March 12, 2015 – 8:24 am
As The Other McCain points out, this is an entirely expected consequence after over half a year of anti-cop agitation (St. Louis Today) Two police officers were hit by gunfire early Thursday outside the Ferguson police department. The shots were fired just after midnight as police were confronting protesters who had gathered outside the police […]
March 9, 2015 – 8:03 am
This is an attempt to pass legislation that allows kids to be kids (KOLO8) Members of the Assembly Committee on Education were treated to a snack at their afternoon hearing on AB 121: Pop-Tarts. It was a reference to a case out of Maryland where a second-grader was suspended from school for chewing his Pop-Tart […]
February 25, 2015 – 7:32 am
Randolph J. May wonders whether the FCC is a lawless organization, in terms of a background in how the Constitution creates our form of government in light of the way the British authorities simply “dispensed power”, a “form of exercise of royal prerogative under which the king could excuse himself or his favored subjects from […]
February 23, 2015 – 7:55 am
Most people understand that heavy handed government regulation is a Bad Idea, at least when it comes to that same heavy handed government regulation directly affecting their own lives (CNS News) Matthew Berry, chief of staff to Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai,pointed out that only nine percent of Americans support the commission’s plan to regulate […]
February 17, 2015 – 2:56 pm
You remember Ferguson, right? That’s where a violent young man brazenly stole cigars, assaulted the clerk, walked in the middle of the road like a fool, caught the attention of a duly sworn officer of the law, then attacked the officer in his card, struck the officer, attempted to take the officer’s gun, ran away […]
February 13, 2015 – 7:05 am
It’s very easy for people not in situations to say how the police should have handled them. It’s rather different when you yourself are put in those situations (Fox News) It was a split-second decision. A distressed man with a baby in tow was pacing back and forth in a manic state and shouting incoherently. […]
February 4, 2015 – 7:39 am
Perhaps they should consider instead why so many in communities like Ferguson are violent and lawless (Washington Post) About a month after a white officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., the city’s assistant police chief, Al Eickhoff, took to Google and searched under the words “less lethal.†Huh. It’s like there […]
January 29, 2015 – 6:52 am
We’re beginning a new chapter in our relationship, you know (Wall Street Journal) Cuban President Raúl Castro demanded Wednesday that the U.S. return the base at Guantanamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on Cuba and compensate his country for damages before the two nations re-establish normal relations. Mr. Castro told a summit of the […]
January 28, 2015 – 6:44 am
Good thing we exchanged him for 5 hardcore Taliban members, eh? (NBC News) Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by enemy forces in Afghanistan for five years, will likely be charged with desertion, senior defense officials tell NBC News. The officials point out that Bergdahl will likely face a lesser charge of desertion […]
January 26, 2015 – 6:59 am
Or, as it is usually known, winter. The big pull at Memeorandum is this Weather Channel article, but it has been updated (Weather Channel) Millions of people in the Northeast are bracing for Winter Storm Juno, which threatens to become a major snowstorm Monday through Wednesday with the potential for blizzard conditions and more than […]
