A Nation of Compliance Officers
I have conflicting feelings about Edward Snowden, the shrinking-violet-of-a-spy who leaked the info on the PRISM program being run by the NSA. – He violated every term of his employment.. read more
I have conflicting feelings about Edward Snowden, the shrinking-violet-of-a-spy who leaked the info on the PRISM program being run by the NSA. – He violated every term of his employment.. read more
There’s been a fair bit of legal chatter about the decision of law enforcement to not read Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights. What’s lost in most of.. read more
While I’m a big advocate of personal freedoms, I could never embrace libertarianism. There’s too little recognition of what brings us together as social beings, not enough pragmatism. Then there.. read more
I had thought perhaps Rep. Ed Orcutt was concerned with environmental or economic justice. But via Bikehugger, we learn that Orcutt has walked back his silly comments about the environmental.. read more
Ed Orcutt is the ranking minority member on the Transportation Committee in the Washington House of Representatives. In an email to a constituent, Orcutt riffed on the transportation tax bill introduced last.. read more
On the heels of a Washington State transportation budget containing a pointless, mean-spirited and counter-productive $25 tax on bicycles comes word that Seattle is preparing to pay $500,000 to settle.. read more
Democrats in the Washington legislature have just announced details of the next decade’s $9.8 billion transportation budget. Included in the budget? A proposal for a new fee (likely a sales.. read more
. . . and bike advocates say NO. As Walter Olson points out, this may be shocking to those around the nation’s capital, but it is actually possible to be both.. read more
All of the noise about the “President’s kill list” and the freaking out about the assassination of Americans by our own government? It strikes me as our uniquely American bent.. read more
Ah, my home state of Oregon. Reacting to President Obama’s push for gun control, a number of county sheriffs in the Beaver State have published letters stating that they will.. read more