A WHALE OF A TALE…
…and a tale of a whale. I just finished “In the Heart of the Sea” by Nathaniel Philbrick, an exhaustively researched account of the sinking of the Nantucket-based whaling ship Essex in 1820, the...
MORE GREAT COP READING
This week marks the annual conference of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. If you can’t be there, you can read the wisdom of many of ILEETA’s master instructors. Brian Willis, an...
ANOTHER NEW BOOK
The Evil Princess reminds me that there’s another new book out this week, my own latest. I think of it as my “Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence” book. Teaching at venues like the International...
UNDERSTANDING THE “CULTURE WAR”
Make no mistake: the “war” over gun control is very much a culture war. Those who come in without an agenda and study it impartially as professionals – Adam Winkler in “Gun Fight,” for...