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Here are a few items that caught my attention recently even if I don't have time to focus on each of them:Don't consent to searchesFrom Robert Guest: "Don't consent to searches: Not guilty edition."Criminalizing dissatisfied education consumersThe trend toward criminalizing truancy continues in Gilmer. To me, truant youth are voting with their feet about the quality of their education. If it's irrelevant to their daily lives and seemingly offers no future benefit (for those who won't be attending college), dropping out can be a rational choice. I'd rather see resources directed toward improving the educational product than toward using law enforcement to force an unwanted product on educational consumers.  Questionable bust leads to massive drug sentence for tiny amount In Wichita Falls, a traffic stop led to a drug arrest garnering a 50 year sentence for possession of less than 4 grams of cocaine...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 26, 2010 (boomark / email).