By Anthony Gregory | Monday March 5, 2012 at 2:31 PM PDT | 11 Comments
There is increasing concern that government surveillance drones will undermine privacy. Then there is the safety concern: Consider the police drone that crashed into a sheriff’s tank during training. This really is the kind of state the U.S. has become: One in which there is no real expectation of privacy from the government. First...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Surveillance, The State
By Melancton Smith | at 2:13 PM PDT | 6 Comments
U.S. District Judge Benson E. Legg, sitting in Maryland, has issued a ruling (Wollard v. Sheridan) in an interesting Second Amendment case. The State of Maryland requires applicants for concealed carry permits to demonstrate a “good and substantial reason” to carry the gun. Wollard wanted a permit because his home had been broken into, he...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Constitution, Criminal Justice, Gun Control, Law, Second Amendment
By Mary Theroux | at 1:36 PM PDT | 29 Comments
Here are a few good reasons to think about just how much more federal money ($5 billion and counting) should be poured into subsidizing electric cars: A new study from the University of Tennessee finds that electric cars cause worse pollution in China than standard gas-burning cars. The bottom line is that one has...
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Tags: Bailouts, Employment, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Government subsidies, Transportation