Because selectively enforcing bad law is just as good as changing or repealing bad law. Reason on Holder’s announcement that they will selectively enter the amount of drugs found when filing a charge: Holder’s announcement doesn’t repeal the laws that established mandatory minimums — it’s merely a declaration of executive branch restraint that could be […]

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Fuck that petty tyrant Michael Bloomberg in the ass with a rusty chainsaw. “Why?” you ask? The Bloomberg administration is quietly working to explicitly categorize electronic cigarettes as tobacco products and enact a sweeping ban on flavored e-cigs. The details of the plan come from a newly leaked draft of three tobacco-related bills currently making […]

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At least in this horrific scenario, where the cops in Dekalb County, GA, resorted to terrifying a family at 1.30 in the morning over the collection of a civil fine, no dogs were shot.

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Journalists worry more about gaining access to their Dear Leader than with doing their fucking jobs. Noah Rothman on the media defaulting on its journalistic responsibility in favor of having direct access to Obama: On July 31, CNN’s The Situation Room broadcast a portion of an interview conducted by reporter Arwa Damon with a suspect […]

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Mark Steyn at National Review Online on the the militarization of America’s police in a nutshell: Too much law enforcement in America has lost all sense of proportion: If you need six armed officers to police a nonagenarian in an old folks’ home, seven armed officers to police a 20-year-old female you suspect might have […]

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The real problem that we face as a nation is that by and large, we’re not worthy of our Dear Leader. Or so he says. Robert Fulford at The National Post: Barack Obama is disappointed with the American people. They’re not up to his standards. He’s troubled by their inadequate values and their eagerness to […]

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Radley Balko on prosecutorial misconduct and its effects on society: In asking Eric Holder to investigate Eric Holder, Obama illustrated the difficulty of adequately addressing prosecutorial misconduct as well as anyone possibly could: Prosecutors are relied upon to police themselves, and it isn’t working. A growing chorus of voices in the legal community says the […]

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Harry Reid is full of shit about the calamity of sequestration? You don’t say . . .

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Richard Epstein at The Hoover Institution on yet another Obama speech on the economy: The President’s speech at Knox College needs some close deconstruction because it sheds harsh light on a problem that has dogged his domestic policy agenda from the beginning: intellectual rigidity. The President, who has never worked a day in the private […]

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We have people in this country who actually believe that closing underperforming public schools in a budget strapped district is a violation of human rights. Chicago-based human rights advocates have sent a letter to the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights asking the international body to monitor Chicago’s school closings. The […]

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