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Store Owner Installs $350K of Surveillance to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits
10 May 2013 4:46 pm Warner Todd Huston

Supermarket owner Rafael Cuellar from Passaic, NJ, reports that he had to spend $350,000 to install 69 surveillance cameras, recording devices, and video storage banks in order to stop fake “slip and fall” insurance claims against his store. It’s a cost that just adds to the cost of living for everyone and is a perfect example of the abuse of the legal system that we see every day with this avalanche of frivolous lawsuits.
While the cameras also help Mr. Cuellar track and prevent shoplifting–another expensive problem in retail–the main purpose …

Andrew Was Right: National Review’s Pigford Editorial
2 May 2013 12:01 am Warner Todd Huston

On April 29, one of conservatism’s leading journals, National Review, published a lead editorial on the Pigford scandal not only noting at the outset that Andrew Breitbart was right all along, but that the scandal deserves more attention nationally.
As it wraps up, the NR piece arrives at the logical conclusion that Obama’s expansion of Pigford payouts “resembles in organization and aim a criminal conspiracy of breathtaking proportions, and one in which the federal government was first complicit and then ultimately responsible.”
Just so. But along the way, NR gives readers …

Five Years In Jail For Releasing Heart Shaped Balloons?
25 Mar 2013 4:24 am John Hawkins

Every heard someone say he could call a penalty on every play in a professional football game? Well, that is getting to be true off the field as well. Every day, you’re probably breaking laws that could lead to you spending years in prison without even realizing it. Anthony Brasfield could tell you all about that.

Via Natural News
When Anthony Brasfield released a dozen heart-shaped balloons into the sky over Dania Beach, Fla., for his his sweetheart, all he wanted was to create the perfect atmosphere of romance. What he created …

Bait and Switch: Law Goes From Protecting Your Email to Allowing Gov’t Into Your Email
20 Nov 2012 3:50 pm Warner Todd Huston

A new law that was originally meant to strengthen the privacy of your email was recently re-written to allow government more access to your private emails and other digital files.
When H.R. 2471 went to the Senate, Democrat Senator Pat Leahy quickly rewrote the whole thing to allow federal policing agencies to have the power to search your digital files without a warrant.
As CNET reports it,

Leahy’s rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies — including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission — to access Americans’ e-mail, …

Democrat in LA Dist. Attny Race Gets Porn Star Endorsement
2 Nov 2012 5:06 pm Warner Todd Huston

Well, what could be better than getting the endorsement of a porn star if you are running for District Attorney? Nothing says “law enforcement” like getting the slut industry behind you like Democrat Los Angeles DA candidate Jackie Lacey has!
I wrote about Lacey last week when I found out she had abused her position as an officer of the courts in order to get out from under accepting the consequences of a car accident that she and her husband caused, but this new turn to her campaign for the DA’s …

U.S. Senate, Obama State Dept. Backing Wrong Horse in Ukraine
19 Oct 2012 10:00 am Warner Todd Huston

In September, the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution threatening sanctions against Ukraine for the conviction and imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of Ukraine’s opposition party. Secretary Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Department of State backed the U.S. Senate, calling for Tymoshenko’s immediate release. But just this month, even the jailed PM’s closest ally, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko, has thrown her under the bus quicker than Obama threw Clinton under the bus over Benghazi. Secretary Clinton is making a major mistake trying to exert pressure on …

Clint Bolick and the Goldwater Institute Quietly Transforming the Country
3 Oct 2012 1:52 pm Rachel Alexander

While national political campaigns and politicians are regularly featured in the news for their accomplishments on the right, one small state-based think tank is quietly grinding away victory after victory. The Goldwater Institute was already a leading state-based think tank when libertarian lawyer Clint Bolick came on board five years ago to launch a litigation division. Since then, Bolick has greatly expanded the reach of the right-leaning think tank, filing lawsuits against all levels of government to protect taxpayers and businesses from government overreach. Bolick’s favorite line, which he says …

More Evidence Of How Broken Our Legal System Is: $7.2 Million For “Popcorn Lung”
21 Sep 2012 8:00 am John Hawkins

When juries are willing to demand that companies hand out millions of dollars on cases where there is absolutely, unconditionally zero proof that they did anything wrong, do we have a justice system or a lottery?
A verdict has been reached in the ongoing case of Colorado man Wayne Watson, who sued the manufacturer and retailers of microwave buttered popcorn that caused him to develop “popcorn lung” after eating two bags daily for 10 years.
Jurors awarded Watson $7 million in damages; the verdict came after a day and half of deliberations …

Terror Trials: Delaying American Justice to Observe Ramadan
18 Jul 2012 11:34 pm Warner Todd Huston

A military judge has just put off American justice in a terror trial so that the accused can observe Ramadan. So our culture, our system of justice is now to take a back seat to Islam. This is how our civilization ends and how we capitulate to radical Islamism without our firing a shot, folks.
As the AP reports, “A U.S. military judge agreed Monday to postpone the next court hearings at the Guantanamo Bay prison for five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks to avoid a conflict with the …

Holder’s DOJ Unaccountably Hikes Claims of Number of Texans Lacking Photo I.D.
13 Jul 2012 11:22 am Warner Todd Huston

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder originally said that some 600,000 Texans lacked a voter I.D. and therefore would be disenfranchised by the Texas voter I.D. law, but Department Of Justice lawyers have suddenly upped that number greatly. Holder’s DOJ now claims that 1.4 million otherwise eligible Texas voters don’t have proper I.D.s.
Unfortunately, Holder did not release the figures or the methods that were used to arrive at the newer and much higher figure which holds that one in fourteen Texans have no photo I.D.
AG Holder claims that because so many …

Chief Justice John Roberts: Trojan Horse?
29 Jun 2012 12:33 pm Rachel Alexander

Conservatives are scratching their heads trying to figure out why Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts voted with the four liberal Justices on the Court 5-4 to uphold the constitutionality of the most controversial part of Obamacare. Even swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy voted against it. The Obamacare individual mandate requires all Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face jail time or huge monetary penalties.

