Court rules Fourth Amendment still applies. A new rule in Texas will stop a warrantless search of a DWI suspect's blood. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals says the move violates the Fourth Amendment. "We hold that a nonconsensual search of a DWI suspect's blood conducted pursuant to the mandatory-blood draw and implied-consent provisions in ... MOREDuh! Texas Warrantless DWI Searches Are Unconstitutional
Court rules Fourth Amendment still applies. A new rule in Texas will stop a warrantless search of a DWI suspect's blood. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals says the move violates the Fourth Amendment. "We hold that a nonconsensual search of a DWI suspect's blood conducted pursuant to the mandatory-blood draw and implied-consent provisions in ... MOREPolicing For Profit: Training Videos Suggest Abuses
by Noah Pransky. A procedure law enforcement agencies use to take cash, cars, and other
personal property away from accused criminals continues to create
controversy nationally as more stories of potential abuse surface. 10 Investigates has been reporting on civil forfeiture, a process designed to let law enforcement seize tools from ... MORE
We Are The Enemy: Is This The Lesson Of Ferguson?
by John W. Whitehead. Should police officer Darren Wilson be held accountable for the shooting death of unarmed citizen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014? Tasked with determining whether Wilson should stand trial for Brown’s shooting, the grand jury ruled that the police officer will not face charges for the fatal shooting. ... MOREGovernment Studies Why Obese Girls Don't Get Much Sex
by Casey Harper. Anyone have a theory? While most Americans put on a few pounds for Thanksgiving, the federal government has been spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars researching why obese girls don’t have sex. The National Institute for Health grant allocated $466,642 to the Magee-Women’s Research Institute to study the sexual ... MOREHow The NSA Tampers With US-Made Internet Routers
by Glenn Greenwald. For years, the US government loudly warned the world that Chinese routers and other internet devices pose a "threat" because they are built with backdoor surveillance functionality that gives the Chinese government the ability to spy on anyone using them. Yet what the NSA's documents show is that Americans have been ... MORE
Michael Hursh: The Great Police Violence Cover-Up
Most departments refuse to divulge the data. "Have a 20-year-old son, and I have a 12-year-old son, and I’m so
afraid for them. … This is about a war machine. It is us against the
[expletive] machine!” —Rapper Killer Mike. Perhaps the saddest thing is: We don’t really know what the truth is. We don’t really know if Killer Mike—his voice breaking ... MOREJose Pagliery: Expect Heavy FAA Drone Regulations
Government rapidly seeks to curb new freedom. Farmers want drones to survey fields. Wedding photographers want them for moving aerial shots. They might soon need a pilot's license. By year's end, the Federal Aviation Administration will unveil proposed rules that apply to anyone flying a small drone that's even remotely for business ... MOREPolicing For Profit: Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?
by Gil Smart and Susan Baldrige. Barbara and Ralph Spring are struggling to raise their two grandsons after their daughter, Jessica Marie Crawford, died from a drug overdose last year. The Quarryville couple wish they had their daughter's Jeep Cherokee to take the kids back and forth to sports events. Or, they wish they could have sold it and ... MOREMinnesota Mom Faces 2 Years In Prison For Saving Her Son
by Matt Agorist. A mother of two is facing jail time for seeking out life saving cannabis oil to treat her son’s horrifying seizures. This nightmare for the Brown family started 3 years ago, when their son Trey, then 12, was hit in the head with a baseball causing a traumatic brain injury. The brain injury has caused severe tremors and episodes in which ... MOREEd Krayewski: World’s Gone Right
Don't believe the hype. Islamist extremists on the loose in the Middle East, drug cartels running wild south of the border, Ebola, nuclear proliferation, ubiquitous surveillance, climate disasters, beheadings. It's easy to imagine things are worse than they have been in a long time. We don't have the benefit of hindsight, yet we can take a step back ... MOREJohn Stossel: Thanks, Property Rights!
Prosperity and capitalism. This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our forebears gave us: property rights. People associate property rights with greed and selfishness, but they are keys to our prosperity. Things go wrong when resources are held in common. Before the Pilgrims were able to hold the first Thanksgiving, they nearly ... MORE
Erica Martinson: 'The Most Expensive Regulation Ever'
Obama rolls out a major EPA rule. The Obama administration proposed a draft air pollution rule
on Wednesday that business groups charge could be the costliest
regulation of all time — setting up a test of how hard the president
will fight for his environmental agenda against a newly strengthened
GOP. President Barack Obama has already ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: End State Monopolies On Liquor Sales
It's time to get the state out of the booze business. Virginia made a big mistake four years ago when it failed to end the state’s monopoly on liquor sales, and its residents are going to pay the price for that — again. So far in 2014 Virginia has hauled in 6 percent more revenue than it had by this point last year. But lawmakers had planned ... MOREWhy The Founders Didn’t Give Us A Democracy
by Keith Weiner. As the famous story goes, when Ben Franklin left Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia had a question she wanted answered. “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” No one today (well, seemingly ... MORERand Paul Calls for a Formal Declaration of War Against ISIS
by Doug Mills. Senator Rand Paul
is calling for a declaration of war against the Islamic State, a move
that promises to shake up the debate over the military campaign in Iraq
and Syria as President Obama prepares to ask Congress to grant him formal authority to use force. Mr.
Paul, a likely presidential candidate who has emerged as one of the ... MORELoretta Lynch Has No Problem With Asset Forfeiture
by George Leef. After the tumultuous Attorney Generalship of Eric Holder, what the country badly needs is a replacement who will uphold the law fairly and guard against injustices perpetrated by the government. President Obama’s nominee to replace him, federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch is questionable in that regard because of her enthusiastic ... MORE
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