Year: 2017
The AG Cartel Breaks Down
On the Reuters news wire, Dan Levine reports on the breakdown of a gentleman’s agreement between state Attorneys General not to target each other in elections: Read more
Not Helping Youths In the Sex Trade
Last Friday I wrote about Elizabeth Nolan Brown’s terrific Reason magazine article on the FBI’s long involvement in policing Americans’ sex lives. In this post, I’d like to follow up on a small detail that caught my eye. Supporters of anti-prostitution law enforcement operations often justify them as necessary to protect victims of sex trafficking,… Read more
An Alien Product Placement
The most recent Alien: Covenant trailer comes with an opening commercial for Walter, the synthetic (a.k.a. artificial person a.k.a. android) played by Michael Fassbender in the movie. Here it is: At the end, they flash a couple of corporate logos. I naturally had to step through them. The first one is a new logo for… Read more
Sex, Lies, and Sex Police
I suspect my friends would be concerned if they knew just how skeptical I was about almost all prostitution-related crimes. Police say they broke up a human trafficking ring? Liars! They call everything human trafficking these days. They arrested ten pimps? Liars! They caught one prostitute in a sting and arrested the then people standing… Read more
The Rampant Anti-Americanism of our Immigration Authorities
I often deride this country’s immigration bureaucracies for lacking in American values. Both Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are intolerant of diversity, have no appreciation for privacy, and have little respect for freedom. I get them confused all the time. As near as I can tell, the difference is… Read more