Editorials: Law

Americans Saw Threat to Freedoms Before Scandals Came To Light

Marc Rotterman
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June 14, 2013
In early April, the American Conservative Union commissioned a National Survey on Privacy and Free Speech.

Latest Big Government Data Grab: Justice Sues to Get It Without Warrant

Seton Motley
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June 03, 2013
The Big Government Barack Obama Administration is nothing if not thorough.

Poppycock! – 10 Reasons Why Opponents of Citizens United Are Wrong

David L. Applegate
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May 31, 2013
Yesterday, a “Senior Organizer” for the “Public Citizen’s Democracy Is For People Campaign” named Aquene Freechild commended the morally and fiscally bankrupt state of Illinois for becoming the&nbs

Little Impact on FCC Open Internet Order Appeal from SCOTUS Chevron Decision

Scott Cleland
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May 23, 2013
What’s the impact on the Verizon appeal of the Open Internet Order of the Supreme Court’s strong reaffirmation o

EU-Google: Too Powerful to Prosecute? The Problems with Politically Enabling Google

Scott Cleland
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May 03, 2013
The EU blinked. It's obvious the EU does not want a high-profile political confrontation with Google over a search monopoly abuse enforcement action.

The Immigration Trap

Benjamin Domenech
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April 25, 2013
The Democrats have gotten the great Republican hope, Marco Rubio, to sign on  to a measure that accomplish

Doctors Ask: Is a Charting Error a Federal Crime?

Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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April 23, 2013
As cardiovascular surgeon John Natale, M.D., sits in federal prison, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard his appeal on April 18.

Other People’s Children: Part Two

David L. Applegate
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April 18, 2013
In the race to the financial bottom the State of Illinois vies nicely with several other states, including (depending on the precise year involved)

Other People’s Children

David L. Applegate
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April 16, 2013
If the states are laboratories of democracy, then what does that make our cities? Showcases of the experiments’ results? If so, then we are in for a terrible time.

Absolute Rights – and Wrongs: Is It Really All About the Kids?

David L. Applegate
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April 15, 2013
In the wake of the celebrated shootings in Newtown, Connecticut; Aurora, Colorado; and the streets of Chicago, both parties have fallen over themselves to act “serious” about the problem of gun vio