Politicians wanted the land. An elderly homeless man watched in tears as the home he'd built in the woods six years before was torn down by police. Sam's eyes filled up as he silently watched the sturdy, wooden structure bulldozed along with his carefully tended garden trimmed with a white picket fence. Until last month, Sam lived in a woodland ... MOREElderly Man Watches New Jersey Cops Tear Down His Home
Politicians wanted the land. An elderly homeless man watched in tears as the home he'd built in the woods six years before was torn down by police. Sam's eyes filled up as he silently watched the sturdy, wooden structure bulldozed along with his carefully tended garden trimmed with a white picket fence. Until last month, Sam lived in a woodland ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Spying, Lying And Torture
The manifestation of lawlessness and incompetence. In some respects, the recent admission by CIA Director John Brennan that his agents and his lawyers have been spying on the senators whose job it is to monitor the agency should come as no surprise. The agency's job is to steal and keep secrets, and implicit in those tasks, Brennan ... MORECountry Moves Toward GOP On Every Significant Issue
New AP poll reveals verdict on hope and change. Although you wouldn’t know it from the lack of media coverage, or even the AP's own write-up of the poll (which gives new meaning to the phrase "buried lead"), a new Associated Press-GfK poll offers nothing but harrowing news for Democrats and the media who love them. Buried in the "pox ... MOREEx-Policeman Balks At "Indiscriminate Revenue Gathering"
Tells how to beat the rap on speeding tickets. My name is Stan. I am a retired Sergeant of the Police force for 14 years. I was also a police prosecutor at times, so I know what I am talking about. I spent half my life in Magistrates Court during my time in the Force. I was only ever a very fair copper, and I am proud of my time in the job, ... MOREThe Profit Motive Behind The NSA's Big Brother Spying
by Richard Byrne Reilly. The biggest scandal to ever roil the National Security Agency,
compliments of Edward Snowden, happened on his watch, but that hasn’t
stopped retired General Keith Alexander from demanding a seven-figure
technical consulting fee now that he’s a civilian. Alexander retired from the agency last year, and his ... MORE
Jonah Goldberg: Liberals Come Late To The Pot Party
40 years behind Friedman, Sowell and Buckley. With the usual fanfare and self-regard we have come to expect from the New York Times editorial board, the prestigious paper has changed its mind about pot. It now believes that the federal ban on the substance should be lifted and that the whole issue should be sent back to the ... MOREMeet A Town That's Had Enough Of Militarized Policing
by J.D. Tuccille. Barry Township, Michigan, with
a population of about 4,000, has four full-time
police officers, four part-time officers, two Humvees, two
armored personnel carriers (free, courtesy of the
Defense Department's 1033 program)—and, until recently, about
three dozen unpaid but armed and empowered reserve police officers ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: It's Time for Cops to Stop Shooting Dogs
Their dog good, your dog bad. The sheriff’s department in Prince Edward Co., Virginia, isn’t returning phone calls about Party. No great surprise. A deputy shot the dog in late June, killing it. The department issued a CYA press release, then dummied up—perhaps in the hope the whole thing would blow over. No wonder: According to a news ... MORE2/3 Of US population Lives In “Constitution-free” Zone
by John Stokes. "Your papers, please." In 2003, the Seattle Times reported on random "spot checks" of cars and luggage that border patrol agents were performing on US citizens who were taking the ferry between Washington State and the San Juan islands. Because most of the passengers on these ferries had not actually crossed an ... MORE
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 ... MORE
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