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Kansas Supreme Court Rules That a Reclined Car Seat Is Suspicious Behavior & Can Be Used by Police as a Justification for Warrantless Searches
TOPEKA, Kan. — Declaring that motorists who recline their car seats are guilty of suspicious behavior, the Kansas Supreme Court…
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The Government Is Still the Enemy of Freedom
“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is…
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Rule by Thieves: One Week in the Life of the American Kleptocracy
“The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy.…
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The Illusion of Freedom: The Police State Is Alive and Well
“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving…
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Rule by Brute Force: The True Nature of Government
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,…
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Has the American Dream Become the American Nightmare?
“Most Germans, so far as I could see, did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken…
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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Case Challenging Gov’t Censorship of Trademarked Names That Might Cause Offense (‘The Slants’)
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Lee v. Tam, which challenges the government’s practice of rejecting trademark…
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Nothing Is Real: When Reality TV Programming Masquerades as Politics
“There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first—the Orwellian—culture becomes a…
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We All Lose: Obama’s Legacy and What It Means for a Trump Presidency
“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely…
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The Titanic Sails at Dawn: Warning Signs Point to Danger Ahead in 2017
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Despite our…
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2016: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
“What’s past is prologue.” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year this has…
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The Radical Jesus: How Would the Baby in a Manger Fare in the American Police State?
“Jesus is too much for us. The church’s later treatment of the gospels is one long effort to rescue Jesus…
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