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Facebook Messenger adds end-to-end encryption in a bid to become your primary messaging app

This is not going to make the nanny state happy one bit. Messenger will begin to offer an end-to-end encryption feature to a limited test group of users today. It’s a security option that’s been a long time coming for Facebook, which has considered making end-to-end encryption available for several months. The so-called “secret conversations”

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No end to Afghan war: Obama slows US withdrawal

“You break it; you buy it.” We broke Iraq & Afghanistan. We are not going to extricate ourselves quickly.  More on Obama’s schizophrenic foreign policy.  President Barack Obama scrapped plans Wednesday to cut American forces in Afghanistan by half before leaving office, a dispiriting blow to his hopes of extricating the U.S. after 15 years of fighting.

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PA Libertarian Convinces Business Owners To Boycott Local Tax

We’ll see how long this lasts.  In an age when lawmakers have convinced most Americans to pay their taxes “or else,” Libertarian activist Gary St. Fleur, founder of Save Scranton, is stirring taxpayer dissent. He convinced more than 60 brave business leaders in the small Pennsylvania city to sign a petition declaring their refusal to pay the

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CO of USS Wyoming Relieved of Command for Mishandling Classified Information

Back in 2012, the Commanding Officer of the USS Wyoming was relieved of command for mishandling classified information.  He didn’t mean to. There was no intent on his part. He unintentionally broke the law concerning the handling of classified information.  Why do the rules that apply to everyone else in the US government not apply

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Iowa Civil Rights Commission Bans Pastors from Preaching Sermons on Sexuality

Via FPI:  It may now be against the law for Iowa pastors to teach on Genesis 1 that God created mankind – male and female – in His own image. The religious liberty organization Alliance Defending Freedom, on behalf of the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ, has launched a pre-enforcement challenge to the Iowa Civil Rights Commission’s new

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Trouble In Bakersfield

Carl R. Truman over at First Things relates the following story from his personal friend, Chad Vegas, in Bakersfield:  As you know, CA has mandated this [school transgender policy] for the whole state. I have served on the largest high school board in CA, and the nation, for 12 years. I basically lead that board.

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