In previous articles we have learned that there is hazard in taking privacy for granted on the internet. Doing so is at your own peril. As we enter deeper into this Orwellian world it becomes more apparent each passing day that privacy, in many aspects of our lives, is a luxury of the past. An ordinary cell phone can steal your privacy, without your knowledge, in some instances. Here is how. Flexispy

It's glorious to be in Paris on May Day with a beautiful woman - especially if she's your wife.  We're here this week to see our youngest son who's spending his junior year in high school studying in France. On May Day, the streets of Paris are filled with sellers of muguets, the sweet-smelling flowers of Lillies of the Valley.  Every man buys a muguet for his sweetheart.  I am no different. Unfortunately, communists and lefties of every stripe use May Day - a happy day of celebration of springtime since ancient times - to vent their envious hatred of capitalist prosperity.  Demonstrations and protests took place today in hundreds of French cities - and Paris was no exception. Seeing these angry "workers" and "students" marching along in rage and resentment demanding the world provide them with a living while ignorantly denouncing the only economic system that can provide it is an amusing "Walpole moment." As in Horace Walpole, who observed, "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." (See What We Have Got and They Have Not.)

Many on the political left and in the mainstream media complained about the peaceful protests of hundreds of thousands of Americans who held "tea parties" on tax day. Yet they lightly dismiss truly destructive actions by leftist advocacy groups, many of whom take Saul Alinsky's book, "Rules for Radicals," as their bible. Mr. Alinsky wrote, "In war [i.e., war for an ideal or goal], the end justifies the means"; thus almost any action is acceptable for one's cause. How, then, would MSNBC and the New York Times react if free- market groups started hanging "Wanted" posters for Internal Revenue Service officials and employees who clearly serve as instruments for job destroying policies? Inflation is a tax that hits the poor particularly hard and is caused by the Federal Reserve creating too much money and credit. What would happen if monetary-reform groups adopted Alinsky tactics and started picketing the homes of Federal Reserve members and harassing their spouses and children?

Little better illustrates that this administration has pretty much forgotten what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, than the idiotic publicity stunt it attempted in New York City Monday (4/27). Someone at the White House -- Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, has accepted responsibility -- thought it would be a swell idea to get a publicity photo of Air Force One flying low around the Statue of Liberty.  The New York City police, and the guy in the mayor's office who authorizes street fairs were informed of this, but were ordered to keep mum about it. It's bizarre enough that an administration which thinks nothing of making public explicit details of CIA interrogation techniques would deem it necessary to keep this publicity stunt secret.  But the bizarre is what characterizes this government. "I would call this felony stupidity," Fran Townsend, the White House adviser on homeland security during the Bush administration, told CNN yesterday (4/28).  She was talking of the Air Force One publicity stunt, but she could have been talking about the entire Obama White House.

The incompetence of President Zero and his DHS secretary Janet Napolitano has now reached lethal levels in their refusal to militarily close the US-Mexico border or even airplane flights from Mexico. Yet now that the swine flu epidemic has spread from Mexico into the US, we cannot worry about Zero, much less expect him to protect us in any way.  Let's focus on what you can do right now at this moment. The CDC has identified the virus as a H1N1 virus called swine influenza A. This virus has been known for over 40 years, infecting humans directly from birds such as ducks (avian flu) or pigs (swine flu).  Never before could it be transmitted from one human to another.  The virus has now evolved to where it can.  This new human-to-human transmission is what is making the H1N1 pandemic.  Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw suggest the following prophylactic measures to protect their friends at To The Point.  As Durk says, "I'm afraid that you are not going to like this, but I really do know my biology..."

As Archbishop of Canterbury (head of the Episcopal Church), William Laud (1573-1645) was a staunch political supporter of King Charles I, and an ecclesiastical supporter of "high church" practices.  Neither of these set well with Parliament, which was controlled by Puritans such as Oliver Cromwell.  So Parliament passed a law declaring Archbishop Laud guilty of treason, and had him beheaded. The law was called a bill of attainder.  Bills of attainder had two features.  First, they bypassed the courts in declaring someone guilty of a crime.  Second, they criminalized ex post facto actions that were not against the law at the time they were committed. For the obvious reasons, the American colonists were not fond of this aspect of the British legal system.  Which is why Article 1, section 9, clause 3 of the Constitution declares: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed." Barack Hussein Obama's apparent willingness to prosecute former Justice department lawyers who wrote memoranda opining that certain "enhanced interrogation techniques" were lawful suggests neither he nor his attorney general, Eric Holder, are familiar with the letter and spirit of Article 1, section 9, clause 3.

Here's the question of the week:  Why do Democrat presidents insist on having evil idiot lesbians in their Cabinet? It would be very hard for an American to be more evil than Bill Clinton's alcoholic lesbian Attorney General Janet Reno - as revealed years ago in America's Saddam. Now it seems that another lesbian named Janet -- Zero's DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano - wants to try.  Lucky for us, she's even more of a moron than Ms. Reno. After labeling anyone with conservative small government/prolife views a "right-wing extremist" and Iraq war veterans as potential terrorists - then completing an imbecile hat trick by blaming Canada for 9/11 - it's small wonder that demands for her resignation are growing. She has quickly become a complete laughingstock in Canada.  The National Post, one of the country's major papers, wants to know how she got her job, because she is "as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo." But she's also not the only Dem laughingstock this week - here are three more.