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June 2, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… COVID lockdowns created widespread unemployment and more police harassment of peaceful people while cutting people off from churches and other forms of community support. This made a volatile situation far worse.
May 31, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… Police are not legally obligated to provide protection from criminals. Nor are they motivated to go after hardened criminals or investigate violent crime. Self defense (or private security) is the only reliable option.
May 14, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… Police have long shown a preference for enforcing petty laws against petty offenders. After all, real violent criminals fight back. The current COVID-19-induced crackdown on business owners has made things even worse.
March 9, 2020 – John Phelan …… In a book on prohibitions, John Meadowcroft of King’s College in London offers several “generic lessons and implications” of the practice. Hint – prohibition does more harm than good.
February 21, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… In a sense, “1984” is largely a book about the human capacity to maintain a grip on the truth in the face of propaganda and power. It might be tempting to dismiss Orwell’s book as a figment of dystopian literature. Unfortunately, that’s not as easy as it sounds. Modern history shows he was onto something.
February 20, 2020 – Chris Calton …… When the government created public police forces one hundred years ago, they often relied on torture to extract confessions. But now they have new methods: threatening to pile on new charges until the defendant takes a plea agreement.
January 16, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… Here are 10 jokes that were popular in East Germany, but were almost certainly too hot (or just too honest) for the Stasi.
December 11, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Deadbeat dads can often avoid support payments because single mothers are at the mercy of disinterested politicians and bureaucrats.
November 26, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… Government police, analysts, and lab workers have been repeatedly shown using faulty technology, forging documents, and falsifying lab results to arrest, prosecute, and convict innocent citizens.
November 24, 2019 – David Gornoski …… Craig Cesal was sentenced to life in prison for a first-time drug offense. He currently resides at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.