Tapping the News -- Civil Liberties -- July 29"Today on "This Week," Glenn Greenwald - the reporter who broke the story about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs - claimed that those NSA programs allowed even low-level analysts to search the private emails and phone calls of Americans.

Tapping the News -- July 26th -- Civil Liberties"The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a survey outlining how small businesses are responding to ObamaCare: • 27% will cut hours to reduce full time employees

In her speech before the annual NAACP conference, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said ““The Affordable Care Act is the most powerful law for reducing health disparities since Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was also enacted…The same arguments against change, the same fear and misinformation that opponents used then are the same ones opponents are spreading now.

Tapping the News--Civil Libertieis--July 18 The TSA searched car and only left any FYI note

Yesterday’s news cycle produced another case of ammo against Obamacare – showing that Obama’s signature law is failing on cost, jobs, and welfare.

Last week, three presidents of the largest unions sent an open letter to Congress demanding reforms to ObamaCare. James P. Hoffa, General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Joseph Hansen, International President of UFCW, and D. Taylor, President of UNITE-HERE, have some serious concerns on how ObamaCare will hurt their members.

On Sunday, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the “success” of the Affordable Care Act when he said, “Obamacare has been wonderful for America.” However, recent news stories prove otherwise. 

Tapping the News -- Civil Liberties -- July 15But the NSA director, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, wanted more than mere snippets. He wanted everything: Every Iraqi text message, phone call and e-mail that could be vacuumed up by the agency’s powerful computers.

“’If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what,’ the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) quotes a speech President Obama delivered…The union estimates Obamacare could negatively affect the multi-employer health plans of some 26 million Americans.”