Anything for a drug bust. An Ohio police department have come under fire for setting up fake checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs. Police in the city of Cleveland recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that warned drivers that there was a drug checkpoint ahead, to be ... MORE LEARN ABOUT JURY NULLIFICATIONPolice State: Ohio Cops Not Above Perpetrating Fraud
Anything for a drug bust. An Ohio police department have come under fire for setting up fake checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs. Police in the city of Cleveland recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that warned drivers that there was a drug checkpoint ahead, to be ... MORE LEARN ABOUT JURY NULLIFICATIONMany Gov't Agencies Track Your Credit Card Transactions
by Michael Snyder. Were you under the impression that your credit card transactions are private? If so, I am sorry to burst your bubble. As you will see below, there are actually multiple government agencies that are gathering and storing records of your credit card transactions. And in turn, those government agencies share that information with ... MORELet's Divorce Marriage From The Government
by Steve Chapman. As a kid, I remember watching a rerun of the 1952 I Love Lucy Show episode in which Lucy finds her marriage license while cleaning out a closet. She discovers, to her horror, a typo that refers to husband Ricky’s last name as Bacardi rather than Ricardo, which causes her to question the legality of her marriage. The ensuing hijinks ... MOREJuan 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 ... MOREFederal Regs Cut Standard of Living by 75% In 56 Years
The high cost of red tape. The 20th annual snapshot of the federal regulatory state published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) last month announced the arrival of an unhappy milestone: Regulatory costs now equal more than half of all federal spending. Put another way, the real cost of government in the United States is half-again as ... MOREMark Steyn: So Long, Self-Government
Might as well put the Constitution out of its misery. June 26, 2013 — just another day in a constitutional republic of limited government by citizen representatives: First thing in the morning, Gregory Roseman, Deputy Director of Acquisitions (whatever that means), became the second IRS official to take the Fifth Amendment, after he was ... MORERonald Bailey: Obama's Five-Year Climate Plan
Central planning as a global warming solution. The central planners in communist governments were notorious for issuing massively detailed top-down five-year plans to manage every facet of their economies. The accumulating inefficiency and waste produced by this sort of rigid planning led eventually to the demise of those ... MOREMarijuana's March Toward Mainstream Confounds Feds
Many dynamics in play. It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of ‘‘Reefer Madness’’ to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of ‘‘Just Say No.’’ The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously ‘‘didn’t inhale,’’ to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did. And now, in just a ... MOREJoseph Lawler: The Money Printers To Work Overtime
Federal Reserve to keep adding stimulus. Three more Federal Reserve officials reaffirmed Friday that the central bank does not want to take away monetary stimulus too soon, counter to the impressions left by Chairman Ben Bernanke’s press conference last week. The Fed “is not only leaving the punch bowl in place, we’re continuing to spike the ... MOREMax Frankel: Where Did Our 'Inalienable Rights' Go?
from the New York Times. NOW that we sense the magnitude of our government’s effort to track Americans’ telephone and Internet transactions, the issue finally and fully before us is not how we balance personal privacy with police efficiency. We have long since surrendered a record of our curiosities and fantasies to Google. We have ... MORETibor R. Machan: How To Secure A Free Country
We need protection from unlimited government. NSA’s excuse for snooping on innocent citizens — namely, that it can prevent serious harm to us, might even save lives — is spurious. If you incarcerated us all, that, too, might do all that. Free men and women are, of course, capable of violence, even murder, but unless it is ... MOREMatt Rousu: Time For Feds To Legalize Internet Gambling
A nanny state is no friend of liberty. While Americans love to wager money, our country has an interesting relationship with legalized gambling. Though it’s legal in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, many Indian Reservations, and other places in the US, it is illegal elsewhere. Further, the legality of online gambling sites has also been questioned. ... MORE
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