No Need to Muddy Criminal Law in Order to “Clean Up Government”
With their institution at all-time lows in public popularity and trust, it is no wonder that members of Congress are looking to improve the body’s… Read More
VIDEO: Gibson Guitar CEO Blasts Obama for Federal Raid, Persecution
Gibson Guitar is an American icon. Musicians ranging from blues legend B.B. King to rock stars with Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith have used its guitars…. Read More
News
Top 10 Reads: Oct. 5th, 2011
Catching you up on clips, commentary and news of the day. Sign up for the daily email update from Scribe. Ambrose: Federal law will get… Read More
Gibson Guitar Plays the Overcriminalization Blues
Do you know all the laws of the United States? Do you know all the laws of each of the 50 states (not to mention… Read More
For Proponents of More Federal Criminal Legislation, Ignorance of the Law Is Bliss
Animal rights activists and commercial fisherman may find little common ground, but both can share their plight as victims of overcriminalization. The front page story… Read More
The Worst Thing that Anybody Can Do to You is Take Away Your Freedom
How much danger does the federal government’s unprincipled, out-of-control body of criminal law pose to, say, the average American small-business person? Well, suppose you were… Read More
LawNews
Overcriminalization Victimizes Animal-Loving 11-Year-Old and Her Mother
Last month, a hyper-aggressive U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent, accompanied by a Virginia state trooper, arrived at Alison Capo’s door to announce that our… Read More
Wall Street Journal Exposes Federal Overcriminalization
Aspiring inventor Krister Evertson received a two-year sentence for allegedly abandoning materials that he had stored in sealed, stainless-steel containers, thus doing no harm to… Read More
Criminalization without Justification
The Wall Street Journal this weekend documented several sad features of the federal government’s proliferation of poorly written criminal laws, many of which leave it… Read More
Florida’s Interior-Design Disaster
We’ve all heard of the fashion police but probably assumed that was just a figure of speech. It turns out, however, that if you don’t… Read More
