by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz. Whenever I read an article about fast-food workers demanding $15 an hour I have to double check and make sure I am not getting my news from the Onion or some other satirical website. You’ve seen the headlines as of late. A group of low-skilled, usually low-educated, workers are demanding $15 an hour just ... MORE
by Matt Ferner. Washington, D.C., voters appear to be ready to legalize marijuana, according to a new poll that puts support at 65 percent. The NBC4/Washington Post/Marist poll's finding that district voters support legalization by almost a 2-1 margin “is the highest support ever for a marijuana legalization ballot initiative,” Adam ... MORE
by Ed Krayewski. Lilian Alonzo, a 49-year-old grandmother, was shot while trying to pick up an infant grandchild during a by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Manchester, New Hampshire, according to her son. Police in raids elsewhere arrested two of Alonzo's daughters in an oxycodone ring but neither of them lived with ... MORE
Serving consumers at government's expense. Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the
company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even
when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line as tech
companies attempt to blunt allegations that they have too readily
participated in ... MORE
Freedom to choose is the freedom to self-determine. One of the great fallacies arrogantly believed in by those in political power is the notion that they can know enough to manage and command the lives of everyone in society with better results than if people are left to live their own lives as they freely choose. The fact is, there is far more ... MORE
Should protecting your home be a capital crime? Attempting to serve a search warrant by
entering a house through a window got Killeen, Texas, Police
Detective Charles Dinwiddie shot in the face and killed last May.
It was yet another SWAT raid organized for a purpose other
than the reason they were invented. The police had a ... MORE
Something is amiss here. As the debate rages over whether the president needs congressional authorization for war prior to his deployment of the military to degrade or destroy ISIS, the terrorist organization that none of us had heard about until a few months ago, the nation has lost sight of the more fundamental issue of President ... MORE
Busybodies minding your own business. Children's book author Kari Anne Roy was recently
visited by the Austin police and Child Protective Services for
allowing her son Isaac, age 6, to do the unthinkable: Play outside,
up her street, unsupervised. He'd been out there for about 10 minutes when Roy's doorbell
rang. She opened ... MORE
by Laura Hancock. An attempt to repeal legalized theft. The state legislative committee will sponsor a bill in the 2015 session that would prohibit law enforcement and prosecutors from seizing property unless the owner has been convicted of a crime. Wyoming’s civil asset forfeiture laws currently allow authorities to take money, weapons, ... MORE
by Nick Giambruno. Do you really own something that you are forced to perpetually make payments on and which can be seized from you if you don’t pay? I would say that you don’t. You would possess such an item, but you wouldn’t own it—an important distinction. A ridiculous perversion of the concept of ownership and property rights has ... MORE
Western culture and values are superior. German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that in Germany, multiculturalism has "utterly failed." Both Australia's ex-prime minister John Howard and Spain's ex-prime minister Jose Maria Aznar reached the same conclusion about multiculturalism in their countries. British Prime Minister ... MORE