Speaking Ill Of The Police Is Now A "Hate Crime"
by William Norman Grigg. The NYPD has now added its name to the roster of Officially Protected Victims by filing “hate crimes” charges against 36-year-old Rosella Best, who had tagged police vehicles and a public school with anti-NYPD graffiti. Among the entirely defensible sentiments inscribed by Best are “NYPD pick on the harmless,” ... MORECops Say Tasering 8-Year-Old For Tantrum Was Justified
by Vincent Schilling. Two months after an 8-year-old girl was tasered by a Pierre, South
Dakota police officer in October of 2013, Hughes County State’s Attorney
Wendy Kloeppner released a report
which stated “she was satisfied with an independent investigation,
deploying a taser was the best viable way to diffuse the situation,” and
no charges would ... MOREDick Marple: Jury Nullification Keeps Government In Check
Sept 5th was Jury Rights Day. It was on that day in 1670 that Quaker William Penn of London was arrested, pleaded not guilty and subsequently argued against England’s Conventicle Acts, which outlawed the practice of religions other than the Church of England. The judge instructed the jurors to find Penn guilty, but they refused to ... MOREDan Mitchell: America's Ever-Expanding Regulation Swamp
An economy tangled in red tape. Maybe I’m biased because I mostly work on fiscal policy, but it certainly seems feasible to come up with rough estimates for the damage caused by onerous taxes and excessive spending. On a personal level, for instance, we have a decent idea of how much the government takes from us and we know ... MORETim Walberg: Stopping The Abuse Of Civil Asset Forfeiture
The robbery of the highwayman. Imagine you are driving down the highway on your way to buy a car. You spent months researching years, makes and models, and you finally found somebody who was selling the exact ride you were looking for at a reasonable price. Suddenly, police pull you over for allegedly going 37 mph in a 35 mph zone. ... MOREMark Strauss: How To Reduce Painkiller Overdoses
Just ask states with legalized medical marijuana. As the number of patients who receive opioid prescriptions to treat non-cancer pain has increased in the past decade, so too have the number of overdoses. A new study, however, finds that states that legalized medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010 had 25% fewer annual ... MORERonald Bailey: How to Slake California's Thirst
"Nature makes a drought, but Man makes a shortage." That's the trenchant slogan that the Leiden University College water resource economist David Zetland uses to sum up how bureaucratic mismanagement of supply and demand misallocates water pervasively. California's current water crisis—exacerbated by a three-year ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: Food Trucks Have Turned the Corner
Are we at the dawn of a new era for food trucks? Food truck cuisine has often been about pushing boundaries. Think Korean tacos. But how about a cannabis-infused food truck? Earlier this year,
NPR
reported on the THC-infused pulled-pork sandwiches cooked up by
a Denver food truck. Sound like a new era for food trucks? While cannabis ... MORESenator Rand Paul: ‘I Am Not An Isolationist’
The senator clarifies his position. Some pundits are surprised that I support destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militarily. They shouldn’t be. I’ve said since I began public life that I am not an isolationist, nor am I an interventionist. I look at the world, and consider war, realistically and constitutionally. I still see war as ... MOREMarijuana Legalization Supported By Growing Majority
by Matt Ferner. A broad new survey shows that a majority of American adults continue to support marijuana legalization in the United States, and that support appears to be growing. The survey, released last week from online polling data company CivicScience, asked more than 450,000 U.S. adults over the last two years this question: "Would you ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: An Unhappy Summer For Liberty
Government more effective against liberty than terror. At the root of the chaos in the Middle East and here at home are governments that respect no limits on their exercise of power. Public officials — who are supposed to be our public servants — routinely behave as if they are our masters. They reject the confines of the ... MORE
Jerry Davich: Do Sobriety Checks Trample On Our Rights?
“Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.” — Ben Franklin. Are police-conducted sobriety checkpoints a necessary law enforcement tool to remove drunken drivers from our roads? Or are they an unreasonable search of our property and an unconstitutional invasion of our rights and privacy? Hammond Police Department Lt. ... MOREUtilize Jury Nullification To Make America Free Again
by Ed Forchion. By design of the founders of America, U.S. citizens are the final arbiters of our nation’s laws via our jury system. I don’t think the founding fathers could have envisioned “America the free” becoming “America the prison country.” I was jailed for saying that in 2002 – we have political prisoners in America too. The incarceration rate in ... MOREDirty Money: How Asset Forfeiture Enriches The State
by Ciera Crawford. It's like an unforgettable scene from the television crime drama, Miami Vice — Detectives Rico Tubbs and Sonny Crockett pursue some of the biggest drug dealers and smugglers from around the world. Except it's not the 1980s. Criminals are now more sophisticated with their crime rings, and it takes more than one unit to bring ... MORE
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