Rich Lowry: Why Won’t Pamela Geller Shut Up?
Real hate speech is shut up or I'll kill you. How dare Pamela Geller get targeted by terrorists bent on committing mass murder. That’s been the reaction of a portion of the opinion elite to news that Geller’s “draw Muhammad” contest in Garland, Texas, was (unsuccessfully) assaulted by two heavily armed Muslim men in an attack the ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Restore The Fourth
Stop the pernicious assault on privacy. If you plan to visit a college campus this month, don't be surprised if you see signs and placards encouraging you to "Restore the Fourth." Restore the Fourth is not about an athletic event or a holiday; it is about human freedom. The reference to "the Fourth" is to the Fourth Amendment, and it is badly in ... MOREOf Snowden And The NSA, Only One Has Acted Unlawfully
by James Ball. And it's not Snowden. On 6 June 2013, the Guardian published a secret US court order against the phone company Verizon, ordering it on an “ongoing, daily basis” to hand over the call records of its millions of US customers to the NSA – just one of numerous orders enabling the government’s highly secret domestic mass surveillance ... MORELawmakers Move To End Warrantless Domestic Surveillance
by Grant Gross. If only we had a Fourth Amendment, this wouldn't be necessary. A new bill in Congress would require law enforcement agencies to get
court-ordered warrants before targeting U.S. residents in searches of
electronic communications collected by the National Security Agency. The End Warrantless Surveillance of Americans
Act, introduced ... MOREChriss Street: The Sun Is Engaging In Climate Change Denial
Another problem for Al. The sun is known to be the main driver of all weather and climate. With 99.86% of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of violent fire in the sky has recently gone quiet in what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century and actually flatlined in recent days. Weak solar cycles, like the current one, ... MORE
Woman Sues LAPD For Kidnap And Sexually Assault
Punished for not putting out. When Kim Nguyen called a cab after a few drinks, she thought she was on the right side of the law. But in spite of her best efforts, the 27-year-old pharmacist explains she was thrown from a police cruiser after Los Angeles police officers kidnapped and sexually assaulted her while she was waiting for that cab. ... MOREJacob Sullum: No Wonder Freddie Gray Ran From The Cops
Explaining the anger. When the cops chasing Freddie Gray caught up with him, they had a problem: He had not done anything illegal. They solved that problem the way cops often do: They picked a charge after the fact. According to Marilyn Mosby, the state's attorney for Baltimore, that charge, carrying a switchblade, was legally unfounded. Gray's ... MOREAncestry.Com Is Now Sharing Your DNA With The Police
by Joshua Krause. The police state just took a very dark turn. We all know that private corporations tend to side with the government on privacy issues, and they’re more than willing to hand over our information when the government asks for it. Google and Facebook are pretty well-known examples of that, and they’ve been doing it for so long ... MOREBaltimore’s Missing Fathers
by Ken Blackwell and Rob Schwarzwalder. The rioting in Baltimore is disturbing to all Americans, as the unresolved cause of Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody should be as well. It is right that political and religious leaders, community groups, business organizations and law enforcement officials are commenting about all the ... MOREFederal Court Deals A Huge Blow To Cellphone Privacy
More warrantless searches for Americans ahead. The government doesn't need a warrant to search cellphone tower location records, a federal appeals court in Atlanta has ruled. In a potentially wide-ranging ruling, the court said that because cellphone owners technically "volunteer" their location to providers when they ... MOREJohn Stossel: Hillary's Armor
Borrowing Bill's teflon. "This vast right-wing conspiracy," Hillary Clinton said, "has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced." That was the "feminist" first lady's response when her husband was accused of having sex with a 21-year-old. Bill was more lawyerly. He said things like, "It depends upon what the meaning of the ... MORE Robby Soave: CNN Anchor Says That The Constitution Doesn’t Protect Hate Speech. She Should Try Reading It
Spoiler: Hate speech actually is protected. Chris Cuomo is co-host of CNN’s morning show. He’s also a former law
and justice correspondent for ABC News. He has a law degree from Fordham
University and is a licensed attorney. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is
his brother. In other words, this is somebody you’d expect would know what ... MOREWhen Violence And Lawlessness Are Acceptable
by Radley Balko. Yesterday, the Fox News show Fox & Friends devoted a segment to discussing the shooting of New York Police Dept. officer Brian Moore.
The discussion was framed in a particularly absurd way. Why, the hosts
asked, aren’t there protests and riots when police officers are killed,
as there are when police kill suspects? It’s the sort of question ... MOREIn Surprise Move, Puerto Rico Legalizes Medical Marijuana
by Daniel Kreps. In a surprise move, Puerto Rico's Governor Alejandro García Padilla
signed an executive order legalizing the use of medical marijuana in the
U.S. territory. The order, which was heavily debated in Puerto Rico
since 2013 but never put to a public vote, went into immediate effect.
