A Texas man who killed his unarmed neighbor in a confrontation about loud music has been sentenced to 40 years in prison despite his having recorded the confrontation and made the argument that he was entitled to use deadly force under Texas's "Stand Your Ground" law ( Read more... )

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground."

-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) to Edward Carrington, Paris, May 27, 1788.