What a Suicidal Pilot Can Teach Us About Trying to Predict All Risk
Watch out when folks play the "safety card." Consider what we might lose in its pursuit.
Civil Liberties
Burn Her! She Would Act Like a Witch in a Situation That Will Never Come Up!
The anti-pizzeria mob loses its mind
Indiana, Religious Freedom, and the Constitution
Indiana is free to look the other way in the face of discrimination based on sexual orientation. But they are not free to encourage it or to make it lawful.
Matt Welch on Social Media Outrage-Swarms, License-Plate Free Speech, Automated Airplanes, and Crony Whiskey Capitalism
Watch thee some Cocktail Chatter
Amendment to Indiana's RFRA Would Eliminate Discrimination Defense for Business Owners
Vendors who object to same-sex marriage could be forced to participate in gay weddings.
This Anti-Gay Pizza Place Got Trashed on Yelp. Why Isn't That Enough?
Inviting the state to tread on anti-gay bakers is a pernicious distraction that betrays the principles of a free society.
Jim Webb Looks at Rand Paul
On criminal justice reform: "the Democrats have basically ceded this incredibly important issue to the Republicans, and Rand Paul's the guy who's been running with it"
Recording Abusive Border Patrol Conduct Becomes a Thing Among Fed-Up Americans
Internal checkpoints drive peaceful citizens to assert their rights and share the results
When British Students Play Video Games, Teachers Will Sic the Cops on Their Parents
Does the state need to save kids from violent video games? NO.
Courts Let Cops Get Away With Murder
The police can break into your home unlawfully and shoot you dead, and nobody is at fault for that except you.
"Everybody's Lost Their Goddamn Mind Over Religious Freedom"
Both conservatives and liberals aren't being straight about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Fifth Grader Suspended for 'Illegal' Filming of Teacher Who Bullied Student
The war on cameras opens up a battlespace in the classroom.
Buzzfeed Engages in Self-Reflexive Media Malpractice with Headline 'Rand Paul Doesn't Believe in the Concept of Gay Rights'
Paul Speaks of Basic Individual Rights, Slammed for Allegedly Not Believing in "Behavioral Rights."
How a Business Owner Becomes Criminally Liable for How Customers Spend ATM Withdrawals
When is an ATM an "interstate commerce facility"? When the FBI needs to make federal prostitution charges stick.
No, Indiana Did Not Just Accidentally Legalize Pot
Understanding the limits of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Arizona Law Now Forces Doctors to Say Abortion Can Be Reversed
The provision not only puts women at risk but may run afoul of the First Amendment.
You Know Who Else Thought NSA Mass Metadata Collection Was Bad? The NSA.
Prior to Edward Snowden's revelations, there was a push to end it.
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear First Amendment Case Challenging School Ban on American Flag Shirts
SCOTUS declines to review high-profile First Amendment dispute.
Supreme Court Vacates State Court Ruling Which Allowed Lifetime GPS Monitoring of Sex Offender Via Ankle Bracelet
New arguments ordered in Fourth Amendment case.
For Libertarians, There Is Only One Fundamental Right
All further "rights" are simply applications of our basic right not to be aggressed against.
The Conservatarian Manifesto: Should Libertarians and Conservatives Unite?
Q&A with National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke.
Boy Got a Haircut Like His Military Step-Brother, School Suspended Him
Why is it okay for public school officials to place totally unnecessary, soul-crushing restrictions on students?
Boycotts Are Hypocritical, Discriminatory, and Bad for Social Change
One can make a strong argument that boycotts merely get in the way of social change.
UPDATED! Meet Chuck Schumer, One of the Most Trivial Pols Ever. And Your Next Senate Minority Leader
A partial listing of some of the things that the New York senator has tried to ban over the years.
Ex-prosecutor Apologizes to Exonerated Man He Put on Death Row
"I was arrogant, judgmental, narcissistic and very full of myself."
How a Former Drug Czar Debates on Twitter
John Walters praised Chris Christie's comments about tax dollars from legal pot sales being "blood money." Then things got...interesting.
That Time Chris Christie Called Taxes From Legal Pot Sales "Blood Money"
And that time he brushed off a father whose daughter benefits from medical marijuana...
Yes, 3D-Printed Semi-Automatic Firearms Are a Thing. Now Clutch Your Pearls.
Ruger 10/22? AR-10 lower receiver? Yep, it's been done.
Even if God Didn't Give Us the Constitution, We Should Act Like He Did
If politicians treated the Constitution as if it were handed down from heaven rather than a pliable set of guidelines, the U.S. would be a better place.
Stalled Senate Sex-Trafficking Bill Should Stay That Way
This is one time that lawmakers using abortion as a political tool may be a boon for civil liberties.
