Loophole Lets Cops Can Search You Without Good Cause

by Simon Davis-Cohen.         A legally murky tactic to scrutinize citizens. Checkpoints occupy a unique position in the American justice system. At these roadside stations, where police question drivers in search of the inebriated or “illegal,” anyone can be stopped and questioned, regardless of probable cause, violating the Fourth    ... MORE

'See Something, Say Something' and Community Policing: Turning Americans into Snitches for the Police State

by John W. Whitehead.    “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.” —Professor   ... MORE

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John Fund: The Injustice Of Eric Holder

A travesty of justice personified.    Even we were shocked when we researched our new book, “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department,” at the extent to which Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has politicized the Justice Department and put the interests of left-wing ideology and his political party ahead of the fair and impartial    ... MORE

E Harrington: Federal Court Rules Against First Amendment

Court says schools can prohibit American flag apparel.     A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling could have wide implications that limit free speech rights in schools, according to the lawyer who defended students who wore the American flag to school. More than four years after students were sent home for wearing American flag t-shirts on   ... MORE

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The Unintended Consequences Of Hiking Minimum Wage

by Allen R. Sanderson.    Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, among other city and state officials across the country, have recently proposed raising the minimum wage well beyond the current state-mandated levels of $9 an hour in California and $8.25 in Illinois. And public opinion polls generally show widespread     ... MORE

Jurors Wield Power To Judge Law; Stop Gov't Overreach

You can fight tyranny.      Jury duty. It’s the setup to innumerable punchlines, a civic chore that some people dread and many try to avoid. But jurors hold a special place in society, serving as a final check and balance on government power. Consider the following scenario: An individual is charged with a victimless crime; a behavior our     ... MORE

John Stossel: Two Anti-Choice Parties

They can agree on control.     Democrats often call themselves "pro-choice." Republicans defend "freedom." Unfortunately, neither party really believes in letting individuals do what we want. When Democrats say they are "pro-choice," they are talking about abortion. Some act as if a right to legal abortion is the most important freedom in America. ... MORE

How Should Our Society Deal With People Who Use Drugs?

by Tony Newman.   The war on drugs is a cruel joke. The U.S. spends more than $50 billion a year on the "war on drugs" with the goal of creating a "drug-free society" -- yet there has never been a "drug-free society" in the history of civilization. Virtually all of us take drugs every single day. Caffeine, sugar, alcohol, marijuana, Prozac, Ritalin,   ... MORE

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A Barton Hinkle: The Civil Asset Forfeiture Racket

It's time to end the practice of policing for profit.   Hey, here’s a great crime-fighting idea: Let’s give local police and prosecutors the authority to seize cash, cars, homes, and other property from private citizens—without a court convicting those citizens of any crime. Without, in fact, even charging those citizens with any crime. Then let   ... MORE

Melony Armstrong: My Struggle For Braiding Freedom

Government's heavy-handed employment barriers.      Public officials at the federal, state and local levels chatter constantly about employment and job creation. Unfortunately, not enough of them seem concerned about the nonsensical barriers they and their predecessors erect that often stand in the way of budding entrepreneurs     ... MORE

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Shale Revolution Deniers Face Inconvenient Truth

by Mark Perry.    Peak what? Despite turning the U.S. into the world's largest producer of natural gas and driving a 3 million barrel per day surge in U.S. oil production in just the last three years, the shale revolution still has its doubters. They couldn't be more wrong. The Montreal-based Centre for Research on Globalization recently dismissed shale   ... MORE

Ron Hart: 2 Suggestions to Fix the NFL

by Nick Gillespie.    Columnist Ron Hart looks at the NFL's problems:  It was only under pressure from its $200-million-a-year sponsor Anheuser-Busch that the NFL attempted to do anything morally righteous. It is a sad day when a booze purveyor has to stake out the moral high ground for you.... Goodell has dictatorially tinkered with some rules;       ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Who Wants War?

Barack Obama's dangerous illusion.     Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most Americans don't want another war. In all my 84 years, I cannot recall a time when most Americans wanted war. That is something we should be proud of. ... MORE

When Drug War Propaganda Counts as State Police Training

by Aaron Malin.         In Missouri, sworn law enforcement officers are required to take 48 credit hours of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) continuing education every three years. While some specific courses are required for all officers, such as mandatory firearms classes, the majority are elective courses that simply must add up     ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - Crushing Dreams With Regulation

Democrats Launch Effort To Get Rush Limbaugh Off The Air

by John Nolte. If you can't beat him, censor him.       During the Bush administration, national Democrat leaders threatened to kill the ABC network's broadcast license if a miniseries unfavorable to the Clinton administration wasn't censored to satisfy Democrats. ABC complied. Earlier this year, Democrats started a push for a Constitutional   ... MORE

