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• Former Fed President: Government Snooping on Bank Transactions Over $600 a “Massive Search Without a Search Warrant”
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  Jon Miltimore | Thursday, October 7, 2021

  “It’s just a few pieces of information about individual bank accounts,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said of her department’s proposal on CNBC.

  Yellen explains the government simply wants to monitor the inflows and outflows of (private) individual bank accounts so the IRS can do more audits with “greatly expanded” resources to allow the feds to collect the trillions of dollars they are “owed.”

• DeVos Confirmed: Everything They Said about Her Is False
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  James Agresti | Tuesday, February 7, 2017

  They tried to stop her, but Betsy DeVos has just been confirmed as the new Secretary of Education. 

• A Look Inside Bernie Sanders’s Education Plan
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  James D. Agresti | Saturday, June 8, 2019

  Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders portrays the U.S. education system as grossly underfunded and racially biased, but the statements he makes to support these notions are misleading or explicitly false.

• Ex-Googlers Launch Rival Search Engine
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, July 28, 2008

  “A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits. Cuil Inc (pronounced 'cool') is offering a new search service at www.cuil.com that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index. The would-be Google rival says its service goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on Web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request.” (Reuters, Monday)

  Nothing can compete with the free market's continual process of innovation!

  FEE Timely Classic

  “Competition” by Charles R. La Dow

• Social Security Has Been Swelled, Not Looted.
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  James D. Agresti | Tuesday, June 26, 2018

  Social Security is not a savings plan but a government social program that provides benefits to the aged and disabled mainly by taxing people who are working. Some upshots of this reality are that certain people get nothing from Social Security after paying taxes for their entire working lives, while others receive far more from the program than they pay in taxes.

• Undoing the Fourth Amendment
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  Becky Akers | Saturday, October 1, 2005
  Carlos Gonzalez, 21, of Weston, Florida, stands spread-eagled while an officer pats him down. When the officer bends to frisk his legs, Carlos lowers his arms without asking permission. The officer snarls, “Hey,were not even close to being finished. What are you trying to hide?” While a crowd watches, Carlos is ordered to disrobe. He hands over his shoes and belt and empties his pockets as the search continues in mortifying detail.
• The Folly of America’s Empire: A Review of Christopher Coyne’s New Book ‘In Search of Monsters to Destroy’
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  Peter Jacobsen | Wednesday, July 12, 2023

  In the book In Search of Monsters to Destroy, Dr. Christopher Coyne considers whether liberty can be spread through centralized force. He finds, “perpetual liberal war for perpetual liberal peace fails due to internal contradictions, intentionally or unintentionally eroding liberal values and creating enemies in the process.”

• Google Resisting Federal Subpoena for Search Info
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Friday, January 20, 2006
  #8220;Google is resisting a White House subpoena to hand over the records of the searches internet users are asking it to perform, it has emerged. . . . The White House argues that a list of all requests entered into its search engine over a single week — which could span tens of millions of queries — will help it build up a profile of internet use it needs to defend an online pornography law. It also wants a million randomly selected addresses from the index of websites that Google searches. . . . The Bush administration insists it does not want to tie the search requests to the person or computer that made them but the subpoena has nevertheless raised serious privacy concerns.#8221; (Guardian, Friday)
  
  An ominous request.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  #8220;Ignoring Real Privacy Problems#8221; by James Plummer
• U.S. Supreme Court Limits Search Powers
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, March 23, 2006
  “The Supreme Court narrowed police search powers yesterday, ruling that officers must have a warrant to look for evidence in a couple's home unless both partners present agree to let them in.” (Washington Post, Thursday)
  
  Better protection for the castle that is a manrsquo;s home.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  The Bill of Rights and Moral Philosophy
• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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  John P. Finneran | Monday, June 1, 1992
  Great thinkers have debated the likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligence for many centuries.