Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
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 ... MOREThe Police Violence We Aren’t Talking About
by Zoe Carpenter. Using authority to coerce sexual favors. Police officer Daniel Holtzclaw worked the evening shift, from four in the afternoon until two in the morning, patrolling the northeastern part of Oklahoma City. Between February and June he allegedly sexually assaulted at least seven women while on duty, including a ... MORENo Charges For Cop Who Killed While Driving Distracted
by Snejana Farberov. Badges give special privilege. California prosecutors have declined to file charges against a sheriff's deputy who struck and killed a prominent entertainment attorney and former Napster executive with his patrol car last year. Deputy Andrew Wood was apparently distracted by his mobile digital computer when ... MORE
A Strategy To Preserve Liberty: Serve On A Jury
by Dave Benner. I have often heard friends and acquaintances complain when they are called to jury duty. It is easy to understand the common gripes made in response to this mandate. As a result of the obligation, people are often displaced from their jobs and other pursuits, often for long hours and for little compensation. What if a jury ... MOREStudy: You Have 'Near-Zero' Impact on U.S. Policy
by Winton Hall. A startling new political science study concludes that corporate interests and mega wealthy individuals control U.S. policy to such a degree that "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." The startling study, titled "Testing Theories ... MOREPublic Servants Acting As Public Masters
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds. "Nothing could be further from the truth. I mean, we wouldn't do that." That was CIA Director John Brennan's answer
in March when Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., charged the CIA with
breaking into computers used by Senate investigators looking into CIA
misconduct. It turns out that the CIA would do that — ... MOREFree Market Capitalism vs. Crony Capitalism
by Richard Ebeling. In the minds of many people around the world, including in the United States, the term “capitalism” carries the idea of unfairness, exploitation, undeserved privilege and power, and immoral profit making. What is often difficult to get people to understand is that this misplaced conception of “capitalism” has nothing to ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Lawsuits And Impeachment
Foredoomed symbolic actions are overrated. Whenever Democrats are in real trouble politically, the Republicans seem to come up with something new that distracts the public's attention from the Democrats' problems. Who says Republicans are not compassionate? With public opinion polls showing President Obama's sinking approval ... MORECal Thomas: America's DNA: 'The Federalist Papers'
Reclaiming the promise of America. There are many ways to lose freedom -- conquering armies, surrendering without a fight. Unfortunately, we are currently surrendering our freedom, not to a foreign power, but to our own government. The growth, reach, and cost of big government is happening before our eyes and eroding ... MOREWhat Americans Need to Know About the History of Spying
Spying has always been used to crush dissent. Americans are told that we live in a “post-9/11 reality” that requires mass surveillance. But the NSA was already conducting mass surveillance prior to 9/11 … including surveillance on the 9/11 hijackers. And top security experts – including the highest-level government officials and the ... MOREThomas Sowell: A Lame Duck Country?
Constitutional contempt for all to see. Pundits are pointing to President Barack Obama's recent decline in public opinion polls, and saying that he may now become another "lame duck" president, unable to accomplish much during his final term in office. That has happened to other presidents. But it is extremely unlikely to happen to this ... MOREJeffrey Tucker: The War Is On You
Why governments needs an enemy. After 25 years of war on Iraq, the U.S. has what to show for it? A
handful of dust. And at what cost in lives and property? It boggles the
mind to consider the breadth and depth of the suffering. Iraq was the great experiment following the Cold War for how the U.S.
military machine could be used to make ... MOREOur Police Departments Are Quietly Preparing For War
by Tyler Durdan. What if the government is not us? At first blush, the title of this post could be perceived as somewhat
hyperbolic by those who still have an impression of America’s police
departments as bastions of safety, designed “to protect and to serve” the population of the “land of the free.” However, said impression would be promptly ... MOREWindsor Mann: We Should Ignore Michelle Obama
Why listen to an unelected busybody? Last month, Michelle Obama took an "unusual" step, The
Washington Post reported,
"by delivering White House remarks taking issue with makers of
frozen pizza and french fries." I'll say. One scours in vain the
speeches of Martha Washington and Eleanor Roosevelt for
proclamations about ... MORE
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