The majority decision, written by Roberts, characterizes the mandate as a tax permissible under the constitution’s Tax Clause. But what if …

Don’t Kid Yourself; John Roberts Didn’t Do Conservatives Any Favors On Obamacare
29 Jun 2012 4:14 am John Hawkins

Going into the Supreme Court decision yesterday, a lot of conservatives seemed to be extremely confident that the court would strike down Obamacare or, at a minimum, would at least kill the individual mandate. I wasn’t so sure.
I don’t know what the SCOTUS is going to do on Obamacare tomorrow. They can be hard to figure sometimes.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) June 28, 2012

Today we get to find out if the gov’t has the nearly limitless power to force you to buy anything as a condition of citizenship. #wheeeeeeee
— John Hawkins …

The Supreme Court just wrote Romney’s campaign ads
28 Jun 2012 1:07 pm Sunshine State Sarah

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock this morning, the Supreme Court issued its opinion on ObamaCare today, with Justices Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and even swing-vote Kennedy voting to overturn the law as unconstitutional, but Chief Justice Roberts joined the liberal wing of the court in voting to uphold it.
The Court ruled that even though it was an unconstitutional violation of the Commerce Clause to force Americans to buy health insurance, the individual mandate survived as a…tax.
Wait, what?
It’s not a tax? Really? Huh. That’s not how Obama sold this law to the …

No, the SB 1070 Ruling is not a Victory for Arizona
26 Jun 2012 12:01 am Terrence Jackson

Forgive my pessimism, but I fail to see how exactly anyone but illegal immigrants and liberals won in the Supreme Court ruling on SB 1070, the controversial Arizona law that was intended to hold illegal aliens accountable.
Much of the meat and potatoes of the law was tossed; in fact, in my humble opinion, the most important and effective parts of the legislation was curbed, leaving Arizona with a shell of what once was a means of addressing the ballooning immigration issue.It is the most contentious part of the bill, the …

Kansas Legislature Passes Anti-Sharia Law, The Big Meanies
12 May 2012 8:24 am William Teach

There’s only one problem with the narrative going around the Left-O-Sphere that Kansas is now a bunch of Islamophobes: the actual legislation doesn’t actually mention Sharia law, which makes the USA Today headline rather improper
Kansas lawmakers pass anti-Islamic law measure
A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic or other foreign legal codes has cleared the state Legislature after a contentious debate about whether the measure upholds American values or appeals to prejudice against Muslims.
The Senate approved the bill Friday on a 33-3 …

Comparison: Politico Lauds ‘Forceful’ Gov’t Obamacare Argument, Fox Notes it was Laughed At
28 Mar 2012 7:00 am Warner Todd Huston

The first arguments by the government in support of the already wildly over budget Obamacare law were heard at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday and there is an interesting lesson in media bias that can be seen in the reporting of the day’s presentation. The difference between how the government’s opening arguments was reported by Politico and Fox News is an instructive case of media bias.
First let’s look at how Politico’s Josh Gerstein and Carrie Budoff Brown reported how the government’s arguments were received by the court.

Solicitor General Donald …

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down Proposition 8
8 Feb 2012 12:00 am Wintery Knight

Here’s the news from Big Government.
Excerpt:
Today, the 9th Circuit upheld the absurd ruling of Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, striking down Proposition 8, the voter-approved constitutional amendment that would uphold traditional marriage in the state. The ruling itself was highly political and in no way legally oriented. “Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians,” wrote the Court, “and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior… the …

Convicted Haitian who was not deported kills three people in Florida
24 Jan 2012 4:00 am Wintery Knight

Here’s the story from the Miami Herald.
Excerpt:
When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti.
That never happened.
Instead, when Dufrene’s state prison term was up, Miami immigration authorities in October 2010 released him from custody. Two months later, North Miami police say, he slaughtered three people, including a 15-year-old girl in a murder case that remains as baffling today as it did the afternoon the bodies …

Media Forgets to Mention S. C. Immigration Law-Blocking Judge is Obama Appointee
23 Dec 2011 3:03 pm Warner Todd Huston

One of the Old Media’s favorite ways of attempting to hide the ideological track of a story is to somehow forget to mention to which party someone in the news hails or owes fealty to. In this case it is what they don’t report that misleads. This week we find a classic what-they-don’t-say story concerning the judge that blocked sections of South Carolina’s new immigration law.
For those unaware, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel temporarily blocked segments of South Carolina’s new immigration laws because he claimed that some of its …

Austin: Successful Rally to Oppose AG Holder’s Attack on Election Reforms
15 Dec 2011 1:45 pm Warner Todd Huston

On Tuesday, December 13 a rally was held near the LBJ Library at the University of Texas, Austin to highlight the attack on election reforms launched inside by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder went to Texas to denounce the Lone Star State’s voter ID laws and claimed that simple voter ID laws were somehow discriminatory. Holder ominously claimed that he would use the power of his office to “enforce civil rights protections” during the upcoming 2012 elections.
Outside the LBJ Library nearly 200 citizens gathered to hear a multi-racial panel …

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