Look at Spot See Spot run See cop kill Spot with gun It both teaches kids to read a t a rudimentary level, and teaches them the very valuable lesson that, oftentimes, cops are NOT our friends.
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The General Counsel for the FBI has admitted that the law enforcement agency, after the US V Jones ruling which established that placing a GPS device on a vehicle constituted a search under the 4th Amendment, turned off ~3000 GPS tracking devices that were in use without a warrant. Mr. Weissmann, speaking at a University […]
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If your car has a “hidden compartment”, whatever that might be, don’t take it to Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch: A hidden compartment in your vehicle, with or without drugs, could mean big trouble as Ohio officials get serious about slowing down drug-smuggling. A proposed state law, advocated by Gov. John Kasich, would make it a […]
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About 10% of federal workers owe back taxes totaling about $3.4B. The National Review Online: A recent report by the Washington Post shows that in 2010, some 279,000 federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.4 billion in back income taxes, up from $2.7 billion in 2007. Interestingly, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has […]
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It’s increasingly obvious that police aren’t concerned with accountability at all. Pixiq: Relations between Oakland police and the city’s residents have never been good, which is one reason why the department issued body-mounted cameras to its officers last year. The goal was to increase accountability, which is important for a department that is facing a […]
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I’m not even sure how to approach this one, so I won’t even try. Fox News: A New Hampshire man who fired his handgun into the ground to scare an alleged burglar he caught crawling out of a neighbor’s window is now facing a felony charge — and the same potential prison sentence as the […]
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Vice Principal strip searching students because another student accused him of having marijuana. And all this AFTER a massive case where the Supreme Court ruled that under NO circumstances could students be strip searched, and another case in the same fucking school district where a strip search case was found to violate students’ 4th Amendment […]
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Michigan legislators, in their infinite wisdom, are seeking to turn kids in to criminals by outlawing toy guns.
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Good liberals should be sure to send their children to public school in order to get a crappy education, even if a private or home school education would be a better option for their children, because poor people, fairness and stuff. She also maintains, despite the evidence showing that, in virtually every academic metric, both […]
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It gives me hope to see at least one town doing what they can to stave off unnecessary police militarization. Radley Balko at The Huffington Post: “We’re going to have our own tank.” That’s what Keene, N.H., Mayor Kendall Lane whispered to Councilman Mitch Greenwood during a December city council meeting. It’s not quite a […]
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