Updated Feb. 11, 2019 Early one morning last December, Jeff Gracik was heading to his southern California home garage-workshop where he makes his living when he heard a loud, hurried knock on his front door. Thinking it might be a rushed UPS driver, he quickly opened...
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Realities of the U.S. Justice System Ep. 105
by Patrick Macfarlane | Feb 3, 2019 | Justice, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHhQEtf9osU I've been practicing law for about 5 months now. Not a super long time, but I've already learned some realities about how the system REALLY works. Check out Thijs van der Linde's new show! Gaius Libertatis Episode 105 of the...

TGIF: The FDA’s Assault on Tobacco Consumers, Part 2
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 1, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
A bill introduced in the U.S. House last month would ban the flavoring of any “tobacco product.” The targets are vaping devices (vapes, e-cigarettes), but also cigars and pipe tobacco. (Flavored conventional cigarettes, other than menthol, have already been banned.)...

TGIF: The FDA’s Assault on Tobacco Consumers
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 25, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
We’ve all heard horror stories about the run-amok regulatory state. Enabled by open-ended statutes passed by Congress and signed by presidents, regulatory agencies have acquired virtual carte blanche to write rules governing peaceful behavior. Even when a seemingly...
TGIF: Gassing Migrants
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 30, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The Trump administration and its apologists are quick to point out that Barack Obama was as willing as Donald Trump himself to tear-gas desperate people trying to protect themselves by crossing America’s southern border. So he was, though many will refuse to believe...
Black man killed by cop during Alabama mall shooting had gun permit: father
by The Associated Press | Nov 27, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
The father of a black man killed by a police officer during a shooting at an Alabama mall said his son had a permit to carry a gun for self-defence, adding it was hurtful police initially portrayed his son as the shooter. Emantic “EJ” Bradford Jr., 21, was fatally...
TGIF: The Art of the Smear — The Israel Lobby Busted
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In 2016 and 2017 Al Jazeera produced a program that unmistakenly documents the Israel government and U.S. Israel lobby’s all-out effort to spy on, smear, and disrupt American students and other activists who are working to build an understanding of the Palestinians’...
TGIF: My Most Excellent Election Day Experience
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Last Tuesday, special day that it was, I awoke early and prepared to go out. By 7 a.m., I was where I always go on this special day, eager to do my duty and exercise my sacred right to choose. Entering the warm, brightly lit building, I was greeted by friendly folks...