Well worth reading. Excerpt: …[L]aw-enforcement is not supposed to subject a person to the processes of a criminal investigation absent a good faith belief that a crime may have occurred. It is abusive to interrogate people, not to uncover a … Continue reading →
Department of “you would be the last person I’d tell”: Heya! I just wanted to ask if you ever have any trouble with hackers? My last blog (wordpress) was hacked and I ended up losing months of hard work due … Continue reading →
Today James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. You can see highlights here, and as well as many tweets on the subject. And you can see a large sampling of the summaries and points of view on the testimony … Continue reading →
No, the new theme for the blog is nowhere near ready. But in response to all your comments on the previous thread on this topic, I wanted to announce that: (1) I can’t stand nested comments either. They make a … Continue reading →
The report is that there’s encouraging news on that front: “Now I say promising, but I don’t know what it looks like legislatively ”¦ the key word is promising,” Graham said. “There better be [a vote this month], because this … Continue reading →
After all the Comey turmoil and brouhaha (which is not over yet), this would seem to be a fairly non-controversial pick: President Trump on Wednesday said he intends to nominate former assistant attorney general Christopher Wray to be the next … Continue reading →
It’s a rare event in Iran. The terrorists seem to be ISIS, in a Sunni-Shi’ite struggle: Islamic State said five of its fighters carried out the twin attacks using assault rifles, grenades, and suicide vests. “The caliphate will not miss … Continue reading →
I’ve said before that I’ve given up on covering every little thing Trump does. It’s wearying, and it doesn’t really affect the big picture. Then again, each incident does have some small effect, perhaps cumulative. And some of the incidents … Continue reading →
The French police are armed, unlike the Brits: French Municipal officers are armed each Municipal Police agency has different weapons meaning some Municipal Police may have revolvers while others have more modern handguns. Municipal Police also have rifles and shotguns … Continue reading →
It’s long, but it’s good. Please try to ignore the things you disagree with (the guy is a “progressive,” after all) and listen closely to his descriptions of what happened at Evergreen and why. I’m not an auditory learner and … Continue reading →
My first reaction is: for a ton of reasons. And even before reading this article on the subject, I thought of three reasons in particular. The first is greater lung capacity. The second is stride length, although that’s not a … Continue reading →
Terrorism, and the failure to address it adequately, even after all these years.
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