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The lesson here today is, if you waive you Miranda rights after having been advised of them, your subsequent silence can be used against you.
There are a number of stories in the media about this ruling, but the media being who and what it is; I always like to go straight to the horse’s mouth, so to speak. You can find the complete SCOTUS opinion in Salinas v. Texas here.
To put things into a nutshell, in 1992, brothers Hector and Juan Garza were...
White House Threatens Veto to Farm Bill with 3 Percent Cut to Food Stamps
The Associated Press reports, “The White House is threatening to veto the House version of a massive, five-year farm bill, saying food stamp cuts included in the legislation could leave some Americans hungry. The House is preparing to consider the bill this week. The legislation would cut $2 billion annually, or around 3 percent, from food stamps and make it harder for some people to qualif...
The White House is threatening to veto the House version of the farm bill, citing its 3 percent cut to food stamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP). But consider this: The cost of the program has doubled in the last five years, costing $80 billion last year, and a record 47.8 million Americans now use the program—a 70 percent increase since 2008. If the economy has “vastly improved,” as White House Press Secretary Jay Carney put it, shouldn’t we be ...
At last indication, the prosecutor appears to be going through with this!
The West Virginia eighth-grader who was suspended and arrested in late April after he refused to remove a t-shirt supporting the National Rifle Association appeared in court this week and was formally charged with obstructing an officer.
As CBS affiliate WTRF reports, 14-year-old Jared Marcum now faces a $500 fine and a maximum of one year in prison.
At first glance, this appears to be a victory for the opponents of Proposition 200 (requiring proof of citizenship for registration). It is true that the ruling prohibits the use of the AZ form, which specifically requires proof of citizenship and demands the use of the federal form that requires only that applicants assert that they are US citizens.
However, the ruling also specifically recognizes that the states have the constitutional right to det...
Keep calm, and re-write the federal Motor-Voter law!
There has been much hysteria on the right over the Supreme Court’s decision, announced Monday, invalidating a portion of Arizona’s Proposition 200, passed in 2004. In the past 24 hours, I have seen numerous panicked headlines like this one, coupled with hyperbolic accusations that the Supreme Court is allowing non-citizens to vote. I suppose it’s proof once more that the left does not have a monopoly on irrational, fact-free demagogu...
June 11, 2013: Clear, positive, and constructive, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks on the Senate floor in opposition to the 1076 pages of Gang-of-Eight immigration bill as it is currently written.
As the Obamacare bill did for Kathleen Sebelius, the Gang-of-Eight bill grants enormous discretionary authority to Janet Napolitano to grant waivers and exceptions without approval or review by Congress. That makes this bill yet another abdication of Congress’ Constitutional authority via a bill s...
Nine months ago, I would have told you that Rubio was a shoo-in to be one of the front-runners for the GOP nomination in 2016. Brilliant, charming, affable (not to mention young and handsome), deeply committed to conservative principles and living the American Dream. And he is, by and large, all of those things.
That being said, his recent activities in the Gang Of Eight have done him tremendous damage among the base. Go on to Facebook and Twitter and check the pulse of the most active, informed...
Though it is off the radar for now, the $17 trillion debt still strangles the private economy and only delays the day of reckoning when the federal government will face bankruptcy.
In a time of attention deficit and lowered expectations, the Congress seems unable to grasp the greatest threat to national security. But the days of denial won’t last.
Shortly the national debt as well as the annual deficit will be back in the headlines. Before the summer is out the Congress will vote on a national...
Sometimes, I must confess, I almost feel like a bully when I ridicule so-called progressives. The old expression “Like shooting fish in a barrel” comes to mind. But, then, I merely have to remind myself that these fish happen to control the White House, the Senate, the Department of Justice and the IRS, and I don’t feel so bad.
Besides, how can one not ridicule Obama when he insists that federally-funded pre-school programs will lead to good-paying jobs down the line? Oh, really? A...
TIME Poll: “Americans Believe Country Heading In Wrong Direction”
According to TIME, “A majority of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, according to a new TIME poll, with President Barack Obama’s approval and disapproval ratings essentially tied. Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed said the United States is on the wrong track, with only 33 percent saying it is heading in the right direction. Obama’s approval rating stands at...
In this video from Reason TV, Remy takes on the walking, talking ball of raging hypocrisy that is Jim Carrey. From his positions on guns to his crusade against life-saving vaccines, Carrey is certainly what one would call a target-rich environment.
One thing that Remy missed was Carrey’s comments bashing white people, collectively, as a group. It wasn’t in his “Cold Dead Hands” video, though that has been deemed an assault on rural and southern whites. Rather, it was in a...
“I’m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you’re likely to get burned.”
Long before becoming the top union boss at the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka’s reign as president of the United Mineworkers union was marked by intimidation against independent-minded workers who dared to defy the union hierarchy.
The contempt on display in Trumka’s fiery rhetoric for those workers who refuse to toe the union-boss line remains widespread throughout Big La...
But there are also a multitude of lesser-known programs that will inflate commodity prices, escalate risks, and expand the size and scope of government. Below are 20 such programs that represent the noxious nature of the so-called farm...
In the graphs below (via Watts Up with That), we see why Dr. Roy Spencer says that a “day of reckoning has arrived” for climate modelers and global warming alarmists.
The charts are climate models vs. observed data; linear trends for 73 models vs. observed data trend; linear trends for just American models (19) vs. observed data trend.
We keep being told that there is a “consensus” and the “debate is over” on the subject of global warming. Ask the average 18-...
Recently, my wife took me out t0 dinner for my birthday. Nothing fancy, as I happened to be a bit under the weather for my birthday this year, which prompted us to postpone a fancier dinner until I’m back in the pink. Just a local diner.
All around the wall of the diner, near the ceiling, they have old 45s (vinyl, single-song albums) lined up. We got to talking about how singles—long-ago made technologically obsolete—are probably fading from most people’s experiences, so we decid...
A technologist/entrepreneur who lives right on the Arizona border with Mexico has been perfecting a low-cost approach to tally the number of people who are walking across the border. As the debate over the immigration bill and its “triggers” intensifies, a technical approach like the one pioneered and championed by Glenn Spencer’sBorder Technology, Inc. is becoming ever more important.
On April 20, 2013, the Arizona 2012 Project sponsored one of many one-day round trips from...
To help fund his research, Krister sold excess sodium on eBay from his Alaska home. Because of the explosive nature of sodium, federal regulations require that it be shipped by ground rather than air. Krister packaged the sodium appropriately and shipped it “ground delivery” to the buyer. He was unaware that, given Alaska’s unique location, even “ground delivery” from Alaska travels by air and that a sp...
“Everybody come quick . . . A straw man has been killed!”
Ha!
Oh, and by the way, when I went to Reason TV’s playlist for Remy on YouTube, at first all of Remy’s videos were playing just fine EXCEPT for the one about the NSA, which was playing really slowly and then freezing.
To put things into a nutshell, in 1992, brothers Hector and Juan Garza were...
