The IRS has for several years been targeting fiscally conservative and freedom-oriented grassroots organizations with highly detailed and burdensome demands. The effect has been to delay approval of tax exempt status, causing some organizations to abandon the effort, harming their ability to participate in the public debate.FreedomWorks has obtained the IRS letter listing questions to TheTeaparty.Net.

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Shortly after the arrest of suspected terrorist Dzhokar Tsarnaev a debate raged across social media platforms on the issue of Miranda rights. Republican and libertarian twitter users were divided on the issue.

On today’s edition of the FreedomCast, terrorism expert and former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy joins me to discuss the Boston Marathon terror attack, the latest on the investigation and the balance of liberty and safety in a free society. Have a suggestion for an upcoming FreedomCast episode, or a comment?

Finally, I cleaned out my Gmail inbox, one of the several email accounts I own. Since I rarely login to this particular service, there was a digital pile of 782 unread messages waiting for the delete button.

I was bursting with pride yesterday as I watched our champions of liberty filibuster on the Senate floor. It's unimaginable that in America such measures have to be taken to ensure that American citizens won't be blown up at their local cafe because an unelected bureaucrat decided they might be a terrorist, but it is the country we live in currently. I was tweeting with my head held high, supporting Rand Paul all the way. I drove home from work feeling rejuvenated, basking in the hope of liberty’s preservation emanating from Rand Paul’s filibuster. However my elation was short lived.

It's been a rough day so the boss lets you head home early. As you near your house, you see an unmarked van idling in your driveway. You park on the street and carefully open your front door to find a team of government agents digging through your bookcases, file drawers and medicine cabinets. Mail is scattered everywhere.“Who are you and what are you doing?” you ask.“Oh… you weren’t supposed to know about this,” the bureaucrat replies. “You never interrupted us before. Get off work early?”“But what are you looking for?”

Peter Swire of the Center for American Progress is urging Congress to enact technical measures that enable users to opt out of online cookies—typically invisible and unobtrusive digital trackers which send information about a user's behavior back to their hosts. This isn't a new thing for Swire; previously, he's complained that current technologies used to block tracking cookies are too difficult. But what's worth noting here is the Center for American Progress's own policy on cookies: