Tyler Harrell was found guilty of a charge of aggravated assault today in a case that should concern anyone who cares about the right to self-defense. Back in 2016, Harrell grabbed his AK-47 after being awaken by a loud bang. With him and his mom believing his house...
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St. Louis Town Agrees to Stop Bankrolling Itself by Fining Its Residents into the Poorhouse
by Scott Shackford | May 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
A small St. Louis suburb has agreed to stop trying bankroll its government with a vicious regime of petty fines so excessive that the town has cited more than a third of its population. Credit goes to the Institute for Justice, which sued the tiny town of Pagedale...
A Picture Can Be Worth a Thousands Words
by Sheldon Richman | May 22, 2018 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
Killing Gaza: New documentary features Life Under Siege
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 19, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice
On August 13, as a five-day ceasefire took hold in Israel’s 51 day war with Gaza, Max Blumenthal and I headed for the hyper-militarized border terminal at Erez crossing. We had no plans to make a documentary at that point. I brought along my camera and shotgun...
The Perverse Incentives of Punishment
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 19, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Todd Entrekin, the sheriff of the small Alabama county of Etowah, recently found himself in the national spotlight when an Alabama newspaper discovered that over the course of three years he pocketed at least $750,000 budgeted for feeding the people detained in his...
Thoughts on Palestine
by Sheldon Richman | May 19, 2018 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
For the record, the children of Abraham didn't exactly acquire Canaan through Lockean homesteading. Joshua (assuming the fable is true) was a genocidal conqueror. Revs. Robert Jeffress and John Hagee opened and closed the U.S. embassy dedication in Jerusalem. What's...
Supreme Court’s Sports Gambling Opinion is a Rare and Major Win for the Tenth Amendment
by Michael Maharrey | May 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Murphy v. NCAA. The Court’s opinion was rare in that it not only struck down a federal law that infringed on the reserved powers of the states, but also expanded on the long-standing anti-commandeering doctrine....
Donald Trump vs The Constitution
by Rob Faust | May 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Donald Trump is a lot of things; a fan of the Constitution isn’t one of them. Throughout his relatively short time as president Donald Trump has verbally assaulted no less than five amendments. Most of these have come in the form of an ill-conceived tweet and haven’t...
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