Author: Joshua De Leon

A handful of senators, in a bipartisan effort, introduced a bill that would force the Attorney General “to declassify significant Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinions.” If signed into law, the bill will dissolve the “secret law” that allows the FISC to keep how it interprets law under wraps. Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Mike Lee (R-Utah),  Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Mark Begich (D-AR), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Ron Wyden, (D-OR) introduced the bill with the ultimate goal of keeping Americans informed about important FISC court opinions, or rather, how the court interprets the law....

The gross misuse of government power has been scattered across the headlines lately in the wake of the NSA leaks.  But power abuse isn’t only being exercised on a federal level, but on local levels also.  Law enforcement on all levels has been exuding a severe lack of discretion and has been over-exerting their authority. Recently in Miami, 14-year-old Tremaine McMillian was taken down, subdued, and choked by city police while out with his 6-week old puppy.  The reason for the suppression?  Supposedly “threatening” body language.  McMillian was reported to have clenched his fists and given Miami police officers...

  With Michele Bachmann not pursuing another seat in the House, one can’t help but wonder what that means for the Tea Party.  Will it persist or will it over stuff itself on its own rhetoric and stance on policy? Bachmann is under probe by the FBI, the Federal Elections Committee, and the Office of Congressional Ethics, among many other investigatory groups for alleged ethics violations during her 2012 presidential run.  Bachmann made her decision to not to pursue a House seat in the wake of all this, so that leaves much speculation to her reasoning behind calling it...

The hacker with Anonymous that exposed the Steubenville rape suspect is facing 10 years incarceration for leading a computer-hacking operation against the suspects of the Steubenville rape.  The two players from the town’s high school football team convicted of raping a 16-year old girl only received one to two years incarceration. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided the home of Anonymous-faction leader Deric Lostutter, hacker moniker “KYAnonynous,” in April.  Lostutter led the KnightSec faction of the hacker group in the acquisition and distribution of tweets and photos of the assault and humiliation of the victim.  The faction took...

Politically conservative-minded people are more yielding than those who are more liberal-minded, a Gallup poll finds.  The study released by Gallup was placed in the frame of Republican and Democratic views of assisted suicide.  It found that a simple alteration of verbiage could easily alter a Republican’s opinion on an issue. This finding ultimately proves that Republicans piggyback their ideology on one another, perpetually stagnating any progressive thought and advancement in societal policy.    When assisted suicide was presented as “ending a patient’s life by some painless means” versus “suicide,” Republicans saw a greater deviation against Democrats in support...