“Amazon.com filed a lawsuit on Monday to fend off a sweeping demand from North Carolina’s tax collectors: detailed records including names and addresses of customers and information about exactly what they purchased. (more…)

“You may not have heard of the American Community Survey, but you will. The national census, which historically is taken every ten years, has expanded to quench the federal bureaucracy’s ever-growing thirst to govern every aspect of American life. The new survey, unlike the traditional census, is taken each and every year at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. And it’s not brief. It contains 24 pages of intrusive questions concerning matters that simply are none of the government’s business, including your job, your income, your physical and emotional heath, your family status, your dwelling, and your intimate personal habits.” (more…)

The bill says that the government can make home visits, disallow further children, tell you what to eat, and more.

Listen to the 8-minute audio here: Liberty Counsel: Government to make “home visits.” “A bureaucrat is going to tell you not to have another child.”

Don’t sign the government’s “privacy” agreement! Upon applying for the Cash for Clunkers program, you will be presented with a “privacy agreement” to sign. It states that your computer will be taken over and monitored in perpetuity by the U.S. Government and any foreign entity it wishes to allow. (more…)

“The Supreme Court said Thursday school officials acted illegally when they strip-searched an Arizona teenage girl looking for prescription-strength ibuprofen.” (more…)

“Why does the Obama administration need or want the latitude and longitude coordinates for every home in America? Why the rush to GPS paint every home in the next 90 days? Why must the marker be within 40 feet of every front door? For what possible purpose does the Fed need GPS coordinates for every home, and under what authority do they have the right?” (more…)

DHS report is ushering in a world like George Orwell’s 1984. Obama and Bush are responsible. (more…)

“…if you disagree with Obama on amnesty for illegals or stand up for the Second Amendment, you are branded a ‘rightwing extremist’ by the Department of Homeland Security and become the subject of scrutiny by some 850,000 local and state law enforcement personnel….” (more…)

“This video is important. … The degree of secrecy is amazing.” (more…)

“Supermarket cards and retail surveillance devices are merely the opening volley of the marketers’ war against consumers. If consumers fail to oppose these practices now, our long-term prospects may look like something from a dystopian science fiction novel…. (more…)