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Arizona Republic: “”There’s no way Andy McDonel is taking down his ‘Don’t Tread on Me‘ flag. The homeowners association in McDonel’s Laveen neighborhood told him to remove the yellow banner with the coiled snake from the front of his house.” See the New York Times story on this subject called [...] Washington Examiner: “Can a person be charged with resisting arrest while observing a traffic stop from his or her own front porch.” The answer to this question in Salisbury, North Carolina is yes. Excuse me, but how can it be legal for a city to fine people for not recycling? Cleveland, Ohio, plans to do it and to use high tech devices to monitor residents to determine if they are recycling. According to Cleveland.com: “the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure [...] The Volokh Conspiracy: “the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency doesn’t allow movie ads with guns in them.” UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh says “The policy is unconstitutional, at least as applied to movie ads, because it’s viewpoint-based.” Forbes: “Citizens’ right to sigh in exasperation also threatened. . . . Reportedly, Darlene Helsop had hoped to speak to the finance committee about its plan to hire a state lobbyist, but wasn’t given the opportunity to do so. She sighed and rolled her eyes, to the great irritation of committee chairman Stephen Hipskind. [...] New York Times: “One afternoon, Duane P. Kerzic was arrested by the Amtrak police while taking pictures of a train pulling into Pennsylvania Station. At first, the police asked him to delete the images from his camera, but he refused. He ended up handcuffed to the wall of a holding cell while [...] Government agencies must take action to justify their existence. Agency action usually means loss of freedom and financial harm to the public. One of the most worthless government agencies is the Consumer Product Safety Commission that now sticks its ugly head in all facets of American life. It’s latest target – roller [...] Washington Post has a story about the picture police: “A few weeks ago, on his way to work, Matt Urick stopped to snap a few pictures of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s headquarters. He thought the building was ugly but might make for an interesting photo. The uniformed officer [...] Forbes: Fear that real rocks may contain harmful substances, a school cancelled its rock purchase order and showed students a poster of rocks instead of the real thing. “And so it goes in the unbrave new world, where nothing is safe enough. It’s a world brought to us by the once [...] Quinnipiac University dropped volleyball as a girls’ sport because it could not afford the expense so naturally the girls sued. The girls claimed that QU must pay for them to play a college sport because under a federal law known as Title IX, the school could not drop volleyball because then its [...] ABC News: “it wasn’t his daredevil stunt that has the 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard facing the possibility of 16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speeding ticket. It was the video that Graber posted on YouTube one week later — taken with his helmet [...] CNS News: “New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year–must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: [...] Rasmussen Reports: “The notion that governments derive their only just authority from the consent of the governed is a foundational principle of the American experiment. However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of voters nationwide believe the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two [...] National Review: “One must wonder what kind of society we have become. In the dismaying-but-not-surprising category of news stories recently, this one in the July 2 New York Times got my attention. It describes how the Obama administration is killing off the summer-internship programs, many of them unpaid, that are so popular with [...] John Stossel’s uses examples to make the point that we are losing our freedom. “Something’s happened to America, and it isn’t good. It’s become easier to get into trouble. We’ve become a nation of a million rules. Not the kind of bottom-up rules that people generate through voluntary associations. Those are fine. [...] San Francisco Chronicle: “Sell a guinea pig, go to jail. That’s the law under consideration by San Francisco’s Commission of Animal Control and Welfare. If the commission approves the ordinance at its meeting tonight, San Francisco could soon have what is believed to be the country’s first ban on the sale of [...] San Francisco Chronicle: “Coca-Cola is out, and soy milk is now part of San Francisco’s official city policy. Under an executive order from Mayor Gavin Newsom, Coke, Pepsi and Fanta Orange are no longer allowed in vending machines on city property,” Real Clear Politics has an article called “All-American Light Bulb Dims as Freedom Flickers“ that discusses the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the law that outlaws the the incandescent light bulb in favor of the dangerous compact fluorescent lights “CFCs) that contain highly toxic mercury and that must be discarded [...] Rasmussen Reports: “Nearly half [48%] of American Adults see the government today as a threat to individual rights rather than a protector of those rights.” Washington Post: “The California Senate just passed a bill that could send parents to jail for up to a year if their kids — from kindergarten through eighth grade — miss too much school.” Wow! This is a perfect example of the blindness of do good legislators to the unintended consequences of [...] Prison Planet: “Government would have ‘absolute power’ to seize control of the world wide web under Lieberman legislation. The federal government would have ‘absolute power’ to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative [...] The Washington Post has a story about a very troubling situation in Maryland involving out-of-control police and Anthony Graber, a man who happened to film his police encounter. A 25 year old Air National Guard Staff Sargent was riding his motorcycle north of Baltimore on Interstate 95 with a helmet cam, a [...] If there is one thing as certain as the sun rising in the morning it is that the California legislature will pass laws that make no sense and hurt its economy. The Associated Press reports that the California Assembly just passed a bill the would create a California-wide ban on stores putting [...] Congrats Americans for our wonderful leaders having amassed a record national debt of $13 trillion, but who’s counting. It’s a gift of life-long debt from us, the indulgent me-generation to our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. We have recklessly and immorally mortgaged the future of our children and descendants. Facts from “Federal [...] Los Angeles Times: “a year ago the new Democrat administration of Barack Obama launched a major internal study intended to design a major government rescue plan for the nation’s financially-troubled information media, primarily newspapers.” “Would you believe: major changes to the copyright law, including government licensing provisions; government pilot programs to investigate [...] WJZ 13 TV: “Several Marylanders face felony charges for recording their arrests on camera, and others have been intimidated to shut their cameras off. That’s touched off a legal controversy.” If you thought the United States was a free county, here is more evidence to the contrary from KHOU TV in Texas “Jolly Rancher lands Fort Bend County third-grader in detention for a week.” Some high school students who wore tee shirts with the American flag were kicked out of school on May 5, 2010, Cinco de Mayo. School administrator said the U.S. flag was incendiary and could upset Mexican-American students. Query: Why would the American flag upset a Mexican-American? Isn’t the American flag also the [...] More loss of freedom. Instead of parents making choices for their children, government will do it for them. The Los Angeles Times reports that Santa Clara County, California, is about to ban the sale of food to children when the food is sold in conjunction with kids toys unless the food meets [...] Columnist Walter Williams has an article about the Salt Police in which he says, “What the anti-tobacco zealots established is that government had the right to forcibly control our lives if it was done in the name of protecting our health. . . . America’s tyrants have now turned their attention to [...] |
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