TRENTON, N.J. (Feb. 12, 2018) – Two bills introduced in the New Jersey legislature would ban warrantless drone surveillance in most situations. Final passage of this legislation would not only establish important privacy protections at the state level, it would also help thwart the federal surveillance state. Sen. Nicholas Sacco (D-North Bergen) introduced Senate Bill 577…
MADISON, Wisc. (Feb. 12, 2018) – Two Wisconsin bills that would help facilitate healthcare freedom outside of government insurance regulatory schemes have passed their respective committees. Rep. Joe Sanfelippo (R-New Berlin), along with a bipartisan coalition of 32 cosponsors, introduced Assembly Bill 798 (AB798) on Dec. 28. A companion bill in the Senate (SB670) was introduced…
"Take a program that lets a public employee earn both a pension and a salary at the same time. Add an extremely generous disability leave and workers' compensation program that allows public employees to be paid while not working for months or even years on end. What do you get? Massive corruption, obviously."
If Republicans are so worried about government surveillance and its potential for abuse, why did they reauthorize FISA? This is a question few people seem to be asking. Last week, the House Intelligence Committee released a memo that revealed abuses of the FISA process. Sadly, the real news was lost in partisan bickering about Russia…
"Heath Hall left his position with the Federal Railroad Administration after reports surfaced that he also was working as a public-relations consultant for the Madison County, Miss., sheriff's office."
"The House Intelligence Committee's dueling partisan memos about FBI surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser will result in federal agents keeping secrets to themselves because they no longer trust Congress, experts warn."
"FISA is a monster. It began as a means of surveilling foreign agents in the U.S., and today it is used for surveilling any American at any time."
"Many people don't understand that school officials aren't necessarily doing what's best for a kid, and that they are likely to bring in law enforcement if they suspect a crime has been committed. And sharing sexually charged images of minors—even consensually, even if the people doing the sharing are themselves minors—is a felony."
"The government has big plans and the most outrageous part about this entire scheme is you don't have a choice – your data is entered."
"Treatments with no side effects, but which might not help, are considered worse than methadone and buprenorphine. 3,400 people died from methadone overdoses in 2014. The CDC does not track deaths from Buprenorphine. The American government financed clinical trials of Buprenorphine. It cost $28 million to win FDA approval. This is another story of the revolving door of doctors who go in and out of the FDA and private practices pushing and prescribing drugs. The FDA gave the company a seven-year monopoly on Buprenorphine. Over 10% of doctors authorized to prescribe it were sanctioned for misbehavior, including insurance fraud and excessive opioid prescribing."