Representative Elton Gallegly’s record on immigration is filled with bills that have gone nowhere. His immigration bills end up amounting to nothing more than vain posturing.

Tea Party activists claim to be against big government intrusion into our private lives. If that’s the truth, and not just a convenient pose used to promote laws that protect corporate interests, we should now expect the hear Tea Party activists applauding the decision by Judge Crabb rejecting big government attempts to intrude into private decisions about religion.

Eugene Moon also seeks to undermine the Constitution, which under the 14th Amendment guarantees that all people, citizens or not, within the jurisdiction of the laws of the USA are entitled to equal protection under those laws.

Number of Senate bill introduced by John McCain that allows the U.S. military to pick up U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and detain them indefinitely without charge: 3081 Number of times the word “rights” is used in S. 3081: 2 Number of times the word is used to indicate the lack of Americans’ rights: 2 [...]

Jeremy Cloward denounces the vote by John Garamendi to extend Patriot Act powers without reforms. Representative Garamendi himself has made no comment to explain why he voted to continue one of the most broad ranging attacks against the Constitution begun under George W. Bush.

Yesterday 162 House Democrats voted in favor of extending the Patriot Act without any reforms at all. The following list contains the names of these 162 anti-liberty Democrats.

In the last election cycle of 2008, the Democratic Party issued its platform entitled “Renewing America’s Promise. In that platform, the Democrats made the following pledge: Our Constitution is not a nuisance. It is the foundation of our democracy. It makes freedom and self-governance possible, and helps to protect our security. The Democratic Party will [...]

In the face of the Senate’s repeated on-the-record votes against data privacy, it’s an outrageous hypocrisy for senators to vote for a resolution that suggests the observance of National Data Privacy Day – a day after the actual event is over.

Overnight, news emerged that for years, the FBI grabbed Americans’ private telephone records without any search warrants, and justifying the seizures of these records by claiming that there were emergency terrorist threats that in fact never existed. Thousands of times, the FBI completely invented stories of terrorist plots to attack the United States so that [...]

In the case of gun rights, what’s important is not to just find a theoretical middle ground, but to examine the Constitution and what it actually says. Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf doesn’t seem to be willing to take the time to educate himself about the role of the Constitution in establishing government policy.