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...
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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...
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
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