Henry I. Miller: Life-Saving Drugs And Deadly Delays
Curious incentives on display. The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the FDA’s reluctance to approve the use of life-saving products. Safety and efficacy testing of the drug, designated TKM-Ebola, has barely ... MOREAllan C. Brownfeld: Highway Robbery By The Police
Civil asset forfeiture. Under current law, government can take your car and everything in it, including cash, tools and electronics, even if you are not charged with any crime. Getting your property back can take many months and cost thousands of dollars in legal fees. A three-part series in the Washington Post in September showed that law enforce- ... MORE
IBD Editorial: Press Helps Obama Censor The News
It's not often that the press exposes its own bias. But a Washington Post story this week reveals both the Obama administration's attempts to censor the news and the media's complicity in that effort. For decades, news outlets have relied on pool reports from a rotating group of White House correspondents who follow the president ... MOREFay Voshell: The Unabombers At The EPA
The dangerous true believers. Students of recent history will remember Ted Kaczynski as the man who is responsible for three murders and sixteen bombings over a period of eighteen years. These actions were fully excusable from Kaczynski's point of view. As he dispassionately puts it, “In order to get our message before the public with some ... MORE
Damon Root: Two Jeers For Eric Holder
His real "signature achievement." In
an interview conducted yesterday with The Daily Beast,
outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder cited criminal-justice reform
as his "signature achievement" as America's top law enforcement
official. "After years of over-reliance on incarceration as a
criminal-justice strategy, we finally started to ... MORE
Ed Krayewski: The Role of the Media in the War on Drugs
The strategic air support. The media's often called the fourth estate. Where's that come from? In the Middle Ages in Europe the first estate was the nobility, the second estate was the clergy, and the third estate was peasants, everyone else. Together the three estates constituted a feudal "realm." The king existed outside the ... MORELisa Leff: Marijuana Legalization Effort Begins In California
One less victimless crime in Golden State? A national marijuana advocacy group took steps Wednesday to begin raising money for a campaign to legalize recreational pot use in California in 2016, a move with potential to add a dose of extra excitement to the presidential election year. The Marijuana Policy Project filed paperwork ... MORE
USPS - Where Customer Service Is Always Last
by Katie Kieffer. Bang! Lee looked up from addressing a package while she
waited in line for service at the post office. Despite a lobby packed
with customers—without notice—a postal worker slammed down the service
window gate and went to lunch, leaving Lee and the other patrons to fend
for themselves. The U.S. Postal Service excels ... MORELoophole Lets Cops Can Search You Without Good Cause
by Simon Davis-Cohen. A legally murky tactic to scrutinize citizens. Checkpoints occupy a unique position in the American justice system. At these roadside stations, where police question drivers in search of the inebriated or “illegal,” anyone can be stopped and questioned, regardless of probable cause, violating the Fourth ... MORE'See Something, Say Something' and Community Policing: Turning Americans into Snitches for the Police State
by John W. Whitehead. “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing
the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the
secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on
every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were
informing on their neighbors.” —Professor ... MOREJohn Fund: The Injustice Of Eric Holder
A travesty of justice personified. Even we were shocked when we researched our new book, “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department,” at the extent to which Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has politicized the Justice Department
and put the interests of left-wing ideology and his political party
ahead of the fair and impartial ... MOREE Harrington: Federal Court Rules Against First Amendment
Court says schools can prohibit American flag apparel. A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling could have wide implications that limit free speech rights in schools, according to the lawyer who defended students who wore the American flag to school. More than four years after students were sent home for wearing American flag t-shirts on ... MOREThe Unintended Consequences Of Hiking Minimum Wage
by Allen R. Sanderson. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, among other city and state officials across the country, have recently proposed raising the minimum wage well beyond the current state-mandated levels of $9 an hour in California and $8.25 in Illinois. And public opinion polls generally show widespread ... MOREJurors Wield Power To Judge Law; Stop Gov't Overreach
You can fight tyranny. Jury duty. It’s the setup to innumerable punchlines, a civic chore that some people dread and many try to avoid. But jurors hold a special place in society, serving as a final check and balance on government power. Consider the following scenario: An individual is charged with a victimless crime; a behavior our ... MORE
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