BREAKING No joke. It happened around 6 p.m. Eastern. I briefly talked with one of the police officers at the scene, who confirmed that someone had called saying he had shot his wife, and sent officers to Aaron’s address. I just got off the phone with Aaron and he and his wife are a little shaken up but OK. The officers had machine guns but did not point them at
June 25, 2012
June 25, 2012
“Federal hotline set up on Arizona immigration”
AP: The Justice Department has set up a hotline for the public to report potential civil rights concerns regarding the Arizona law that requires police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons. The hotline phone number is 1-855-353-1010. The email is: SB1070(at)usdoj.gov. The Supreme Court unanimously approved Arizona’s “show-me-your-papers” requirement on Monday but struck down provisions that created state crimes allowing local police to arrest
June 25, 2012
Mark Levin: “we now have de facto amnesty in Arizona”
Think it through: if you are an illegal and you haven’t committed a felony, the only recourse Arizona law enforcement has is to alert ICE. And the feds have already alerted AZ law enforcement that, unless the illegal in question has committed a felony, they aren’t interested in hearing from Arizona law enforcement. The crime of illegality is still illegal, but it is unenforceable, and therefore moot. Pre-empted. So Arizona,
June 25, 2012
“A new measure of consumption inequality”
Turns out “income inequality” as proof of capitalism’s fundamental flaw is every bit as pointedly misleading as it was intended to be. Sadly, we free marketers have to come out with detailed studies proving our claims, while all the Left must do is fashion fraught descriptions and offer disingenuous intimations of some outrage to “social justice” — and even then, the detailed studies only work in a climate where people
June 25, 2012
A good day for free speech.
Aaron Walker can once again write “Brett Kimberlin is a convicted bomber” online should he wish, online, to note that Brett Kimberlin is in fact a convicted bomber. Yay! And you thought our country was becoming less free. Hobbits.
June 25, 2012
In case you thought your day might get better
“Bad Decision: Supreme Court Strikes Down Mandatory Life Sentences Without Parole for Teenagers, But Does Not Cite “International Norms”, Hans Bader, CEI: The Supreme Court has just ruled 5-to-4 that states cannot mandate life sentences without the possibility of parole for murderers under age 18, no matter how horrible the murder, in Miller v. Alabama. The cases before it involved 14-year-old murderers from Alabama and Arkansas, but the Court, casting
June 25, 2012
On dissent in the AZ ruling
Sdferr cites this part of the dissent by Justice Scalia: […] But there has come to pass, and is with us today, the specter that Arizona and the States that support it predicted: A Federal Government that does not want to enforce the immigration laws as written, and leaves the States’ borders unprotected against immigrants whom those laws would exclude. So the issue is a stark one. Are the sovereign
June 25, 2012
Portent
Federal government 1, states, 0. The Supreme Court today struck down as unconstitutional most of Arizona’s controversial law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants. […] The court, in a 5-3 ruling, left standing only the “show me your papers” part of the law that requires state and local police to perform roadside immigration checks of people they’ve stopped or detained if a “reasonable suspicion” exists that they are in