Month: January 2009

The truth does appear in print. It’s just all too rare.

Not Chimera in the first sense – “a fire-breathing she-monster” – ouch – but the second sense: “an impossible or foolish fantasy.” Double-ouch. Is the dream of an “Obama”...

Tasers are touted as non-lethal weapons. Ones the cops can use to “protect and serve” rather than pulling their gun out. And that’s a good thing, right? Except, the only problem is that tasers used by the...

Our new senators have conducted their first vote. Surprisingly, the vote occurred on a Sunday, and it was a cloture vote on a package of legislation that had been held up in the last Congress by Tom Coburn’s extensive use...

Here’s something I just don’t understand. There’s absolutely no good reason for Obama not to close Guantanamo immediately and simply try the detainees in our already-extant courts of law. That’s how...