Above: “Achmed, they’ve just subpoena’d Osama!”
You could quite justifiably tell me I’m a little late to discuss whether captured terrorists should be allowed full trials according to American law; after all, the Supreme Court ruled the answer to be a big old Yes well over a year ago now.
But I’ve got something to get off [...]
It used to be that a person had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Now? The government snoops on you through your children. Woe be to the person that does anything the government finds questionable.
I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter’s annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse. [...]
We’d all do well to occasionally remember what exactly we mean by the word “freedom”.
I thought about that as I read through the Heritage Foundation’s Freedom Index for 2007, a list which rates each of 161 countries in the world according to that country’s level of economic freedom - that is, the level of control [...]
You don’t own your car unless the government allows you to. If I were you, I’d avoid driving through Rockford, Illinois anytime soon.
TheAgitator.com: Turn It Up, Lose Your Car: Comments
A new Rockford, Illinois law allows police to seize the automobiles of owners who play their stereos too loud. But it gets worse: [...]
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”. Do you think that still applies? I don’t. Not when a family can have their car seized and held by the police, before anyone was even convicted of a crime.
Take this story, [...]
It used to be that DUI citations were given out for actually driving while under the influence of alcohol. Increasingly, they’re being given out for simply being “under the influence”. This strikes me as a gross violation of civil liberties. Since when did it become illegal to simply have alcohol in your system?
The first story [...]
ACLU sues DEA on behalf of truck whose money was seized | Houston Chronicle
A trucker has sued the Drug Enforcement Administration, seeking to get back nearly $24,000 seized by DEA agents earlier this month at a weigh station on U.S. 54 in New Mexico north of El Paso, Texas. Anastasio [...]
Back in the day, America had a federal government. That meant that the national government was responsible for national defense, foreign policy, and not much else. That meant that states were free to govern themselves as they saw fit. That meant that states were free to act in the best interests of their citizens.
Sadly, that’s [...]
Algerian women are slowly doing what women in few Islamic countries are able to do — they are gaining independence from the men in their lives. I couldn’t be happier.
Women make up 70 percent of Algeria’s lawyers and 60 percent of its judges. Women dominate medicine. Increasingly, women contribute more to household income [...]
Police officials in North Platte, Nebraska are moving dangerously close to an act of pure insanity:
In response to a recent report from the U.S. Surgeon General about the dangers of second-hand smoke, local police officials report they are preparing to crack down on drivers who expose their children to second-hand smoke. [...]