Black-ish Spinoff Grown-ish Really More of a Rip-off
Cliché-addled college sitcom lacks any sort of originality.
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Prepaid Property Tax Perplexity Highlights the Tax Code's Confounding Complexity
Even the experts do not know what the law requires.
College Presidents Say: "Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech"
But there's no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment.
Judge Overrules State's Seizure of Child from Couple It Deemed Not Smart Enough to Be Parents
Low I.Q. used as a justification for taking boy away, even absent any evidence of abuse or neglect.
Interesting Story on Black Gun Ownership
In the Huffington Post, not usually a source of positive views on guns.
California Prosecuting Man for Insulting Posts on Islamic Center's Facebook Page
The government's theory would equally criminalize insulting posts on a NRA page, or on a pro-Trump organization's page, or on a Communist Party page.
Congressional New Year's Resolutions
Read bills before voting, and other ways Congress can be less terrible in 2018.
Congressional New Year's Resolutions
Read bills before voting, and other ways Congress can be less terrible in 2018.
New York's Subway Boondoggles Illustrate How Governments Bungle Infrastructure
Why don't "we" build anything anymore? Because corrupt unions and politicians recognize a guaranteed payday when they see it
Reason's "Most Engaging" Stories of 2017: No. 1 Will Blow Your Mind
From defining "the fragile generation" to breaking the story that IRS won't enforce Obamacare's mandate, these are the pieces you spent the most time with.
Atheist Arrested in Bangladesh -- Atheism Might Be Banned in Egypt
Two recent stories in the news, plus a third item about Malaysia.
Public Ignorance and GMO Foods
Fear of GMO foods is an example of the broader problem of political and scientific ignorance.
James Zogby: Calling Hummus "Israeli Food" = "Cultural Genocide"
Zogby is a Democratic National Committee member, Chair of The [Bernie] Sanders Institute, and founder and president of the Arab American Institute.
There Still Wasn't a War on Cops in 2017
Line of duty deaths this year approached a 50-year low
More Food Trucks May Be Coming to Your Baltimore Neighborhood
A judge suspends oppressive city regulations as too vague, but the fight's probably not over.
Oregon Court Holds That Statements Opposing Same-Sex Marriage Weren't Illegal Threats of Discrimination
A separate holding from today's Klein v. BOLI (Sweetcakes by Melissa case), from the Oregon Court of Appeals.
GMO Opponents Are Immoral, Argues Purdue University President Mitch Daniels
It's past time to tell your anti-GMO friends, family and neighbors they are helping to kill poor people.
Bakers Lose in Oregon Case, But Wedding Singers / Painters / Photographers Might Win
The Oregon Court of Appeals upholds a $135,000 damages award imposed on Sweetcakes by Melissa for its owners' refusal to make a cake for a same-sex wedding.
Roy Moore's Claim of 'Systematic Voter Fraud' Is at Least As Plausible As Trump's
The defeated Senate candidate's refusal to concede is no more preposterous than the claim that the president actually won the popular vote.
Why Greg Gutfeld Is a Better Standard-Bearer for Conservatives than Roy Moore: Podcast
Novelist Lisa De Pasquale sees "politics as entertainment" and worries that Millennials are lost forever to the left.
Warning: Don't Bring Your Legal Marijuana Through Internal Border Checkpoints in California
Recreational pot use becomes legal in the Golden State in 2018. The feds don't care.
'Sensitivity Readers' Are the New Thought Police, And They Threaten More Than Novelists
Nobody calls himself a censor anymore in the 21st century. We've got better words for it.
Seattle Bans Landlords From Screening "Qualified" Tenants
The city's goal is to curb "unconscious bias." But the policy is based on dangerous premises, and is likely to harm tenants more than it benefits them.
University of Chicago Law Review Special Issue on Justice Scalia
Featuring the Solicitor General of the United States, Judge Amy Barrett, many others, and ... me.
3 Things to Like About 2017
There were a few silver linings for liberty lovers this past year.
Your Information Is Criminal! Incompetent! Unchaste!
What does the phrase "libel of information" mean?
No Lawsuits for Negligent Lobbying
A woman is injured in a car accident supposedly because of bad roadway design decision (a dangerous cut in the median) -- so she sues business that had lobbied county to make that decision.
Ross Ulbricht Files Appeal to the Supreme Court on His Life Sentence Without Parole
Silk Road founder's appeal stresses the dangerous Fourth and Sixth Amendment implications of his prosecution and sentencing.
Ron Paul: A Popular Libertarian Candidate in 2020 Is 'Very Possible'
The former 1988 Libertarian nominee and 2008 and 2012 Republican candidate for president says Trump is just a temporary setback for the libertarian moment.
Congress Kicks Surveillance Debate into 2018
Short extension of FISA snooping powers shoved into temporary spending bill.
Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions
Jailed for short-term house rental, tased for dialing 911, and tortured for opposing eminent domain
New London, Connecticut, Prosecutes Local Artist for Bamboo It Deems a Blight
Carlos Carrion has been growing bamboo in his yard for three decades; suddenly it's a crime.
Why Does Blow-Drying Hair in Arizona Require 1,000 Hours of Training?
State lawmaker says that makes no sense, plans to introduce bill repealing requirement.
Sorry Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg: If Daniel Ellsberg Is a Hero, So Is Edward Snowden
The crew of The Post celebrates leaking the Pentagon Papers but gets all touchy when Obama's secret surveillance is mentioned.
#MeToo Is Turning Into a Witch-Hunt
Taking down decent men on flimsy grounds like Freep editor will discredit it.
Universities Are Raising a Generation of Trumplets
Free speech is increasingly triggering.
Senators Warn DHS About Using Facial Scans on Americans at Airports
Will you soon be ordered to subject yourself to even more intrusive surveillance if you travel out of the country?
Family Court Must Not Discriminate Against Religious Schooling
Nevada Supreme Court holds that trial court wrongly rejected father's preference for religious schooling just because of mother's religious objection.
