If you fall asleep or use the bathroom during your next flight, those incriminating facts could be added to your federal dossier. Likewise, if you use your laptop or look at noisy children seated nearby with a “cold, penetrating stare,” that may be included on your...
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TGIF: Depopulating Palestine, Dehumanizing the Palestinians
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 27, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Sheldon Richman
One might have thought that, in the wake of the Nazi regime's systematic crimes against humanity last century, dehumanization would have become unthinkable once and for all. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. It has shamefully continued unabated, the assorted...
Virginia Couple Sues to Protect Their First Amendment Right to Teach
by Andrew Wimer | Jul 26, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
In Virginia, you can teach anyone anything—except how to earn an honest living. That’s the lesson Jon and Tracy McGlothian learned when they tried to open a school to teach job skills to adults in their Virginia Beach community. Yet the State Council of Higher...
Palestine Lost
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Justice
To appreciate the enormity of the crimes against the Palestinian people, one must understand that while persons are certainly individuals, they are something more as well. That's what we mean when we use words like society, culture, and people. What has happened to...
TGIF: Trump Turns to Gaza as Middle East Deal of the Century Collapses
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The Trump administration's "Deal of the Century" for the Palestine-Israel has, predictably, gone over like a lead balloon. So it's shifting gears. The Washington Post reports, "With President Trump’s promised Middle East peace plan stalled, administration officials...
School Strip-Searches 22 Sixth-Grade Girls Because a Cop Thought They Were Hiding $50 in Their Underwear
by Robby Soave | Jul 8, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
When $50 went missing during the choir class's sixth-grade field trip, Lanier Middle School's police officer informed its assistant principal that sometimes "girls like to hide things in their bras and panties." The assistant principal then ordered the choir's 22...
The Second Amendment is For All Races
by Rob Faust | Jul 7, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
“No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms” were the words Thomas Jefferson wrote in three drafts of the Virginia Constitution. There’s a reason for that, it’s a powerful phrase, one with a sentiment that should be remembered and respected by our government. ...
TGIF: The Trump-Kushner Delusion on Palestine
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Here's a shocker: Donald Trump and his Palestine-Israel fixers think they can buy a peaceful and permanent settlement of the 70-year conflict by getting Arab governments to pressure the Palestinians into forgetting the "politicians' talking points" -- you know,...