"Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president."
"It was a banality of evil that characterized the mindsets of bureaucrats who worked in the Nazi governmental machinery. They were just enforcing the rules. It is that banality of evil that pervades the bureaucracy that enforces the U.S. federal war on drugs."
"States that have legalized either recreational or medicinal marijuana now lead the way in companies which are dropping drug tests."
"Of course, the policing agencies might just ignore the ruling, and keep violating rights at checkpoints and searching electronics at the border."
"How free are you really, when all that’s required for the state to take your children away from you is a judge with an ax to grind?"
"Police, with the help of the Trump Justice Department, are doing an end run around the state law requiring that money seized by state law enforcement agencies goes solely to the state's schools."
"More than six months later, Customs and Border Protection still has not given back her money. This, despite the fact that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of Texas did not bring a civil asset forfeiture case against her or charge her with any crime."
"The Defense Department is funding a project that officials say could revolutionize the way companies, federal agencies and the military itself verify that people are who they say they are and it could be available in most commercial smartphones within two years."
"We are enabling an alternative physical communication layer for bitcoin. The result will be a more resilient, censorship-resistant and decentralized network."
"Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the 'import' of labor — the in-migration of human beings."