Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court on Thursday expressed regret for her recent remarks about the candidacy of Donald J. Trump, saying they were “ill-advised.” Earlier this week, Justice Ginsburg called Mr. Trump “a faker” who “really has an ego” and said he had been treated too gently by the press. Mr. Trump, […]

You could always give that overage back to the taxpayers, to whom it belongs… Idaho’s state tax revenues for June came in $20.1 million higher than projections – 6.5 percent higher – a revenue bump that means Idaho closed out its fiscal year June 30 with a balanced budget and also automatically transferred $15.6 million

The City of Atlanta Police Department cancelled all off-days, and officers are working 12-hour shifts to keep protesters and the city safe. In return, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is asking everyone to treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve.  Remember, it’s the taxpayers who are paying for this overtime.

So, whether Chief David Brown likes it or not, he has become the face of law enforcement in the on-going debate over police brutality. And yesterday, he flipped the script of the debate in a way not often suggested by police unions or civil rights activists, saying, “We’re asking cops to do too much in this country.

Ben Sasse’s letter. It’s worth reading the whole thing (reprinted here in its entirety).  This letter is actually not primarily about the 2016 US election. But the need to highlight three often overlooked distinctions has been made more urgent by the shallow debate surrounding our troubling presidential choice. We need more wrestling together about: 1)

Amid calls to reduce police violence, we need to consider whether we really want police to enforce the regulations of an overweening administrative state. Enforcing Petty Laws Can Be Violent Consider some of the high-profile police killings that started with routine police enforcement of some petty local ordinance. Eric Garner, the black man who died in

An interesting nugget from the big new Pew Research Center poll of the 2016 election: Among voters under age 30, Donald Trump is at 21 percent … and Gary Johnson is at 22 percent. Yes, Trump is in danger of finishing third among young voters — at least according to this one poll. But it’s

I wonder if he were to claim “fear for his life” if that would suffice in a jury trial ? KFVS reported: The driver of an SUV hurtled through a group of protesters during a “Black Lives Matters” march in southern Illinois on Sunday, July 10. Demonstrators were blocking traffic along Illinois Route 13 at