WARNING SHOTS?

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National Public Radio just did this story on the International Association of Chiefs of Police conditionally approving warning shots, which have long been verboten in American police work. Not mentioned in the article is...

ON A SAD ONE MONTH ANNIVERSARY

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It has been a month since the atrocity in Florida that triggered so much legitimate national grief, and so much misdirected anger and hatred. Here are some profound words from a victim of a...

RUSH TO JUDGMENT?

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Today, supposedly, a grand jury convenes in Missouri to examine the facts surrounding the death of Michael Brown at the hands of FPD officer Darren Wilson, to determine if an indictable crime has been...

OPEN CARRY: WHAT’S YOUR TAKE?

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Open carry is the practice of wearing a presumably loaded firearm, visibly.  It normally takes the form of a holstered handgun.  It occasionally takes the form of someone carrying a rifle or shotgun into...

FERGUSON PART III: THE FIRE THIS TIME

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“No good ever came of mass emotion. The audience that’s easily moved to tears is as easily moved to sadistic dementia.”  -- P.J. O’Rourke   We’d have to be hermits not to know what happened in...