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Teen Sues US Over Cavity Drug Search for Which She was Billed $575

Teen Sues US Over Cavity Drug Search for Which She was Billed $575

Ashley Cervantes, a then 18-year-old American citizen, was stopped at the Mexico border and, for some unspecified reason, perhaps related to her being young and of Hispanic ethnicity, accused by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of smuggling drugs. What Drugs? A search of her person and belongings proved fruitless, which often is a strong indicator that there are no drugs. The process involved being locked into a detention room for several hours, handcuffed to a chair, while several dogs...

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Sen. McCain Attacks Due Process, Votes No Guns for Americans on Watch List

Sen. McCain Attacks Due Process, Votes No Guns for Americans on Watch List

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is proud to have voted to gut the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. In a press release dated today, McCain praises himself for voting in favor of a Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) amendment to prohibit Americans from purchasing firearms if they are on the US "terror watchlist."Wrote McCain: I believe deeply that we can and must do more to keep guns out the hands of dangerous terrorists who seek to harm us... While no one would disagree with McCain's above statement,...

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Bill Kristol: ‘We Beat Back Ron Paul and Rand Paul’

Bill Kristol: ‘We Beat Back Ron Paul and Rand Paul’

Neoconservative by birth, Bill Kristol, apparently thinks the libertarian moment is over.Kristol was in San Francisco yesterday and appeared at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco for a "conversation with" event.He fielded questions from the audience and also the moderator neocon Kori Schake, mostly about Donald Trump.At one point, he named a list of non-mainstream Republican candidates that had their moment in the sun and then faded away.This included Ron and Rand Paul."We beat back Ron...

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‘Hello, Lenin!’ Three Components of America’s Misguided Foreign Policy

‘Hello, Lenin!’ Three Components of America’s Misguided Foreign Policy

Since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy could almost have been designed to undermine our national interests. Whether under Republican George W. Bush or Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, we have seen “regime changes” and “color revolutions,” facilitation of global jihadism while claiming to combat it, and gratuitous confrontation with post-communist Russia which was going out of its way to become our reliable ally. For those familiar with the operational code of the late...

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Fifty-One Foreign Service Officers Can't be Wrong…Or Can They? More bombs and Less Talk on Syria

Fmr US Ambassador Robert Ford meets with "moderate" terrorists in SyriaIt is ironic that fifty-one US State Department employees, perhaps overly-generously dignified in the media with the title of “diplomats,” have come out in favor of removing a foreign head of state by force. Detailing their opposition to the status quo, the signatories submitted a dissent memo through established Foreign Service channels. The document itself is classified, even though the New York Times and the Wall Street...

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Orlando: Islam or Blowback?

Orlando: Islam or Blowback?

According to the Telegraph newspaper, “Omar Mateen, the Orlando gunman, told his victims the attack was revenge for American bombing of Afghanistan, but allowed black Americans to be released because ‘they have suffered enough.’” The person who recounted what Mateen said is 20-year-old Patience Carter. According to theTelegraph article, she heard Mateen telling police on the phone that he was pledging allegiance to Isil and saying the attacks were in retaliation for America’s bombing of...

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Nazis Have Rights Too

Nazis Have Rights Too

Suffolk County, New York police arrested Edward Perkowski on Thursday after the police allegedly found in a raid of his home items including tens of thousands of dollars in cash, several guns and knives, ammunition, a bit of marijuana and illegal mushrooms, and some bomb-making instructions. Oh yeah, the town of Brookhaven condemned Perkowski’s house to boot. This appears to be yet another example of a government cracking down on people for nonviolent actions. In this case we have a...

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Orlando: The New 9/11?

Orlando: The New 9/11?

Last week America was rocked by the cold-blooded murder of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Unlike the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Orlando shooter appears to be a lone gunman who, while claiming allegiance to ISIS, was not actually working with a terrorist group. About the only thing Orlando has in common with 9/11 is the way power-hungry politicians and federal officials wasted no time using it to justify expanding government and restricting liberty....

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Why Are Defense Policy Wonks So Ineffectual?

Why Are Defense Policy Wonks So Ineffectual?

