by Ryan Conley. The power of jury nullification has gained recognition, acceptance, and wider use in recent years, and has the potential to profoundly affect the application of criminal justice in the United States. Jury nullification allows juries to acquit defendants who are guilty as charged, but who they believe do not deserve to be punished. ... MOREJury Nullification Gaining Influence In Criminal Trials
by Ryan Conley. The power of jury nullification has gained recognition, acceptance, and wider use in recent years, and has the potential to profoundly affect the application of criminal justice in the United States. Jury nullification allows juries to acquit defendants who are guilty as charged, but who they believe do not deserve to be punished. ... MOREJames Stacey Taylor: In Defense Of Price Gouging
Be careful what you wish for. Last Friday, Gov. Chris Christie announced that he was taking a “zero-tolerance” approach
toward anyone the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs found taking
certain steps to help bring in much-needed items that were in
desperately short supply after Hurricane Sandy smashed into the state
last week. ... MOREPaul Hsieh: 5 Ways To Protect Yourself From ObamaCare
How the individual can minimize the damage. Now that President Obama has won re-election, repeal of the ObamaCare
health law is no longer realistic. Although some state governors
continue to resist and there are some still-pending legal challenges,
prudent Americans should prepare for the law being eventually
implemented in full. ObamaCare will ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Silencing General Petraeus
The judge connects the dots. The evidence that Gen. David Petraeus, formerly the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the author of the current Army field manual, Princeton Ph.D. and, until last week, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was forced to resign from the CIA to silence him is far stronger than is the version of ... MOREWait A Minute! The Fiscal Cliff Is A Good Thing
by Howard, Raymond and Jesse Richman. The entire discussion of the "fiscal cliff" has things a bit backward. People talk of "going off" the fiscal cliff -- and the natural image is of the disaster that awaits one who tumbles from the edge of a precipice. Instead, perhaps we should say "running into" the fiscal cliff -- the cliff being a force that stops ... MORE6,125 Proposed Government Regulations In Last 90 Days
Obama administration spitting out an average of 68 a day. It’s Friday morning, and so far today, the Obama administration has posted 165 new regulations and notifications on its reguations.gov website. In the past 90 days, it has posted 6,125 regulations and notices – an average of 68 a day. The website allows visitors to find and comment on proposed ... MOREWalter E Williams - Disaster Ignorance
Higher prices attract more supply. Here's a which-is-better question for you. Suppose a New Jersey motel room rented for $125 a night prior to Hurricane Sandy's devastation. When the hurricane hits, a husband, wife and their two youngsters might seek the comfort of renting two adjoining rooms. However, when they arrive at the motel, ... MOREObama The Unanimous Choice In 59 Philadelphia Districts
Officially wins the vote 19,605 to 0. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney got no votes in 59
voting districts in the city of Philadelphia last week on Election Day. None. And the unofficial vote tallies have President Barack Obama beating
the former Massachusetts governor by a combined vote of 19,605 to 0, The
Philadelphia Inquirer reports. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Nice Losers
Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment -- nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have. The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least as far as 1948, when ... MOREMatt Welch: America's Free Speech Retreat
The shoddy response to consulate attack in Libya. On the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, scores of men armed with rocket propellers, hand grenades, and automatic rifles assaulted two separate U.S. diplomatic buildings in Benghazi, Libya, for more than four hours, killing Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other ... MOREBen Stein: An Embarrassment To The Nation
Hushing scandal until after the election. General David Petraeus is roughly one thousand times the man I am. He is braver, tougher, more self-sacrificing, smarter, more unselfish, more patriotic, far more disciplined, apparently able to keep up sexually with a woman twenty years younger than he is who is also an Ironman woman superstar. He is ... MORECharlotte Allen: The Decline And Fall Of The Golden State
State votes for more: taxes, debt, government. On November 6 voters in California did something nearly unheard of
during the past 30 years: They approved, by a margin of 54 percent to 46
percent, a ballot measure raising state income taxes on the most
prosperous Californians and sales taxes on everyone, even though the
state’s sales tax ... MOREWhat Legal Pot In Washington State Will Look Like
by Jacob Sullum. Washington's
marijuana legalization initiative, which takes effect on
December 6, is broadly similar to
Colorado's: Both initiatives eliminate penalties for possession
of up to an ounce by adults 21 or older, and both call for
state-licensed pot shops, in Washington's case to be regulated by
the state liquor control board, which is ... MOREHow Two Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedoms
by Andrew Napolitano. They are two of America’s most celebrated presidents. One, a Republican who had a storied military career, created the American conservation movement and once gave a speech after being shot by a would-be assassin; the other, a Democrat who overcame dyslexia as a child only to lead America to victory in World War I and formulate ... MOREJim Snyder: Americans Must Favor More Regulations
Voters affirm Obama's job-killing red tape. Mitt Romney urged voters to reject President Barack Obama and his “job-killing” regulations. Obama’s victory last week shows many Americans aren’t as reflexively anti-Washington as Romney expected. In fact, presidents through history who aggressively used the tools of government at their disposal have ... MORERobert VerBruggen: Free Speech On FIRE
Greg Lukianoff catalogues censorship on campus. ‘The essentiality of freedom in the community of American universities is almost self-evident,” wrote Earl Warren in a 1957 Supreme Court opinion. Apparently, American universities themselves have come to disagree. In Unlearning Liberty, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ... MORE
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