When a jury finds punishment is unjust. Jury nullification is a weapon that most American citizens don’t know they have. During a jury trial, a jury can find the defendant guilty, not guilty, or they can nullify the entire trial if they think the punishment is unfair. This is exactly what happened recently in New Hampshire, where a Rastafarian man ... MOREJury Nullification Works In New Hampshire Marijuana Case
When a jury finds punishment is unjust. Jury nullification is a weapon that most American citizens don’t know they have. During a jury trial, a jury can find the defendant guilty, not guilty, or they can nullify the entire trial if they think the punishment is unfair. This is exactly what happened recently in New Hampshire, where a Rastafarian man ... MOREEli Lehrer: Hiking the Minimum Wage Won't Help the Poor
Doing more harm than good. The ground has been shifting in the battle over the minimum wage. With President Obama's proposal to hike the national minimum from $7.25 to $9 an hour stalled in Congress, local labor activists have been aiming even higher, getting behind a vastly higher minimum wage of $15 an hour. The proposals are ... MORESenate Democrats Fail to Amend the First Amendment
by Jacob Sullum. A constitutional
amendment that would have given Congress and state legislatures
broad powers to suppress political speech in the name of
"democratic self-government" and electoral "integrity"
died a deservedly ignominious death in the Senate today. A
motion to consider the proposed amendment, known as SJR 19, ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The American Delusion
A people distracted, diverted and insulated. Caught up in the uproar over this year’s latest hullabaloo—militarized police in Ferguson, tanks on Main Street and ISIS—Americans have not only largely forgotten last year’s hullabaloo over the NSA and government surveillance but are generally foggy about everything that has happened in between. ... MOREWhy Cops Take Your Property To Pad Their Own Budgets
by Corey Adwar. A most disturbing study. Researchers with the Institute for Justice designed a game to test whether police have the tendency to abuse the practice of civil forfeiture, their right to seize personal property if it is considered more likely than not to be connected to a crime. Supporters of civil forfeiture hail it as an incentive ... MOREFederal Regulations Cost US Businesses $2 Trillion
by Chad Moutray. Choking out small business. Manufacturing leaders, like many other Americans, have been frustrated with the slow pace of growth so far this year, particularly in the first quarter. While manufacturers are mostly upbeat about demand and output over the coming months, they also remain somewhat tentative in their ... MOREJosh Hicks: IRS Finds More Key Hard-Drive Crashes
They say just bad luck, no tampering. The Internal Revenue Service is missing e-mails from five more employees whose records could shed light on the agency’s targeting scandal, but there are no signs that its personnel have intentionally destroyed evidence, according to an IRS review. In a report to four congressional committees on Friday, ... MORE
Why Illinois Medical Marijuana Patients Still Have No Meds
by Zenon Evans. Good Intentions made a big splash
last year when it opened its doors as the first medical marijuana
clinic in not just Chicago but the entire state of Illinois. The
business launched just days after Gov. Pat Quinn signed the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. One
problem:
There was no medical marijuana. ... MOREThe 5 Most Troubling Things in Congress’ New Spending Bill
by Romina Boccia. Yesterday evening, the House of Representatives released its stopgap spending measure which blindly continues the bloated spending in the January omnibus bill that included special-interest handouts, wasteful and unnecessary energy spending, and transportation boondoggles. Instead of debating and voting on ... MOREWashington Post: Police Intelligence Targets Cash
by Robert O’Harrow Jr, Michael Sallah. The perverse incentives in play. During the rush to improve homeland security a decade ago, an invitation went out from Congress to a newly retired California highway patrolman named Joe David. A lawmaker asked him to brief the Senate on how highway police could keep “our communities safe from ... MOREPress To Democrats: We’ll Take Free Speech, Thank You
From the editors of National Review. Senate Democrats are on the precipice of voting to repeal the First Amendment. That extraordinary fact is a result of the increasingly authoritarian efforts of Democrats, notably Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada, to suppress criticism of themselves and the government, and to suffocate any ... MOREBarry Farber: When Strong Words Came With Strong Deeds
"Don't break your toothpick." Water power gets all the credit, but word power does the same kind of job. Water can unleash the forces of nature. Words can unleash the forces of human nature. Freedom-lovers from Minneapolis to Manila found energy and a stiffer backbone when, after the Japanese conquered the Philippine Islands, Gen. ... MORENY TIMES: Coalition Urges Nations To Decriminalize Drugs
by Somini Sengupta. A coalition of political figures from around the world, including Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, and several former European and Latin American presidents,
is urging governments to decriminalize a variety of illegal drugs and
set up regulated drug markets within their own countries. The proposal ... MORE
John Stossel: Hold On, Mr. President
Not another prolonged engagement. "Do you have a strategy now, Mr. President?" asked the cover of the Daily News next to a photo of the second American journalist to be beheaded by the terrorist group ISIS. The impulse to "do something" to counter such evil is strong. But why do we assume that government doing something is always an ... MORE
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