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Jacob Sullum (May 16, 2012)
Last Thursday, the day after President Obama finally endorsed gay marriage, his campaign released a video that faults his presumptive Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, for... more
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Jacob Sullum (May 09, 2012)
"I favor legalizing same-sex marriages," Barack Obama told a gay newspaper while seeking his first term as an Illinois state senator in 1996, "and would fight efforts to... more
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Jacob Sullum (May 02, 2012)
"I got five baby mammas, and I put my hands on every last one of them except for one," Rico Gray confessed during a November 2010 deposition. "The way I was with women ...... more
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Jacob Sullum (Apr 25, 2012)
Critics of Florida's self-defense law object to its recognition of a right to "stand your ground" in public places, which eliminated the duty to retreat from an assailant.... more
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Jacob Sullum (Apr 18, 2012)
If you are reading this column online at work, you may be committing a federal crime. Or so says the Justice Department, which reads the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)... more
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Jacob Sullum (Apr 11, 2012)
Last week, President Obama warned that if the Supreme Court stops Congress from forcing Americans to buy government-approved health insurance, it will be... more
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Jacob Sullum (Apr 04, 2012)
People who are convinced that George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin for no good reason frequently say it's absurd to suggest that an unarmed 17-year-old could have posed a... more
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Jacob Sullum (Mar 28, 2012)
On Monday, U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the Supreme Court the "shared responsibility payment" required of Americans who fail to obtain government-approved... more
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Jacob Sullum (Mar 21, 2012)
After Dharun Ravi was convicted of "bias intimidation" crimes that carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison, many people wondered why he had rejected a plea deal that... more
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Jacob Sullum (Mar 14, 2012)
In the two weeks before this month's Super Tuesday primaries, The Wall Street Journal reports, "outside political action committees supporting the Republican presidential... more
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Jacob Sullum (Mar 07, 2012)
On his radio show last Friday, Rush Limbaugh complained that Democrats try to "impugn and discredit the people who disagree with them." That was two days after Limbaugh... more
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Jacob Sullum (Feb 29, 2012)
The day Tyler Clementi discovered that his roommate at Rutgers University had used a webcam to spy on him as he kissed another man, he described the incident to a friend... more
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Jacob Sullum (Feb 22, 2012)
A month ago, the Obama administration said religious organizations will have to pay for health insurance policies that cover contraception and sterilization, even if they... more
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Jacob Sullum (Feb 15, 2012)
Decrying "a decade of deficits" on Monday, President Obama declared that "my budget lays out a path for how we can pay down these debts." It is hard to see how that can be... more
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Jacob Sullum (Feb 08, 2012)
Thirty-five years ago, New York's legislature decriminalized marijuana possession. Numbers released last week show the New York Police Department continues to flagrantly... more
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Jacob Sullum (Feb 01, 2012)
In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama used billionaire investor Warren Buffett's secretary, Debbie Bosanek, as a prop to illustrate the unfairness of... more
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Jacob Sullum (Jan 25, 2012)
"If you win this case," Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben during oral argument in U.S. v. Jones last fall, "there is nothing... more
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Jacob Sullum (Jan 18, 2012)
Winning Our Future, a "super PAC" that supports Newt Gingrich's bid for the Republican presidential nomination, is spending more than $1.2 million on ads in South Carolina,... more
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Jacob Sullum (Jan 11, 2012)
My daughters, who range in age from 5 to 18, watch TV programs and movies on DVDs, on smart phones, streaming from Netflix through our Wii, on video websites, on our DVR... more
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Jacob Sullum (Jan 04, 2012)
"I don't think Ron Paul represents the mainstream," says Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich, another of the Texas congressman's opponents in the contest for the Republican... more