Post Tagged with: "overcriminalization"

by Kathleen Hunker: Texas prides itself on being the living model of American entrepreneurship. Our commitment to economic freedom and low taxes—to say nothing of our rugged individualism—all work to ensure that Texas remains a place where job creators are forged. Yet, despite the high value Texans see in free […]

by Ryan Mulvey: Should conservatives and libertarians treat prison reform as a question of government spending, or should they ground their solutions within a comprehensive philosophy of human dignity that attends to the real consequences of crime? The Left has long monopolized the debate on prison reform and the much-needed […]

Why Teen’s Arrest for “Terror Tweet” was Unconstitutional by Evan Bernick: Apparently, police are not so busy with violent crimes that they don’t have the time and resources to arrest teenagers for staying stupid things on the internet. They might want to consider using their spare time to brush up […]

by Kathleen Hunker: Did you know that small business owners can be prosecuted for making repeated cash deposits of under $10,000? Randy and Karen Sowers, owners of a successful Maryland creamery, learned that accounting detail the hard way when the federal government seized $62,936 from their company’s bank account and […]

by Clark Neily: I’d like to address the largely misplaced concerns some people have about so-called “judicial tyranny.”  As I understand it, the idea of judicial tyranny is that the judiciary is simply another branch of government and, as such, presents as much of a threat to our liberty as […]