All Americans Are Prisoners of the State By Mark Luedtke America has undergone a horrific transition. One of the founding American principles expounded in the Declaration of Independence is every individual is sovereign. Every individual has inalienable rights that government cannot breach. A corollary to individual sovereignty is the castle doctrine: a man’s home is [...]
Government predators love their spy cameras By Mark Luedtke The City of Dayton issued a record number of speeding tickets in 2012. Excuse me for discussing numbers, but they are astounding. The Dayton Daily News reports, “The number of speeding tickets issued in Dayton increased nearly 1,400 percent to 58,325 since the city added speed [...]
Hide and seek: Considering Fourth Amendment protections By A.J. Wagner The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution states: “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 [...]
Debate Forum Center: Columbus teacher dismissed by Catholic Church By Alex Culpepper Illustration: Sam Rhoden In March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the U.S. v. Windsor case, which will decide whether the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is constitutional. The media reports and polling numbers surrounding the case revealed Americans are truly softening their stances [...]
Buch looks back By Jim Bucher I got to thinking (that’s twice in a week, my poor brain) with the Dayton City Paper on it’s quest to save the Dayton Arcade in a practical way as the new location for the Dayton Metro Library and quite possibly the Arcade’s last chance before the wrecking ball [...]
Who’s in charge here?: Democracy inaction By A.J. Wagner It was an interesting day for democracy in Dayton and across the country last Wednesday, April 17. A day of decisions and non-decisions that tell a tale of democratic systems and how they work or not. In the United States Senate, by a vote of 54-45, a [...]
Buch’s stuck in traffic By Jim Bucher Well, where do I begin, but at the beginning? So, the publisher of this fine publication, Paul Noah, and I connected recently about the possibility of me writing a weekly column for the Dayton City Paper (guess you can figure out the outcome, ’cause here I am.) Now [...]
Debate Center: Is there a way to unplug the pressure cooker that is the United States? By Alex Culpepper Newtown, Conn.; Aurora, Colo.; Fort Hood, Texas; Blacksburg, Va.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; and Boston, Mass. – all these places have one particular characteristic in common: they are sites of mass carnage generating huge casualties. Even though they share [...]
More government failure, more deaths By Mark Luedtke Americans were riveted to the spectacle of terrorist bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15. The athletes who had just finished running 26.2 miles who then rushed into the stands to save the wounded and after that donated blood to save [...]
American prohibitionists cause civil war in Mexico By Mark Luedtke Dr. Joseph Mercola calls sugar just as addictive as alcohol and more dangerous. But nobody kills over sugar. If somebody wants a sugar fix, they drink a soda or buy a candy bar. Problem solved. But imagine if the government banned sugar. Actually, we don’t [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]
Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]
It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]
What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]
Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]
President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]
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