Legal System

Expat Americans and children will be caught in the indiscriminate steel net that the IRS wants to throw around the globe.

These proposed reforms do not call for eliminating the patent injunction, for seriously cutting back patent scope, or for reducing the patent term.

Believe it or not, there are a few things worse than the state.

You always remember books that change your mind, because these books are so few and far between, writes Doug French.

Governments like death but also use public flogging, standing in the stocks, ducking, maiming, down to the humane method of penning in a cage.

Private organizations can set their own policies and allow customers to decide for themselves whether they want the service on those terms. But something more than customer policy is happening with all the latest demands for real names; the state is pushing this.

Never trust a law named after a person. It is most likely a politician's act of self-aggrandizement or the result of public frenzy. Caylee's law is the latter. It is a bad law that rests on the positive obligation to report to the government.

How can the law or courts fix the exact line as to how bad a man might be to deserve punishment, and how good to excuse it?

No one wants a needle park in his or her neighborhood, but that is exactly what prohibition brings.