Posted by Roger Pilon on September 1, 2010
By Roger Pilon
Today POLITICO Arena asks: Is Joe Miller’s win in Alaska a sign of the tea party’s potency as a national political force? My response: Joe Miller’s win in Alaska isn’t simply a sign, but one more in a long string of signs of the Tea Party’s potency as a national political force. From Virginia, New Jersey, and [...]
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Tags: individual liberty, joe miller, Law and Civil Liberties, mainstream media, religious beliefs, Tea Party | 
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Posted by Juan Carlos Hidalgo on August 31, 2010
By Juan Carlos Hidalgo
Colombia’s new president Juan Manuel Santos came out last week in support of a debate on drug legalization, endorsing the call made a few weeks ago by his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderón. Santos even said that if Californian voters passed a ballot initiative this November to legalize marijuana, he would team up with the presidents [...]
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Posted by Juan Carlos Hidalgo on August 31, 2010
By Juan Carlos Hidalgo
Colombia’s new president Juan Manuel Santos came out last week in support of a debate on drug legalization, endorsing the call made a few weeks ago by his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderón. Santos even said that if Californian voters passed a ballot initiative this November to legalize marijuana, he would team up with the presidents [...]
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Posted by Ilya Shapiro on August 31, 2010
By Ilya Shapiro
Officials in Montgomery, Alabama, are bulldozing homes in their historic civil rights district — and billing the homeowners for the cost of demolition: Christina Walsh of the Institute for Justice writes about this injustice at the Daily Caller: Imagine you come home from work one day to a notice on your front door that you have [...]
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Posted by Ilya Shapiro on August 31, 2010
By Ilya Shapiro
Officials in Montgomery, Alabama, are bulldozing homes in their historic civil rights district — and billing the homeowners for the cost of demolition: Christina Walsh of the Institute for Justice writes about this injustice at the Daily Caller: Imagine you come home from work one day to a notice on your front door that you have [...]
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Posted by David Boaz on August 30, 2010
By David Boaz
The Washington Post, December 21, 2005: The four Republican rebels — Larry E. Craig (Idaho), Chuck Hagel (Neb.), John E. Sununu (N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — have joined all but two Senate Democrats in arguing that more civil liberties safeguards need to be added to the proposed renewal of the Patriot Act. Let’s hope [...]
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Posted by Roger Pilon on August 30, 2010
By Roger Pilon
POLITICO Arena asks a second question today: Is Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer right to complain about the Obama State Department’s inclusion of Arizona’s new immigration law in its report to the U.N. on human rights conditions in the U.S.? My response: Quite apart from Gov. Brewer’s complaint, the Obama State Department’s first report on human [...]
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Posted by Walter Olson on August 30, 2010
By Walter Olson
Bill McClellan, the excellent St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist, had a must-read column the other day telling the story of Gary Heffernan, a 35-year veteran of the tuckpointing (masonry repair) business, and his recent run-in with an inspector from the federal government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The inspector wrote up Heffernan with thousands of [...]
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