a little flair. Two pieces, to be exact. The first consists of […]

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Stella Morabito is a senior contributor at The Federalist.  She's also written op-eds and commentary on society and culture for the Washington Examiner, American Thinker, Public Discourse, Human Life Review, New Oxford Review. In her previous work as an intelligence analyst, she focused on various aspects of Russian and Soviet politics, including communist media and propaganda. B.A. in journalism and international relations from the University of Southern California.  Master's degree in Russia… [more]
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The question above will no doubt seem counter-intuitive to many. But I believe the answer is absolutely, yes. Same sex marriage puts us on the path to abolishing civil marriage. And that would empower the state to abolish family autonomy and privacy. To understand where I’m headed with this, please read the article I published […]

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Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. Your Government Is Phone Tapping An Entire Nation. Are You Okay With This?

Fred Cole
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[Y]ou betray your whole life if you don't say what you think and if you don't say it honestly and bluntly." — Charles Krauthammer
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shutterstock_90519055As of 2013, the United States government “has been recording and storing nearly all the domestic (and international) phone calls from two or more target countries as of 2013.” If anybody had any doubts, the good people of WikiLeaks, who are doing God’s work, revealed that one of those countries is Afghanistan.

Your government is phone tapping an entire country’s worth of phones. This program, they claim, is vital, to keeping our drone wars going.

So, in order to keep a war going that we shouldn’t be in anymore, in a place we shouldn’t be involved anymore, we — you and I — are doing this. Privacy is a fundamental human right. We are violating the fundamental human rights of an entire nation of people, in order to keep a war going in a place we shouldn’t be in, to accomplish… what exactly?

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Did Donald Sterling Tape Himself?

King Banaian
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Professor of economics and dean of the School of Public Affairs at <a href="http://web.stcloudstate.edu/kbanaian/" target="_blank">St. Cloud State University</a>, former state legislator. Radio host of the <a href="http://www.kycr.com/showdj.asp?DJID=52539" target="_blank">King Banaian Show</a>.
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Reported in the LA Times yesterday, but not really noted in our earlier discussion on the taping of Donald Sterling.

The site is also reporting that sources who have heard the entire hourlong recording say Sterling absolutely knew he was being recorded. TMZ Sports has reported Stiviano has said she has more than 100 hours of recorded conversations with the 80-year-old Sterling, who is said to have used the tapes to refresh his memory because he frequently forgot what he said.

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Dennis Prager on the NBA owner fiasco: When the media report private conversations that pose no threat of violence, they encourage more and more people to record and release private conversations. That, far more than the NSA’s trolling of billions of phone calls in order to identify terrorists, poses a real threat to privacy. Preview […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Obama’s Proposed NSA Reform: Less Efficiency, But No Greater Privacy — John Yoo

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John Yoo is professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. From 2001 to 2003, he served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department of President George W. Bush. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court, and as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary… [more]
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President Obama announced this week that he will change the NSA metadata collection program, but in a way that I believe will make everyone worse off. The heart of the change is to keep the metadata — the phone numbers dialed in the U.S., but not the content of the calls — in the hands of the phone companies, where it can still be searched after a request by the NSA. This does not restrict the collection of the data — the phone numbers are still collected — and so does little to solve the privacy right issue. It only makes the analysis of the information slower; it does not stop the government from analyzing the metadata, but only makes it less efficient.

In the latest issue of National Review, Ricochet’s own Arthur Herman and I defend the NSA program from its detractors:

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. In Pursuit of Disruptive Politics: Rand Paul at Berkeley — Jon Gabriel

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Jon Gabriel (a.k.a., @ExJon on Twitter) is the Editor-in-Chief of Ricochet. He is a political writer and marketing consultant, contributing articles to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and USA Today among others. Until 2012, he served as Director of Marketing for the free-market Goldwater Institute, where he converted policy initiatives into compelling stories. In the private sector, Jon led marketing efforts for Cold Stone Creamery, Honeywell, and several technology companies. In his… [more]
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Most Republican senators choose to speak at a post office opening, a county GOP fish fry, or the local Rotary club pancake breakfast. Meanwhile, the junior senator from Kentucky is hanging out at Howard University, Detroit and now the University of California at Berkeley.

Delivering a rare speech for a Republican at this bastion of liberalism, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday was given multiple standing ovations by the left-wing audience after railing against government surveillance and warning the students: “Your right to privacy is under assault.”

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