A wonderful story from Britain illustrates all the problems with the over-active, snooping state. First, the facts. The Broadland District Council in Norfolk hired a plane equipped with a thermal imaging system to fly over local towns at night to spot the ‘hottest’ buildings. Initially, the plane was only going to look at businesses, but clever officials soon realized they could look at houses as well. The justification for this heat-seeking eye in the sky was that it would allow officials to pay the hottest building a visit to “point …
Privacy is supposedly a signature issue for the online left. Opposition to even FISA court-approved basket warrants is a litmus test issue for their support. Fighting terrorism is simply not worth the risk that somebody at the National Security Administration might accidentally read your e-mail to grandma. But there is an issue the left is willing to let the government keep track of a citizen over: voter registration. As National Campaign for Fair Elections Jonah Goldman puts it: “The onus should be on the government to register people, not on …
