California Chick-fil-A gives free meals to gay marriage supporters at rally | Fox News

California Chick-fil-A gives free meals to gay marriage supporters at rally | Fox News: "Corey Braun, the owner and operator of a franchise in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., says he felt the gathering was an opportunity to show hospitality to members of his community, regardless of their beliefs.

"I wanted to show that Chick-fil-A doesn't discriminate against anybody," Braun told the Los Angeles Daily News. "We serve everyone. We're happy to serve the community and this was an opportunity to have this group come in and show them our hospitality regardless of their beliefs, sexual orientation, or whatever.""


Eden Anderson, who is a board member for a local LGBT rights group, called Braun's actions "surreal."
"What I experienced with the community, is when people are open and apologetic and accepting, it's touching to us," Anderson told the Los Angeles Daily News. "It feels like acceptance and we just want to be accepted and engaged in society, so when it's confirmed, I think the overall reaction was, yes, certainly that Chick-fil-A in Rancho Cucamonga is welcoming to us." "

Being kind to even your opponents is very powerful!

Massachusetts 13-year-old suspended for bringing butter knife to school | Fox News

Massachusetts 13-year-old suspended for bringing butter knife to school | Fox News: "When the school's vice principal reportedly saw Morgan with the butter knife during her lunch period, he brought her into his office and issued her a suspension."

Suspended for a butter knife?!?

Jim Harper's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | Techdirt

Jim Harper's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | Techdirt: "I think a lot of people believe so strongly in democracy that they apply their ideal vision of Congress when they think about what Congress and the government might do. The reality is very different.

It's not that all members of Congress are gomers. They and their staffs are very smart, very dedicated people. But they haven't got the knowledge to organize a society as large, diverse, and open as ours. "

Three Years of Broken Promises | Cato Institute

Three Years of Broken Promises | Cato Institute: "in a study of more than 11,000 plans on the individual market released this month, less than 2 percent of existing plans are in compliance with the law’s benefit requirements. While current plans are technically grandfathered in, allowing people to keep them for now, any change in the plans requires that their coverage be brought into full compliance, even if that means more expensive plans that include new and unnecessary benefits. Moreover, because non-compliant plans cannot enroll new members, most of the existing plans will eventually disappear, requiring even those members who have been grandfathered in to switch plans eventually."

"12 percent of companies have already been notified that their current coverage will be canceled or will not be renewed because it doesn’t meet Obamacare requirements."

"the CBO has raised, from 4 million Americans to 7 million, its estimate of the number of workers who will be dumped from their employers’ health plans and forced into the exchanges. "

"A survey of physicians conducted by Deloitte found that 59 percent of them expected that at least some doctors will retire early as a result of the health-care law and that others will scale back their hours."

"under Romneycare, the average wait to see a primary-care physician increased from 33 to 55 days"

"insurers are warning that enactment of the law’s provisions next year could as much as double some people’s premiums in the small-group and individual markets."

"according to the CBO, the total cost of exchange subsidies under Obamacare has increased by $125 billion, on a year-over-year basis, since initial estimates."

"Senator Jeff Sessions, in an analysis based on information provided earlier this month by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), has found that Obamacare would actually add $1.4 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years, and as much as $6.2 trillion over the next 75 years. It is true, as the GAO pointed out, that this is only one interpretation of the data (though one they call “reasonable”), but the scenario that Senator Sessions lays out reflects the concerns expressed by the Medicare trustees, the Congressional Budget Office, and the office of the chief actuary that the cost-containment mechanisms in the health law will not be sustained over time. Even if Senator Sessions’s analysis is off by, say, a couple hundred billion, it stretches credulity to call Obamacare “fiscally responsible.”"

"the March edition of the Federal Reserve’s “beige book,” a compilation of regional economic surveys, reports that employers continue to cite Obamacare and uncertainty over the rising cost of health insurance as a reason they are not hiring in the wake of the recession. “Employers in several Districts,” the report says, “cited the unknown effects of the Affordable Care Act as reasons for planned layoffs and reluctance to hire more staff.”"

