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J.D. Tuccille’s warnings that the folks tasked with protecting us may be just as worrisome as the people they're protecting us from have been quoted by media including Wired and the New York Times. Published by newspapers such as the Washington Times and the Denver Post, he has most recently written for his own widely cited Disloyal Opposition blog.

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Common ground for conservatives and progressives on Independence Day

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

I meet the most interesting people through my blogging and my columns for The Examiner. Because I write about gun...
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If a government action is wrong, it doesn't matter that it was 'lawful'

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 · 8 comments

In a new comment to a column I wrote in May, "Uranium - 235" says the rough treatment that an Arizona preacher took during a stop at a...
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FBI sued over surveillance rules

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 · 1 comment

Last fall, then-Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey released a controversial set of guidelines for domestic FBI operations (PDF). Focused as they were...
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White House move on indefinite detention only latest step in lawless direction

Monday, June 29th, 2009 · 1 comment

President Barack Obama is actively considering issuing an executive order authorizing the continued, indefinite detention of terrorism suspects,...
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Should picking health coverage that suits you be a crime?

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Many years ago, I lived in Massachusetts (hey, we all make mistakes). After dropping out of law school, I worked a...
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Student strip search unjustified, says U.S. Supreme Court

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 · 1 comment

A strip search of a high school student based on a tenuous tip that she possessed a legal painkiller -- forbidden under school rules -- violated the...
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Dog-shooting officer 'didn't like pit bulls anyway' -- and maybe not people so much either

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 · 1 comment

In yet another town, yet another dog was shot and killed by a police officer under -- once again -- murky...
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Government-provided medicine threatens a loss of choice

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

With our son approaching school age, my wife and I are considering a variety of options: charter, private, homeschooling. Just about the only option...
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Chicago cop recorded beating bartender gets probation

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 · 20 comments

If you and I got so blind drunk and belligerent that we beat the stuffing out of a bartender half our size, we'd get buried in some deep, dark hole....
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A subsidized press is a subservient press

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

There's an old saying that "he who takes the king's coin becomes the king's man." Those words are worth remembering as journalists rend...
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