An attempt to thwart legalized theft by police. Nelly Moreira was not there the night D.C. police seized her car. But every day for seven months she felt the loss as she commuted by bus to two jobs, all the while making payments on a 2005 Honda Accord she wasn’t sure she’d ever see again. Officers took the vehicle in March 2012, after pulling ... MORE
Just how old is Thomas Sowell? I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 31 percent of blacks think that most blacks are racists, ... MORE
How do we reign in a runaway government? Fidelity to the rule of law is the centerpiece of a free society. It means that no one is beneath the protection of the law and no one is absolved of the obligation to comply with it. The government may not make a person or a class of persons exempt from constitutional protections, as it ... MORE
The economic case for a living wage is unfounded. Once again politicians and pundits are calling for increases in the legal minimum wage. Their reasons are familiar. Market wages are supposedly immoral. People need to earn a "living wage." If the minimum wage went up at least to $7, or better still to near $10 an hour, millions would be ... MORE
The vision of government minding the sheeple. At the heart of the left's vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves. That arbitrary and unsubstantiated assumption underlies a wide spectrum of laws ... MORE
Emotion should not obscure the evidence. On a rainy night in February 2012 at a gated townhouse complex
in Sanford, Florida, George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin stared at
each other, and both perceived a threat. What followed is the focus
of a
murder trial that hinges on specific facts rather than the
overarching, frequently ... MORE
And why the war on drugs is a war on you. On Wednesday, the city of Berkeley filed a claim against
the federal government’s move to file asset forfeiture against the
landlord of Berkeley’s largest medical marijuana dispensary. The tactic,
which threatens landlords with the state’s ability to seize their
property, has been used many times ... MORE
from Bret Baier's blog. "In a Nutshell... A lot of my dear American friends sill ask me what on earth really happened in egypt, for their benefit, and anyone else on earth genuinely trying to make heads or tails of us "crazy Egyptians" ; here's exactly what happened in egypt over the past 12 months, but expressed in 'American" terms... ... MORE
Surf in a "Cocoon." Powerful privacy tools you can use to curtail how big tech companies — and sometimes the federal government — track your every step on the Internet have been available for years. Thanks to whistle-blower Edward Snowden these privacy tools have emerged from the fringes of the Internet into the limelight. "It's not just the ... MORE