"The latest CBO estimates suggest that, by 2023, there will still be more than 30 million uninsured Americans. For all the enormous cost and disruption caused by the Affordable Care Act, it will provide insurance for less than half the Americans currently without coverage. Further, only 25 million of them will actually receive proper insurance (and subsidized plans, at that). The remaining 12 million are merely dumped into Medicaid"

"According to the CBO, by the end of the decade almost 11 million fewer Americans will have private unsubsidized health insurance than do today."

OUSD Made Wrong Decision to Close American Indian Charter Schools | Cato Institute

OUSD Made Wrong Decision to Close American Indian Charter Schools | Cato Institute: "The Oakland school board has voted 4-3 to shutter three of the highest-performing schools in the state: the American Indian Model charter schools. The decision was based on alleged fiscal improprieties by Ben Chavis, former head of the schools and the man who raised them to educational greatness."

Outhouses pit Amish against Ohio county health department | Fox News

Outhouses pit Amish against Ohio county health department | Fox News: "Over the pleas of the local Amish community, a northwest Ohio health board decided to go ahead with plans to condemn two newly constructed Amish homes because they don't have required septic systems for their outhouses."

Why the Size of Government Matters | Cato Institute

Why the Size of Government Matters | Cato Institute: "The further government gets from its core functions, the more it gets involved in areas where it just isn’t qualified to do a very good job. We have 126 separate federal anti-poverty programs, at a cost of $668 billion per year, yet poverty has hardly been dented. We spend more on education every year, but test scores remain stagnant. The stimulus bill spent as much as $540,000 for every job it created. Social Security is a giant pyramid scheme. Medicare and Medicaid are models of inefficiency."

"Washington is a town with 12,390 registered lobbyists and a special-interest association on every corner, from the American Dehydrated Onion and Garlic Association to the National Balloon Council. But why are they there? Because the government is involved in everything from dehydrated onions to balloons.

You can decry the influence of lobbyists and money on politics all you want, but those who are taxed, regulated, paid, hired, or controlled by the government are naturally going to try to influence how they are taxed, regulated, paid, hired, and controlled. Nor should it be a surprise if these interests try to rig the game in their favor by, say, securing special tax treatment for themselves or encouraging greater regulation of their competitors."

Op-Ed: The truth on background checks

Op-Ed: The truth on background checks: " The researchers gave this number for all transactions, including family inheritances and gifts, not just "sales." Count only guns that were bought, traded, borrowed, rented, issued as a job requirement or won through raffles, and 85 percent went through federally licensed gun dealers; just 15 percent would've been transferred without a background check.

(By the way, that survey also found that all gun-show sales went through federally licensed dealers."

"the claim that checks have stopped 1.7 million prohibited sales. In fact, these were only "initial denials," not people prevented from buying guns.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives dropped over 94 percent of those "initial denials" after preliminary reviews. Further review cleared at least a fifth of the other 6 percent."

"Remember the five times that the late Sen. Ted Kennedy missed flights because his name was on the anti-terror "no fly" list? By Sen. Schumer's method of counting, that means the “no fly” list stopped five flights by terrorists."

Feds: NY slaying, child rape suspect removed ankle monitor so quickly may have fooled system | Fox News

Feds: NY slaying, child rape suspect removed ankle monitor so quickly may have fooled system | Fox News: "Authorities say he removed and reassembled the bracelet so quickly that it may have prompted what appeared to be a false alarm or the alarm may have gone undetected for hours.

It was almost five hours before the Colorado company monitoring the bracelet notified court officers in Syracuse. Officers had told the company not to notify them of brief interruptions of monitor signals because they were getting alerts when they simply hit against something."

Ron Paul Responds to the Federal Reserve - Campaign for Liberty

Ron Paul Responds to the Federal Reserve - Campaign for Liberty: "While the Fed has for several years criticized Congress’ inability to get its fiscal house in order – ignoring its own responsibility in enabling the government’s massive deficits and debt – the Fed is now alarmed about the across-the-board sequestration “cuts.” But the cuts that so worry Bernanke are not even real cuts, as, under sequestration, the Federal budget will still increase by trillions of dollars over the next ten years."

"One month of Fed money-printing undoes more than a year’s worth of sequestration, yet Chairman Bernanke expects us to believe that “monetary policy cannot offset a fiscal restraint of that magnitude.”"

