Check in this Thursday night at 8pm ET with your questions for Cheye Calvo, the Berwyn Heights, Maryland mayor who was subject to a violent, botched drug raid last year.
Calvo’s pushing legislation that would bring transparency to how Maryland’s police departments use their SWAT teams.
I’m hoping to be home in time to participate in this […]
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Statistics guru Nate Silver posits that public support will be sufficiently strong that marijuana will be legalized by 2022:
Firstly, although support for legalization has grown, it remains the minority position. Secondly, although there has been a long, slow-moving upward trend in favor of legalization since roughly 1992, there is no guarantee that public sentiment will […]
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Back during the height of the General Election campaign, then-candidate Obama had this to say on the subject of Second Amendment rights:
A woman in the crowd told Obama she had “heard a rumor” that he might be planning some sort of gun ban upon being elected president. Obama trotted out his standard policy stance, that […]
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This Calvin & Hobbes strip is actually from 1995, but it’s as relevant to modern America as the Dilbert strip that Chris posted yesterday:
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Inspired by a rather popular children's book and the truth, my colleague Minxuan came to work today sporting a t-shirt which I can only grant my heartiest approval: Aside: It is great to work in an office where one can appear in excrement-themed clothing without any fuss. (You can get the t-shirt from Threadless.)…
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It is tempting to imagine that a cause is so important to Mankind, so essential, that only a total idiot could object to coercing one's fellows into paying for said cause. And when it comes to science funding, even the most seemingly rational people fall prey to the notion that only wicked, selfish people, or religious nutters, could object to this funding. Take a recent article by Steven Mirsky, who writes for Scientific American: "You’re…
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How to stop this bail-out madness? I think I have an idea that might help. One of the most valuable things that the internet can do is state ideas of the sort that you definitely do want said, but which it would probably not be wise for heads of state or front bench politicians to be saying for definite, for fear of it all getting out of hand. One of the most important memes that…
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For reasons I have expressed in earlier posts, I am opposed to the death penalty. I simply do not trust our criminal justice system enough to make a life or death decision on the innocence or guilt of an individual (based on recent news concerning Dr. West and others, it seems my distrust in the […]
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This one is more of a personal thing for me (since I homebrew), but Reason’s Greg Beato has a nice story about the legalization of homebrewing.
After Prohibition, a little wrinkle in the law allowed home wine making, but not home beer making. As the consolidation of the beer market reached its peak, people replaced […]
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From The Liberty Papers
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