How Marijuana Tax Revenue Could Top $3 Billion A Year

by Matt Ferner.   Money may not grow on trees, but it apparently does grow on marijuana plants. If all 50 states legalized cannabis today, they'd be collectively raking in more than $3 billion a year in taxes. That's according to NerdWallet, a personal finance site, which forecasts a total $3.1 billion annual windfall for state governments that legalize   ... MORE

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Michael Booth: Crony Capitalism & Progressive Desparation

What happens when you run out of the people's money?   If you hang out at the intersection of Politics Avenue and Economics Boulevard, as I frequently do, you've noticed the ugly fusion of welfare state government and major corporations we have come to call "crony capitalism."  It was a mystery to me why progressives, who      ... MORE

Rethinking ‘No-Knock’ Tactics In Wake Of Cop’s Death

by Jared Keever.   The downside of breaking in through a window. The recent announcement that a Texas district attorney will seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting a police officer raiding his home has sparked debate among many as to whether so-called no-knock search warrants, conducted by local SWAT teams, are safe or   ... MORE

No Nukes, No Fracking, No GMOs, And No Capitalism

by Ronald Bailey.   No brains on display at the People's Climate March. The People's Climate March ambled genially down 6th Avenue in New York City Sunday afternoon. The March's slogan was "To Change Everything, We Need Everyone." Not everyone showed up, but the March did attract between 300,000 and 400,000 participants, making it by far the  ... MORE

How A Government Crime-Fighting Tool Was Made Evil

by John Yoder and Brad Cates.       John Yoder was director of the Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture Office from 1983 to 1985. Brad Cates was the director of the office from 1985 to 1989.  Last week, The Post published a series of in-depth articles about the abuses spawned by the law enforcement practice known as civil asset forfeiture.    ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Conflict Of Interest Illusion

Right of Self Defense in Texas Completely Depends on Race

By all means if you're white.    In the first stage of what is known as general adaptation syndrome, a recognized natural response among all vertebrates and many other organisms is hyperarousal or acute stress response. In its more recognizable name, the “fight or flight” response is a natural physiological reaction to a perceived harmful event,    ... MORE

Wall Street Journal: Climate Science Is Not Settled

by Steven E. Koonin.    But government proceeds as though it is. The idea that "Climate science is settled" runs through today's popular and policy discussions. Unfortunately, that claim is misguided. It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse-gas emissions and the environment. But it also has  ... MORE

VIDEO: The Eye-Popping Cost Of Federal Regulations

Walter E Williams: Do Statistical Disparities Mean Injustice?

The truth behind the numbers.      How many times have we heard laments such as "women are 50 percent of the population but only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs" and, as the Justice Department recently found, "blacks are 54 percent of the population in Newark, New Jersey, but 85 percent of pedestrian stops and 79 percent of arrests"?  ... MORE

The War On Poverty: 50 Years Of Failure

by Robert Rector.   This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s launch of the War on Poverty. In January 1964, Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty in America.” Since then, the taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Johnson’s war. Adjusted for inflation, that’s three times the cost of all military wars since the     ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: An Unbearable And Choking Hell

The loss of our freedoms in the wake of 9/11.     Ironically, just a short week after the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we find ourselves commemorating the 227th anniversary of the ratification of our Constitution. Yet while there is much to mourn about the loss of our freedoms in the years since 9/11, there has been little to      ... MORE

Even Creators Want Asset-Forfeiture Racket Shut Down

by Daniel J. Mitchell.      Shady law enforcement incentives. If you ask me about the most wasteful department in the federal government, I’ll state that there are lots of good choices, but if forced to identify the best candidate for elimination, I’ll go with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. If you ask me about the entitlement       ... MORE

VIDEO: Journalism In The Surveillance State

Minimum Skills Translate To A Minimum Wage

by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz.  Whenever I read an article about fast-food workers demanding $15 an hour I have to double check and make sure I am not getting my news from the Onion or some other satirical website. You’ve seen the headlines as of late. A group of low-skilled, usually low-educated, workers are demanding $15 an hour just   ... MORE

Wash D.C. Voters Strongly Support Marijuana Legalization

by Matt Ferner.      Washington, D.C., voters appear to be ready to legalize marijuana, according to a new poll that puts support at 65 percent.  The NBC4/Washington Post/Marist poll's finding that district voters support legalization by almost a 2-1 margin “is the highest support ever for a marijuana legalization ballot initiative,” Adam       ... MORE

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DEA Shoots Grandmother During Fruitless Drug Raid

by Ed Krayewski.   Lilian Alonzo, a 49-year-old grandmother, was shot while trying to pick up an infant grandchild during a by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Manchester, New Hampshire, according to her son. Police in raids elsewhere arrested two of Alonzo's daughters in an oxycodone ring but neither of them lived with   ... MORE

New Police State Tools Detects Texting While Driving

by Jonathan O'Callaghan.      A new revenue-producer for local for politicians. Texting while driving can be incredibly dangerous and in most countries it is completely outlawed. That doesn’t stop some thoughtless motorists from trying to compose a message while flying along a motorway, though, increasing the chance of a fatal accident.    ... MORE