Measures to Capture Illegal Aliens Snare Citizens
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This is absolutely wrong and is a very good example of why the current hysteria over illegal immigration is a bad thing. We are a nation of immigrants. We shouldn’t be so paranoid about immigrants that we’re willing to treat citizens like crooks.
At what point does the need for security eclipse human dignity and compassion?
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Yesterday I went through the imaging scanner at JFK Terminal 4 for my Virgin America flight to San Francisco. Evidently they found something, because after the scan, I was asked to step aside to have my breast area examined. I explained to the agent that I was a breast cancer patient and had a …
Another Poppy Seed-Based Child Abduction
Another Poppy Seed-Based Child Abduction
For the second time in a year, Lawrence County Children and Youth Services has been accused in a federal lawsuit of removing a child from a mother’s custody after a positive test for opiates allegedly triggered by poppy seeds.
Eileen Ann Bower, a Lawrence County resident …
Wisconsin Takes a Step Backwards in Police Accountability
I was disappointed to see that state Representative Robin Vos is undoing one of the good reforms that Governor Doyle put into place.
In the bad old days, Milwaukee police officers had cut a sweet deal that allowed them to keep collecting paychecks and benefits when they were fired by the police chief until …
Unions: A Right to a Union?
Do workers have a right to unionize? If a legislature changes the law to remove collective bargaining, does that deprive workers of their rights?
It depends. It depends on which rights you’re talking about and on which rights the law covers.
There are two kinds of rights. The first kind is negative rights. Negative rights either permit …
Videotape the Police Whenever You Can
Can you trust the police? What about the courts? The answer may depend on whether or not they think anyone is watching.
Last March, after the University of Maryland men’s basketball team beat Duke, students spilled out into College Park to celebrate. That brought out the riot police. In footage captured by several students …
Mississippi Hates People with Allergies or Colds
Mississippi governor Haley Barbour signed a bill last month requiring all patients to get a prescription before buying any medicine containing pseudoephedrine.
This is insane. This is seriously insane. This law — and Federal laws requiring Sudafed to be kept behind the pharmacist’s counter — have done nothing to curtail access to meth. These laws have …
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Are you tired of politics?
God knows, I am. As big a politics junkie as I used to be – in my time as a flag-wavin’, God-fearin’ Republican there wasn’t a Townhall.com update I didn’t read, nor an issue of The Economist I didn’t completely consume for more general news before moving on to a …
Stalin = Hitler
”It is is depressing that it even needed to be discussed,” begins The Economist latest Europe.view column. From that opening sentence it proceeds to inform us of the Russian reaction to a resolution by the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) equating Stalin with Hitler.
’…the OSCE resolution prompted outrage …
Tactics for Liberty: How Libertarians Can Struggle
Liberty activist Sam Dodson’s recent victory over the Cheshire County government in New Hampshire has inspired our own Webmaster Joe – but like many family men, he feels he hasn’t the right to jeopardize his wife and two daughters’ security by committing civil disobedience.
I’m not sure I agree with his description of illegal activism as …