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• Judge Halts Search for Cartoonist Who Embarrassed Cops
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  Kevin Bayer | Wednesday, August 10, 2011
  “In April, Renton Police Chief Kevin Milosevich learned of eight videos on YouTube featuring computer-voiced cartoon characters rambling about office politics and internal cop investigations, according to an affidavit for one of the warrants. There’s also some chatter about an officer dating a suspect. The videos mentioned no city, department or full names. But police […]
• Search for Budget Compromise in Trouble
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  Kevin Bayer | Friday, June 24, 2011
  “Congressional Republicans on Thursday abandoned budget talks aimed at clearing the way for a federal debt limit increase, leaving the outcome in doubt as they vowed not to give in to a Democratic push for new tax revenues as part of any compromise.” (New York Times) The last thing government should get is more revenue. […]
• They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
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  George C. Leef Harold Evans Gail Buckland | Tuesday, May 18, 2010
  What a stunning book! They Made America is a big glorious coffee-table kind of book that deserves to be picked up and read, not just dusted occasionally. Harold Evans (actually, Sir Harold—this former editor of the London Times was knighted in 2004) has given us a marvelous compendium of short biographies on American inventors and […]
• People Crossing Borders Subject to New Search Powers
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, September 23, 2008
  “The U.S. government has quietly recast policies that affect the way information is gathered from U.S. citizens and others crossing the border and what is done with it, including relaxing a two-decade-old policy that placed a high bar on federal agents copying travelers' personal material, according to newly released documents. The policy changes, civil liberties advocates say, also raise concerns about the guidelines under which border officers may share data copied from laptop computers and cellphones with other agencies and the types of questions they are allowed to ask American citizens.” (Washington Post, Tuesday)
  
  Growing the state.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Liberty and Privacy: Connections” by Joseph S. Fulda
• States Can Search Welfare Recipients' Homes without Warrants
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, November 27, 2007
  “County welfare officers may conduct routine searches of the homes of welfare recipients to combat fraud under a ruling in a California case that the Supreme Court let stand Monday.” (Los Angeles Times, Tuesday)
  
  Intervention begets intervention.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Why the Welfare State Is Immoral” by Tibor R. Machan
• Government May Search Bank Records without Warrant, Privacy Lawyer Says
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, January 15, 2007
  “Because a person's bank records are not deemed to be private in national-security investigations, U.S. government agencies — including the Pentagon — can request these records without a warrant, an expert in privacy law said Sunday. . . . But just because the activity is legal, [James] Dempsey said, 'doesn't mean it's a good idea. The Defense Department is exploiting a gray zone in the law.'” (Mercury News, Monday)
  
  The right to privacy is apparently fair game in the gray zones.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Rights Without Exceptions” by Jeff Snyder
• Government Can Search Mail without Warrants, White House Says
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Friday, January 5, 2007
  “The White House on Thursday defended a policy allowing the government to open mail without a warrant, despite criticism that the crime-fighting tactic might lead to privacy breaches. . . . The mail controversy erupted Wednesday after a report in the New York Daily News that President Bush on Dec. 20 attached a so-called signing statement to a new postal law. The statement grants the government the authority during emergencies to bypass a law forbidding mail to be opened without a warrant.” (USA Today, Friday)
  
  We should be used to this by now.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “The Post Office as a Violation of Constitutional Rights” by Wendy McElroy
• New Alliance Fights Energy Search in Wilderness
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, July 25, 2006
  “Valle Vidal [N.M.] has become a battleground in the drive to expand energy exploration on public land, attracting the attention of a growing coalition of hunters, anglers, environmentalists, ranchers, homeowners and politicians across the ideological spectrum. Here and elsewhere in the Western United States, this coalition is starting to resist the push for energy exploration in some of the nation's most prized wilderness areas.” (Washington Post, Tuesday)
  
  A “nation” can't really own things.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Protecting Precious Resources” by Scott McPherson
• Lending Discrimination: The Unending Search
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  Robert Batemarco | Sunday, May 1, 1994
  This paper was delivered at the December 1993 Round Table at FEE. H. L. Mencken once called politics “the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” You don’t have to spend much time looking around to see just how right he was. Mencken’s characterization fits some […]
• National Service: A Solution in Search of a Problem
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  Thomas J. DiLorenzo | Thursday, March 1, 1990
  Thomas J. DiLorenzo is the Probasco Professor of Free Enterprise, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. This article is adapted from his forthcoming book, Paved With Good Intentions: Economic Nationalism and American Industrial Policy (Cato Institute, 1990). In some intellectual and public policy circles, economic nationalism has struck a fever pitch in the form of […]