Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts

Radley Balko: This Week In Innocence

Bad cop costs men 17 years in prison.      Two Washington state men will get $10.5 million after spending 17 years in prison for a rape they didn't commit. It's easy to dismiss these exoneration stories as the product of an imperfect system that sometimes makes mistakes. But read past the headline, and you'll see that they're often less the      ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: A Not-So-Happy Fourth Of July

How can we celebrate the degradation of liberty?      Do you have more personal liberty today than on the Fourth of July 2012? When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he used language that has become iconic. He wrote that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among them are    ... MORE

Juan Cole: Ten American Steps Toward A Police State

How politicians are making your world into a prison.    The police state, a term first coined in the mid-19th century in German (Polizeistaat), is characterized by a standing political police, by intense domestic surveillance and by restrictions on the movements of citizens. Police states are on a spectrum, and unfortunately in the past   ... MORE

Rand Paul: Big Brother Says, 'Open Your Mouth!'

Overreaching government wants your DNA.  The Bill of Rights is and should be popular. It is something most Americans overwhelmingly support. Conservatives love the Second Amendment and honest progressives defend the First Amendment. But it is sometimes harder for the public to embrace and champion the due process of the    ... MORE

Half The Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong

by Ronald Bailey.     Dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Increased K-12 spending and lower pupil/teacher ratios boost public school student outcomes. Most of the DNA in the human genome is junk. Saccharin causes cancer and a high fiber diet prevents it. Stars cannot be bigger than 150 solar masses. In the past half-century, all of the foregoing facts     ... MORE

NY Times Editorial: California And The Fourth Amendment

State takes to seizing DNA without a warrant.  On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is scheduled to reconsider whether California violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against searches and seizures by requiring police to take DNA samples from people arrested but not yet convicted of felonies.  ... MORE