Caught driving while black. The town of Woodworth, Louisiana is in hot water. Police officers were caught on dashcam video shaking down innocent motorists during a traffic stop, and the state’s second highest court wants the city to pay for it. On Wednesday, the Court of Appeals in favor of Patricia Parker’s lawsuit against the town. At 6am on ... MOREAn Innocent Woman Extorted, Kidnapped And Jailed As Part Of Louisiana Town’s Revenue Collection Scheme
Caught driving while black. The town of Woodworth, Louisiana is in hot water. Police officers were caught on dashcam video shaking down innocent motorists during a traffic stop, and the state’s second highest court wants the city to pay for it. On Wednesday, the Court of Appeals in favor of Patricia Parker’s lawsuit against the town. At 6am on ... MORERadley Balko: Another Day, Another Drug War Fatality
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Pot suspect shot in the face by cops in his own home. Meet Derek Cruice, your latest collateral damage in the drug war:A
deputy shot and killed an unarmed man while attempting to serve a
narcotics search warrant in Deltona, according to the Volusia County
Sheriff’s Office. Investigators said deputies were entering the
home on Maybrook ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
The musings of a genius. When President Obama keeps talking about "violent extremists" in the abstract, you might wonder whether Presbyterians are running amok. The mainstream media seem desperate to try to find something to undermine Republican governor Scott Walker's rise in the polls. The worst they have come up with is that he ... MORENY Times Editorial: The President's Weak Privacy Proposal
Codifying bad behavior. President
Obama has said that the country needs a strong privacy law so consumers
can protect personal information from advertisers, Internet firms,
employers and other businesses. But the country is not going to get it
from Mr. Obama. The bill his administration recently offered will do
little to help individuals while giving ... MOREAli Meyer: 92,898,000 Americans Are Not Working
Labor force participation hovers near 37-year low. The labor force participation rate hovered between 62.9 percent and 62.7 percent in the eleven months from April 2014 through February, and has been 62.9 percent or lower in 13 of the 17 months since October 2013. Prior to that, the last time the rate was below 63 percent was 37 years ago, ... MOREFrance Dishonors Charlie Hebdo By Policing Hate Speech
by Brendan O'Neill. Two months after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, the French state has just taken a massive merde on the graves of those who were killed. It has decided to honor their memory, or dishonor it, by
instituting what promise to be the most stringent anti-hate speech
laws in Europe. It has declared an “unmerciful battle”—the Justice ... MOREGoogle Works To Rank Sites Based On ‘Truthfulness’
by Maxim Lott. In a step that critics worry will inject political bias into search results, a Google research team released a report this month on ranking search results based on how factual websites are. They propose eventually using that to change Google rankings, which are currently based on website popularity. The Google researchers give, as an ... MORETed Cruz & The Political Prudence of Marijuana Federalism
Principles matter. At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week, Ted
Cruz responded to a question about marijuana legalization in Colorado by
endorsing a federalist approach to the issue. “I actually think this is
a great embodiment of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called
‘the laboratories of democracy,’” the ... MORE
Mark Cuban Says Tech Bubble Is ‘Far Worse’ Than In 2000
Launching "into the giddy phase. "What a week for Mark Cuban. Fresh off being tapped for the role of the president alongside Ann Coulter in the upcoming blockbuster “Sharknado 3,” the brash billionaire’s bearish forecast has landed him a spot in MarketWatch’s call of the day. “If
we thought it was stupid to invest in public Internet websites that ... MOREJohn Horvat II: Why Johnny Can't Sled Anymore
All must be safe and sterile. In the midst of this cold winter, I chanced to come upon a scene that gladdened my heart. It was a group of unsupervised boys sledding down a hillside. They weren’t only sledding. They were ramming into other sleds. At the bottom of the hill, they pushed each other down, rolling and tumbling in the snow. ... MOREDEA Warns Of Stoned Rabbits If Utah Approves Medical Pot
The new face of marijuana addiction. Utah is considering a bill
that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be
treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's
wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of
humans, and basically be high all the time. That's according to testimony ... MORERand Paul & Scott Pruitt: Massive EPA Power Grab Would Deliver Devastating Blow To American Property Rights
Gov't looks to downgrade individual rights, again. Respect and protection of private property rights sets the United States apart from other nations and has fueled the greatest expansion of economic freedom the world has ever known. Indeed, private property rights are among the foundational rights of any democracy, not just ours. President ... MORETop Brits Call On The U.K. To Decriminalize Drugs
by Carly Schwartz. British businessman Richard Branson and U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have advocated for drug policy reform in the past. But experts say their op-ed calling on the U.K. to end the war on drugs, published Tuesday in The Guardian, is especially noteworthy as British elections near. "Doing this in advance of the election is ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: A Lone Wolf President
Can the president rewrite federal laws? Can he alter their meaning? Can he change their effect? These are legitimate questions in an era in which we have an unpopular progressive Democratic president who has boasted that he can govern without Congress by using his phone and his pen, and a mostly newly elected largely conservative Republican ... MORE
George Will: The House Takes On IRS Lawlessness
Preventing Lois Lerner 2.0. Representative Peter Roskam is now chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Service, and hence of Lois Lerner’s legacy. He knows how interesting her career was before she, as head of the IRS exempt-organizations division, directed the suppression ... MORE
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