What is the harm?

Story here.  Government at all levels is too big. The power we grant to government officials has gone to their head.  4 officers and 3 cars and a search warrant to take an opossum from a guy who had rescued it and was caring for it.   Do we really need a law forbidding this type of thing?

When Glenn Reynolds speaks…

smart people listen.  Professor Reynolds is a deep thinker who anticipates many of the future’s trends and problems.  It is well worth reading anything he writes.

Toobin is a tool

You have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at this.  Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.

Forgiveness

We need more forgiveness in our lives.  We need to be more like the victim’s brother in this story. (BTW, good on the police for never giving up.)

Defensive gun use

Here is a collection of stories from July.  I’ve often wondered why some press outlet didn’t make an article like this a monthly feature.

Well, this is interesting

Story here.  I wonder when, where and how the tankers were seized.

In local political news

Story here.  This was a fairly big catch for the DOJ.

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Our government continues to fail its citizens.

Don’t do stupid things

Four looters in Philadelphia did a stupid thing.  Results, 1 dead, 1 wounded.  Play stupid games, get stupid prizes.

I am sure this will make things calmer

Story here.  God have mercy.