Sheriff in Utah proposes having some seniors wear ankle monitors for safety concerns | Fox News

Sheriff in Utah proposes having some seniors wear ankle monitors for safety concerns | Fox News: "The monitors would be voluntary and offered to residents for about $4 a day, or $120 a month. Police would monitor the person's movement only when the family contacts them.

The county would make no money off the program, but it could cut costs by avoiding having to deploy numerous officers for long stretches to find people, Fielding said. Searches can require dozens of officers and the use of ATVs, snowmobiles and other equipment, and they easily cost tens of thousands of dollars."

The Gun Debate Is a Culture Debate | Cato Institute

The Gun Debate Is a Culture Debate | Cato Institute: "Vice President Joe Biden admitted an assault weapons ban would do little to stop crime, but argued the weapons should still be banned if they don’t have “real utility either in terms of any sporting or self protection needs[.]”

Here, Biden forgets a founding American principle: we permit the government to have guns, not the other way around. Citizens don’t need to justify owning an “assault weapon,” the government needs to justify taking it.

Biden should be applauded for his honesty, but this begs the question: If honest gun-control advocates know that laws they support are ineffective, why fight for them?"

"The National Academy of Sciences found that gun-control laws have had no measurable effect on gun violence rates. The study was not written by gun-rights advocates—in fact, all but one member of the committee were gun-control advocates. Programs ranging from gun buybacks, to the famous “assault weapons” ban, to “gun-free zones,” were all found to be ineffective at curbing gun crime."

Sandy Hook gunman reportedly compiled massive spreadsheet on previous killings | Fox News

Sandy Hook gunman reportedly compiled massive spreadsheet on previous killings | Fox News: "This was the work of a video gamer, and that it was his intent to put his own name at the very top of that list. They believe that he picked an elementary school because he felt it was a point of least resistance, where he could rack up the greatest number of kills."

What's the Trigger That Will Cause the Fed to Act? | Cato Institute

What's the Trigger That Will Cause the Fed to Act? | Cato Institute: "For each of the last four years, the Fed (and the administration) has been telling us to expect four percent growth in the next year when the actual number has been approximately two percent."

Security reporter hit by 'swatting' attack | Security & Privacy - CNET News

Security reporter hit by 'swatting' attack | Security & Privacy - CNET News: "The term "swatting" refers to spoofing a 911-emergency call with the end goal of having a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team dispatched to a specific location under false pretenses. The fear of physical harm is real: SWAT teams, not known for their subtlety, have in the past caused harm to people who panicked when confronted with their crisis-smothering techniques. Its origins lie in the "phreaking" technique of faking a caller ID, although swatting is more sophisticated.
According to his own account, Krebs reacted calmly, allowing the police to handcuff him, and eventually was able to inform them that not only was the situation a hoax, but that he had filed a report with them months earlier explaining that it was likely that he would be the victim of a swatting attempt."

Federal judge says FBI's secret national security letters seeking records are unconstitutional | Fox News

Federal judge says FBI's secret national security letters seeking records are unconstitutional | Fox News: "They're called national security letters and the FBI issues thousands of them a year to banks, phone companies and other businesses demanding customer information. They're sent without judicial review and recipients are barred from disclosing them.

On Friday, a federal judge in San Francisco declared the letters unconstitutional, saying the secretive demands for customer data violate the First Amendment.

The government has failed to show that the letters and the blanket non-disclosure policy "serve the compelling need of national security," and the gag order creates "too large a danger that speech is being unnecessarily restricted," U.S. District Judge Susan Illston wrote."

'Honors' math classes often don't add up

'Honors' math classes often don't add up: "A new analysis of textbooks, curriculums and transcripts of nearly 18,000 students nationwide suggests that millions of kids in so-called "honors" algebra and geometry classes are actually getting intermediate-level work — or worse."

"Fewer than one in five high school graduates who took an "honors" Algebra I class in high school got "rigorous" work in the course. A full 73% got what researchers called "intermediate" level work, while 9% in honors classes got "beginner" level work. In fact, a greater proportion of students enrolled in regular algebra classes got advanced work, the study found — 34% vs. 18% in "honors" courses."

