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...

COMMERCIAL BREAK

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We pause for a brief commercial announcement. An attorney friend wrote me this morning to say, “… been following your blog, great stuff.  Forgive my crass, sniveling, pond-scum lawyer attitude BUT, you ought to be plugging...

WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS…

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The recent atrocity in Paris reminds us all of the continuing danger from homicidal fanatics.  The cowardly murderers ran rampant, unopposed; according to some reports, one or both of the police officers killed in...

FROM THE QUESTIONABLE IDEA OF THE MONTH DEPARTMENT

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In November, a starry-eyed professor postulated that the first cartridge in every police officer’s gun should be a blank. Had the prof done the slightest bit of research, he would have learned that blanks won’t...

MORE ON WARNING SHOTS

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A couple of entries ago, the discussion on a major police association conditionally condoning warning shots drew a lot of commentary here. And we didn’t even get all the way into the topic.  For example,...