It is not just the National Security Agency that is keeping a close eye on the public. The Postal Service helped law enforcement authorities surveil nearly 50,000 individuals and groups this past year, according to the New York Times. Under the “mail cover” program, which has been around for roughly a century, law enforcement officials […]
Bureaucracy’s Latest Challenge: Listenin
The American public often rails about bureaucracy. It is not difficult to fathom why. Who amongst us has not fumed while standing in a long line at an understaffed post office? And how many of us have thrown up our hands in frustration at the complexity of income tax instructions and outsourced the work to […]
July 17 Anniversary of the Murder of the...
In retrospect, it was only a matter of time. Forced from power, the once almighty leader had been removed from his palace and imprisoned in a former merchant’s home. There he and his family were stripped of many of their luxuries and subjected to insults of his captors. Revolutionaries seldom are gentle to the deposed. […]
Paulina Neuding, “How to Explain the Swe
Neuding writes, On May 13, Swedish police shot and killed an elderly man armed with a knife in Husby, a heavily immigrant suburb of Stockholm with high unemployment. After that, riots raged around Stockholm for a week and spread to other parts of the country, seemingly sparked by the killing in Husby. Angry young men […]
Rioting In Anaheim
It is sad to see an understandable protest turn belligerent. The July 25, 2012 Los Angeles Times notes that while some folks showed up to protest a police shooting, others came with fireworks, and set dumpsters on fires and brawled. (Read more) Mass gatherings are never mono-motivational—people come for different reasons. (See Edward C. Banfield’s […]
Viewing Pornography In Public Places: Ew...
The July 21, 2012 New York Times reports that An antipornography group, Morality in Media, has in recent months launched a “no porn on the plane” campaign, and has contacted most major airlines to argue that they should commit to policing what people watch. The group took up the cause after its executive director, Dawn […]