John Stossel: Patrolmen Without Borders
America is no longer a free country. If I drive across a U.S. border, I expect to stop at a Border Patrol checkpoint. But imagine driving to the grocery store, or Mom's house, well inside America, and being stopped by the Border Patrol. Many Americans don't have to imagine it — it's how they live. Even as the federal government fails to control ... MOREJacob Sullum: Why Prosecutors Love Mandatory Minimums
Prosecutorial power hinders justice process. In 1996, when he was the U.S. attorney for the District of
Columbia, Eric Holder urged the D.C.
Council to reinstate mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent
drug offenses, which it had abolished in
1994. Two decades later, as an attorney general who has repeatedly
criticized "draconian" ... MOREFed Watchdogs Stonewalled By Obama Administration
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The truth must not be their friend. Independent watchdogs from federal agencies decried on Tuesday what they said were Obama administration efforts to delay or stall their investigations. A letter to Congress from dozens of inspectors general cites specific instances in which watchdogs for the Justice Department, Environmental ... MORE
Jeffrey Folks: Regulating The Roads, And Everything Else
Devastating regulation. Aside from liberals in Washington and some at the New York Times, most economists agree that increased regulation strangles economic growth. Exactly how this works can be demonstrated by a simple experiment. In a group of 25 individuals, assign one the task of arranging the remaining 24 persons in order of height by ... MOREAll Of Us Are Criminals In The Eyes Of The Police State
by John W. Whitehead. Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room? Consider what happened to Nicole Gainey, ... MOREWASH TIMES EDITORIAL: The Tax Man's Politics
Taxpayers pay for lobbying to make the agency bigger. The Internal Revenue Service continues to keep Congress, or least the House half of it, busy with investigations into the harassment of the Tea Party and how email evidence of IRS abuse mysteriously disappears. The dogs are eating a lot of the homework at the IRS. The emails that can ... MORELet The Free Market Kill The Combustible Cigarette
by Michael R. Hufford & Gilbert Ross. Today approximately 14,000 people will die of tobacco-related diseases around the world. The same will happen tomorrow and day after that, leaving nearly 6 million dead in the coming year alone — more than 5 million from direct tobacco use. That does not include the lives lost from secondhand ... MORE
Nanny-State Mindset Leads To Police Brutality
by Scott Rasmussen. Liberty is slowly being made illegal. In Florida recently, police pulled up to a young boy playing in the park and asked where his mother lived. According to a report on WPTV, the mom was then arrested for "allowing her son to go to the park alone." Her son had a cellphone, and she would check in with him along the way. ... MORESteve Chapman: The Courts Advance Concealed Guns
Concealed carry is the overwhelming norm. Gun-control advocates are learning the downside of getting their way. Recently, a federal judge struck down the District of Columbia's ban on the carrying of concealed handguns. Anti-gun forces have been losing in legislatures for a long time. Now they are finding that even where they win, ... MORENBC: Man Shot, Paralyzed Over Unpaid Parking Tickets
Police state 2014 update. A man was shot Thursday morning in Lehigh County when a Pennsylvania State Constable tried to serve him with a warrant over unpaid parking tickets. The constable told the district attorney he felt his life was in danger as he tried to serve 38-year-old Kevin McCullers. McCullers, who had 31 outstanding parking ... MOREThe SWAT Team Would Like to See Your Alcohol Permit
Public 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 — ... MORE
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