SaddleBrooke Republican Club » Law and Civil Liberties http://sbrc1.net Western United States Largest Republican Club Wed, 23 May 2012 23:00:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Public Financing of Vikings Stadium a Bad Deal for Fans, Taxpayers http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/tB5A_GaEIVE/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/tB5A_GaEIVE/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 12:50:56 +0000 Ilya Shapiro http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=48367 By Ilya Shapiro

The collusion between big business and big government that fleeces the rest of us has struck again — Tim Carney, iMessage your office – this time in the sports world.  Minnesota governor Mark Dayton recently signed the midnight deal that state lawmakers struck with the owners of the state’s football team, the Minnesota Vikings, to build the team [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/public-financing-of-vikings-stadium-a-bad-deal-for-fans-taxpayers/feed/ 0 PoliceMisconduct.Net Launch http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/abRRwhjQIlc/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/abRRwhjQIlc/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 17:52:46 +0000 Tim Lynch http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=48349 By Tim Lynch

Today, Cato is launching a new web site, PoliceMisconduct.net, which is one component of our new National Police Misconduct Reporting Project. We will be tracking news stories concerning misconduct so policymakers can make more informed assessments of its nature and circumstances. Our objective is to identify policies that consistently uphold high standards of ethics, honesty, and professionalism [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/policemisconduct-net-launch/feed/ 0 Obamacare’s Constitutional Defects, First Amendment Division http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/r1VgJmoPNsQ/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/r1VgJmoPNsQ/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 12:38:23 +0000 Ilya Shapiro http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=48297 By Ilya Shapiro

On May 11, the Department of Health & Human Services finalized rules requiring insurers to tell any of their customers who get premium rebates this summer that the windfall comes ...

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/obamacares-constitutional-defects-first-amendment-division/feed/ 0 Is Congress Doomed? http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/krxmCNn2j8A/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/krxmCNn2j8A/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 21:26:55 +0000 John Samples http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=48305 By John Samples

Maybe not. I have just published an essay at the Liberty Fund’s Liberty Forum on the fall and rise of Congress since 1960. The essay takes off from James Burnham’s book ...

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/is-congress-doomed/feed/ 0 Civil Asset Forfeiture and the ‘Piratical’ State http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/Jccei6Q7DqE/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/Jccei6Q7DqE/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 18:34:48 +0000 Walter Olson http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=48286 By Walter Olson

We at the Cato Institute have warned time and time again of the dangers of civil forfeiture laws, which empower law enforcement authorities to seize cars, money, houses and office ...

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/civil-asset-forfeiture-and-the-piratical-state/feed/ 0 Joe Barton, Meet Alessandro Acquisti http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/oE3YYUYSAZQ/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/oE3YYUYSAZQ/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 18:11:24 +0000 Jim Harper http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=48254 By Jim Harper

We were all very excited about the Facebook IPO last week (I guess), and Washington, D.C. wants to have its part in the action. This Politico article, “Facebook IPO Pits ...

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/joe-barton-meet-alessandro-acquisti/feed/ 0 If You Love Something, Set It Free: A Case for Defunding Public Broadcasting http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/6YlhzyaLJEU/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/6YlhzyaLJEU/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 15:30:59 +0000 Trevor Burrus http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=48210 By Trevor Burrus

Available today is my new policy analysis, “If You Love Something, Set it Free: A Case for Defunding Public Broadcasting.” As a long-time fan of public broadcasting, particularly NPR, it has ...

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/if-you-love-something-set-it-free-a-case-for-defunding-public-broadcasting/feed/ 0 ‘Useful’ Idiots and the American Community Survey http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/93PjLxMSpD8/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/93PjLxMSpD8/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 12:42:49 +0000 Andrew J. Coulson http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=48188 By Andrew J. Coulson

Since 2005, the Census Bureau has administered a set of probing questions to a large random sample of Americans each year. It’s called the American Community Survey, participation is mandatory, ...

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/useful-idiots-and-the-american-community-survey/feed/ 0 Stop Using Slippery-Slope Arguments? Where Would that End? http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/z2x9uwy-Q5w/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/z2x9uwy-Q5w/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 14:59:10 +0000 Michael F. Cannon http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=47879 By Michael F. Cannon

Richard Thaler writes in the New York Times: Justice Scalia is arguing that if the court lets Congress create a mandate to buy health insurance, nothing could stop Congress from passing laws requiring everyone to buy broccoli and to join a gym…Can anyone imagine Congress passing a broccoli mandate law, much less the court allowing it to take [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/stop-using-slippery-slope-arguments-where-would-that-end/feed/ 0 Chris Christie Allows New Jerseyans to Quaff Better Wine http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/QQO7VvkrH1w/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/QQO7VvkrH1w/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 12:51:56 +0000 Ilya Shapiro http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=47870 By Ilya Shapiro

While perhaps more identified with eating than drinking, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — who headlined Cato’s recent Milton Friedman Prize Dinner — signed a law in January that allowed out-of-state winemakers to sell directly to in-state consumers and retailers.  This wasn’t a spontaneous bit of New Year’s bonhomie — the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

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