This week a federal appeals court upheld a preliminary injunction preventing a Pennsylvania prosecutor from forcing girls into “education and counseling” by threatening to prosecute them on child pornography charges for appearing in “sexting” photos. The case began in October 2008, when school officials in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, found nude and semi-nude pictures of teenaged girls on several students’ cell phones. The matter was referred to Wyoming County District Attorney George Skumanick Jr., who sent letters to the parents of about 20 students who either had appeared in the photos or had them on their phones, inviting them to participate in “a six to nine month program which focuses on education and counseling.” Among other things, the program involved writing essays of self-criticism “explaining why you are here,” “what you did,” “why it was wrong,” who was victimized by it, and how it “affect[ed] the victim, the school, [and] the community.” Skumanick told the parents that “participation in the program is voluntary”—except that students who did not get with the program would face felony charges of possessing or distributing child pornography
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George Skumanick’s Provocative Pose
Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey is an original Reason.tv documentary series that aired the week of March 15-19, 2010. Featuring sitcom legend, Price Is Right host, and proud Clevelander Drew Carey, each roughly 10-minute episode investigates and analyzes the problems that turned Cleveland from the nation’s sixth-largest city in 1950 into today’s “Mistake By The Lake.” Like all too many American cities, Cleveland seems locked into a death spiral, shedding people, jobs, and dreams like nobody’s business
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Watch “Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey: How to Fix The Mistake on The Lake And Other Once-Great American Cities” as a single video
Not much one can say in response to this Joseph Heller-like exercise in military leadership. In front of a Senate committee looking into “don’t ask, don’t tell,” former NATO commander Gen. John Sheehan told a baffled Sen
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Gay Dutch Genocidaires: A Warning From the Recent Past
Just read this 11-sentence train of thought that opens the New York Times columnist’s latest : The United States is becoming a broken society. The public has contempt for the political class. Public debt is piling up at an astonishing and unrelenting pace.
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David Brooks Surveys Economic Wreckage, Redoubles Patriotic Battle Against the “surge in vehement libertarianism”
“No city can exist without people,” writes Reason Foundation’s Anthony Randazzo in a companion piece to the sixth and final episode of the documentary series Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey. Yet Cleveland’s population has declined from nearly 1 million in the 1950s to about 430,000. Many of these people have moved to nearby suburbs, causing city population density to decline from 11,400 people per square mile in 1960 to 6,200 ppsm in 2008.
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New at Reason: How to Repopulate Cleveland And Other Once-Great American Cities
Outrage o’ the day , care of The New York Post : A computer database glitch has sent police to the home of an elderly Brooklyn couple more than 50 times since 2002, sheepish cops admitted today. Walter and Rose Martin endured the most recent raid on Tuesday, when four cops showed up looking for a suspect. Two officers broke a window in the back of their Marine Park home.
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Nothing Worse Than Having Your Name on an “Invade My House Constantly” List
Back in the day and before he escaped earthly radio’s gravitational pull and began broadcasting off-planet, Howard Stern was never more exercised than when he was railing against the Federal Communications Commission, that august body of idjit galoots who did so much to make him popular by fining him for every poop joke, burp, fart, and steaming pile of excrement he referenced on air. Indeed, radio listeners from the good ol’ days of the Depression may get weak in the knees when thinking about fireside chats and Fiorello LaGuardia reading the comics over the wireless, but I’ll always remember Stern’s great Fuck The FCC rally circa 1987, held in the shadow of the U.N
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Howard Stern: The FCC Are Communists, Democrats
Moorfield Storey, the great libertarian lawyer and activist, was born on this day in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1845. Here’s a little from my 2007 profile of his life and accomplishments: A fierce critic of imperialism and militarism, Storey was a founder and president of the Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed U.S. annexation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War and counted Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and President Grover Cleveland among its members.
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Happy Birthday, Moorfield Storey!
• The president now has a ” framework ” for overhauling the immigration system. The proposals include a national ID card
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Reason Morning Links: Mandatory ID Cards, Mandatory Publication Delays, Mandatory Condoms
No city can exist without people and Cleveland has lost more than half its population since the 1950s.
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Bring The People Back: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Ep. 6
