by Leon Neyfakh. Helicopters don't pay for themselves. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that the Justice Department will no longer participate in a controversial program that has long allowed police departments around the country to seize cash and property from people suspected of criminal activity, then send 20 percent of its dollar ... MOREWhy Holder’s Civil Forfeiture Decision Won’t Stop Abuse
by Leon Neyfakh. Helicopters don't pay for themselves. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that the Justice Department will no longer participate in a controversial program that has long allowed police departments around the country to seize cash and property from people suspected of criminal activity, then send 20 percent of its dollar ... MOREThe Importance of Free Speech to Human Progress
by Iain Murray. The massacre of 12 cartoonists and journalists at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris this week should remind us to ask: Why is free speech so important? It is more than an inalienable individual right; it is fundamental to human progress. That is why it is one of the most important institutions of liberty. When we look at the history ... MORE
CPS Investiges Parents For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone
by Joshua Krause. By all appearances, Daniel and Alexander Meitiv are smart, responsible parents who want to instill independence in their children. They don’t like to throw caution to the wind, but they do believe that kids should be granted some freedom, so that they may learn how to take care of themselves from an early age. They practice ... MOREJury Nullification And Why It Matters In The Silk Road Trial
by Eric Markowitz. If you happen to be lurking around the Manhattan courthouse where Ross Ulbricht’s trial began on Tuesday, you may notice one of about a dozen signs urging you to Google something called “jury nullification.” Walk a little further, and you may just encounter activists handing out jury nullification leaflets. But if you ask them to ... MOREWashington State Growers Struggle To Sell Legal Marijuana
High taxes are driving many to black market. Washington's legal marijuana market opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn't have pot to sell. Prices were through the roof. Six months later, the equation has flipped, bringing serious growing pains to the new industry. A big harvest of ... MOREDecriminalizing Possession of All Illicit Drugs
by Joao Castel-Branco Goulao. Portugal did it 15 years ago. The overthrow of Portugal’s military dictatorship 40 years ago brought liberation after decades of repression. But along with political freedom and self expression, came another import from the free world that our citizens had long been denied, drugs. With little experience of ... MORECan the West Stand Up for Free Speech?
by Victor Davis Hanson. The principle is clear. Western civilization’s creed is free thought and expression, the lubricant of everything from democracy to human rights. Even a simpleton in the West accepts that protecting free expression is not the easy task of ensuring the right to read Homer’s Iliad or do the New York Times crossword puzzle. ... MOREIs Ted Cruz A Loose Cannon Or Libertarian Reformer?
by Glenn Garvin. As they used to say in the old westerns, it was quiet out there-too quiet. So no one was really surprised when Ted Cruz announced to The Washington Post the weekend before the November election that his brief flirtation with civilized behavior was nearing its end. For months, the Texas senator had abandoned his guy ... MOREGovernment Looks to Save Money by Cutting Military Pay
by Onan Coca. In a speech on Wednesday off the coast of San Diego, outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned troops that the U.S. can’t afford its military personnel anymore.Troops are already bracing for the results of a report on Feb. 1, which will most likely not be friendly to military pay. The report is by the Military Compensation and ... MOREFemale Marines Now 0-26 On Officer Infantry Course
by Douglas Ernst. Obviously, a sexist test.The failure of two Marine Corps officers to to pass the Jan. 8 first-day Combat Endurance Test of the infantry officer course brings the tally of female dropouts to 26. One more group of female officers will have a shot at graduation before the Marine Corps completes its integration experiment in June. ... MOREHolder Orders End to Some Policing For Profit Incentives
by Scott Shackford. Federal asset forfeiture curbed. Big, huge news on the civil asset forfeiture front: Eric Holder is ordering an end to most of the Department of Justice’s Equitable Sharing Program. This is the program where the DOJ works with local law enforcement agencies for busts, and then the law enforcement agencies are permitted to ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: What Free Speech?
What exactly does free speech mean in France? The photos of 40 of the world's government leaders marching arm-in-arm along a Paris boulevard on Sunday with the president of the United States not among them was a provocative image that has fomented much debate. The march was, of course, in direct response to the murderous ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops
The changing face of American police. “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means If 2014 was the year of militarized police, armored tanks, and stop-and-frisk searches, 2015 may well be the year of technologized police, surveillance blimps and ... MOREThe Patriot Act Is Cannibalizing America’s Economic Edge
by Amit Patel. You would think that when tech companies, the ACLU and the
NRA unite for the same cause, the federal government would listen. That
was not the case in this year’s USA FREEDOM ACT vote where the Senate voted against reforms that would stop the NSA from collecting phone metadata. The majority opinion prioritized protectionism ... MORE
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