How Mischievous Obama Administration Officials Scuttled an Important Supreme Court Case | Cato Institute

How Mischievous Obama Administration Officials Scuttled an Important Supreme Court Case | Cato Institute: "A deal was struck where the city would drop their Supreme Court appeal in exchange for the federal government not supporting the lawsuit against the city.

That, at least, was the finding of a report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform."

Should America Enter Syria's Hell? | Cato Institute

Should America Enter Syria's Hell? | Cato Institute: "Civil wars are particularly resistant to outside solution. The antagonisms run deep and there often are multiple parties, none of whom may want peace."

How the State Destroys Social Cooperation - Gary Galles - Mises Daily

How the State Destroys Social Cooperation - Gary Galles - Mises Daily: "when government mandates employer-provided “free” benefits, employers then reduce other parts of compensation that many workers may actually value more than the mandated benefits, to “pay” for them. Or employers may simply hire fewer workers."

Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » ZIMMERMAN VERDICT PART 17: THE COPS

Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » ZIMMERMAN VERDICT PART 17: THE COPS: "The next time some tells says “Never talk to the police, they’re your enemy,” remember each and every one of those honest members of the criminal justice system who stood up, told the truth, and did their duty.  The next time someone tells  you that the police are the mindless minions of the Gestapo/Leviathan/The Zionist Occupation Government/The Man (pick one as suits the given agenda), remember the ones who were severely and unmeritoriously punished for having fulfilled their oath and hewed to the truth.  And remember the role they all played in getting that truth across to the jury, and helping to acquit an innocent man who, by every objective analysis of the evidence, was wrongly accused."

Who's a victim? More law enforcers treating homegrown prostitution as human sex trafficking | Fox News

Who's a victim? More law enforcers treating homegrown prostitution as human sex trafficking | Fox News: "more lawmakers, police and prosecutors across the country are starting to shift their view on this, too. Increasingly, they are focusing on arresting traffickers and customers (pimps and johns, as it were) and on getting help for prostitutes."

Microsoft, Google to sue over FISA gag order | Politics and Law - CNET News

Microsoft, Google to sue over FISA gag order | Politics and Law - CNET News: "Stonewalling by the Department of Justice has led Google and Microsoft to decide to file a lawsuit so that they can publicly discuss Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court-approved surveillance orders."

Microsoft and Google working together for a good cause!

Mom of peanut allergy victim: Her last words were 'I'm sorry' | Sacramento News - KCRA Home

Mom of peanut allergy victim: Her last words were 'I'm sorry' | Sacramento News - KCRA Home: " "We had denied our daughter birthday treats in the classrooms. We read every food label looking for peanuts. This is not helicopter parenting. This was us trying to keep our children alive," Joanne Giorgi said."

Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco - Bloomberg

Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco - Bloomberg: "Costco really is a store where affluent, high-socioeconomic status households occasionally buy huge quantities of goods on the cheap: That’s Costco's business strategy (which is why its stores are pretty much found in affluent near-in suburbs). Wal-Mart, however, is mostly a store where low-income people do their everyday shopping."

Glenn Jacobs: Defunding ObamaCare is serious business - Campaign for Liberty

Glenn Jacobs: Defunding ObamaCare is serious business - Campaign for Liberty: "Unlike our personal dealings, in which compromise usually means both sides get something positive out of the deal, political compromises often benefit politicians at the expense of the rest of us. Whatever political favors the Democratic and Republican establishments get out of Obamacare will leave a majority of middle-class Americans holding the bag."

The NSA and Its “Compliance Problems” - Ben O'Neill - Mises Daily

The NSA and Its “Compliance Problems” - Ben O'Neill - Mises Daily: "For ordinary citizens, “compliance problems” with the law are better known as “crimes” (or possibly civil wrongs) and these lead to judgment debts, fines, and possibly even jail time, depending on the severity of the lack-of-compliance. But for government officials such notions are irrelevant — legal compliance problems are just something you file a report about, and send to another bureaucrat higher up in the government chain, so that he can bury it on his desk."

"[The NSA] has claimed that it may collect any and all information it wishes without any warrant or restriction, and that this does not constitute real “collection” of data unless the database is later queried. In other words, collection of data is not really collection of data, so long as the data sits idle and is not accessed. It has then claimed that querying of its databases is only ever done under warrant and only under circumstances where there are specific facts to yield a reasonable suspicion of terrorist activity."

"The agency then operates above the law, in the sense that its agents are pre-emptively acquitted of lawbreaking, on the grounds that some degree of non-compliance with the law is expected."