Legal System

Mimi & Eunice: Reality or Law?

by Nina Paley August 14, 2011

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Anders Behring Breivik and Norwegian Prisons

by Matthew Alexander July 27, 2011

The latest news from Norway is the prison that might, for the next 21 years, be a home for Anders Behring Breivik. After reviewing the videos and photos, I must say, Ohio State offered me no better when I went there on scholarship some years ago (and my scholarship was only good for four years). [...]

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Keeping Rights on Paper, Losing Them on the Streets

by Robert Wicks July 22, 2011

While many people love to promote the various rights guaranteed by the Constitution, it is interesting to see how rights are restricted not through legislation or even an active judiciary, but simply by law enforcement not respecting them. Consider the right to keep and bear arms and this officer’s reaction to a man exercising his [...]

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On the Casey Anthony trial

by Akiva July 14, 2011

Had they charged her with the appropriate crime (negligent homicide), they probably would have won the case. But apparently sending her to jail for many years wasn’t enough; they wanted her dead. So, they went for murder despite having no proof of premeditation. The judge should have dismissed the murder charge after the prosecution rested; that he didn’t is a [...]

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Are Libertarians No Different Than Statists?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 2, 2011

There are some seriously mistaken individuals who seem to think so. Take a quote like this: The recognition of the insuperable limits to his knowledge ought indeed to teach the student of society a lesson in humility which should guard against him becoming an accomplice in men’s fatal striving to control society [and destroying] a [...]

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Continued confusion over the “rights” of corporations

by Akiva April 12, 2011

Voters in Madison, Wisconsin recently approved a measure asserting that corporations do not have constitutional rights. The measure correctly asserts that only individuals have rights. But then it proceeds to state that corporations do not. This is collectivism at its finest. A corporation doesn’t act. People act. Although the “corporation” doesn’t have rights as an entity, each [...]

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Life Sentence at 11 Years Old?

by Robert Wicks February 18, 2011

Good’s Cord Jefferson asks: “Should an 11-Year Old Boy Go to Jail for Life?” Read the account. It is horrifying that a boy could do something so evil. My own daughter is 11. I could simply not imagine her doing anything like this. I am sure many of you feel the same. Indeed, the sense [...]

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