Earlier this month, President Joe Biden announced what many perceived to be one of the largest acts of clemency in history. Biden said he was rolling out a mass pardon for all those currently sitting in jail on a federal marijuana possession charge. This announcement...
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News Roundup 1/21/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 21, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Trump pardoned or granted clemency to several non-violent drug offenders before leaving office. [Link] Twitter banned the account of the Chinese Embassy in the US. [Link] Biden officially invited Taiwan’s ambassador to the US to his inauguration. A Taiwanese...
Kevin Gosztola: No Pardons For Edward Snowden Or Julian Assange
by Steven Woskow | Jan 20, 2021 | Blog
"NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, who was the first to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act under Trump, and former CIA officer John Kiriakou pursued pardons. They were effectively denied as well. On January 17, the New York Times reported that an associate of Trump...
Axios Scoop: Trump Pardons Expected Today
by Steven Woskow | Dec 18, 2020 | Blog
From Axios President Trump plans to issue a wave of pardons today, moving to expedite acts of clemency before Christmas, according to a source with direct knowledge and advocates who have been briefed on the plans. What to watch: Trump has been considering pardons for...
The Irredeemable Racism of the Death Penalty
by Tommy Raskin | Jun 18, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
When confronted with overwhelming evidence of a discriminatory state practice, a decent society responds in one of two ways: by trying to remove discrimination from the practice, or by scrapping the practice altogether. In the context of capital punishment, the...
Essential, Yet Illegal?
by Craig Cesal | Apr 20, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The U.S. federal government does a bunch of things that mystify me. They cannot discriminate in conferring benefits based on race, oh, unless it is affirmative action. Government agents cannot search you or your home without first earning a warrant, unless they think...
Crystal Munoz
by Scott Horton | Feb 19, 2020 | Blog
Crystal Munoz is one of the people granted clemency by Trump yesterday. Let's see what it was she did that led to the federal prosecutors kidnapping her away from her life and her family for 19 years before Trump cut it short: “Her nightmare began when DEA agents...
The Heroic Chelsea Manning Rots in Prison
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 3, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #438, I talk about the torture of Chelsea Manning. Chelsea heroically leaked to Wikileaks the Afghan war logs, Iraq War documents, and State Department cables that revealed US war crimes. Chelsea was given 35 years for liberating the documents. She spent the...
Rocky Myers Doesn’t Belong On Death Row
by Steven Woskow | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog
The case of Rocky Myers is a window into so much that’s wrong with the death penalty in this country. The 53-year-old, who has an intellectual disability, was saddled with an incompetent lawyer, convicted on the evidence from a key witness who has since recanted his...
Buttigieg: What a Silly Clown
by Scott Horton | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog
Read the leftists at Current Affairs H-bomb him to death here. This part is funny: Here’s another remarkable thing you’ll notice throughout Shortest Way Home: When Pete Buttigieg reports having meetings with people, it’s usually party bosses and advisers rather than...
News Roundup 1/19/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 19, 2017 | Blog
A Pittsburg mall once valued at $190 million sells for $100 at a foreclosure action. [Link] The St. Louis Police Depart is being sued by a woman because a police officer searched her vagina for drugs in public. [Link] Julian Assange says Obama did not meet the...
You Can’t “Cheat” a Gang of Thieves
by Will Grigg | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Will Grigg
Shortly after announcing the commutation of former Army Private Manning’s 35-year prison term, Barack Obama quietly issued a pardon for 64 others – including Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey. Following a career in which he hit 521 home runs – tying...
Unfair!
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
Via FFF today, the Post has two stories today about the merciless cruelty of the U.S. Department of Justice: Innocent people doing life-without-parole sentences for not-even drug crimes like fixing a smuggler's truck or dating a methamphetamine businessman. Obama and...
News Roundup 12/1/16
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 1, 2016 | Blog
Trump picks Steve Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary. One of Mnuchin's first goals will be to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [Link] Lori Clare Kavitz was sentenced to 24 years in prison because she lived with a man who was selling meth. The judge that sentenced...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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