Director Of National Intelligence Admits That There's Little Risk Of A 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' | Techdirt

Director Of National Intelligence Admits That There's Little Risk Of A 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' | Techdirt: " the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, actually admitted in a Senate hearing that there's little risk of any "cyber Pearl Harbor" in the foreseeable future"

Rand Paul: I Have an Idea for Republicans Concerning the Gay Marriage Issue, and It's a Good One | Independent Journal Review

Rand Paul: I Have an Idea for Republicans Concerning the Gay Marriage Issue, and It's a Good One | Independent Journal Review: "This is one of the best ideas I’ve seen on the gay marriage issues in …ever. It keeps the traditional definition of marriage intact, but changes the tax codes to remove marital references for IRS purposes."

Book Review: Heavens on Earth | Cato Institute

Book Review: Heavens on Earth | Cato Institute: "Had Julius Caesar met George Washington in 1760, he would not have experienced much of a cultural shock. Both belonged to a small class of elites who enjoyed the fruits of slave labor and land rents. For most people, barely anything had changed in terms of standards of living or life expectancy during the 1,800 years separating the Roman statesman from the leader of the American Revolution. However, in the past 250 years, the world has changed beyond recognition, and not just for a small fragment of landed aristocracy. In the West, real incomes have increased by a factor of 15 or more, and more recently, the rest have started to catch up."

Can income inequality light the path to prosperity for all?

Asymmetric Coverage of Climate Science Fools Very Few, and It's Not the Koch Brothers' Fault | Cato Institute

Asymmetric Coverage of Climate Science Fools Very Few, and It's Not the Koch Brothers' Fault | Cato Institute: "death and destruction sell ad copy, while, as the story goes, “plane lands on time” doesn’t."

"So, despite a wonderful recent example of the asymmetric coverage of climate science in the news, people just aren’t buying the end of the world. Around the world, there’s about five times as much concern for the economy than there is for climate change."

"how did the press—once the most cherished of American institutions—lose so much of its authority?"

The Military-Industrial Complex Is Being Exported to Egypt | Cato Institute

The Military-Industrial Complex Is Being Exported to Egypt | Cato Institute: "Washington has given Cairo $1.3 billion a year in military aid"

"U.S. military aid covers as much as 80 percent of the Egyptian Defense Ministry’s weapons procurement costs.

That ample assistance has enabled Egypt to become the fourth-largest operator of F-16s, and to acquire some 4,000 battle tanks"

"the Egyptian military cannot even fully utilize much of the state-of-the art U.S. equipment it’s gifted because it has too few troops trained to use them."

Court curbs Homeland Security's laptop border searches | Politics and Law - CNET News

Court curbs Homeland Security's laptop border searches | Politics and Law - CNET News: "U.S. customs officials must have a reasonable justification before snatching your laptop at the border and scanning through all your files for incriminating data, a federal appeals court ruled today."

San Francisco leaders denounce anti-Islamic ads that will appear on city buses | Fox News

San Francisco leaders denounce anti-Islamic ads that will appear on city buses | Fox News: "The city's transit agency says it will give the $5,000 used to pay for the ads to the city's Human Rights Commission to study the impact of discrimination on San Francisco's Islamic communities."

Can they just give ad money to any group that they want? Aren't there rules on how it must be used?

One Mexican town finds more security by throwing out the police - CSMonitor.com

One Mexican town finds more security by throwing out the police - CSMonitor.com: "The next morning at dawn, they gathered their husbands and other villagers, and armed with rocks, sticks, and a few machetes, they managed to detain four loggers, along with their vehicles.

Eventually, the police intervened, but on behalf of the loggers. So the townspeople threw everyone out: loggers, police, and politicians, too."

Kentucky police officer fined $2 for striking handcuffed suspect multiple times | Fox News

Kentucky police officer fined $2 for striking handcuffed suspect multiple times | Fox News: " A Louisville police officer has been fined $2 after being convicted of official misconduct and harassment for striking a handcuffed suspect multiple times."

Cliffs Notes for the Filibuster: Rand Paul in His Own Words - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

Cliffs Notes for the Filibuster: Rand Paul in His Own Words - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic: "They see themselves as good people, and they say I can't give up any power because I'm going to do good with that power. The problem they don't see is that the power itself is intoxicating, and the power someday may be in the hands of someone else who is less inclined to use it in a good way. I think that's why the power grows and grows and grows -- because everybody believes themselves to be doing the right thing."

