Ted Carpenter discusses the possible ramifications of the coronavirus on both the economy and our personal liberties. He first reminds us that this is not a question of sacrificing economic productivity for the sake of saving lives, as some would have us...
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Police, Military Begin Door to Door Searches to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge
Rhode Island — In perhaps the most unprecedented attack on the Constitution on which the Free Thought Project has ever has ever reported, the governor of Rhode Island has announced that the National Guard will begin conducting house-to-house searches to hunt down New...
Without A Bottom Line, Government Is Not Only Blind – It Is Destructive
In the present pandemic panic, a great many are calling for bigger, stronger, and more brutal government to deal with the coronavirus. Thus, they cheer as the political decision-makers, never wanting to let a good crisis go to waste, scurry to get themselves...
3/27/20 Eli Clifton on the Crushing US Sanctions on Iran
Scott interviews Eli Clifton about the U.S. sanctions regime against Iran. These sanctions were already having a severe impact on the ability of Iranian civilians to conduct business and buy necessary goods, and in the face of coronavirus they could turn an already...
Prison Officials Refuse to Let ‘Likely Innocent’ Death Row Inmate Get COVID-19 Test
And when they say, "likely," that's in the words of the District Attorney's office, which has completely disavowed their predecessors' unjust prosecution of this man. So why is he still in prison at all? I tell you what.
Politicians Have Used This Crisis to Remind Us They’re Mostly Wannabe Dictators
The virus has unleashed petite tyrants to haunt their tiny jurisdictions, using the cover of crisis to arrogate powers belonging to the people. Witness Robert J. Taylor, mayor of Ostrander, Ohio (population: 643 in the 2010 census), who just declared his village to be...
Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Arrests Plummet, Departments Close and Chaos Does NOT Ensue
As TFTP reported last week, prisons across the country are facing potential massive outbreaks inside their walls and are being forced to make the decision to release non-violent offenders to stave off catastrophe. Thousands of non-violent prisoners have been released...
News Roundup 3/25/20
US News Colorado abolishes the death penalty. The governor also reduced the sentences of the last three remaining death row inmates to life in prison without parole. [Link] A commission examining if the US should include women in the draft or abolish it reached the...
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