Why does Palestine matter? It's a question I ask myself nearly every day. Another way to put it is, "Is the devotion of major attention to the plight of the Palestinians an obsession worthy of suspicion or an appropriate response to a grave historic and continuing...
Justice
Huge Win for Everyone With a Cellphone (and for the Fourth Amendment) at the Supreme Court
by Damon Root | Jun 26, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
In a blockbuster 5-4 decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that warrantless government tracking of cellphone users via their cellphone location records violates the Fourth Amendment. "A person does not surrender all Fourth Amendment protection by...
The Lake Fiasco Ep. 82
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jun 23, 2018 | Economics, Justice, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXB6uggQpEA Audio Only Link I check back in with the show to tell a funny story about my aunt and uncle's annoying neighbors and how a private property society would handle their shenanigans. Please Consider Supporting Projects on...
TGIF: What Does Trump Have Against Children?
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I hate the children being taken away. --Donald Trump Finally, a tweet we can believe. Trump does seem to hate those immigrant children; he must because they're part of the "infestation" he's so alarmed about. But now he's relented. Or has he? A cursory reading of...
Fiddler on the Roof with a New Ending
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog, Justice
Tevye the dairyman is packing his family's belongings because the tsar has just expelled the Jews from Anatevka. As he prepares to leave, a younger resident of the shtetl says, "Reb Tevye, look at the bright side. Beginning in about 50 years, our descendants will do...
The Logical Flaw in Immigration Law
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 20, 2018 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
Apart from the obvious rights violation, I see a serious flaw at the very root of immigration law. Let's begin with an indisputable point: no law passed by Congress and signed by a president applies to people on the far side of a US border. Logically, that must...
A Not So Isolated Incident
by Rob Faust | Jun 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Last week police footage went viral of an incident that happened at New Jersey beach. In the video, a 20-year-old woman, Emily Weinman, was punched in the head several times by a police officer while being arrested. The officer’s justification was that Weinman was...
School Cop Repeatedly Tasers Innocent Special Needs Child for Wanting to Go Outside
by Matt Agorist | Jun 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Katy, TX — The family of a special needs student at Mayde Creek High School has filed a lawsuit against the school district after disturbing video showed a Katy ISD police officer repeatedly taser their son until he defecated himself and threw up. His “crime”? Trying...