"Can you imagine with all the checks and balances of our court system, which I think is the best in the entire world, with attorneys on both sides, whether you can afford one or not, there is argument back and forth and you have these procedural protections and you can appeal, and sometimes you can still get it wrong. If we can get it wrong in the best system in the world, do you think one politician might get it wrong?"

Kentucky senator uses rare filibuster to block vote on President Obama's nominee to lead CIA | Fox News

Kentucky senator uses rare filibuster to block vote on President Obama's nominee to lead CIA | Fox News: "A Republican senator and tea party favorite from Kentucky used an old-style filibuster lasting nearly 13 hours to take control of the chamber and block Senate confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director."

"Paul's performance, which centered on questions about the possible use of drones against targets in the United States, clearly energized a number of his GOP colleagues, who came to the floor in a show of support and to share in the speaking duties."

Sweet Savage Food Marketing at the New York Times | Cato Institute

Sweet Savage Food Marketing at the New York Times | Cato Institute: "You might want to sit down for this.

All set?

Here it is: Food companies work very, very hard to find out what will give you, the consumer, the most pleasure for your money — and then the diabolical fiends actually give it to you!

Seriously, you are supposed to be absolutely horrified by this. You can tell by the ominous language the author, Michael Moss, employs to describe how “food engineers alter a litany of variables with the sole intent of” — brace yourself — “finding the most perfect version” of a product. The most perfect version, of course, is the one that will “be most attractive to consumers.” (The horror.) The piece even quotes one food-company executive who describes the strategy: “Discover what consumers want to buy and give it to them with both barrels.”"

America in Denial as Fiscal Tsunami Approaches | Cato Institute

America in Denial as Fiscal Tsunami Approaches | Cato Institute: "Only cuts to foreign aid and unemployment assistance show majority support from GOP voters."

"in current dollars, a newly retired married couple with typical earnings will have paid roughly $88,000 in payroll taxes for Medicare (including the employer contribution); they can expect to receive program benefits more than four times that much."

"This complicates the “makers vs. takers” narrative that Mitt Romney, Rep. Paul Ryan and their supporters have indulged in to explain their loss. This class of net “takers” — older voters — tends to vote Republican."

Ending the Corporate Tax | Cato Institute

Ending the Corporate Tax | Cato Institute: "The organization’s bureaucrats, who enjoy tax-free salaries, of course, forgot to ask the basic question of whether the corporate tax is beneficial or destructive."

"A corporation is only a legal means by which to do business. Taxes may be levied upon it, but only people pay taxes."

"Most studies show that some part of the corporate tax is passed on to workers in the form of lower wages and benefits."

"most large corporations are owned mainly by pension and mutual funds, university endowments, etc. The union-managed pension funds for firefighters, teachers and others are largely in corporate stocks. When union leaders call for higher corporate taxes, whether or not they understand it, it is a call for reduced pensions for their own members."

Endangered Wartime Interpreters: The U.S. Should Protect Those Who Protect Us | Cato Institute

Endangered Wartime Interpreters: The U.S. Should Protect Those Who Protect Us | Cato Institute: "Those aiding American forces share combat dangers but also are targeted off of the battlefield for their work. By one estimate roughly 1000 interpreters so far have been killed in Iraq. Some 80 interpreters have died in battle in Afghanistan since 2007. To return home would be a death sentence for others.

Yet the U.S. government has refused to welcome those who have done so much to help America. "

“Of the more than 5,700 Afghans who have applied for U.S. visas under a special program tailored for those who have supported the American war effort, just 32 have been approved, the State Department says, leaving the rest in limbo as foreign forces begin their withdrawal.”

"Contact with armed groups, including those fighting against governments viewed as enemies of America years or even decades ago—the Karen, Hmong, and Montagnards in Burma, Laos, and Vietnam, for instance—has been deemed as providing “material support” for terrorists.  Refugees similarly barred from entering America include a woman forced to cook for the Liberian rebels who raped her and a Colombian teenager forced by his paramilitary captors to bury his murdered parents.

Afghans who fought against the Soviets have been blacklisted by the same rules. Jamshid, who fled Afghanistan in 1988, and then served the U.S. as an interpreter after returning home, was denied refugee status in 2008. The State Department decided that he had aided terrorists because decades before he helped the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan, part of the U.S.-supported Mujahideen which battled Moscow."

