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250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre

by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured Articles

You can still see the spot. If you take the Freedom Trail tour in Boston, a uniformed park ranger will let you stand right on the spot where five Americans were killed by British soldiers on the night of March 5, 1770. This bloody encounter came to be known as “The Boston Massacre.” That fateful and fatal clash happened 250 years ago today. However, the fuse that set off that powder keg was lit a couple of years before that night. Here’s the part of the story that is rarely told. For years prior to the massacre, animosity toward the British by the colonists had been growing. The British...

DHS to Tell States How to Implement REAL ID Requirements

by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. | Dec 9, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is graciously willing to instruct states on how to implement plans to enforce the REAL ID statute requirements that go into force on October 2020. One of the suggestions being offered to states is the creation of online applications for state-issued, REAL ID-compliant identification, specifically drivers licenses. “Allowing online applications would help expedite services at state departments of motor vehicles that are experiencing long lines and wait times as they scramble to issue millions of new drivers’ licenses and ID cards that conform...

Homeschool Mom Arrested, Children Seized by CPS for ‘Educational Neglect’

by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. | Mar 1, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

The government values education; in fact, they value it so much that they’re willing to go to great lengths to exercise control over curricula in every school district in every state so as to ensure that children receive the education that they deserve. That’s what Kiarre Harris (shown) discovered when her two children were snatched away from her because the government deemed her teaching to be inadequate. A single mother currently residing in Buffalo, New York, Harris had enrolled her children in public school. However, displeased with the teaching methods being used in the public schools...