The “reports” come in from all over the internet and the papers, day after day after day: Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail: Democrat Rahm Emanuel put his Chicago residency in the name of a charity to avoid property taxes… Phil Gremillion at The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette,...

He’s the cutest little tabby cat of a kitten with his soft orange fur and big blue eyes, and tiny little paw, and a round fuzzy body that makes you just want to cuddle and tickle and hug him and squeeze him… and he’s asking: Will you please now pay attention to the fact that Presid...

Heads up, America, it’s Tim the Talking Toilet here with the news that you probably missed because it came out the day after the Obama inauguration, upon which almost everyone in America was just sitting around in a kind of daze - like the kind that you get when you wake up from a nightmare an...

There’s some disturbing language coming out of the Obama transition team on the matter of federal government spying against American citizens. Contradicting the hopes of those voters who had convinced themselves that Obama vote in support of the infamous FISA Amendments Act, Obama’s tran...

Where are they? Where are the big, nasty, evildoing terrorists that have been captured thanks to the passage of the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Protect America Act and then the FISA Amendments Act? Each of these bills restricting our freedoms was passed with the promise that in ex...

If George Orwell had released the book 1984 in 2008, would anyone have bought it? Not if the general American reaction to the FISA Amendments Act is any indication. The FISA Amendments Act would have made the totalitarian government of Oceania nod in approval. They knew the value of omnipresent spyi...

Now that the FISA Amendments Act has been passed by both houses of the Democratic-controlled Congress and signed by President George W. Bush into law, a president’s administration can physically search or electronically spy on anyone, inside or outside the United States, doing anything, for pe...

I admit that we have been a little bit down in the mouth, bitter here at Irregular Times lately. How could we not be, what with the passage of the FISA Amendments Act, and Barack Obama jumping on the Homeland Insecurity bandwagon? Sigh. I’m glad that I ran into someone online who could show me...

Welcome back to the office. TGIF! Hey, pal. Have you looked through your files lately? Have you cleaned your hard drive? Any embarrassing e-mails on the server? Just wondering, buddy, because you know, you never know, you know. Anything could happen. Like, hey, was your office searched by government...

Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse took to the floor of the Senate to warn his colleagues about the FISA Amendments Act. He called the FISA Amendments Act “a naked intrusion into ongoing litigation. Where will that stop? Will Congress be able to rove at will through litigation anywhere in t...