“People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy. They are wrong; the Pentagon does have a strategy. It is: Don’t interrupt the money flow, add to it.” -Colonel John R. BoydFighter pilot, aircraft designer, strategist Today, America’s foreign policy is a shambles. Its primary features are (1) a perpetual war on terror, and (2) the seemingly inevitable march into a new and unnecessary cold war against Russia and China. At the same time, President Obama is leaving his successor with a budget...

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Interventionism is a Rotten Tree With Rotten Fruit

Interventionism is a Rotten Tree With Rotten Fruit

Fifty-one State Department officials are calling on President Obama to expand US interventionism in Syria by initiating a bombing campaign against the Syrian government. Apparently they’re not satisfied with the great “success” that their philosophy of interventionism has brought to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and the rest of the Middle East. They want the US national-security state’s death machine to bring even more death and destruction than it has already brought to that part of the...

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US Senate Votes to Legalize Kidnapping of Women (AKA: Military Draft)

US Senate Votes to Legalize Kidnapping of Women (AKA: Military Draft)

Here’s a joke for you: How many US Senators does it take to kidnap your daughter? Answer: I don’t know, but 85 of them would like to. On Tuesday the US Senate voted overwhelmingly to allow the federal government to kidnap women against their will and force them into military service, beginning January 1, 2018. This legalized kidnapping, also known as a military draft, was approved with an 85-13 vote as a part of a broad sweeping 600-billion-dollar military spending bill. The general consensus...

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Militarized USDA and EPA using SWAT Teams to Terrorize Innocent People Including Lemon Growers and Small Farmers

Militarized USDA and EPA using SWAT Teams to Terrorize Innocent People Including Lemon Growers and Small Farmers

The federal government is becoming increasingly militarized, with numerous agencies now employing their own SWAT teams to conduct raids on raw milk producers, beekeepers, lemon growers - or anyone else who runs afoul of agency policies. The trend has increased during Obama's presidency and is not only costing taxpayers enormous amounts of money, but also terrorizing citizens who could hardly be considered dangerous criminals by any sane estimation. The USDA is just one example. From...

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Join us in September at the ‘Peace and Prosperity 2016’ Conference

Join us in September at the ‘Peace and Prosperity 2016’ Conference

How did the use of military force become the first option in US foreign policy? Why must we spend a trillion dollars each year to fund a global empire that leaves us poorer and less safe? How does the military-industrial complex rip off working Americans while becoming obscenely wealthy? And what can we do about it? Join Ron Paul and the Ron Paul Institute on September 10, 2016, for a one of a kind event making an uncompromising case for a foreign policy of peace and non-intervention. In...

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GOP Stops Reps. Thomas Massie and Walter Jones From Cutting Spending

GOP Stops Reps. Thomas Massie and Walter Jones From Cutting Spending

It's not a good idea to give the Rules Committee the power to block amendments to the appropriations bills. For example, consider last week when Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Walter Jones (R-NC) tried to offer an amendment to the legislative branch appropriations bill to stop the use of taxpayer funding for private offices of ex-speakers. The Rules Committee did not make this amendment in order, so there was no vote on ending taxpayer subsidies for ex-speakers. For more on this...

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Clinton Discussed Top Secret CIA Drone Info, Approved Drone Strikes, Via Her Blackberry

Clinton Discussed Top Secret CIA Drone Info, Approved Drone Strikes, Via Her Blackberry

A new report in the Wall Street Journal reveals emails in which then-Secretary of State Clinton approved CIA drone assassinations in Pakistan from her unsecured Blackberry. Top Secret/SAP Messages The timing and location of these strikes are considered Top Secret/SAP [special access program], in that revealing such data could allow the targeted humans to escape, and embarrass US ally Pakistan, whom many believe is tacitly allowing the United States to conduct such military operations inside...

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Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror

Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror

Until we start addressing the US government’s part in creating, cultivating and abetting domestic and global terrorism—and hold agencies such as the FBI and Defense Department accountable for importing and exporting violence, breeding extremism and generating blowback, which then gets turned loose on an unsuspecting American populace—we’ll be no closer to putting an end to the violence that claimed 50 lives at an Orlando nightclub on June 12, 2016, than we were 15 years ago when nearly 3,000...

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