Radley Balko has a great editorial over at Fox News.
Interestingly enough, the one statistic that bucks the trends outlined above is drug use. Drug use among adults is up fairly dramatically over the last twenty years. But drug use is one area of personal liberty the government has gotten more aggressive about policing. Which to [...]

This image was taken yesterday as a rain/sand storm made it’s way across central Baghdad. The storm lasted several hours, and strong winds turned the sky a color I’ve not seen before. The accompanying thunderstorm sounded like the biggest mortar barrage I’ve ever heard.
Earlier in the day, I had heard several car bombs go off, [...]

More proof that Americans have no idea what personal responsibility is - the idiot DEA agent who shot himself with his own handgun is now suing the DEA for leaking the video of him handling his weapon irresponsibly. Apparently, the only lesson Lee Paiged learned from his own stupidity was that someone else should pay [...]

I recently wrote about drug war victim Cory Maye, who is on death row because he dared to defend himself when police officers broke into his house.
Radley Balko of The Agitator is doing his own investigative journalism on Cory’s behalf. Hopefully, he’ll make some progress in getting Cory’s case looked at by people who actually [...]

I’m not comfortable with secret courts or secret cases.
In the nation’s capital, which has had a serious problem with drug gangs murdering government witnesses, the secrecy has reached another level — the use of secret dockets. For hundreds of such defendants over the past few years in this city, should someone acquire the actual case [...]