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ConstitutionGovernmentLibertyMediaPoliticsRegulation
Police use of deadly force is not about racism
by David Wojick October 12, 2020Hardly a day goes by anymore where we don’t see headlines suggesting or blaring that racist police officers are beating and killing blacks in record numbers, reality is far more complicated, but agenda-pushing activists don’t want to discuss it
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FeaturedGovernment
Thomas Sowell at 90: Understanding Race Relations Around the World
by Richard Ebeling June 17, 2020The issue of race relations in America has reached a new high pitch with the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, followed by mass peaceful demonstrations and instances of violence, looting, and arson in cities around the country.
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EconomicsGovernmentLiberty
Tragedies of Our Time: Pandemic, Planning, and Racial Politics
by Richard Ebeling June 9, 2020People are being forced back into a new tribalism and a new racial and ethnic collectivism in the public arena due to the renewed insistence on “group-think” that is reinforced by a variety of government policies.
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An Institute for Justice report detailing forfeiture abuses, “Policing for Profit,” suggests that there is an inconsistency between proper policing and profit.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Playing Both ‘Cops and Robbers’ on Asset Forfeiture
by Jesse Hathaway June 22, 2016A new digital system unveiled by Oklahoma government police is just the latest example of civil asset forfeiture laws encouraging cops to become the robbers they’re supposed to be catching.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Why Progressives Don’t Understand and are Enemies of Liberty
by Richard Ebeling April 6, 2016What does freedom mean? What is the purpose of government? And what should be the government’s relationship to each of us as individuals and as members of society as a whole? These issues recently came up during a dinner conversation with a new acquaintance with whom I’d not previously had such a discussion.