Do you realize that despite Fourth Amendment's right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures, government agents can still stop U.S. citizens and search through all our possessions without a warrant, cause, or even suspicion, but just because they want to? It's true. All you have to do is cross the border. I've never really understood this. I'm under the … [Read more...] about Laptop Search and Seizure Made Easy
Just Stop Terrorizing People
In a comment to my post about the Lima shooting, someone named David writes: Let's see. You're in a situation where you are a potential target. Two pit bulls charge you. You put your weapon down, reach in your pocket, pull out the pepper spray and hope it stops the dogs. If that doesn't work, you pull out your handy taser, ask the dogs to sit while you tase them. Then you go … [Read more...] about Just Stop Terrorizing People
What I Don’t Like About the Supreme Court in One Sentence
From a post by Eugene Volokh on the subject of Texas's inane anti-sex toy laws: Probably no Justice accepts the libertarian constitutionalist notion that a broadranging liberty to do what one pleases so long as it doesn't directly enough hurt others is itself so important that it should be recognized as a constitutional right. That's pretty much a one-sentence summary of … [Read more...] about What I Don’t Like About the Supreme Court in One Sentence
What Hath Sitemeter Wrought?
If you've been trying to read this site (or probably hundreds of thousands of others) in Internet Explorer 6 or 7, you've probably been seeing the entire site load just fine, but when it finishes it pops up an error box that says "Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site." It took me a while to figure out what was happening, but I eventually traced it to the script from … [Read more...] about What Hath Sitemeter Wrought?
The Lima Raid – Why He Shot
Oh my God. I had no idea. I've been criticizing the Lima, Ohio SWAT team for killing Tarika Wilson, an unarmed woman who was holding her infant son as the team raided her house. In my last post on the subject, I mentioned that the cops also shot the family dogs, which seems to be a favorite sport of SWAT teams. In my very first post on the Lima raid, I wrote this: As SWAT … [Read more...] about The Lima Raid – Why He Shot