Sacrifice Civil Liberties? You First
Both sides want to chip away at your civil liberties, even if sometimes they argue about it.
Both sides want to chip away at your civil liberties, even if sometimes they argue about it.
The Terrorist Firearms Prevention Act relies on an FBI standard we are not allowed to know.
The Orlando massacre shows the folly of fighting a decentralized terrorism model with centralization.
Susan Collins' Terrorist Firearms Prevention Act still flouts due process, but for fewer people.
Violence leads to parade of bad or useless policy proposals.
Giving more draconian powers to intelligence bureaucracies will make us less free, not more safe
He's against it, because he thinks government watchlists can never be free of people who shouldn't be on them.
Soft targets, the Long 2002, and the specter of the Next Attack
After Orlando, Trump wants to meet with NRA to convince the organization to support denying guns to people on the no-fly list, terror watch list.
Department of Homeland Security
More ignorance from the anti-gun left.
Americans should not lose their Second Amendment rights without due process.
Beware of Newt's nostalgia.
But no plan for Congress to vote on a declaration or authorization
An important Supreme Court decision on the right to self-defense involved the fear of anti-LGBT violence.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee exaggerates both the number of immigrants and the number who pose a domestic threat.
Restrictions favored by the president, including a ban on gun purchases by people on "watch lists," are ineffective, unconstitutional, or both.
"This massacre is a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon," says Obama.
Why politicians shouldn't overestimate the terror group's power.
Stripping foreign officials of immunity from lawsuits works both ways.
Reason TV set out to cheer up Venice Beach doomsayers with evidence of positive global trends.
Frontline details the history of ISIS.
"Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia," says former Reagan administration Secretary of the Navy John Lehman.
The Shared Committees Responsibility program is surveillance masquerading as community service for Muslims.
It's past time to have the "Where is this relationship going?" conversation.
U2 frontman makes some good points in congressional testimony but mostly wallows in showbiz solipsism.
The strangling of free, open commentary on Islam in Europe has had an impact that is as predictable as it is dire.
Make no mistake: the War on Crypto is not primarily about "terrorism" or "fighting crime" or "public safety" at all.
Matt Welch, Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan talk smack about culture and current events
Terrorism, if it to have any meaning, is a political, not a sadistic, act.
The presidential candidate's plan to snoop on Muslims is neither fair nor smart.
But does it work? And should we import it to the United States? No and no.
Senator scaremongers to deflect from his lack of a real plan to deal with ISIS.
The FBI says a mysterious "outside party" has found a way to unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone without assistance from Apple.
"Je suis en terrasse!" as the Parisians say.
(Spoiler: It alienated people and didn't uncover radicals.)
There is no such thing as perfect security, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you snake oil.
The Texas senator seems to think the phrase has magical powers.
Rep. Schiff raises the issue in a statement.
French prime minister says: "We are at war."
More reasons to be skeptical of demands for encryption back doors.
The former Jyllands-Posten editor who published "Mohammed cartoons" in 2005 remains unbowed by terror.
Civil liberties increasingly threatened under state of emergency that's been extended for 6 months.
Among other things, Apple alleges that the FBI violates its First Amendment rights by compelling company engineers to write code.
A traveler is forced to abandon "gun-themed" footwear and bracelets.