New Rand Paul bill makes sure Senators (and public) can read the bills before the vote - Campaign for Liberty

New Rand Paul bill makes sure Senators (and public) can read the bills before the vote - Campaign for Liberty: "Senator Paul’s proposal would forbid the Senate from voting on legislation until after the bill is posted online and the Senate has been in session for at least one day for each 20 pages in the bill. So if a bill is forty pages long, it could not be voted on until 2 session days after the bill is introduced.  If the bill is 500 pages, then it would not be voted on until twenty session days have passed."

Anarchy, State, and Gun Ownership - David Greenwald - Mises Daily

Anarchy, State, and Gun Ownership - David Greenwald - Mises Daily: "the very existence of a government security force will also tend to discourage gun ownership among those who live in more affluent, low-crime areas and who generally trust the efficiency and professionalism of the police. Here we have in view individuals who would become gun owners if there were no government police, but who, because such a force does in fact exist (and because they are compelled to pay for it despite its relatively low marginal utility), elect to forego the added expense of self-defense preparedness. Not surprisingly, most advocates of gun control fall into this category. Since, however, the police response time lag still exists even for them and can never be reduced to zero, the effect may be to induce a false sense of security among such people, leaving them unprepared for those rare instances of violent crime that do occur. Some of the more recent mass shootings may be cited as examples."

Is there a correlation between supporting gun control and having better than average police response/coverage?

Immigration Parole, Not Amnesty | Cato Institute

Immigration Parole, Not Amnesty | Cato Institute: "Instead, unless they go the marriage route, even U.S.-educated scientists, engineers, and other professionals have to find employers willing to spend significant resources playing lawyer games with the Labor Department while the applicant’s life is in a state of suspended animation. The wait takes years, particularly for those unfortunate enough to be from places that export skilled workers, like India.

Unskilled workers — your stereotypical Mexican day laborer — don’t even have that. That’s why it’s so important that any immigration reform have a guest-worker component (which President Obama is resisting because union bosses oppose it). Give people the opportunity to earn an honest living and they’ll take it — and then you can deport the criminals."

"our immigration laws themselves undermine the rule of law"

"If you brainstormed a process for how foreigners enter the country, how long they can stay, and what they can do while here, it would be hard to come up with something worse than our current hodge-podge of often contradictory regulations."

"As long as we screen for criminal records, terrorism, and public health, America should stand for the idea of letting people in who seek a better life, in an orderly way: a funnel, not a necessarily leaky wall."

Fla. high school student reportedly suspended after disarming gunman | Fox News

Fla. high school student reportedly suspended after disarming gunman | Fox News: "The boy's mother told Fox4Now.com her son was suspended because he refused to cooperate with the investigation, adding that he was scared."

Arkansas police photograph license plates, store data | Fox News

Arkansas police photograph license plates, store data | Fox News: ""It bothered me particularly if someone wasn't guilty of a crime or didn't have any active warrants or hadn't committed a crime," city director Ken Richardson said.

However, Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas said the law enforcement benefits outweigh any concerns about possible abuse of the information, which, as a public record, is legally available for anyone to see."

Outlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily

Outlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily: "In truth, there is only one way to regard a minimum wage law: it is compulsory unemployment, period. The law says: it is illegal, and therefore criminal, for anyone to hire anyone else below the level of X dollars an hour. This means, plainly and simply, that a large number of free and voluntary wage contracts are now outlawed and hence that there will be a large amount of unemployment. Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result."

"the people who will be disemployed and devastated by this prohibition will be precisely the "marginal" (lowest wage) workers, e.g. blacks and teenagers, the very workers whom the advocates of the minimum wage are claiming to foster and protect."

"When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers…" - Campaign for Liberty

"When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers…" - Campaign for Liberty: "the offices of Rawesome Foods in Venice, California, have been repeatedly raided by armed federal and state agents, and Rawesome’s founder, 65-year old James Stewart, has been imprisoned. What heinous crime justified this action? Rawesome sold unpasteurized (raw) milk and cheese to willing customers – in a state where raw milk is legal! You cannot even drink milk from a cow without a federal permit!"

Are armed agents really needed for something like that?