Home Surveillance Records Cop Assaulting And Abusing Teen Without Cause; Charges Him With Resisting Arrest
Another criminal with a badge. Police in New Jersey are investigating allegations that one of their own officers roughed up and abused a teenager, and the whole thing was caught on camera. It happened Saturday night. The cop was at the teen's house and the young man ended up handcuffed in the snow in a t-shirt and no shoes. Michael doesn't want us to use ... MOREIlya Shapiro: Clearly Worded Contracts Should Be Enforced
A concept that escapes some courts. Freedom of contract—the right of individuals to manage and govern their own affairs—is a basic and necessary liberty. The appropriate role of the government in contract-law disputes is to hold parties to their word, not to enforce its own policy preferences. The New Jersey Supreme Court recently struck a ... MOREFCC Chair Appears To Be Hellbent On Internet Takeover
by Andrew Johnson. Two prominent House committee chairs are “deeply disappointed” in Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler for refusing to testify before Congress as “the future of the Internet is at stake.” Wheeler’s refusal to go before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday comes on the eve of the FCC’s vote on ... MOREForced Blood Draws, DNA Collection and Biometric Scans
by John W. Whitehead. What country is this? Our freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—are being choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation. Forced cavity ... MORE
The Whiskey Rebellion: True History And Hidden Lessons
What you weren't told about the power of the people. The standard version of the whiskey rebellion story, the one which I believed until I started reading on the topic, goes something like this…. In 1791, the Congress passed a whiskey tax. In 1792, four back-woods counties in western Pennsylvania, unable to cooperate and accept the new ... MOREJohn Stossel: Kochs And Unions
Lots of people sure hate the Koch brothers. The Kochs get death threats like this: "If I had a chance to murder a Koch brother in cold blood, I would surely take it." Jim Dean doesn't want to kill the Kochs, but he does want new laws to limit their influence. Dean's brother Howard was a Democratic presidential candidate, and Dean chairs a group ... MOREChristopher Mathias: NYC Police Commish William Bratton Says Cops Responsible For 'Worst Parts' Of Black History
Pandering attempt fails to impress. New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton acknowledged on Tuesday that police were to blame for "many of the worst parts of black history" in the United States. Yet advocates for police reform say the comments are merely lip service from an official who continues to reinforce the city's ... MORERonald Bailey: The Red Meat, Eggs, Fat And Salt Diet
Government nutrition nannies get it wrong. Progressives tend to believe that government knows best. The unfolding fiasco over government nutrition misinformation should give them pause. For years now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been recommending that "everyone age 2 and up should consume less than 2,300 ... MOREWhy Should Non-Criminals Care About Justice Reform?
by Julie Borowski. Criminal justice reform has been a hot topic lately. It’s something that both Republicans and Democrats can find common ground on. However, I get the sense that many Americans aren’t convinced that it would benefit them personally. Most of us are probably law-obeying citizens whom would never dream of being involved in illicit ... MOREEdward Snowden's Libertarian Moment: We "Will Remove From Governments The Ability To Interfere With Rights"
by Nick Gillespie. Via
Mark
Sletten comes this thread from yesterday's
Ask Me Anything session at Reddit that featured Edward Snowden,
Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras, and journalist Glenn
Greenwald. The question posed
to Snowden: What's the best way to make NSA spying an issue in the 2016
Presidential Election? It seems like while it was ... MOREPeter Schroeder: Yellen Strongly Opposes Audit Of The Fed
Keeping us peons in the dark. Janet Yellen made a lengthy case Tuesday against legislation to “Audit the Fed.” Yellen
argued that legislation offered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would make
the Fed less effective and, as a result, harm the U.S. economy as well. “I
want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose ‘Audit the Fed,’”
she ... MOREPolice State Update: Florida Cops Deployed Warrantless 'Stingray' Cell Phone Surveillance More Than 1,800 Times
A relentless war on personal privacy. Law enforcement officials in Florida have used ‘Stingray’ surveillance to track cell phone locations on more than 1,800 occasions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). And they did it without obtaining warrants. The discovery was made after the ACLU fileda public records request with over ... MORE
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