Complete surveillance. Zero privacy over personal information and communications. Neighbors snitching on neighbors for “disloyalty” to the government.

You see it in movies. You hear about it as a fact of life from other countries. But in a land that was, at its birth, the greatest experiment in limited government the world has ever known, you simply don’t expect it.

We’re not quite a totalitarian nation, of course, but there appear to be disturbing developments, as noted ...

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Liberal trial lawyer Democrats, small government tea partier conservative Republicans, and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justices Scalia, Thomas, Kagan, Ginsburg and Sotomayor quietly found common civil liberties ground during gay marriage week.

Observing the blanket press coverage of the recent week of oral arguments concerning California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act before the nation’s highest court, one could be forgiven for thinking that one-third of Am...

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