Friday, January 6, 2017 Sheriffs as Slavemasters: Will Inmate Labor Be Used to Build Trump’s Wall? “Liberty, if I understand it at all, is a general principle, and the clear right of the subjects within the realm, or of none,” declared British statesman Edmund Burke in an April 3, 1777 message to the Sheriffs of […]

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 The Perverse Ingenuity, and Routine Lawlessness, of Law Enforcers Enforcers of drug prohibition can be perversely ingenious in devising methods to subvert due process guarantees. One tactic widely employed by police officers looking for a way to circumvent the Fourth Amendment is to intimidate a subject into giving the officers permission […]

Sunday, January 15, 2017 When A Fugitive Dies, “Blue Privilege” Makes All the Difference Pleasant Grove, Utah resident Ashleigh Holloway Best killed herself in the early hours of May 17, 2016 when she lost control of the stolen 2002 Lincoln Navigator she was driving and plowed it into a tree. The man who was pursuing […]

Saturday, January 28, 2017 Don’t Trigger Sheriff Snowflake — Or He May Have You Killed Sheriff David Clarke of Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County is the most fragile of precious snowflakes, and one of the most self-enraptured petty tyrants in recent American history.  While settling in for a January 15 flight from Dallas to Milwaukee, Clarke – […]

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Teaching Kids to Trust the Police is Child Abuse Somebody who would do this to a child should be horsewhipped, at the very least. Integral to the American concept of liberty is the right to hold the state at bay, which is why children are never too young to be taught […]

Friday, January 20, 2017 The Slow-Motion State Murder of Michael Whiteley   The “Black Widow of Bonneville County”: Silvia Canido, seen here in Bolivia. Facing the prospect of life in prison – and the plausible threat of execution – Idaho Falls resident Michael Whiteley had every conceivable reason to plead guilty to a charge of […]

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 They’re All “Heroes” — No Matter What Laws they Enforce Actually, it was a righteous rebellion, not a mere “riot.” Given the rarity of the surname, it is likely that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is related to deputy federal marshal Edward Gorsuch, who was killed an in violent episode that […]

Sunday, March 12, 2017 A “Deal” to Protect the Guilty: Bonneville County’s Indecent Proposal to Chris Tapp (IMPORTANT UPDATE, 3/21) Danny Clark’s 14th Century antecedent administers “justice.” See the update below Idaho Falls resident Christopher Tapp has spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit. He was convicted on […]