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Relevance: 28% Posted on: June 10, 2016
[T]he hope of evading such taxes by smuggling gives frequent occasion to forfeitures and other penalties, which entirely ruin the smuggler, a person who, though no doubt highly blameable for violating the laws of his country, is frequently incapable of violating those of natural justice, and would have been, in…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: March 24, 2016
There’s been a big push for criminal justice reform, with some recent progress on civil asset forfeiture. This is the process through which police and government agencies grab a citizen’s money or property — even if the citizen is never charged with a crime, much less convicted. Then, to get…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: February 7, 2012
A newspaper report brought a smile to my face and a strange sense of . . . relief, reassurance. A group of hackers known as Anonymous has apparently cracked into and tape-recorded a conference call held between the FBI and Britain’s Scotland Yard. The call was to discuss the international…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: June 2, 2015
Dr. Annette Bosworth was convicted last week on twelve felony counts. She now faces as many as 24 years in prison, $48,000 in fines . . . and the likely loss of her medical license. Her crime? She circulated six nominating petitions to get on the South Dakota ballot in…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: March 11, 2016
One lesson from the classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life, is that “Every man’s life touches so many others.” Every woman’s life does, too. On Monday, I was stunned and saddened to read in my morning paper that Cornell University President Elizabeth “Beth” Garrett had died, barely a month after…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: February 1, 2021
Time is almost up! “Three years ago, scientists gave us a pretty stark warning: They said we have 12 years to avoid the worst consequences of climate change,” John Kerry, former U.S. Senator (D-Mass.) and Secretary of State and current US Special Climate Envoy, stated last week. “And now we…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: April 7, 2014
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission correctly struck down limits on the total amount of money a person can contribute to all federal candidates and to political parties and PACs in a two-year election cycle. After all, what part of “Congress shall make no…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 2, 2017
My children used to play “The Oregon Trail,” an early computer game where one navigated the amazingly dangerous wagon trip out west — often dying of dysentery or drowning while crossing a river. Oregon remains treacherous. Yesterday, we bemoaned the cancellation of a parade because a Republican Party group’s participation…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: March 3, 2023
“For nearly three years, anyone asking whether COVID-19 originated as a lab leak outbreak was silenced and branded as a conspiracy theorist,” stated Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo), on Monday. “Now these prudent skeptics stand vindicated.” While I enthusiastically support the bill he and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) introduced, the COVID-19 Origin…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: June 15, 2023
Three-and-a-half years late, the U.S. Government is admitting and publicizing the first victims of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China — who just so happen to be scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In a Substack article by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag, we get something close to actual…