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...
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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...
There Is No ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card for the President
by John Whitehead | Jun 8, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.“—Richard Nixon Someone needs to alert Donald Trump: there is no “Get Out of Jail Free” card just for being president. According to Trump’s Twitter feed, he believes that he has an absolute right to pardon...
TGIF: Separation, Not Association, Requires Force
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 8, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Whenever I write about Palestine, Israel, and Zionism -- especially when I point out that American Reform Jews en masse gagged on the thought that America was not their "homeland"; they insisted they were Jewish Americans not American Jews -- I am lectured on Facebook...
Palestinian Lesson in Ethics
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 7, 2018 | Blog, Justice
The 'Right to Try' War Was Actually Won on the State Level
by Michael Maharrey | Jun 5, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
On May 30th, President Donald Trump signed the federal Right to Try Act into law. The new law will allow terminally ill patients to access investigational treatments that have not received final FDA approval. During the signing ceremony, Trump said, "With the 'Right...
SCOTUS Whiffs on Masterpiece Cake Ruling Ep. 80
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jun 5, 2018 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZtX-9qyzE Click Here for Audio Only The Supreme Court handed down a very dissatisfying ruling in the Masterpiece case on Monday, holding in a 7-2 opinion that: "[t]he Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s actions in assessing a cakeshop...
Heralded by Palestinians as ‘angel’ and ‘merciful martyr,’ Razan Al-Najjar is an afterthought in western press
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | Jun 4, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice
Let’s say Hamas fired a rocket that killed a young Israeli nurse while she was tending to the wounded from earlier rockets. Is there any doubt that the mainstream media would cover her death extensively, with photos, and interviews with friends and family? But when...
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