Judge orders release of US Marine detained for Facebook posts | RT

Arrested Development: The Criminalization of America’s Schoolchildren | The Rutherford Institute

For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation’s history, where individual freedoms, privacy and human dignity have been sacrificed to the gods of security, expediency and corpocracy, look no farther than America’s public schools.

2011: A Civil Liberties Year in Review | The Huffington Post

It was not a very good year, says John W. Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute.

Renewing the Patriot Act While America Sleeps | The Rutherford Institute

America cannot legitimately call itself the "land of the free" while the nightmarish USA Patriot Act is still on the books says John W. Whitehead.

Will misguided patriotism destroy free speech? | The Rutherford Institute

John Whitehead channels Samuel Johnson in saying the scoundrels in D.C. are hiding behind the flag-draped coffins of American soldiers in an attempt to subvert the First Amendment.