How Stop/Frisk in New York City is unconstitutional

A federal judge has allowed (not ruled but just allowed) a court case to proceed on the clearly unconstitutional practice of stop/frisk in New York City. Technically stop/frisk are two different things. Stop supposedly needs only reasonable suspicion. The frisk part...

How Stop/Frisk in New York City targets blacks

A federal judge has allowed (not ruled but just allowed) a court case to proceed on the clearly unconstitutional practice of stop/frisk in New York City. Technically stop/frisk are two different things. Stop supposedly needs only reasonable suspicion. The frisk part requires...

Pro-drug reformer prosecuted for activism?

In New Hampshire in January of 2008, a police officer tried to get talk show host Ian Bernard charged with a criminal offense for the host's promotion of a protest against anti-marijuana laws. A pro-marijuana reformer, James Carroll, held a quanity of marijuana out in the...

NYPD cops violate civil liberties of Occupy Wall Street activists

This is an interesting case out of New York City, where NYPD cops raid a house because of a six year old open carry violation of alcohol. Six cops in fact. At 6:30 in the morning. Of course, the raid wasn't about a six year old case of open carry. It was because they were...

Fired for wearing orange shirts and Goldman Sach's rip off

14 employees in a law firm in Florida were fired for the heinous crime of, get ready, wearing orange shirts. Yes, wearing orange shirts. Seems the sharp legal minds at the Elizabeth Wellborn law firm fired them because they believed the workers were taking some kind protest....

Police engaging in strip searches in Milwaukee illegally

A number of Milwaukee police (where I live)  have been engaged in illegal strip searches, without an arrest, of suspects. Of course, under the U.S. Constitution, without probable cause, police cannot engage in strip searches. Some of these searches were rectal...

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Why and how evolution is true

Some who argue against evolution bring up the First and Second laws of thermodynamics and entropy. Like Dracula in a bad movie, these arguments just won’t die. Basically the First law stated that energy level in a closed system is constant and the Second law states that in...

Yes to same sex marriage

Some people state that same sex marriages would threaten their right to see these marriages as illegitimate. This is not true. If one wants to disagree with sex marriages, fine. They lose this right to do so no more then those believe that there should be no right of...

Did the police entrap 141 people in a sting in NYC?

Can you be arrested for receiving stolen goods, if you didn't know they were stolen in the first place? What if you only suspect they were stolen? I was in New York City one time and some guy ran up to me on the street and asked if I wanted to buy some name brand shirt, I had...

Seacrest spotted at Times Square stage? Plus performer updates!

On December 29th, at 7 pm EST Broadway theater goers mixed with tourists in a packed Times Square pedestrian mall. Some stopped to gawk at New Year's Eve preparations already underway in Times Square.  A small group gathered to watch a tech rehearsal at the New Year's...