Free Inquiry readers may pause to read the “Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles” on the inside cover of the magazine. To a secular humanist, these principles seem so logical, so right, so crucial. Yet, there is one archetypal political philosophy that is anathema to almost all of these principles. It is fascism. And fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerad ...

As Congress continues to debate the imposition of new sanctions on Russia for human rights abuses, the Russian Foreign Ministry has fired back today that the US is holding themselves to a different standard, committing many of the same violations they lash other nations for. The statement in particular notedthat the Obama Administration has still failed to close the extra-judicial detention center at Guanta ...

John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, is calling on the legislatures of all fifty states to protect the privacy and civil liberties of American citizens from police use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones. In the wake of the passage of the FAA Reauthorization Act, it is expected that at least 30,000 drones will occupy U.S. airspace by 2020. In alerting the state legisla ...

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Conservative author, pundit and filmmaker behind the documentary “2016: Obama’s America” has resigned from his post as president of King’s College — an evangelical Christian university in New York City after reportedly being embroiled in an extramarital affair. Christian publication WORLD reported that D’Souza had a young fiancee in addition to a wife of 20 years. WORLD reports that D’Souza brought his 29-y ...

Court orders release in program that excludes typical privacy safeguards The federal government has been told by a judge to start producing copies of documents in an open government case brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center over a nationwide plan to integrate within the government a comprehensive database about Americans. The organization confirmed in a statement today that the order involve ...

Google may be on its way out as the dominant player in search, according to one analyst — and could even "disappear" in as little as five to eight years if the competitive pressures that ultimately claimed other search giants start to take root. In the wake of a surprisingly weak earnings report, Eric Jackson, Ironfire capital founder and managing member, said Google Google[GOOG  681.79    -13.21  (-1.9%)   ...

A group calling themselves “Defend Our Oakland Movement” or “DOOM” has been anonymously printing and handing out fliers around downtown Oakland which openly call for violence against occupy protesters, the fliers encouraging citizens to “bring bats” and “beat the (expletive)” out of protesters. The protests are planned for October 25th, commemorating the first eviction of the Occupy encampment from outside ...

In an alleged effort to speed up lunch lines, biometric finger-scan technology is being tested at a few public schools in South Carolina and is being met with harsh criticism by at least one parent who says she should have been offered the option to opt-out. According to FoxCarolina.com, a few schools in the Anderson District 5 region are undergoing a pilot program for finger-scanners that get “an entire gr ...

While millions of Americans were busy watching the elephant puppet battle the ass puppet at the latest political circus, the United States Congress quietly introduced a new piece of legislation ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to begin preparing for mass casualties throughout the country. House Resolution 6566, also known as the Mass Fatality Planning and Religious Considerations Act, ...