Law & Public Safety
NC House Passes Map Act Repeal Bill
View in your browser. NC House Passes Map Act Repeal Bill Last week the NC House voted unanimously to approve a bill (HB 183) that would repeal in its entirety a…
Radley Balko
American journalist and author
Liberty
Another honest American nailed by overreaching government officials
Every day we hear of new examples of government overreach to show how Kafkaesque the US is becoming. Consider the case Radley Balko discusses in this Washington Post piece, a…
Education
Commentary article trashes new Nifong-biased book on the Duke lacrosse case
Writing in the latest issue of Commentary magazine, Brooklyn College history professor KC Johnson explains why a new book on the infamous Duke lacrosse case fails miserably, especially because of…
Liberty
Radley Balko on Obama’s increasing militarization of police
Radley Balko, one of the foremost authorities on the nation’s increasing militarization of the police and its simultaneous decrease in civil liberties, writes here about the Obama record, and shows…
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The increasing militarization of law enforcement
Writing at Huffington Post, Radley Balko has a terrific piece on an issue that almost no politician dares to mention — the increasing militarization of law enforcement. With regularity, police…
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War on Drugs claims another life; officials go into CYA mode
Radley Balko writes here about a terribly disturbing case in Arizona. Not only did “law enforcement” officials kill an innocent person, but then they try to spin the story and…
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Prosecutorial abuse reminiscent of Mike Nifong
Radley Balko writes here about a really disturbing case of prosecutorial abuse — a vendetta carried out by a US attorney against pain relief advocate Siobhan Reynolds. If we had…
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Radley Balko on the NC crime lab scandal
Writing for Reason Radley Balko gives an overview of our corrupt crime lab, as well as similar experiences in quite a few other states. He gets at the core of…
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“Take time to be a dad today, and let us help along the way.”
Via Radley Balko, a website “that shouldn’t exist”: fatherhood.gov, the website of the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ “National Responsible Fatherhood Campaign.” From the site: [Fatherhood] doesn’t take…
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Tough questions for McCain
Reason senior editor Radley Balko suggests some tough questions for John McCain here. The question I’d like to ask any candidate for anything: Would you list for me five laws…
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Obama’s “anti-violence” speech
Writing for Townhall today, Jon Sanders rips into Barack Obama’s ridiculous speech in which he blathers away about all the various forms of violence that society is said to glorify…
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Don’t bother the WaPo with facts or data
Global warming alarmists aren’t the only ones who completely ignore facts as they try to propagandize the climate for political purposes. The same can be said for gun control zealots…