Welcome to the surveillance state

You’ve read about it in books and you’ve seen it on TV and in the movies.  Well, here we are.  Welcome to the surveillance state. Today it is the collection of phone records, emails, Facebook posts, text messages, chat room sessions, Google searches, credit card transactions and online documents that we know about.  Tomorrow, who … Read more

The Bizzaro World of Political Correctness

In case you missed it, the Associated Press recently made some changes to its official “Stylebook”, the guide journalist use to determine what words and phrases they should or should not use in their reportage.  The new edict declares terms like “illegal alien, an illegal, illegals or undocumented” as verboten. Why?  The AP claims that … Read more