So the government is listening to your phone calls and monitoring your Internet use – and pretty much has the authority to track your every move. Just remember that everything the state did in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was legal too. It's just Ingsoc by a different name now, the shining city upon a hill become dystopian national security state. Call it Amfasc.
Prairie Weather: The IRS loves conservative groups.
Infidel753: Balancing principle and compromise.
The Smithian: Motherhood, single women, and poverty.
Simply Left Behind: Take me out to the PED-juiced ballgame.
Pruning Shears: Anti-fracking activism in Ohio.
Round-up by Michael J.W. Stickings of The Reaction (Twitter: @mjwstickings). I'll be here through Sunday.
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By Michael Stickings
— June 7, 2013
