Radley Balko over at Reason Magazine has a great column up about cops, corruption, and what can happen to people when you tell them they’re fighting a war.
Law & Order
Police Funerals
Most of us have seen them in a movie or television episode, or news report. Some have seen them live. Sadly, quite a few have participated. There is a somber pageantry and elegance to the funeral of an officer who died in the line of duty. The casket is draped with a US flag. The Read More
The Limits of Second Amendment Rights
….[A] lack of need for someone to perform a given activity does not automatically make a constitutionally sound argument in favor of government regulation.
Another Isolated Incident
Radley Balko and other sources are reporting yet another wrong door raid, this one on a family in Spring Valley, New York. The family had lived at the address for 12 years, were county foster parents (with an extensive background check), and the father was actually a county employee. Lots of opportunities for the 13 Read More
Why We Homeschool
Yes, I know this was a substitute teacher, and that such events are aberrations. I also know that parents sometimes abuse their own kids. But it still happened in the public school system, and it shouldn’t have. Sarasota substitute named in attack on 3 students