Shut them down like this guy! If police come to your door and you don’t need their help, you can simply decline to answer. They cannot come into your home without a search warrant. Even if the police have probable cause, they cannot come in your home without a search warrant. You might even be a suspect in a criminal investigation. In such ... MOREMatt Agorist: If Cops Come To Your Door Without a Warrant
Shut them down like this guy! If police come to your door and you don’t need their help, you can simply decline to answer. They cannot come into your home without a search warrant. Even if the police have probable cause, they cannot come in your home without a search warrant. You might even be a suspect in a criminal investigation. In such ... MORERand Paul Would Seek "To Destroy ISIS Militarily"
by Jacob Sullum. On Friday, as Robby Soave noted this afternoon, Rand Paul told the Associated Press that if he were president, he "would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily." But at a Q&A session in Dallas earlier that same day, the Kentucky senator ... MORE
An Act To Reduce Opportunity For The Most Vulnerable
by Thomas Sherrer. Minimum wage kicks low-skill workers to the curb. Wildfires aren’t the only things spreading rapidly in this California drought; the desire to increase minimum wages along the West Coast apparently burns equally as hot. California’s minimum wage recently increased to $9 an hour giving Golden State workers the fourth ... MOREJohn Stossel: Green Markets
How to avoid the tragedy of the commons. Last week I said the Environmental Protection Agency has become a monster that does more harm than good. But logical people say, "What else we got?" It's natural to assume greedy capitalists will run amok and destroy the Earth unless stopped by regulation. These critics don't understand ... MOREHow Jury Nullification Would Work In Anti- SAFE Act Case
by Frank Parlato. At last opponents of the NY SAFE Act have a case that they can use to overcome the vicious, draconian, unconstitutional NYS SAFE Act, the monster child of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Brenden Morgan, 22, of Medina, NY, was charged by State Police with criminal possession of a weapon in the 4th degree, a Class A misdemeanor. Morgan ... MOREKatherine Mangu-Ward: Guy Who Tried To Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand Gets Taste Of Own Medicine. And It Sucks
Smothered by regulation. Remember Doug Wilkey, the grumpy Floridian who
tried to get a lemonade stand that was operating next door to his
house shut down by local authorites? Whelp, looks like he's
getting
a taste of his own medicine. A tipster contacted the city and pointed officials toward records that show Wilkey, as recently as March, ... MORENew Hampshire: A Hotbed for Liberty
by Shem Kellogg. The United States was once a constitutional republic, and today New Hampshire is on the forefront in the battle to return the U.S. to its original principles of state sovereignty, limited federal government and individual liberty. The year Thomas Jefferson was elected President, eleven out of sixteen states didn’t have ... MORECops Barge Into Woman's Home Because Grass Is Too Long
Your public servants at work -- see video. Police officers barged into a woman’s home because they wanted to arrest the owner because of the length of the front lawn. A tenant answered the door and recorded the rude, obscenity-spewing cops making demands and entering her home, despite the fact that she wasn’t even the person listed ... MOREU.S. Army Drills To Battle Domestic Political Dissent
by Eric Blair. Government prepares for citizen confrontation. As we've witnessed recently in Ferguson, Missouri, the difference between police and military is already nearly indistinguishable. In other words, the Army is already taking on peaceful citizens in domestic cities. Tank-supported SWAT teams already grenade and raid homes to serve warrants ... MORERyan Gallagher: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
The surveillance search engine. The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The ... MORELaura College: How To Find DUI Checkpoints
Or, how to avoid warrantless searches. The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that DUI checkpoints, also called "sobriety roadblocks," are legal and minimally invasive. Of course, for a motorist who is late for a meeting or eager to get home, the inconvenience is subjective. Fortunately, there are ways to find out if there are DUI ... MOREHomeland Security Loses Track Of 6,000 Foreigners
by Brian Ross and Matthew Mosk. But they have your e-mails. The Department of Homeland Security
has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who entered the
United States on student visas, overstayed their welcome, and
essentially vanished -- exploiting a security gap that was supposed to
be fixed after the Sept. 11, ... MOREFeds Creating Database To Track Hate Speech On Twitter
by Elizabeth Harrington. The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter. The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major ... MOREGene Robinson: Is America A Police State? For Many, Yes
An everyday reality for millions. I don't know what it's like to live in a police state. But some people who live in America do. This week, a video surfaced of an event that occurred in St. Paul, Minnesota, back in January—and it's as horrifying as anything I've seen and heard in a long time. I've watched it several times because (1) I can't believe ... MORE
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