The Caribbean island joins 23 other U.S. ... MOREFree Coffee To Cops Policy Burns Starbucks
No good deed goes unpunished. A Raleigh police officer who was given a free cup of coffee by Starbucks is now suing the company after he spilled it and got burned. In the lawsuit, Matthew Kohr, a lieutenant with RPD, said the lid popped off the cup of coffee he ordered at the Starbucks on Peace Street in January 2012 and the cup collapsed. ... MOREFarmers Unable to Repair Tractors Because Of Copyright
by Rick Falkvinge. Stories are starting to appear about farmers unable to repair tractors and car aficionados unable to tinker with cars because of copyright legislation. That's not a side effect. It was the whole idea of the law. This week, there have been stories about farmers who can’t legally repair their John Deere tractors, as copyright monopoly ... MOREEmergency Room Visits Continue to Rise Under Obamacare
by Peter Suderman. Another Obamacare promise bites the dust. In September, 2009, President Obama gave a prime time speech to the
joint Congress making the case for the health care law that would come
to be known as Obamacare. Much of the speech was devoted to explaining
and justifying the law’s major components. Subsidies, he argued, ... MOREManny Pacquiao Perpetrates Fraud, Commits Perjury In Order To Cash In On Huge Payday, Risks Disciplinary Action
We expect politicians to lie, but boxers? Manny Pacquiao faces a potential lawsuit after failing to disclose a shoulder injury before his defeat by Floyd Mayweather. Pacquiao will spend up to a year on the sidelines as he prepares to undergo surgery on his torn rotator cuff, an injury he suffered in training. But the Filipino star could also be ... MORE
Why The Bill Of Rights Would Never Pass Today
by Charles C W Cooke. Having watched closely the manner in which questions of liberty and
power are batted around in the first part of the 21st century — most
recently during the disgraceful contretemps that Indiana’s rather tame
Religious Freedom Restoration Act provoked across the land — I have come
to wonder of late whether the Bill of ... MORERowan Lee: ACLU Releases App To Track & Record Police
What if citizens required justice? The ACLU has begun to roll out a new program through the form of an app that they call the Mobile Justice Crime Unit. Currently only a handful of states carry the program, as shown here with California’s service, but the app’s outreach is growing. The website is ultra-modern – achieving the ... MORE Available on iTunes Thomas Sowell: Race, Politics and Lies
Behavior matters and so do facts. Among the many painful ironies in the current racial turmoil is that communities scattered across the country were disrupted by riots and looting because of the demonstrable lie that Michael Brown was shot in the back by a white policeman in Missouri — but there was not nearly as much turmoil created by ... MOREFrom The Drug War To Militarizing Police, Why Does The Left Still Support Federal Control Of Local Policing?
March of the Democrats. Glenn 'Instapundit' Reynolds has a great column in USA Today demolishing the idea—floated by the Obama administration and pushed recently by Al Sharpton—that a nationalized police force would somehow be an improvement, from a civil liberties perspective, over the current situation. The Obama ... MOREBrendan O'Neill: Meet The Vagina Voters
Voting for Hillary because she's a woman. "I intend to vote with my vagina." Have you ever read a more squirm-inducing sentence than that? It appeared in a pro-Hillary piece in Dame magazine, written by a person with a vagina who intends to vote for Clinton because she also has a vagina. Let's leave aside the unfortunate image conjured up by ... MORESteve Chapman: False Fears About Free Trade
Demonizing freedom is always a mistake. Political debates often pit fear against hope, and when it comes to international trade agreements, many Democrats prefer to scare. It's a durable strategy that they can't relinquish—even though it usually fails. If you're going to make a horror movie, you need a villain who can make your blood run ... MOREPolice State Plan To Deploy A Vehicle-Tracking Database
from National Motorists Association. We predicted it would happen. A year after the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) scuttled plans to build its own nationwide database of
vehicle license plate data, the agency is seeking bids from private contractors to provide the agency access to the same information. DHS canceled last year’s plan ... MOREPatriot Act Faces Revisions Backed by Both Parties
by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauser. Maybe NSA will just ignore the law again. After more than a decade of wrenching national debate over the intrusiveness of government intelligence agencies, a bipartisan wave of support has gathered to sharply limit the federal government’s sweeps of phone and Internet records. ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: The GMO Debate Heats Up (Again)
Federal, state, and local laws. The debate over GMOs has heated up again. It's been only a month since I last wrote about the issue. But a host of new developments at the federal, state, and local levels have drawn widespread attention. In Oregon, a heated public hearing
took place over a ridiculous and unconstitutional proposed county
ordinance, ... MOREEd Krayewski: Freddie Gray Death Ruled Homicide - All Cops Involved Being Charged Are Still Drawing Paychecks
Government has its perks. The state's attorney, Marilyn Mosby, announced Freddie Gray's death,
from a spinal injury incurred while in police custody, has been ruled a
homicide. Mosby announced charges for all the officers involved. ABC
News reports: Mosby announced a series of charges now facing the six police officers
involved in putting ... MORE
This Is Why So Many People Are Homeschooling!
A letter from the school: Dear Mr and Mrs. Rossi, I understand that your family recently took a family vacation. I want you to be aware that the Abington School District does not recognize family trips as an excused absence, regardless of the activities involved in the trip. The school district is not in the position of overseeing family vacations or ... MORES E Cupp: Houston Rockets, Emojis & Political Correctness
Stick a fork in us. We are done. Political correctness has finally corrupted rational thought and common sense to the point that garden variety sports trash talk is a firing offense. Consider the case of Chad Shanks. He was hired to grow the Houston Rockets’ social media presence. By all accounts, Shanks had done a good job, posting edgy ... MORE
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