November 24, 2010
I know that it's probably trite to review the Fourth Amendment. There are plenty of court precedents and I'm sure that the TSA airport screening procedures have all been nicely arranged legally.
Still, it matters what we all think about it. Here it is.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The question that we must all consider is: What is unreasonable?
The words of the fourth amendment, and of all the others, will continue to hold meaning only as long as we uphold them and honor them.
June 29, 2010
This is a follow up to my previous blog post about the perceptions of Libertarianism, and specifically how Libertarian ideas compare and contrast with Socialism. The blog generated a couple questions: What do we do about those who would gain wealth by exploitation? How does the free market mitigate greed and corruption? Before I get to those, I want to make a point about the perceptions we...
June 26, 2010
Melissa is at a CFI training retreat in New York. CFI is Center For Inquiry, which promotes reason and logic in the face of, well, so much of the opposite in the world today. For some reason, the word for the people on the other side of reason in this group has become "Libertarian", as in: .. then there are people who reject science and reason and the accepted truth of global warming, you know,...
April 09, 2010
So far I have sold seven copies of my Kindle collection of short stories for total of $3.43. After 14 more sell, Amazon will be do a transfer (minimum $10) and then I'll have actual passive income. (If you missed the first post, you can go take a look a the Amazon page: {linkout:http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Mirror-stories-around-ebook/dp/B003EEN2UE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text...