Imparting values along with knowledge. Many public primary and secondary schools are dangerous places. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2012, there were about 749,200 violent assaults on students. In the 2011-12 academic ... MOREWalter E Williams: Why Home Schooling?
Imparting values along with knowledge. Many public primary and secondary schools are dangerous places. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2012, there were about 749,200 violent assaults on students. In the 2011-12 academic ... MOREMartin Kaste: Police State America - Why Utah Is The Only State Trying To Track And Limit SWAT-Style Raiding Tactics
It's about fighting the drug war 80 percent of the time. The phrase police militarization conjures up an image of cops wrapped in Kevlar, barging into homes with semi-automatic weapons. But familiar as that image is, we don't know how common it is. There are simply no good statistics on police tactical operations in America. The federal ... MOREJacob Sullum: A British Lesson On Vaping For The CDC
But do option-reducing regulators care? Public Health England (PHE), a government agency, recently published a detailed report on
electronic cigarettes that describes them as far less dangerous than
the conventional kind and recommends them as a harm-reducing
alternative. "Encouraging smokers who cannot or do not want to stop
smoking ... MORESteve Chapman: Outlawing Prostitution Is A Crime
Laws put sex workers in unnecessary danger. Banning things you don't like has a long history, though not a happy one. Americans have tried banning alcohol, marijuana, pornography and homosexuality. All of them persisted anyway. So we learned to not only tolerate but allow them. Nowadays, you can have a glass of Scotch in a gay bar while ... MORE
Baltimore Attorneys Reviewing 2,000 Cases Where Police Secretly Used Phone Tracking Devices On Petty Criminals
by Wils Robinson. Lawyers in Baltimore are challenging almost 2,000 criminal cases where police secretly used cell phone tracking devices. Defense attorneys will reportedly ask the judge to 'throw out' a number of the cases where cops tracked down a suspect with stingray and reopen a 'large number' of others. It is a device that acts as a cellphone ... MOREMan Jailed Over $5 Theft For Months Without Bail Dies
by Jon Swaine. Jailer says 24-year-old died of natural causes. A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth, Virginia, has been found dead in jail after spending almost four months behind bars without bail for stealing groceries worth $5. Jamycheal Mitchell, who had mental health problems, was discovered lying on the floor of his cell by guards ... MORE
Orwellian Justice Upholds NSA Spying on Americans: Court of Appeals Upholds Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
by Stephen Lendman. Virtually unrestricted NSA data mining tramples on Fourth Amendment rights brazenly. In December 2013, Federal District Court of the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled NSA spying unconstitutional, saying: The threshold issue is whether plaintiffs have a reasonable expectation of privacy that is violated when the ... MORESWAT Raids, 'No-Knocks' On Rise In Frequency And Profile
By Brad Petrishen. Exploiting the legal monopoly on violence. A 7-year-old girl shot in the head and killed while sleeping in her Detroit home. A 1-year-old boy permanently disfigured in Georgia by a flashbang grenade that landed in his crib. Closer to home, a 68-year-old grandfather of 12 shot and killed inside his house in Framingham while ... MOREJudge Blocks Federal Power Grab Over State Waters
by Stephen Dinan. “Inexplicable, arbitrary and devoid of a reasoned process” President Obama’s push to extend the EPA’s
regulatory hand to ditches and small streams to enforce clean water
rules was blocked Thursday by a federal judge, who said the
administration had overstepped its bounds in trying yet another end run
around Congress. Judge ... MOREThe Next Front In The War On Religious Freedom
by David Harsanyi. Stop bellyaching about Washington. All the country's best fascists are on your local city council. Not long ago, Colorado became a leader in the fight against religious freedom, when its Civil Rights Commission, self-appointed ministers of justice and theology, decided that a shopkeeper who refuses to participate in a gay ... MOREFBI Investiges Whether Hillary Breached The Espionage Act
by Catherine Herridge & Pamela Brown. The latest spy-thriller-worthy plot point in the ongoing real-life drama
over Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of a privately run email account
comes via Fox News, which reports, via an anonymous source, that: An FBI "A-team" is leading the "extremely serious" investigation into
Hillary Clinton's server and ... MOREBoston Gun Buyback Program Nets One Firearm This Year
by Matt Vespa. According to the Associated Press, over 400 firearms were turned over during Boston's Your Piece for Peace gun buyback program last year. Recipients received a $200 Visa gift card for their participation. Boston Police say this initiative never ended, but the number of guns turned in has dropped due to lack of publicity. As non- ... MOREJudge Tells IRS It Can’t Hide White House Emails
by Mark Tapscott. White House emails to the IRS about individual tax returns cannot be
exempted by the embattled agency under the Freedom of Information Act, a
federal judge ruled Friday. United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that
Section 6103 of the tax code does not justify the IRS from ... MORE
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