It may sound Orwellian to have government watching and fining you for installing a bike rack or flower box, but if CityScan has their way, this is exactly what is coming to a town near you.

An intrepid Evergreen State College student demonstrates how fellow college students are not using their critical thinking skills and they are willing to support indefinite detention and domestic wiretapping as long as Obama does it.

If you pick up antlers like these in the woods in the wrong place - you could go to jail for 6 months and pay a $5000 fine.  Is this really a necessary law?  Are we criminalizing too many activities while failing to deal with real criminals? 

Think your local school board has very little political power? Look at what the one in Battle Ground just did.

How many hours a day do you have to work to fund American education?

In Whatcom County, the Central Planning Department does not require logical thinking.  They are demanding that property owners destroy wetlands and wildlife habitat in order to save it. 

Last week, the Freedom Foundation hosted the founder of CrossFit, Greg Glassman, in Seattle. In a blog he wrote following the event, one attendee perfectly captured the essence of what Greg had to say: free enterprise enables individuals to live their best possible lives. 

Today in Watertown, Massachusetts, law enforcement officials are going from house to house with trained SWAT team snipers drawing a bead on any occupants and instructing those occupants to exit the houses so the police can enter and search the premises. UPDATED

Legislators who are concerned about the rapid growth in “early release” school days have not been successful at defining the school day. On the other hand, legislators who have responded to school employees’ desire to further reduce the number days students are served have also...Read more here

Legislators claim they want to make taxes more uniform ... and then try to single out beer for special tax hikes. House Bill 2038 exposes an agenda focused on revenue but cloaked in talk of "fairness."