Iowa Highway Seizure Exposes Evil Asset-Forfeiture Laws
by Robert O'Harrow Jr. How government allows itself to steal. The two men in the rented red Nissan Altima were poker players traveling through Iowa on their way to Las Vegas. The police were state troopers on the hunt for criminals, contraband and cash. They intersected last year on a rural stretch of Interstate 80, in a seemingly routine traffic ... MOREObamaCare Enrollment Estimates Lowered By A Third
4 million fewer enrollments than predicted. The Department of Health and Human Services expects ObamaCare enrollments through the federal and state exchanges to come in between 9 million and 9.9 million by the end of 2015, according to CNBC, far lower than the most recent estimate released by the Congressional Budget Office in April of ... MORE
Momentum To Legalize Marijuana In California Is Growing
by Kurtis Alexander. After Tuesday’s election, just one piece of the West Coast remained unwelcoming to recreational pot: California. But with voters in Oregon and Alaska legalizing the use and sale of marijuana — joining Washington and Colorado in inviting retail spreads of cannabis-infused teas and brownies and joints — advocates see fresh ... MORETyrannical Governing Body Placed Under Citizen's Arrest
by Phil Rogers and Patrick McCraney. In a highly unusual move, the leader of a Downstate watchdog group placed an entire park district board under a citizen's arrest for failing to allow public comment and violating a state disclosure law. Public boards are used to facing angry crowds, but most have never dealt with what happened at one ... MORE
Jim Hightower: Rabid Florida Police SWAT At Barbers
Barney Fifes on steroids. When it comes to policing an area, the good people of Orange Country,
Florida are lucky, because they’ve got the astonishing law-enforcement
team of DBPR and OCSO on the beat, eager to stop any possible criminal
activity. Consider just one example of the truly-incredible vigilance of
this dynamic policing duo. ... MOREHow San Francisco's Progressive Policies Hurt The Poor
by Scott Beyer. In recent years, a contradiction has unfolded in San Francisco. On the one hand, the city continues to practice progressive economic policies. But rather than helping its poor and middle-class—as such policies are advertised as doing—these groups in San Francisco have become more unequal, downwardly mobile, and altogether ... MOREJacob Sullum: Cannabis and Capitalism - The Horror?
The people's initiatives. Three marijuana legalization initiatives were on the ballot last
week, and all
three won. That's a better outcome than I was expecting. I was
surprised when voters in Colorado and Washington approved
legalization two years ago, and I was surprised again when
voters in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C., ... MOREElection 2014: Victories And Defeats For Individual Rights
by Ari Armstrong. If the victorious Republicans follow through on their campaign promises—for example, many promised to work toward repealing or defunding ObamaCare—election day will have been a net win for advocates of individual rights, despite the passage of some rights-violating ballot measures. Consider some of the relevant ... MOREHow To Serve A Warrant: 1972 Versus Today
by Lt. Harry Thomas. This past week I was over on Officer.com trying to convince some hot-headed, patriot-hating young cops that the Constitution is actually the law of the land. I failed. One of them refers to open carriers as “attention whores.” I was denounced as a traitor to law enforcement for insisting that gun owners actually have rights ... MOREMcConnell Will Back Rand Paul For President
by Alex Pappas. Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will back
fellow Kentuckian Rand Paul for president if the libertarian-leaning
Republican decides to run. “I’m a big supporter of Rand Paul,” McConnell told the Lexington Herald-Leader. “We’ve developed a very tight relationship, and I’m for him.”Pressed by the ... MOREWill The Supreme Court Redeem Itself On ObamaCare?
by Damon Root. ObamaCare goes back on trial. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to rule on the Obamacare case King v. Burwell, which asks whether the text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act forbids the granting of tax credits to individuals who purchased insurance on health care exchanges operated by the federal government. ... MORE
Why Cops Can Seize Your Property Even If You're Innocent
by Erin Fuchs. In a Philadelphia suburb last year, cops seized the home of a couple who had never been charged with a crime. Their son had allegedly dealt heroin out of the house, and cops said the home could be seized because it was tied to illegal activities. Markela and Chris Sourovelis — who owned the house — said they had no knowledge ... MOREJed S. Rakoff: Why Innocent People Plead Guilty
And why does the system promote such? The criminal justice system in the United States today bears little relationship to what the Founding Fathers contemplated, what the movies and television portray, or what the average American believes. To the Founding Fathers, the critical element in the system was the jury trial, which served ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The FBI - America's Secret Police
Secret police. Secret courts. Secret government agencies. Surveillance. Intimidation tactics. Harassment. Torture. Brutality. Widespread corruption. Entrapment schemes. These are the hallmarks of every authoritarian regime from the Roman Empire to modern-day America, yet it’s the secret police—tasked with silencing ... MOREDemocrats Turn On The REAL Enemy: Each Other
by J.D. Tuccille. Even before the Democratic
Party's...drubbing
(that seems to be the favored term this time around) in yesterday's
elections, the White House was already blaming its supposed allies
for the defeats that were (correctly) anticipated once voters
trooped to the polls. "Ultimately, you know, it's the quality of these candidates ... MORE
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