Andrew Napolitano: An Unhappy Summer For Liberty
Government more effective against liberty than terror. At the root of the chaos in the Middle East and here at home are governments that respect no limits on their exercise of power. Public officials — who are supposed to be our public servants — routinely behave as if they are our masters. They reject the confines of the ... MORE
Jerry Davich: Do Sobriety Checks Trample On Our Rights?
“Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.” — Ben Franklin. Are police-conducted sobriety checkpoints a necessary law enforcement tool to remove drunken drivers from our roads? Or are they an unreasonable search of our property and an unconstitutional invasion of our rights and privacy? Hammond Police Department Lt. ... MOREUtilize Jury Nullification To Make America Free Again
by Ed Forchion. By design of the founders of America, U.S. citizens are the final arbiters of our nation’s laws via our jury system. I don’t think the founding fathers could have envisioned “America the free” becoming “America the prison country.” I was jailed for saying that in 2002 – we have political prisoners in America too. The incarceration rate in ... MOREDirty Money: How Asset Forfeiture Enriches The State
by Ciera Crawford. It's like an unforgettable scene from the television crime drama, Miami Vice — Detectives Rico Tubbs and Sonny Crockett pursue some of the biggest drug dealers and smugglers from around the world. Except it's not the 1980s. Criminals are now more sophisticated with their crime rings, and it takes more than one unit to bring ... MOREMatt Agorist: If Cops Come To Your Door Without a Warrant
Shut them down like this guy! If police come to your door and you don’t need their help, you can simply decline to answer. They cannot come into your home without a search warrant. Even if the police have probable cause, they cannot come in your home without a search warrant. You might even be a suspect in a criminal investigation. In such ... MORERand Paul Would Seek "To Destroy ISIS Militarily"
by Jacob Sullum. On Friday, as Robby Soave noted this afternoon, Rand Paul told the Associated Press that if he were president, he "would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily." But at a Q&A session in Dallas earlier that same day, the Kentucky senator ... MORE
An Act To Reduce Opportunity For The Most Vulnerable
by Thomas Sherrer. Minimum wage kicks low-skill workers to the curb. Wildfires aren’t the only things spreading rapidly in this California drought; the desire to increase minimum wages along the West Coast apparently burns equally as hot. California’s minimum wage recently increased to $9 an hour giving Golden State workers the fourth ... MOREJohn Stossel: Green Markets
How to avoid the tragedy of the commons. Last week I said the Environmental Protection Agency has become a monster that does more harm than good. But logical people say, "What else we got?" It's natural to assume greedy capitalists will run amok and destroy the Earth unless stopped by regulation. These critics don't understand ... MOREHow Jury Nullification Would Work In Anti- SAFE Act Case
by Frank Parlato. At last opponents of the NY SAFE Act have a case that they can use to overcome the vicious, draconian, unconstitutional NYS SAFE Act, the monster child of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Brenden Morgan, 22, of Medina, NY, was charged by State Police with criminal possession of a weapon in the 4th degree, a Class A misdemeanor. Morgan ... MOREKatherine Mangu-Ward: Guy Who Tried To Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand Gets Taste Of Own Medicine. And It Sucks
Smothered by regulation. Remember Doug Wilkey, the grumpy Floridian who
tried to get a lemonade stand that was operating next door to his
house shut down by local authorites? Whelp, looks like he's
getting
a taste of his own medicine. A tipster contacted the city and pointed officials toward records that show Wilkey, as recently as March, ... MORENew Hampshire: A Hotbed for Liberty
by Shem Kellogg. The United States was once a constitutional republic, and today New Hampshire is on the forefront in the battle to return the U.S. to its original principles of state sovereignty, limited federal government and individual liberty. The year Thomas Jefferson was elected President, eleven out of sixteen states didn’t have ... MORECops Barge Into Woman's Home Because Grass Is Too Long
Your public servants at work -- see video. Police officers barged into a woman’s home because they wanted to arrest the owner because of the length of the front lawn. A tenant answered the door and recorded the rude, obscenity-spewing cops making demands and entering her home, despite the fact that she wasn’t even the person listed ... MOREU.S. Army Drills To Battle Domestic Political Dissent
by Eric Blair. Government prepares for citizen confrontation. As we've witnessed recently in Ferguson, Missouri, the difference between police and military is already nearly indistinguishable. In other words, the Army is already taking on peaceful citizens in domestic cities. Tank-supported SWAT teams already grenade and raid homes to serve warrants ... MORERyan Gallagher: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
The surveillance search engine. The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The ... MORE
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