Behavior matters and so do facts. Among the many painful ironies in the current racial turmoil is that communities scattered across the country were disrupted by riots and looting because of the demonstrable lie that Michael Brown was shot in the back by a white policeman in Missouri — but there was not nearly as much turmoil created by ... MOREThomas Sowell: Race, Politics and Lies
Behavior matters and so do facts. Among the many painful ironies in the current racial turmoil is that communities scattered across the country were disrupted by riots and looting because of the demonstrable lie that Michael Brown was shot in the back by a white policeman in Missouri — but there was not nearly as much turmoil created by ... MOREFrom The Drug War To Militarizing Police, Why Does The Left Still Support Federal Control Of Local Policing?
March of the Democrats. Glenn 'Instapundit' Reynolds has a great column in USA Today demolishing the idea—floated by the Obama administration and pushed recently by Al Sharpton—that a nationalized police force would somehow be an improvement, from a civil liberties perspective, over the current situation. The Obama ... MOREBrendan O'Neill: Meet The Vagina Voters
Voting for Hillary because she's a woman. "I intend to vote with my vagina." Have you ever read a more squirm-inducing sentence than that? It appeared in a pro-Hillary piece in Dame magazine, written by a person with a vagina who intends to vote for Clinton because she also has a vagina. Let's leave aside the unfortunate image conjured up by ... MORESteve Chapman: False Fears About Free Trade
Demonizing freedom is always a mistake. Political debates often pit fear against hope, and when it comes to international trade agreements, many Democrats prefer to scare. It's a durable strategy that they can't relinquish—even though it usually fails. If you're going to make a horror movie, you need a villain who can make your blood run ... MOREPolice State Plan To Deploy A Vehicle-Tracking Database
from National Motorists Association. We predicted it would happen. A year after the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) scuttled plans to build its own nationwide database of
vehicle license plate data, the agency is seeking bids from private contractors to provide the agency access to the same information. DHS canceled last year’s plan ... MOREPatriot Act Faces Revisions Backed by Both Parties
by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauser. Maybe NSA will just ignore the law again. After more than a decade of wrenching national debate over the intrusiveness of government intelligence agencies, a bipartisan wave of support has gathered to sharply limit the federal government’s sweeps of phone and Internet records. ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: The GMO Debate Heats Up (Again)
Federal, state, and local laws. The debate over GMOs has heated up again. It's been only a month since I last wrote about the issue. But a host of new developments at the federal, state, and local levels have drawn widespread attention. In Oregon, a heated public hearing
took place over a ridiculous and unconstitutional proposed county
ordinance, ... MOREEd Krayewski: Freddie Gray Death Ruled Homicide - All Cops Involved Being Charged Are Still Drawing Paychecks
Government has its perks. The state's attorney, Marilyn Mosby, announced Freddie Gray's death,
from a spinal injury incurred while in police custody, has been ruled a
homicide. Mosby announced charges for all the officers involved. ABC
News reports: Mosby announced a series of charges now facing the six police officers
involved in putting ... MORE
This Is Why So Many People Are Homeschooling!
A letter from the school: Dear Mr and Mrs. Rossi, I understand that your family recently took a family vacation. I want you to be aware that the Abington School District does not recognize family trips as an excused absence, regardless of the activities involved in the trip. The school district is not in the position of overseeing family vacations or ... MORES E Cupp: Houston Rockets, Emojis & Political Correctness
Stick a fork in us. We are done. Political correctness has finally corrupted rational thought and common sense to the point that garden variety sports trash talk is a firing offense. Consider the case of Chad Shanks. He was hired to grow the Houston Rockets’ social media presence. By all accounts, Shanks had done a good job, posting edgy ... MOREEntitled To Loot: Why Are There Riots In Baltimore?
by Michael Hurd. Nothing happens in a vacuum. It’s easy enough to call the rioters in Baltimore “thugs;” and it’s entirely true. But when they take the actions they do, they are acting on ideas. Personally, they are acting on their own impulses and emotions. But even their own, thuggish, range-of-the-moment impulses and emotions rest on ideas. ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Turning America Into A Battlefield
A blueprint for locking down the nation. Americans now find themselves struggling to retain some semblance of freedom in the face of police and law enforcement agencies that look and act like the military and have just as little regard for the Fourth Amendment, laws such as the NDAA that allow the military to arrest and indefinitely detain ... MORERadley Balko: If The Government Decides To Destroy Your Property To Fight The Drug War, You're Just Out Of Luck
The drug war means never having to say you’re sorry. A
Houston-based federal judge ruled that the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration does not owe the owner of a small Texas trucking company
anything, not even the cost of repairing the bullet holes to a
tractor-trailer truck that the agency used without his permission for a
wild ... MORENew DPA Report Finds 'Policing for Profit' Gone Wild
by Jag Davies. Did you know police are allowed to seize and keep your cash, cars, real estate, and any other property -- even if you're never convicted or even charged with a crime? It's called civil asset forfeiture -- and if it sounds like legalized burglary, that's because it is. In cities and small towns across the country -- Baltimore jumps to mind at ... MORE
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