Author Archives: Pete Guither

In October, DC Metro began a random search program without public input. Flex Your Rights stepped up and started passing out flyers at subway stations informing people of their rights not to consent to a search, and got a lot … Continue reading →

A must read from Bill Tilney, the former Mayor of El Paso, Texas: Former mayor to City Council: Stay the course on drug resolution Kudos to city Rep. Beto O’Rourke for the courage he showed in proposing an amendment to … Continue reading →

Link “Calder÷n must Ö and will Ö keep the pressure on the cartels, but look, let’s not be naâve: There will be more violence, more blood, and, yes, things will get worse before they get better. That’s the nature of … Continue reading →

This is a follow-up to today’s earlier post about the El Paso, Texas City Council resolution. Now it’s looking like the veto may not hold The city‰s Committee on Border Relations refused to give Mayor John Cook the support he … Continue reading →

El Paso, Texas – a mere stone’s throw from Mexico and the violent drug war there – naturally has concerns about the drug war there, and the fact that everything we’ve been doing just makes it worse and more violent. … Continue reading →

Link The deep recession expected in 2009 will likely lead to higher rates of crime. Adam Lass says investors can play this trend by picking up shares of commercial jails. Florida-based Geo Group (NYSE:GEO) operates in several countries and is … Continue reading →

Obama apparently wants CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta as a high-profile Surgeon General. So with a celebrity Surgeon General, can we expect controversial truth-telling like Joycelyn Elders or West Wing’s Surgeon General Millicent Griffith? Maybe not, given Gupta’s incoherent article on … Continue reading →

What does it say about the state of American political discourse that drug policy reform is too… radical to be discussed in the mainstream media, and yet Ann Coulter is on every network this week getting free publicity for her … Continue reading →

Much of the speculation of how the Obama administration may differ from the Bush administration has been over the degree to which Obama may actively support change, or even passively allow change through benign neglect. There is, however, another more … Continue reading →

As has been noted in comments, Change.org (not to be confused with Obama’s Change.gov) has moved to the next round of voting. The top 10 ideas will be presented to the administration on January 16 at the National Press Club … Continue reading →