Earlier this morning, following some comments on Facebook, I posted a status articulating some thoughts about politics, government, and my...

This has been news for a couple of days now, but the reason I held off posting about it is that I wanted to do some historical investigation...

'Fess up: how many of us laughed about the Third Amendment when we learned about it (or were supposed to have learned about it) in nint...

In a saner age and a better reality, most of us would have never even imagined a headline like that. Today, we know better... (Perhaps thi...

What. The. Hell. ?!? I'd be really cautious about visiting El Reno, Oklahoma from now on. Sounds like the police department there a...

It's bothered me for years that in the name of the "war on drugs" that some (emphasis on that) law enforcement agencies have ...

Call it what you may, a law of either history or human nature. Anything can be used as a weapon... and that a thing intended as a weapon w...

If you're traveling through Arkansas anytime soon, you might wanna detour around the little burg of Jericho. The town of 174 residents ...

From August 25th, 2009 at a public meeting between Rep. Jim Moran and his constituents at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia. As i...

If you can help it, I'd consider the town of Heath, Ohio to be a place to steer well clear of. That personal assessment comes after wor...

Folks, please understand something: this is NOT a joke! That was my first thought when I read about this situation late last week. And th...

As I shouldn't have to state every time I post something about this: I do believe that most of those who choose to serve in law enforce...

Remember Murrill McLean , the Danville Police Department officer who a month ago shot and killed a tiny miniature dachshund that was only ba...

Comic book writer Mark Sable is reporting that last month while going through Los Angeles International Airport bound for New York, he was d...

Murrill McLean , Danville Police "officer", who shot and killed 11-pound miniature dachshund "Killer" earlier this week...

This is the second time in as many days that this blog has reported a story like this. The first was from Ohio , where two big Blue Ash Pol...

This is gonna be another post where I'm compelled to use "less polite" language, folks. But I think you'll agree: it'...

If your home network uses a wireless router, or if you have a cordless phone or baby monitor or cellphone or anything that emits radio wave...

(I soooo wanted to put an "i" in that word, but as it's a Sunday I'm trying to restrain myself.) Longtime readers of this...

This early on in the reporting of the story, I'll admit to wondering if there's more to this. But knowing what I do about how damne...