Pass DISCLOSE so Republicans don’t get elected
Admittedly, Rep. Hank Johnson is … ummm … a moron. But it’s not often that you see a politician openly advocating restrictions on political speech as a means of choking off the opposition’s electoral...
View ArticleU.S. officials spy on activists across the political spectrum
If you’re in a mood to feel like a targeted victim of government, you don’t need to be a libertarian, or a lefty, or a righty or a tea-partier, or even a Muslim. Nope, it turns out that the simple act...
View ArticleCharges dismissed in Stagliano case
John Stagliano, a libertarian-oriented producer of adult entertainment who sometimes goes by the monicker “Buttman,” has finally won vindication in his long legal ordeal at the hands of federal...
View ArticleBravo, WikiLeaks
I was traveling and unavailable to comment on the latest WikiLeaks story when it broke. Suffice it to say that the publication of classified U.S. government documents about the floundering imperial...
View ArticlePoliticians miss no opportunity to exploit Tucson shooting
Let me express, for the record, my contempt for the predictable creatures who see in the Tucson shooting spree and assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords an opportunity to smear people who...
View ArticleGreat Shafer column on the idiotic calls for post-shooting speech controls
Slate‘s Jack Shafer says it so that I don’t have to: For as long as I’ve been alive, crosshairs and bull’s-eyes have been an accepted part of the graphical lexicon when it comes to political debates....
View ArticleNo free speech, for the children
You know the most annoying thing in poorly executed pro-freedom novels? It’s how the villains often overtly state their hostility to freedom and their intention to strip rights away from the populace...
View ArticlePolice officers overwhelmingly think I’m right. Or not.
Government officials are fond of deferring to the opinion of police officers when defending restrictive laws and intrusive procedures. Time and again, we’re told that “rank-and-file police officers...
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The U.S. Government Makes Me Gag
The beating heart of worries about free speech and the danger of overreaching government enjoyed a shock from the old defibrillator on June 8. That’s when attorney Ken White of prominent legal blog...
View ArticleIRS Prone to Target Non-Profits Unfairly, Says Government Agency
The headline above should be news to exactly nobody, Well…Except for the president of the United States. He went on John Stewart on Tuesday to insist that no way, no how, did the Internal Revenue...
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