This is one for the history books. File under “terrifying complicity”: On September 12th, 2012, Federal District Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued a permanent injunction against enforcement of Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. In July 2013, the 2nd Circuit ruled the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge that law. Monday,…
DetailsYesterday’s big SCOTUS news: DNA swabbing to be allowed without warrant. Are we a police state or do we need a few more rulings like this even still?
I, like many potential voters my age, am frustrated. I am frustrated with a system that disallows meaningful dissent except by way of voting for a man who is 95% identical to his “radical” “opponent.” I am frustrated with those who believe there is a large difference between the two candidates, but more than that,…
DetailsThe right to own property is as essential a negative right as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the freedom of self-defense. As a negative right, it exists only in a universe where utilitarian legal positivism has not yet grown substantial roots. The U.S. left that universe long ago, but is due for a…
DetailsSome light, some heavy, here are things I have run across lately that are worth the note… If you run around in circles of state idiots like most of us do today, you will hear about how “taxes used to be 90% on the rich!” It isn’t true, plain and simple. Will the state’s inefficiencies…
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As you can imagine, the Obamacare fiasco isn’t the best news I have heard today. There is not much to say about it that has not already been said on Facebooks, but a few commentators have (as usual) said it better than most. A poignant reflection, at EPJ, focuses on the most important implication of…
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