California Town Calls for Ban on Space Weapons
You can’t be too careful.
Government
TSA Can Improve Aviation Worker Vetting
You think? The headline of this post is also the slightly understated title of this DHS Inspector General report, which notes that TSA failed to block someone on the terrorist watchlist from getting a job at an airport. And by…
I Should Stress That TSA Detected Well Over Four Percent of The Fake Threats
I don’t want to be too negative.
Other Things to Read!
Here are some reading recommendations for the holiday weekend (this assumes, of course, that you have already read carefully and in full each of the 3,396 posts and one book that I have spewed forth to date): Former federal prosecutor and…
Police Report Says 12-Year-Old’s Crime Was “Abated by Death” (After They Shot Him)
You hopefully recall the case of Tamir Rice, the sixth-grader killed by a Cleveland police officer last November even though the 911 caller who reported that the boy had a gun told the dispatcher it was "probably fake." This is…
Okay, Who’s Gonna Go Argue That the Nun Threatened National Security?
Court Holds Wedding Ring Is Not a “Weapon”
Although such items can certainly be terrifying, a New Jersey court decided that throwing one at a corrections officer did not constitute “attempted assault with a weapon.”
Of Course We Have No Ticket Quotas, But ….
… you may wish to consider the following information in re: your salary. You won't be surprised to learn that Edmundson is a "city" in St. Louis County, about a ten-minute drive from Ferguson (might take a lot longer, of…
Sufficiently Notorious Convicted Felon Identified?
Nope, it wasn’t Patty Hearst. Decent guess, though.
Texas Bill Would Make It Illegal for You to Film a Cop Beating You
So that you will not interfere with said cop while he is beating you.