More nonsense regarding gun control & the violation of constitutional rights from The Volokh Conspiracy.
Category: politics
An End To ‘Everybody’s Press’?
The FEC (federal elections committee) is thinking about expanding the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, a.k.a McCain-Feingold) to regulate political speech even more – and this has got some people really scared.
Redefining “Sexual Torture”?
The way to think about this issue is to put yourself in the shoes of the prisoner.
Backscatter X-Ray Technology
According to this article over at Bruce Schneier’s blog, there’s a new X-Ray system that can literally “see” through clothes (in the way that many of us imagined those old “x-ray glasses” advertised on the back of cereal boxes would work). And they’re planning on using it to scan people.
Let’s Deport All The America Haters!
People sometimes get so fired up about these sorts of things that they forget to think rationally. The old “you’re wrong because you disagree with me!” syndrome has been popping up a lot more these days. I’m just glad that some people can see through the anger to the broken logic underneath.