Tag Archives: police

Cop Threatens Me For Not Thinking He’s A Hero

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

I was sitting in my home office just before dinner when the phone line I use for business rang.  I don’t usually answer it, but I saw the caller ID said “DE Po Ben” — Delaware Police Benefit, so I … Continue reading →

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Deranged Mob Opens Fire and Mistakenly Slaughters Two Innocent Victims

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

I just saw that Bruce Schneier linked to this police shooting story. A November car chase ended in a “full blown-out” firefight, with glass and bullets flying, according to Cleveland police officers who described for investigators the chaotic scene at … Continue reading →

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Government to Immigrants: We Issue Your Identity

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

I heard this story about immigrants trying to get driver’s licenses. The last line is sad, but applies not just to immigrants, but all of us. BTW, the government loves that people think this way. When he pulls his car … Continue reading →

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A Simple Donation

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Steve Inskeep and Shankar Vedantam discussed political language and charities on NPR recently.  In particular, they covered some new research about political identity and charitable giving from Karen Winterich at Penn State. Vedantam gave Winterich an assignment: create two pitches … Continue reading →

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Judge Invalidates Rahmaland Ban on Guns

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

In what almost seems like the tiniest ray of light being let in, Judge Richard Posner has “invalidated Illinois’s ban on carrying loaded weapons in public and given the General Assembly 180 days to come up with a new law … Continue reading →

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So – anything exciting happen to you last night?

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Nah, I just chased myself around Sussex all night. The police state in Great Britain showed off its might, using plain-clothed cops, advanced tracking cameras, and remote operators to track a suspect who was really a plain-clothed cop tracking himself … Continue reading →

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Pigs and Cowpies

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Apparently the inmates in Vermont don’t think too highly of the cops. What a surprise. Image of pig hidden in the cow spots. Vermont cops drove around for a year with these one their cars.

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Morituri te Salutant

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

I saw this article yesterday about the 173 cops that were killed in 2011. It made me wonder if there are statistics for the number of people who cops have killed. So I did some searching and one of the … Continue reading →

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Sell (or Steal) Your Guns to Buy Christmas Gifts

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

Wow. They’re really getting so bold as to actually tell people what they’re really up to. The headline reads: State police: Gun buyback’s aim goes beyond disarming criminals It just gets better from there. Two of Delaware’s top police officers … Continue reading →

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Controlled Substances

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

Each month, my father-in-law passes along his copy of the NRA’s American Rifleman magazine.  I tend to flip through the magazine in about ten minutes, spending more time drooling over the gun adverts than reading any of the articles.   … Continue reading →

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