Why police may not act on tips
After the recent tragedy in Florida, one question I’ve seen raised numerous times can be boiled down to this: why did the FBI and local police not act on ...
Category: Due process
As we leave 2017
One lesson all of us should learn ahead of this Christmas given everything that’s happened politically in 2017 and also 2016: RIGHTS limit how the governm...
On improving our situation regarding firearms
This is a comment I left on a Huffington Post article called “I Have A Mental Illness And A Gun License. Here’s What I Think Of Gun Reform.” by Thom...
Legislating from the bench
Recently I got into an online argument — surprise, I know! — over the Controlled Substances Act and the extent of Congress’s interstate and in...
Revisiting Brock Turner
There’s a big reason we don’t have “justice” in the United States: justice is not objective. It’s entirely subjective. What is ...
Limiting the exercise of rights, and the risks of freedom
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitu...
A compromise on the “terrorist watch list”
A lot of the gun control talk in recent days following the Orlando attack has centered around the “terrorist watch list”, a covert list of individua...
Regarding the Brock Turner case…
Defending principles is extremely difficult. But necessary. On this blog and in other venues, I’ve defended the outcomes of the Casey Anthony and George Z...
Reply to Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof is a writer for the New York Times focusing on human rights, women’s rights, health and global affairs. As part of the SundayReview colum...
Road Trip: A renewed view of the Second Amendment
Recently I had the great opportunity to take a road trip with my wife to southern Nevada. Being a freshly-renewed permitted carrier of a concealed weapon from M...