by Patrick Holland. Since his entrance into the crowded field for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump’s campaign has caught fire. He is polling above 20 percent, nearly double the support of his closest rival, Ben Carson, and energizing conservatives who believe his brash personality and business experience could transform ... MORE
Mark Meckler: The Overarmed And Dangerous Police State
More guns than brains makes for a bad combo. Imagine waking up at 5:30 a.m. in your third-floor apartment to a SWAT team raiding your family with guns drawn. You’re barely clothed, but you immediately grab your seven-year-old and 18-month-old daughters. You begin praying, hoping that everything will be okay and you will all survive. ... MORE
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SWAT,
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warrantless search
Thomas Sowell: A Revealing Clue
Jeb is a weakling. Even those of us who are not supporters of either Donald Trump or Jeb Bush can learn something by comparing how each of these men handled people who tried to disrupt their question-and-answer period after a speech. After Bush's speech, hecklers from a group called "Black Lives Matter" caused Bush to simply leave the scene. ... MORE
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Jeb Bush,
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politics,
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race,
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Robert Gore: The Best Novel Nobody Has Read
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the most well-known American novel that nobody reads. Histories of the Civil War invariably mention its role in stoking abolitionist sentiment, and President Lincoln greeted Stowe as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” The book’s characters have become part of ... MORE
Elizabeth Nolan Brown: Uncle Sam As Uber Pimp
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Europe's Gun Laws Disarm Victims, Not Terrorists
by J. D. Tucille. When wannabe-terrorist Ayoub El Khazzani was wrestled to the floor of a
train in France and given a righteous stomping by pissed off and
proactive passengers, they relieved him of a small armory. He had been
planning to inflict murder and mayhem with an AKM assault rifle, a
semiautomatic pistol, a box cutter, and a container of ... MORE
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gun rights,
incentives,
law,
political correctness,
terrorism,
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Walter E Williams: Why Home Schooling?
Imparting values along with knowledge. Many public primary and secondary schools are dangerous places. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2012, there were about 749,200 violent assaults on students. In the 2011-12 academic ... MORE
Martin Kaste: Police State America - Why Utah Is The Only State Trying To Track And Limit SWAT-Style Raiding Tactics
It's about fighting the drug war 80 percent of the time. The phrase police militarization conjures up an image of cops wrapped in Kevlar, barging into homes with semi-automatic weapons. But familiar as that image is, we don't know how common it is. There are simply no good statistics on police tactical operations in America. The federal ... MORE
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government,
no-knock,
police,
police state,
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SWAT,
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Jacob Sullum: A British Lesson On Vaping For The CDC
But do option-reducing regulators care? Public Health England (PHE), a government agency, recently published a detailed report on
electronic cigarettes that describes them as far less dangerous than
the conventional kind and recommends them as a harm-reducing
alternative. "Encouraging smokers who cannot or do not want to stop
smoking ... MORE
Steve Chapman: Outlawing Prostitution Is A Crime
Laws put sex workers in unnecessary danger. Banning things you don't like has a long history, though not a happy one. Americans have tried banning alcohol, marijuana, pornography and homosexuality. All of them persisted anyway. So we learned to not only tolerate but allow them. Nowadays, you can have a glass of Scotch in a gay bar while ... MORE
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sex workers,
vice,
victimless crimes,
voluntary exchange
Baltimore Attorneys Reviewing 2,000 Cases Where Police Secretly Used Phone Tracking Devices On Petty Criminals
by Wils Robinson. Lawyers in Baltimore are challenging almost 2,000 criminal cases where police secretly used cell phone tracking devices. Defense attorneys will reportedly ask the judge to 'throw out' a number of the cases where cops tracked down a suspect with stingray and reopen a 'large number' of others. It is a device that acts as a cellphone ... MORE
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police state,
snooping,
spying,
surveillance,
tactics,
tracking,
warrantless search
Man Jailed Over $5 Theft For Months Without Bail Dies
by Jon Swaine. Jailer says 24-year-old died of natural causes. A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth, Virginia, has been found dead in jail after spending almost four months behind bars without bail for stealing groceries worth $5. Jamycheal Mitchell, who had mental health problems, was discovered lying on the floor of his cell by guards ... MORE
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authority,
government,
incarceration,
justice,
law enforcement,
mental health,
theft
Orwellian Justice Upholds NSA Spying on Americans: Court of Appeals Upholds Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
by Stephen Lendman. Virtually unrestricted NSA data mining tramples on Fourth Amendment rights brazenly. In December 2013, Federal District Court of the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled NSA spying unconstitutional, saying: The threshold issue is whether plaintiffs have a reasonable expectation of privacy that is violated when the ... MORE
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