Dan McCarthy arrested for walking on a sidewalk… with signs
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Did you know the Justice Department threatened several universities with legal action because they took part in an experimental program to allow students to use the Amazon Kindle for textbooks?
Last year, the schools — among them Princeton, Arizona State and Case Western Reserve — wanted to know if e-book readers would be more convenient and [...]
By The Associated Press
06.24.10
WASHINGTON — People who sign petitions calling for public votes on controversial subjects don’t have an automatic right to hide their names, the Supreme Court ruled today in an appeal brought by Washington state voters worried about harassment because of their desire to repeal that state’s gay-rights law.
The high court ruled against [...]
Texas, the state I call home and many regularly call the land of the truly free where government tends to stay out of your business, why must you continue to oppress the sick and the weak?
Texas has been known to, for the most part, leave the regulation of private matters to the individual, rightly where [...]
Police arrested 83 people in downtown Oakland Thursday night after hundreds protested the verdict in the trial of a white former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man, Oakland police officials told CNN.
Police issued a variety of charges, including failure to disperse, resisting arrest, burglary, vandalism and assualting a police officer and the [...]
Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. As soldiers on the ground approached the plane, the crew tried to shoo them away, saying there was a dangerous oil leak. So the troops grew [...]
AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 1, 2010 — As Texans celebrate Independence Day, the Libertarian Party calls for voters to declare independence from corrupt political parties that try to use courts, tricks, and legislation to subvert the will of the voters.
“Recent events have further confirmed the corrupt practices of the Republican and Democratic parties in manipulating [...]
A Texas man has sued his local police department, saying he was arrested for taking a picture of a police officer when the officer entered his home without permission.
According to the lawsuit (PDF), Sgt. Justin Alderete of the Sealy, Texas, police department arrived at the home of Francisco Olvera in October, 2009, apparently responding to [...]
Libertarians surely favor freedom of speech, that is, the right to speak without being hampered by the government. But the right to speak implies the right not to speak, the right to remain silent. Yet libertarians have themselves been strangely silent on the many instances of compulsory speech in our society.
The [...]
Originally found at Laughter and Libery
Who is Brian McCrary?
Our hero of the week, that’s who!!
Brian McCrary is a computer network designer from Gray, TN who is a anti-speed camera activist. After receiving a $90 ticket from the Bluff City Police Department he went to their website and noticed it was about to expire. What he [...]
Health freedom has just been handed a significant victory by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which ruled last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated the First Amendment rights of a nutritional supplement company when it censored truthful, scientifically-backed claims about how selenium can help reduce the [...]
Copyright law’s grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley. At TEDxUSC 2010, she talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion’s free culture.
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TURTLE LAKE, Wis. — What was he supposed to do?
It’s not a question so much as a challenge. A challenge to anyone who thinks Lenny Miller was wrong to booby-trap his cabin with a shotgun.
Three times in eight months, the cabin had been burglarized.
His hunting rifles were stolen. His fishing gear, too. And his tackle [...]
Washington drug agents have illegally seized signed petitions for marijuana legalization, according to organizers of ballot initiative I-1068.
Marijuana advocacy group Sensible Washington says it has learned that a dozen signed copies of the marijuana legalization initiative for Washington State of which it is the sponsor, were seized last week by the federally-funded WestNET drug [...]
Calling law enforcement accounts “absurd,” a Michigan attorney sued police Tuesday in the death of 7-year-old girl killed during a raid in Detroit.
Attorney Geoffrey Fieger said members of the Detroit Police Special Response Team acted out of line when they conducted a raid on the family home of Aiyana Jones, who was severely burned and [...]