Deroy Murdock: CAFE Standards Kill
In a crash, MPG is a small consolation. As Washington keeps yanking money from Americans’ wallets, car prices are set to rise beyond the reach of low-income drivers. And from there, things grow deadly. At fault is a regulatory regime called Corporate Average Fuel Economy, commonly called CAFE standards. Congress mandated these rules in 1975, during a ... MORE
Glenn Greenwald: Obama Justice And Medical Marijuana
Crackdown justification must heard to be believed. President Obama gave an interview to Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner this week and was asked about his administration’s aggressive crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, including ones located in states where medical marijuana is legal and which are licensed by the state; this policy is directly ... MOREHoward Rich: Son Of SOPA
Another clear and present danger to our liberty. Having failed earlier this year to foist an Orwellian kill switch on Internet free speech, Congress is now peddling a kinder, gentler piece of “cybersecurity legislation.” However, Washington’s latest attempt to play Big Brother on the Internet poses an equally clear and present danger to our ... MORERonald Bailey: Can Censorship Stop Bioterrorism?
Open science is the best defense to flu attack. In January, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) recommended that the journals Nature and Science restrict publication of controversial new research relevant to the transmission of avian flu between humans. The fear: Would-be bioterrorists may be combing the pages of ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Self-Defense Under Attack
A blind disregard for the evidence. Critics of Florida's self-defense law object to its recognition of a right to "stand your ground" in public places, which eliminated the duty to retreat from an assailant. Yet many of these critics seem to believe they have a duty to stand their ground and never retreat, using George Zimmerman's shooting of Trayvon ... MORECan Fully Informed Juries Help Cannabis Prohibition?
by Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director. Of the many numerous peaceful and constitutionally-respectful means employed for decades by which cannabis law reformers have been to try to bring about about an end to Cannabis Prohibition laws, one of the most benign, yet most powerful arrows in the activist’s quiver is jury nullification–whereby ... MORERT: TSA Threatens Lockdown Over 4-Year-Old Girl
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Robert VerBruggen: Making A Hash Of The 2nd Amendment
Ignoring the Founders on gun rights. Harvard historian Jill Lepore has a piece attacking gun rights in the latest New Yorker, and a follow-up post on the magazine’s website. Most of it is basically what you’d expect: some numbers about gun violence, some horrifying anecdotes about people who’ve misused guns, some reporting from a gun range, some artsy ... MORE
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