civil liberties
New Colorado Law Imposes Limits Concerning Unreliable Drug Field Tests
In November of 2016, I discussed a then new report indicating that “at least 100,000 people in America each year plead guilty to drug charges supported by police-conducted drug field tests that do not reliably indicate whether a substance tested is an illegal drug.”...
Privatize the Private Airport Security Screeners
I am old enough to remember when your family members could accompany you to the airport and share a meal with you before your flight or wait at the gate with you until you boarded your flight. There is one thing preventing a return to those idyllic times: the TSA. The...
War Abroad and Authoritarianism at Home
“War is the health of the state.” That phrase, coined by Randolph Bourne, explains why opposition to war is a priority of many libertarians. War allows governments to increase spending, taxes, and regulations in order to feed the war machine. Wars can justify measures...
Is ICE Going Too Far?
ICE Cops are Invading Homes Without Court Warrants
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cops — often masked, out of uniform, and intent on quickly escalating the force they initiate while yelling out orders and curses — have been demonstrating over the past few months the danger of police directed...
Advice from Incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani, who won the New York City mayoral election in November, provided some advice in a video monologue this week regarding interacting with agents of the United States government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In the minute and a half video...
TSA’s New Confirm.ID Tax
Back in March of 2014, I wrote about how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operates an extortion racket-style scheme via its PreCheck program that gives travelers who pay a fee and jump through a bunch of hoops including submitting to fingerprinting and...
Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People
“The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting.” — Pete Hegseth “America is under invasion from within… That’s a war, too. It’s a war from within… We should...
Legal Plunder: Indiana Police Prey On Packages Transiting Huge FedEx Hub
From a federal government operating far beyond the bounds of the Constitution to law enforcement agencies routinely entering private property without warrants, tyranny takes many forms in the United States. However, few are as shocking to the...
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