Healthcare.gov: Planning and Reality

Clay Shirky notes that the White House was too cool to listen to its own experts.

Visit to the Doctor or Interrogation

Betsy McCaughey says that thanks to federal health care reform there may soon be little difference.

Bad Words

If the NSA really thinks that searching for "porn," "sex" and "pornstars" makes you a terrorist, then it thinks that everyone who uses the Internet is a terrorist.

Legalizing Marijuana Would Decrease Civil Liberties

Says a former staff member for Barack Obama.

IRS: Tell US About Your Prayers

They demanded that information from at least anti-abortion group.

Don't Blame Citizens United

The IRS didn't exactly go after the big money when it targeted tea party groups.

Obama Is Looking More Like Nixon Every Day

The IRS admits it improperly targeted conservative groups.

What Price Privacy?

Stewart Baker looks at how privacy laws help hid government ineptitude and malfeasance.

What Impact Do Gun Background Checks Have on Crime?

Not much, says Jacob Sullum.

The FBI and the First Amendment

The agency gets to write its own warrants, approve them and bar the person it serves from talking about it, even with his attorney.

Has Any of This Made Us Safer?

Jim Harper looks at rules making it harder to get driver's licenses and asks if they have done anything other than harry citizens.

Your Papers, Please

The New American on the perils of a national ID card.

Will Healthcare Reform Endanger Second Amendment Rights?

Yes.

Will PASS ID Save States Money?

No, but it will reduce privacy says Jim Harper.

PASS ID Is a National ID Card

Cato blogs on a new study.

REAL ID Hearing

Jim Harper reports on Congress's latest efforts to force a national ID card on us.

Why Using Social Security Numbers for ID Is Stupid

They were never meant to be used for ID and not designed to be secure.

PASS ID and Privacy

The usual suspects are trying to revive REAL ID under a new name, but Jim Harper says that it will still cause a tremendous loss of privacy for all Americans.

Take a Pass on Pass ID

Jim Harper explains what is wrong with the latest attempt to institute an internal passport.

An Internal Passport By Any Name

Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano wants to replace rename the Real ID national ID card with something called Pass ID.

Meanwhile, five senators try to revive the Real ID idea uner another name

At the Amnerican Conservative blog Daniuel McCarthy writes:

This is typical of how liberties get chipped away: when the public in the states rallies against assaults on privacy, the security apparatus in D.C. switches tracks to implement its wish-list piecemeal. We’ll see whether the feds succeed in undercutting the grassroots revolt in the states.