Explaining the anger. When the cops chasing Freddie Gray caught up with him, they had a problem: He had not done anything illegal. They solved that problem the way cops often do: They picked a charge after the fact. According to Marilyn Mosby, the state's attorney for Baltimore, that charge, carrying a switchblade, was legally unfounded. Gray's ... MOREJacob Sullum: No Wonder Freddie Gray Ran From The Cops
Explaining the anger. When the cops chasing Freddie Gray caught up with him, they had a problem: He had not done anything illegal. They solved that problem the way cops often do: They picked a charge after the fact. According to Marilyn Mosby, the state's attorney for Baltimore, that charge, carrying a switchblade, was legally unfounded. Gray's ... MOREAncestry.Com Is Now Sharing Your DNA With The Police
by Joshua Krause. The police state just took a very dark turn. We all know that private corporations tend to side with the government on privacy issues, and they’re more than willing to hand over our information when the government asks for it. Google and Facebook are pretty well-known examples of that, and they’ve been doing it for so long ... MOREBaltimore’s Missing Fathers
by Ken Blackwell and Rob Schwarzwalder. The rioting in Baltimore is disturbing to all Americans, as the unresolved cause of Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody should be as well. It is right that political and religious leaders, community groups, business organizations and law enforcement officials are commenting about all the ... MOREFederal Court Deals A Huge Blow To Cellphone Privacy
More warrantless searches for Americans ahead. The government doesn't need a warrant to search cellphone tower location records, a federal appeals court in Atlanta has ruled. In a potentially wide-ranging ruling, the court said that because cellphone owners technically "volunteer" their location to providers when they ... MOREJohn Stossel: Hillary's Armor
Borrowing Bill's teflon. "This vast right-wing conspiracy," Hillary Clinton said, "has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced." That was the "feminist" first lady's response when her husband was accused of having sex with a 21-year-old. Bill was more lawyerly. He said things like, "It depends upon what the meaning of the ... MORE Robby Soave: CNN Anchor Says That The Constitution Doesn’t Protect Hate Speech. She Should Try Reading It
Spoiler: Hate speech actually is protected. Chris Cuomo is co-host of CNN’s morning show. He’s also a former law
and justice correspondent for ABC News. He has a law degree from Fordham
University and is a licensed attorney. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is
his brother. In other words, this is somebody you’d expect would know what ... MOREWhen Violence And Lawlessness Are Acceptable
by Radley Balko. Yesterday, the Fox News show Fox & Friends devoted a segment to discussing the shooting of New York Police Dept. officer Brian Moore.
The discussion was framed in a particularly absurd way. Why, the hosts
asked, aren’t there protests and riots when police officers are killed,
as there are when police kill suspects? It’s the sort of question ... MOREIn Surprise Move, Puerto Rico Legalizes Medical Marijuana
by Daniel Kreps. In a surprise move, Puerto Rico's Governor Alejandro García Padilla
signed an executive order legalizing the use of medical marijuana in the
U.S. territory. The order, which was heavily debated in Puerto Rico
since 2013 but never put to a public vote, went into immediate effect.
The Caribbean island joins 23 other U.S. ... MOREFree Coffee To Cops Policy Burns Starbucks
No good deed goes unpunished. A Raleigh police officer who was given a free cup of coffee by Starbucks is now suing the company after he spilled it and got burned. In the lawsuit, Matthew Kohr, a lieutenant with RPD, said the lid popped off the cup of coffee he ordered at the Starbucks on Peace Street in January 2012 and the cup collapsed. ... MOREFarmers Unable to Repair Tractors Because Of Copyright
by Rick Falkvinge. Stories are starting to appear about farmers unable to repair tractors and car aficionados unable to tinker with cars because of copyright legislation. That's not a side effect. It was the whole idea of the law. This week, there have been stories about farmers who can’t legally repair their John Deere tractors, as copyright monopoly ... MOREEmergency Room Visits Continue to Rise Under Obamacare
by Peter Suderman. Another Obamacare promise bites the dust. In September, 2009, President Obama gave a prime time speech to the
joint Congress making the case for the health care law that would come
to be known as Obamacare. Much of the speech was devoted to explaining
and justifying the law’s major components. Subsidies, he argued, ... MOREManny Pacquiao Perpetrates Fraud, Commits Perjury In Order To Cash In On Huge Payday, Risks Disciplinary Action
We expect politicians to lie, but boxers? Manny Pacquiao faces a potential lawsuit after failing to disclose a shoulder injury before his defeat by Floyd Mayweather. Pacquiao will spend up to a year on the sidelines as he prepares to undergo surgery on his torn rotator cuff, an injury he suffered in training. But the Filipino star could also be ... MORE
Why The Bill Of Rights Would Never Pass Today
by Charles C W Cooke. Having watched closely the manner in which questions of liberty and
power are batted around in the first part of the 21st century — most
recently during the disgraceful contretemps that Indiana’s rather tame
Religious Freedom Restoration Act provoked across the land — I have come
to wonder of late whether the Bill of ... MORERowan Lee: ACLU Releases App To Track & Record Police
What if citizens required justice? The ACLU has begun to roll out a new program through the form of an app that they call the Mobile Justice Crime Unit. Currently only a handful of states carry the program, as shown here with California’s service, but the app’s outreach is growing. The website is ultra-modern – achieving the ... MORE Available on iTunes
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