For those of you out in my reading audience who have kids who are obviously NOT your particular ethnicity (such as Mere for us) - have you ever had any problems with official ID checks, on the line of ‘this really your kid’, questioning their ‘real’ citizenship and family status, or worse?  I’m talking about police pullovers on the road, checks at ( Read more... )

My favorite conservative columnist, Daniel Larison, is hitting it on the head and out of the ballpark this morning about the mindless OMG’ing in the Beltway press and elsewhere about political dishonesty on national security issues.

He brings up two main directions on this:

1. if Group A is out of office, then Group B (who is in) are feebly trying to ( Read more... )

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The Federal Protective Service, tasked to provide security to US government office buildings (like the one that Susan and I work out of in downtown Chicago) is in trouble; the Government Accountability Office ran teams through and past the security at several such buildings, bringing in bomb materials.

Numerous US government web sites were downed ( Read more... )

Police in Cincinnati kill mean dog at its home (owners are away with kids at a funeral) - they taser it, and then shoot it three times. They said they had no option but to kill it.

Dog’s name: Jack, the Chihuahua.   Five pounds.

I’ve been around dogs and small animals all my life, and had to control up to 25 pound dogs when they were acting berserk ( Read more... )