Yesterday, Rep. Don Pridemore’s Arizona-syle immigration legislation received a numerical designation: Assembly Bill 173. The full text of the bill is online at the Legislature’s website. The bill has the following initial sponsors: “Representatives Pridemore, Wynn, LeMahieu, Kleefisch, Steineke and Jacque; Cosponsored by Senator Lasee.” One could have expected Wynn to support this measure. His…
Liberty
Laws/Regulations, Liberty
Nanny of the Month (May 2011): North Carolina Bans Rare Burgers!
by JOHN ADAMS •
City, Freedom of Speech, Law, Laws/Regulations, Liberty, Police
The Government’s War on Cameras
by JOHN ADAMS •
Photography and recordings do much to safeguard citizens’ rights and protect honest officers against false accusations. Places in which officials discourage lawful, constitutional photography are ones in which officials not only act outside the law but also imprudently. There will be fewer injustices, and better policing, in a word of expansive photographers’ rights. By the…
Free Markets, Laws/Regulations, Liberty
Scenes from the War on Consumer Choice (Raw Milk Front)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Law, Laws/Regulations, Libertarians, Liberty
Impediments to Second Amendment Rights
by JOHN ADAMS •
There a story over at the Janesville Gazette that catalogs the objections that some police leaders have to concealed carry rights (and probably to many other gun rights). See, Law enforcement against concealed-carry legislation. I doubt that opposition to gun rights is nearly so strong among field officers as it is among administrators. In any…
City, Laws/Regulations, Liberty, Politics, Walworth County, Wisconsin
Emily’s Post: ‘Welcome to Wisconsin, Jim Crow’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Emily Mills writes about Assembly Bill 7, sure to become law: This bill is, at its core, a rollback of the right to vote that impacts the most vulnerable and already disenfranchised populations in this state. It spits in the faces of those who’ve come before and fought (and sometimes died) to see this most…
Liberty
Bollywood vs. Bin Laden: Why radical Islam fears pop culture
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s the description accompanying the Reason.tv video: Even before Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. soldiers, his brand of anti-modern, anti-pleasure Islam was under attack by Bollywood, India’s pop culture juggernaut that boasts a global audience of 3 billion people. As Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia explains, Bollywood movies and videos appeal to…
Free Markets, Laws/Regulations, Liberty
A Victory in the Food Truck Wars
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’ve written before about the anti-consumer battle against food trucks, and efforts to deny consumers convenient access to the popular, varied, and inexpensive fare that food trucks offer. See, Institute for Justice Defends the Rights of Street Vendors. In El Paso, where that city had tried to zone food trucks away from potential patrons, there’s…
Libertarians, Liberty
Why the MacIver Institute’s Not Libertarian
by JOHN ADAMS •
….Brett Healy, president of the conservative John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy in Madison, said it’s important to distinguish between public and private sector unions. “Unions originally were established to help a group of individuals come to a reasonable agreement with their employer,” he said. “In this case, the employer is the government. So…
Laws/Regulations, Liberty
The Transportation Security Administration’s Latest Outrage
by JOHN ADAMS •
The ACLU issued the following message about the Transportation Security Administration, and that agency’s latest intrusion on Americans’ liberties. In the pursuit of a false security, this agency distorts civil society, badgers citizens, and particularly terrifies children. Note, also, the damage these agents inflict: they speak to children in ways beguiling and undermining of a…
Laws/Regulations, Liberty
Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Drink – WSJ.com
by JOHN ADAMS •
I have never supported a ‘big-drinking’ culture. Alcohol is best consumed moderately, enjoyed leisurely, with agreeable company. Wisconsin has seen more than her share of drinking tragedies, made far worse by stubborn insistence that, if only enforcement becomes severe enough, we’ll be able to stop further tragedies. We won’t. No level of enforcement tried or…
Freedom of Speech, Liberty, Politics
Video from a Janesville Protest, 3.29.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
Freedom of Speech, Liberty, Politics, Wisconsin
Scenes from a Janesville Protest, 3.29.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
Government Spending, Liberty, Politics, University
Thirty-Five Million’s Not the Answer
by JOHN ADAMS •
You may have heard that UW-Whitewater’s in line for thirty-five million in construction spending. All those millions, but still a march of UW-Whitewater professors to Madison to protest the governor’s budget. (I posted on the trek, as reported in the Janesville Gazette, on March 23rd at Daily Wisconsin.) Why would they walk all that way?…