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Mukasey Smacks Down Kelly

It’s almost inconceivable that a government agency could have even less regard for civil liberties and the rule of law than the Bush Justice Department, but the NYPD is no ordinary government agency. It seems Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey are in a spat over the NYPD’s overly broad —

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MTA police detain activist for refusing to show ID at anti-bailout demonstration

Originally posted at the blog of bile: Last night, October 21st, 2008, the Greater NYC Campaign for Liberty, some members of the Manhattan Libertarian Party and other liberty activists demonstrated in Grand Central Station. A bit of theater. A breadline containing a decent amount of individuals with others as satellites handing out literature, discussing the

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Cop Gone Wild

Check out the body slam one of New York’s Finest administered to an unsuspecting Critical Mass bicyclist last Friday: I suppose it’s possible that the bicyclist did something to warrant the shoulder check just before coming into camera view. But it doesn’t look good for the cop, who has been placed on “modified assignment pending further

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How to Make Campuses Really Safe

With the string of recent shootings on college campuses, it’s not surprising that some of our best and brightest have figured out it sucks to defenseless.  There’s a grassroots effort underway across the country to allow college students to carry concealed weapons on campus. That effort has spread upstate to Cornell University. Jacob Rieper at the NYSPRA

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