April 26, 2013 in POLICE STATE, Preview
Conor Friedersdorf | Even when New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg receives criticism, he is regarded as “a pragmatic, apolitical, solution-oriented centrist,” as Joe Nocera once described him in The New York Times. But it isn’t so.
April 23, 2013 in FEATURED STORIES, POLICE STATE, Preview
John Whitehead | Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans fail to realize that the world around them has been suddenly and jarringly shifted off its axis, that axis being the U.S. Constitution.
April 23, 2013 in FEATURED STORIES, POLITRICKS, Preview 3, TOR Blog
Guillermo Jimenez | According to the Mayor, we need to reinterpret the Constitution and change our laws, thereby taking away our freedom, because “there are people who want to take away our freedoms.” If Bloomberg were a comic or social satirist, I’d call him a genius–but he’s not.
February 8, 2013 in POLITRICKS, Preview
ProPublica | In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama declared that “a decade of war is now ending.” White House press secretary Jay Carney later said there was “no question” that the U.S. conflict with al-Qaida…
February 7, 2013 in News, POLITRICKS, Preview
Thomas E. Woods TomWoods.com February 7, 2013 Now on some level, we shouldn’t care: resisting violent people who claim the right to expropriate you and force you around is [...]
January 10, 2013 in POLICE STATE, Preview
Reuters | A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the New York Police Department to immediately stop conducting trespass stops outside certain residential buildings in the borough of the Bronx without “reasonable suspicion” that an individual is engaged in criminal activity.
January 2, 2013 in POLITRICKS, Preview
Tom Woods | No, not because it cedes too much power to the federal government. Surely that opinion would not be allowed in the New York Times.
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