Homer, Louisiana police chief Russell Mills, after one of his officers shot and killed a 73-year-old mute black man:

"If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names," said Mills, who is white. "I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested.

"We're ( Read more... )

A little outrage with your morning coffee ( Read more... )

Yay nationalization!

Well, I hope we all enjoyed this little experiment in "free" markets, because it's over now.  Once the financial markets are nationalized, there will be no segment of the economy safe from government "rescue".  Enjoy your new status as serfs.

Absolutely sickening.

In a closely watched trial involving conflicting marijuana laws, a jury on Tuesday convicted the owner of a Morro Bay medical marijuana dispensary on five counts of violating federal drug laws ( Read more... )

If something like this actually comes to pass-and it should be noted that both Barack Obama and John McCain support the concept of national service, if not this specific implementation-I am getting my family out of the country.  Period ( Read more... )

[cross-posted to A Thousand Cuts]

The thin blue line closes ranks around two cops who were shot during a no-knock raid:

The friends who stood up for a man who shot two Columbus officers now are under fire from the local police union ( Read more... )

"I think any person that has a firearm and is willing to shoot at any person is a dangerous person."

That's the opinion of Columbus police officer Tony Garrison, who was shot and wounded (along with another cop) by an ex-Ohio State football player, Derrick Foster, during a no-knock raid on a suspected crack house on April 30 ( Read more... )

Tyler Cowen, currently traveling in Japan, passes on this page of unusual business card designs.  Kevin Mitnick's is pretty awesome, but some of them seem way more gimmicky than useful.

Have you seen the video of Bill O'Reilly completely losing his shit during a taping of Inside Edition (these videos are NSFW)?  It gets even better remixed.  But ( Read more... )

All these stories do is fill me with impotent rage, but I can't stop reading or writing about them:

Interviewing the people in Tracy Ingle's life - his sisters, his foster brother, his friends - you hear one line often enough that it soon becomes a refrain: Tracy is no angel ( Read more... )

Maybe the prospect of global food shortages doesn't spell catastrophe for everyone:

As prices for bread and rice soar, dictators are tottering.

Oddly, one of them is [Hugo] Chávez, who lost a constitutional referendum in December partly because of the combination of soaring food prices and shortages he has inflicted on Venezuela. Another is ( Read more... )