Stop repairing your own car.
This is an amazingly different country than the one I grew up in.
Category Archives: Law
Obeying The Law
…for people to want to obey the law for reasons that go beyond avoiding punishment, several things have to be true. First, they must generally approve of the law: Maybe not of every individual provision, but they have to believe that, in general, the laws are just rather than unfair. Second, they have to feel reasonably confident that most others will obey the law, too: People like to feel like good citizens, but they don’t like to feel like suckers. Finally, they have to feel as if the people in charge also respect the law. Examples are set at the top, and if the government treats unwelcome laws as unworthy of respect, you can expect the populace to feel the same way.
Nonsense. Laws are for the little people.
California’s War On Young Men
If I were a young man, I’d go to college in some other state.
Related: The truth about campus “rape culture.” Which is that there isn’t one.
Hillary’s Server
The emails may be deleted, but that doesn’t mean they’re gone.
I’ve been saying this for weeks. The continued refusal to turn over the server to an independent third party is continued obstruction of justice.
Controlling The Populace
You’re probably breaking the law right now.
…we may hope that prosecutorial discretion will save us: Just explain to the nice prosecutor that we meant no harm, and violated the law by accident, and he or she will drop the charges and tell us to be more careful next time. And sometimes things work that way. But other times, the prosecutors are out to get you for your politics, your ethnicity, or just in order to fulfill a quota, in which case you will hear that the law is the law, and that ignorance is no excuse. (Amusingly, government officials who break the law do get to plead ignorance and good intentions, under the doctrine of good faith “qualified immunity.” Just not us proles.)
I don’t find it all that amusing. The whole federal code needs to be overhauled, in accordance with the Constitution. And it does seem unconstitutional, and a violation of mens rea, to prosecute and convict people for laws that they can’t reasonably be expected to have knowledge of.
An End To Restraint Of Trade?
Looks like SCOTUS may have just struck down most state regulatory boards. Good for them.
The FAA’s Drone-Approval Process
It’s so slow that the one that Amazon got approved is already obsolete.
Government Funding And The Free-Speech Clause
A clarification, for questions in comments from a previous post.
SpaceX And Blue Origin
SpaceX was basically told that they’d lost this patent battle, but would win the war.
[Friday-morning update]
[Bumped]
Obama’s Lawless Immigration Order
The best lines from the injunction against it.
“[T]here can be no doubt that the failure of the federal government to secure the borders is costing the states — even those not immediately on the border — millions of dollars in damages each year … [and] the federal government has effectively denied the states any means to protect themselves from these effects.”
Yup. Time for the 10th Amendment to be revived. Finally.