Sotomayor & The Police

Posted by Patrick Semmens in May 31st 2009

Given that Sotomayor was nominated by Barack Obama, I never had high hopes that she’d be good on federalism, guns, economic regulation, labor issues, property rights or the rest of the issues that I agree with the Court “conservatives” on. I did, however, hope that she’d be at least good on the things that [...]

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Smiling All the Way to the DMV

Posted by Patrick Semmens in May 31st 2009

The Virginia DMV has banned smiles while taking photos for your driver’s license.
Honestly, so what?
As someone who has wasted hours of my life dealing with the bureaucrats at the Virginia DMV I don’t know how anyone could smile after such an experience. Naturally, the facial recognition technology is scary, but I really don’t see how someone could [...]

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How They Steal Your Rights

Posted by Patrick Semmens in May 27th 2009

Over at StogieGuys.com, I wrote the following column about how nanny-staters chip away at our rights.
It’s the perfect example getting the camels nose under the tent. In other words, they set the precedent for taking away our rights, then, before you know it, they expand a seeming narrow violation of our freedom and use it [...]

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under: Constitutional Rights, Nanny State