American Police Beat magazine recently examined the ominous trend toward militarization of law enforcement. The publication observed that police agencies across the nation ?are buying armored vehicles and `mobile command centers' like there's no t… more »

Writing about the French Revolution in 1790, British statesman Edmund Burke warned that criminal means, once tolerated, are soon preferred. Burke's warning applies to the so-called war on drugs, which has been used to institutionalize corrupt and cr… more »

On March 10, Sergeant Mark England, a soldier scheduled for re-deployment to Iraq, was arrested at the Las Vegas airport during a return trip to his home in Orange County, California. Puzzled that he wasn't permitted to pass through a checkpoint with a… more »

During the South Carolina Republican presidential debate, most of the ten aspiring nominees endorsed the use of torture against terrorist suspects. In the subsequent debate in New Hampshire, several of them spoke approvingly of the use of nuclear weapon… more »

For decades, John Tarkowski has been jousting with the Environmental Protection Agency. The 81-year-old resident of Wauconda Township in Illinois clings to the quaint notion that the Constitution protects his right to develop his property as he sees fi… more »

H.L. Mencken, one of America's greatest political pundits, observed that ?The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed....? The much-publicized terrorist plot to blow up fuel storage tanks at JFK Airport illustrates Mencken… more »

It's only June, but we may have already witnessed this year's most repulsive public utterance. In an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, that state's Republican Party Chairman, Dennis Milligan, suggested that the death of thousands of inno… more »

There are many sound reasons for opposing the so-called immigration reform bill working its way through Congress. The most important is this: The measure would require all employers to register with the federal government and to collect detailed financi… more »

Terrorism is an utterly demonic form of violence, but is not a significant danger to the American public. A report issued on May 27 by the Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse (or TRAC) documented that of the more than 800,000 cases filed by t… more »

On orders from the country's chief executive, the national director of intelligence devised guidelines for ?enhanced interrogation? of terrorists and other particularly dangerous detainees. This would include the use of stress positions, sleep de… more »