Archive for Wendy McElroy
Freeman contributing editor Wendy McElroy is an author and the editor of ifeminists.com.
An American Stasi?
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported on July 25 that “there are 72 fusion centers around the nation, analyzing and disseminating data and information of all kinds. That is one for every state and others for large urban cities.” What is a fusion center? The answer depends on your perspective. If you work for the [...]
22Oct2010 | Wendy McElroy | 25 comments | ContinuedThe Crime of Living
The new term “overcriminalization” describes the last few decades’ legislative orgy of criminalizing trivial or harmless behavior.
19Oct2010 | Wendy McElroy | 11 comments | ContinuedGovernment Has the Internet in its Sights
The Obama administration wants domestic and worldwide control of the Internet.
5Oct2010 | Wendy McElroy | 14 comments | ContinuedPolice Misconduct and Public Accountability
Why is it difficult to prosecute police officers for criminal misconduct even when the abuse is severe and unequivocal? A February news item from WSVN-TV in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale points to one reason: A homeless man’s attorney said surveillance video shows deputies used excessive force in his arrest. Gerald McGovern, 58 [said he] did not attack [...]
22Sep2010 | Wendy McElroy | 16 comments | ContinuedFirst the Taser, Now the “Pain Ray”?
It is probably only a matter of time before the assault intervention device takes its place beside the Taser on a police officer’s belt.
21Sep2010 | Wendy McElroy | 26 comments | ContinuedBig Brother Is Watching You Recycle
In 2011 some 25,000 Cleveland households will be required to use recycling bins fitted with radio-frequency identification tags (RFIDs).
13Sep2010 | Wendy McElroy | 12 comments | ContinuedBurqa Politics
Politically speaking, July was a big month for the burqa, which has become a flash point of tension between the West and Islam.
5Aug2010 | Wendy McElroy | 27 comments | ContinuedAn American Stasi?
A fusion center is part of a powerful new domestic surveillance infrastructure that combines data from both the public and private sectors to track innocent people
28Jul2010 | Wendy McElroy | 10 comments | ContinuedWill America’s Police Become Federales?
If the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act passes in Congress, police unions across America will move closer to being federalized.
22Jul2010 | Wendy McElroy | 15 comments | ContinuedPolice Misconduct and Public Accountability
Why is it difficult to prosecute police officers for criminal misconduct even when the abuse is severe and unequivocal?
21Jun2010 | Wendy McElroy | 13 comments | ContinuedAre Cameras the New Guns?
In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record an on-duty police officer even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense.
31May2010 | Wendy McElroy | 315 comments | ContinuedDue Process in Jeopardy
The Comstock decision expands federal power in significant ways. Use of the new civil commitment power is likely to become widespread.
24May2010 | Wendy McElroy | 7 comments | ContinuedR. C. Hoiles and Public Schooling
In a letter dated May 23, 1946, the libertarian publisher R. C. Hoiles wrote to Leonard E. Read, who would establish the Foundation for Economic Education later that same year. Hoiles advised Read on what he believed was the underlying cause of America’s alarming shift from individual liberty toward socialism: I am inclined to think [...]
20May2010 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Census: Vehicle for Social Engineering
In his book Seeing Like a State, James Scott commented on the role played by census data in the rise of the modern State: “If we imagine a state that has no reliable means of enumerating and locating its population, gauging its wealth, and mapping its land, resources, and settlements, we are imagining a state [...]
19Apr2010 | Wendy McElroy | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Census: Vehicle for Social Engineering
The census in a welfare state creates a dynamic in which the exercise of one person’s rights ostensibly damages the interests others.
23Feb2010 | Wendy McElroy | 9 comments | ContinuedThe Great Writ Then and Now
The Great Writ Then and Now by Wendy McElroy Wendy McElroy (wendy@wendymcelroy.com) is an author, the editor of ifeminists.com, and a research fellow for the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. Habeas corpus is a rarely invoked legal writ, or document, widely considered to be the cornerstone of individual liberty. Also known as The Great Writ, [...]
23Oct2009 | Wendy McElroy | 1 comment | ContinuedChina’s One-Child Disaster
On February 28 a Reuters news story quoted Zhao Baige, the Chinese vice minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC), as indicating that the People’s Republic of China might change its “one-child policy.” That population-control policy limits the number of children Chinese couples are legally permitted to have. The default number is [...]
1Jun2008 | Wendy McElroy | 9 comments | Continued-
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I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
