Evidence that NSA-PRISM was NOT about stopping terrorism
The first four sentences of this piece from Investors Business Daily tell a shocking tale: The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it...
View ArticleLetter from non-Birmingham Red China jail shows Snowden no MLK
Defining civil disobedience down Getting tired of lesbians, bi-sexuals, gays, transgenders, pro-abortion choicers, Sandra Fluke anti-conceptionists and now Espionage Act-violating leakers of national...
View ArticleBiden 2006 vs. Obama 2013 on NSA-PRISM surveillance
Joe Biden in 2006 believed that a program in which 200 million Americans’ phone calls are tracked (even if the conversations themselves are not listened to) was worth investigation by Congress. I guess...
View ArticleReason TV’s Remy takes on the NSA in “Tap It: The NSA Slow Jam”
“Everybody come quick . . . A straw man has been killed!” Ha! Oh, and by the way, when I went to Reason TV’s playlist for Remy on YouTube, at first all of Remy’s videos were playing just fine EXCEPT...
View ArticleThe Thin Line of Necessary Security Intelligence
Everything changed on September 11, 2001, a day when thousands of Americans were killed by Islamic jihadists who wanted to strike a blow to the heart of the United States. In response to the attack,...
View ArticleThis is neither a Republic nor a Democracy. It’s Tyranny.
For the last several decades, we have bantered with one another, the media, and our representatives about whether we live in a democracy or a republican form of government. The debate can stop now. We...
View ArticlePrivacy is for people who are not Kim Kardashian
Token Libertarian Girl takes on the subject of the NSA surveillance scandal with her usual flair.
View ArticleThe Demise of Obama’s Foreign Policy
When Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize during his first year in the White House, he was at the height of his popularity both at home and abroad. Obama was a political and cultural phenomenon...
View Article(Obama is living in) A Fool’s Paradise
By Nick Bailey Jim Pinkerton was on Fox News earlier this week and said Barack Obama was living in “Liberal La-La Land” regarding his reluctance to address the country’s pressing problem. I think...
View ArticlePrioritizing Our Concerns
It seems to me that a lot of people are worrying about the wrong things these days. Instead of concentrating on an administration that aided and abetted in the murder of Ambassador Stevens and three...
View ArticleBarack, Trayvon & Islam
Some people insist that racism no longer exists in America. Clearly, that isn’t true. After all, Barack Obama once said that Trayvon Martin looked like the son he might have had. Inasmuch as Obama...
View ArticleFileting Liberals
Sometimes I feel like a space traveler who has crash-landed on a very odd planet, one on which oxygen exists, but commonsense is in very short supply. Let us consider singer Katy Perry, who insists she...
View ArticleLeave Syria to the Syrians, it’s none of our business
The United States, the most bellicose nation on Earth, is once again rattling its rockets at a foe. Will the American people, as they have done so placidly in the past, just shrug their shoulders and...
View ArticleSunnyside board recalls are petty, petulant and pointless
If all goes according to plan, next March four of five Sunnyside School Board members could be facing one or more challengers in four separate recall elections as part of a colossally stupid struggle...
View ArticleDon’t let the government define who’s a journalist
Journalists like to use the old maxim “be careful what you wish for, you might get it” to caution politicos and others about the unintended consequences of some action they’re advocating for. Well,...
View ArticleUSFS needs to quit delaying and make a decision about Rosemont
The announcement this week that the U.S. Forest Service will delay its permitting decision on the proposed Rosemont copper mine in the eastern reaches of the Santa Rita Mountain foothills until next...
View ArticleThis is the end….
…of Mark B. Evans administering TucsonCitizen.com. Nearly eight years ago I took a job as an assistant city editor at the venerable Tucson Citizen, Tucson’s oldest continually operating business and...
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