The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. ...

"Affordability" is the word grabbing the headlines in public discourse these days. However, if affordability is a problem, it's important to be clear about what exactly the problem is and what can be done. Gallup has new polling data noting that the "high cost of living continues to top ...

"Big Brother is watching you" is no longer a fictional admonition. Everywhere you go, your location is recorded by phone technology, license plate readers, Uber and Lyft transactions, and cameras. Privacy? Forget about it. Your location history is in the hands of many tech companies. Can the ...

The article in The Washington Post pulled no punches. "You're probably washing your pants wrong," the headline informed me, with no small degree of smugness. "Here's how to do it right." As a woman and a parent, I am quite accustomed to being told that I'm doing something wrong, so, being ...

Back in 2020, National "Public" Radio promoted a nasty little book called "In Defense of Looting." NPR summarized the "Marxist-informed" author Vicky Osterweil in the wake of the "racial justice" rioting in cities: "She argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change ...

Hypocrisy was triumphant, as it usually is in arguments over redistricting, in Virginia this week, as voters approved a "fairness" constitutional amendment allowing the Democratic-majority legislature to enact a congressional districting plan that is expected to increase Democrats' edge in its ...