Victim in Egyptian Jail… Letters Will Help
From the FreeKareem.org website: Kareem’s final appeal You can write to the Egyptian Ambassador to help his case. Please be polite and respectful. More information available at www.FreeKareem.org. I wrote…
Victims of Rights Violations
Takis Michas: Speaking Truth to Thugs
Takis Michas is a very brave Greek journalist who is not afraid to point out the idiocies of extremist nationalism and xenophobia and their awful consequences, especially in the Balkans….
Details on the Right to Carry Case in D.C.
The text of the legal filing in the case in which I’m a plaintiff to vindicate the right to bear arms in the District of Columbia. CBS Correspondent Declan McCullagh…
A New Look at the History of the Civil Rights Movement
My friends David Beito and Linda Royster Beito have published an important new book, Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power (University of Illinois…
Emerging Threats to Liberty Podcast
Here’s an excerpt from my talk opening this year’s Cato University.
Balko on the Gates Arrest Kerfuffle
I think that Radley Balko basically gets the issue right: “‘The Henry Louis Gates ‘Teaching Moment’” The conversation we ought to be having in response to the July 16 incident…
Beaten by Assailants, then Arrested When Trying to File a Police Complaint
Two Azeri youth activists, Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada, one of whom (Emin) I met last year, were recently attacked in a restaurant, then arrested when they went to the…
Well Over One Billion People Liberated from a Barbaric, Uncivilized, “Law”
BBC: “Gay sex decriminalised in India” The position of the Roman Catholic Church is disagreeable, but compatible with civilized treatment of others: Father Dominic Emanuel of India’s Catholic Bishop Council…
Shocking Developments in Guatemala
“President, Murderer, or Both?,” by Constantino Diaz-Duran
Some Common Sense on Drug Policy….
….from the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy Read their final report: “Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift” It is long past time to end the destructive, wasteful,…