The Disturbing Messages In Police Recruiting Videos
by Radley Balko. According to the New Mexico Watchdog Web site, this is a new recruiting video being used by the police department in Hobbs, New Mexico. Note the aspects of policing the video emphasizes: Shooting stuff. K-9 enforcement. Nabbing the bad guys. The SWAT team. This is the first step in the process. There’s also the separate ... MOREBrian Doherty: Environmental Protection Agency Dumps A Million Gallons Of Orange Mine Waste Into A Colorado River
Pollution is fine, as long as government does it. Disturbing news of a real make-work program from the Environmental Protection Agency, reported by Associated Press via Huffington Post: A million-gallon mine waste spill that sent a plume of orange-ish muck down a river in southwest Colorado on Thursday was caused by a federal mine ... MOREWalter E Williams: Academic Fascism
Boogeymen everywhere. George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." If one wants to discover the truth of Orwell's statement, he need only step upon most college campuses. Faculty leaders of the University of California consider certain statements racism and feel they should not be used in ... MORECharles Hugh Smith: I Sure Am Glad There's No Inflation
Don't believe your lyin' eyes. I sure am glad there's no inflation, because these "stable prices" the Federal Reserve keeps jaw-jacking about are putting us in a world of hurt. We are constantly bombarded with two messages about inflation: 1. Inflation is near-zero 2. This worries the Federal Reserve terribly, because stable prices are deflationary ... MORE10 Outrageous Excuses Cops Used To Kill Unarmed People
by Justin Gardner. Informed readers are well aware that US police have the dubious reputation of killing lots of civilians, compared to other countries. The War on Drugs provides much of the basis for this abomination. In four days US police killed as many people as Chinese police did in
2014, and more than five European countries’ ... MORETim Cushing: Getting Behind The Wheel Is Pretty Much Kissing Your 4th Amendment Protections Goodbye
Cars are for criminals. There's been more good news than bad concerning the Fourth Amendment
recently. In addition to the Supreme Court's ruling that searches of
cellphones incident to arrest now require a warrant, various circuit court decisions on cell site location info
and the surreptitious use of GPS tracking devices may see the nation's ... MOREKatie Lapotin: Recovered E-Mails Reveal Lois Lerner's Contempt For Conservative And Tea Party Organizations
She labels them “crazies” and “a–holes”. According to a bipartisan report
released earlier this week by the Senate Finance Committee, emails sent
by Lois Lerner during her time at the Internal Revenue Service show
that she was deeply committed to the Democratic Party and had a strong
dislike for conservative, Tea Party ... MOREG Bentley: Paper Explodes Feminist Myth That Women Are As Horny As Men And Calls For Legalization Of Prostitution
It is what it is. Men’s demand for sex far outstrips that of women and the gap is set to widen with major implications for laws surrounding prostitution, according to a new paper from the Institute of Economic Affairs. One of the key claims in the IEA paper is that there is a major gap between men and women in sexual desire. “Male sexual ... MOREIlya Somin: Rethinking Jury Nullification
The jury's equivalent power to prosecutorial discretion. Jury nullification occurs when jurors choose not to convict a defendant they believe to be guilty of the offense charged, usually because they conclude that the law in question is unjust or the punishment is excessive. When I first thought about jury nullification as a young law student, ... MORENSA Grooming And Recruiting Children To Be Hackers
by William Lawler. Recruitment posters show multiple young people placing their hands on a basketball sized earth as digital streams flow around the planet. The image conveys the distinct impression that these children control the world utilizing technology. This may be a powerful draw for children viewing the poster. Of course it does not hurt ... MOREAnti-Pot Hard-Liner Chris Christie Admits The Drug War Is A 'Failure,' Even Though He More Or Less Wants To Restart It
by Matt Ferner. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said on Monday that the war on
drugs has been a "failure" -- even though he has vowed to enact a
federal crackdown on marijuana, a substance that has been a primary
target of the drug war for decades. "This is a disease and the war on drugs has been a failure -- well-intentioned, but a failure," Christie ... MORERecord 93,770,000 Americans Not In Labor Force
by Caroline May. The number of people not in the labor force reached another record high in July, according to new jobs data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS reports that 93,770,000 people (16 and older) were neither employed last month nor had made specific efforts to find work in the prior four weeks. The number of people ... MORE
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