A former Prince George’s County police officer and Crofton, Maryland, police chief wrote a letter to the editor of the Baltimore Sun in response to the paper’s articles about the first batch of statistics produced by the state’s SWAT team transparency bill (the subject of my column earlier this week). Over at The Agitator, I’ve responded to the letter point by point
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Ex-Cop Chides Raided Mayor for Criticizing the SWAT Team That Nearly Killed Him
A blast from the semi-recent past: On December 9, 2009, Reason.tv’s Nick Gillespie appeared with investment analyst, sound-money advocate, and likely Connecticut senatorial candidate Peter Schiff to discuss the Federal Reserve and government spending on Fox News’ Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano. Go to Reason.tv for more media appearances and downloadable versions of all Reason videos
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Reason Staff Around The Tubes: Nick Gillespie on Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano and Peter Schiff
VOIP maker MagicJack (yes, you’ve seen the ads) loses a defamation case against the blogocopia BoingBoing, based on the latter’s revelations of the gadget company’s user agreement. Interesting stuff .
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MagicJack Gets Smacked! Dials Wrong Number in BoingBoing Suit
At The Washington Post , Duke University economist and F.A. Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell reports that sales are booming for Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom . Caldwell offers some good reasons why: I think that the underlying reason for the sustained interest in Hayek’s book is that it taps into a profound dissatisfaction in the public mind with the machinations of its government
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Hayek Climbs the Charts
Writing at SCOTUSblog, George Mason University legal scholar David Bernstein has a superb essay explaining the importance of the Supreme Court’s largely forgotten 1917 decision in Buchanan v. Warle y: Buchanan v. Warley is one of the most significant civil rights cases decided before the modern civil rights era. Starting in 1910, many cities in the South, border states, and lower Midwest, responded to a wave of African-American in-migration from rural areas by passing laws mandating residential segregation in housing
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Property Rights Are Civil Rights
The Washington Post tracks the predictable yet irrational response to the city’s new 5 cent bag tax, aimed at reducing consumption and keeping the Anacostia River clean.
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D.C. Bag Tax Update: Now With More Porn Mags
I was all set to write a blog post drawing similarities to the liberal ends-justify-the-means laments for Citizens United v. FEC and the conservative ends-justify-the-means laments of various judicial checks on executive-branch power to detain whoever the hell indefinitely, but then Salon’s Glenn Greenwald beat me to it.
At this point I’m pretty tired of essays by conservatives laying out what annoys them about the contemporary conservative movement. But Michael Brendan Dougherty’s smart and funny tirade in The Awl is much better than the typical specimen of the genre.
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Shall I Sell Out to You or Sell You Out?
In May, Reason’s own Nick Gillespie crunched some numbers (and perhaps a Cheeto or two) on the possible tax revenue from marijuana legalization. Now, some numbers along the same lines, in sexy infographic form! Via BoingBoing
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Infographic on Pot Tax Revenues
I’ll have more details after I’ve read the opinion. But this afternoon, the Mississippi Court of Appeals granted Cory Maye a new trial. This is great news.
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New Trial for Cory Maye
