I just got my 2010 Census form in the mail. I assume some of you got one too. You may have noticed that the cover letter includes the following paragraph: This is your official 2010 Census form. We need your help to count everyone in the United States by providing basic information about all the people living in this house or apartment. Please complete and mail back the … [Read more...] about Census Form! Entrapment! Beware!
Time To Put Email In an Envelope
Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice has a long-running debate with the Volokh Conspiracy's Orin Kerr over how search and seizure laws should apply in the digital world. Briefly, Kerr advocates what he calls a "technology neutral" approach, in which we try to create a mapping between real world concepts and their digital analogs in order to apply centuries of … [Read more...] about Time To Put Email In an Envelope
When Falls the Coliseum
When Falls the Coliseum is a way-cool group blog run by Scott Stein. I know its cool because (1) an earlier version of the site had posts and comments just like a blog even though it launched in 1999 and had to be administered by hand because nobody had written blogging software yet, (2) Nick Gillespie likes it, and (3) I'm now one of the contributors to it. My first piece is … [Read more...] about When Falls the Coliseum
Cruelty In the Name of Fair Immigration
A few days ago, the fine folks at Popehat explained why they want to kick a harmless German immigrant family out of the country. The Popehat guys seem like nice folks, so I assume they don't mean it the way it sounds, 'cause it sounds pretty bad. The Romeike family didn't like the way the public schools taught their children, and so they wanted to homeschool them. … [Read more...] about Cruelty In the Name of Fair Immigration
The Failed War On Drugs
I don't know anything else about Jim Gray, but this is about as good an explanation as I've ever seen of how the War on Drugs fails so badly: … [Read more...] about The Failed War On Drugs