“If Prop 66 had been in place when Mr. Benavides was convicted, he’d almost certainly be dead. He’d never have lived to see his exoneration.”
“Now as the death toll tragically stands at many tens of thousands, and with a subsequent U.N. report from 2017 documenting in detail ‘the killing and maiming of children’ on a mass scale, Blitzer’s words are even more revealing of the role that CNN and other major American networks play in enabling and excusing U.S. and allied partners’ war crimes abroad.”
“The U.S. embraced defeated German and Japanese doctors who intentionally drowned, gassed, suffocated, froze, burned, poisoned, infected, shot, stabbed and dissected living men, women and children to death to advance its own weapons of mass destruction programs.”
“Can the president legally use military force to attack a foreign land without a serious threat or legal obligation or a declaration of war from Congress? In a word: No.”
Read more: https://www.creators.com/read/judge-napolitano/04/18/war-and-the-separation-of-powers
“One wonders why the shocking images of emaciated Yemeni babies don’t have the same effect on Mr. Trump as the photos and video of their Syrian counterparts.”
Read more: https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2018/04/23/some-lives-matter-more-than-others/
“Having failed to disarm criminals with gun controls that they defy, British politicians are now turning their attention to implementing something new and different: knife control.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/24/londoners-embrace-knife-control
“The combination of automated plate readers every 10 yards or so with always-on cameras that feed into an always-watching (and recording) nexus of ‘private-public’ surveillance is bleak, depressing and scary. Worse, it’s real.”
Read more: https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2018/04/17/when-the-meter-feeds-on-you/
“Police admitted to using a photo sent through WhatsApp to cull fingerprints for evidence that successfully led to the conviction of 11 individuals for drug crimes. The story further revealed that this was not just a special-use case.”
“A Colorado woman is facing a $500 fine from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for saving a free apple she received as a snack from Delta Air Lines on her way back to the United States from Paris, France.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/04/22/woman-fined-500-for-saving-free-delta-air-lines-snack.html
“It’s a story of how bureaucracy is used to grind down people by distributing their misery among as many public offices as possible.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/25/chicago-debt-impound-cars-innocent