Iowa gun rights advocates press bills to expand weapon owners’ freedoms
Gun Rights Friday, February 10th, 2012
Take 10 paces back, Iowa: There’s a theoretical legislative shootout brewing.
Privacy group wanting FTC to punish Google files lawsuit
Privacy Rights Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Privacy advocates on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit aimed at forcing government officials to punish Google over alleged privacy violations.
States line up to challenge stringent Section 5 voting rights provision
State's Rights Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Conservative activists and Republican attorneys general have launched a series of lawsuits meant to challenge the most muscular provision of the Voting Rights Act 0f 1965 before a Supreme Court that has signaled it is suspicious of its constitutionality.
Free speech rights, anti-bullying fight collide
Free Speech Monday, February 6th, 2012
The First Amendment guarantees that public school students have the right to free speech. It also gives them the right to practice their religion.
Anti-Gun Protestors Target Starbucks for Upholding the Second Amendment
Gun Rights Monday, January 30th, 2012
A nationwide boycott of Starbucks stores and its products will be launched on Valentine’s Day to eliminate “the risk of guns in public places and ultimately to bring sane gun laws to the U.S.”
Term ‘states’ rights’ heard anew in election cycle
State's Rights Monday, January 30th, 2012
Pop singer Kelly Clarkson wasn’t expecting such a harsh response when she tweeted her endorsement in the Republican presidential race.
Critics fear Twitter’s new policy will hinder free speech
Free Speech Monday, January 30th, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO • Twitter has promoted itself as a beacon of free speech, and that image was burnished when revolutionaries used the social media service to organize protests during last year’s Arab Spring uprising.
FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail
Privacy Rights Monday, January 30th, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show.
Tea Party Leader Vows To Fight NYC’s “Tyrannical” Anti-Gun Agenda
Gun Rights Monday, January 16th, 2012
Last month, Californian lawyer and influential Tea Party leader Mark Meckler was arrested for trying to board a plane at LaGuardia Airport with a handgun and ammunition.
Federal judge upholds reporting requirement for gun stores
Gun Rights Saturday, January 14th, 2012
From FOXNews.com WASHINGTON – A federal judge has dismissed a firearms industry association’s lawsuit seeking to block the Obama administration from requiring gun store owners in Southwest border states to report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles. U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives properly limited its [...]