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DEA Seized $3.2 Billion in Cash Without Filing Charges or Judicial Oversight

by Institute for Justice | Apr 3, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

Yesterday [March 29], the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report criticizing the DOJ’s seizures and forfeitures of cash. According to the report, of the nearly 100,000 cash seizures that occurred since 2007, the Drug...

Sanctuary Cities and DoJ Funding: The Hypocrisy of Jeff Sessions

by Thomas L. Knapp | Mar 31, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

In a surprise White House appearance on March 27, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced his intent to make America’s cities less safe and more vulnerable to crime unless he gets his way. He didn’t say it quite like that, of course. In fact, he asserted the...

Kelly Thomas case: 5 years later, feds say no criminal charges against Fullerton police officers

by Sean Emery | Jan 26, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

Federal prosecutors have decided to not pursue criminal charges against three Fullerton police officers whose violent encounter with Kelly Thomas five years ago resulted in the homeless, mentally ill man's death. Department of Justice officials said Monday that...

Worst Misconduct in November: Albuquerque Police Department

by Tim Lynch | Dec 7, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

From the Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project So for November, we’ve selected the Albuquerque Police Department, (APD) which is now under investigation, again, for misconduct. Here’s the background. After numerous complaints from community...

DEA Bribed Snoops with Stolen Money to Violate 4th Amendment

by Bonnie Kristian | Dec 7, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

The Fourth Amendment is clear that the government can’t search our persons or property without a specific warrant permitting the investigation. So what do you do if you’re the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and you want to rifle through innocent Americans’ mail...

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...

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New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform

With a resounding "Aye," Defend the Guard was made an official part of the New Hampshire Republican Party platform. On Saturday, April 13, the New Hampshire GOP held a meeting to vote on platform amendments. Among the list of proposals was the following text: "Demand...

USC Bows Down to Pro-Israel Terrorists, Cancels Muslim-American’s Valedictorian Speech

No one hates Americans' sacred right of free speech more than Israel's American fifth column. No one is a bigger group of cowards than the USC Trojans. Always have been a bunch of sniveling little weaklings.

A War of Unyielding Horror

That's what the Washington Post calls Israel's slaughter of innocents in Gaza.

Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom

The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...

More on Immigration and Public Property

Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...

The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...

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