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A NPR story this morning relates to my comments Monday about selective enforcement of laws - preferential treatment, or mistreatment.  [Hmmm, some of what I heard on the air is not in the transcript on the website.]
As a narcotics officer in West Texas, [Barry] Cooper was a law enforcement star. That was partly due to his work ethic: Stopping 30 ( Read more... )

A fine local example of values and ethics [dailypress.com, October 28, 2007]:
A candidate for the top law enforcement job in Loudoun County (VA) is making the unusual admission that he has fixed many traffic tickets for friends and fellow officers* in the past ( Read more... )

I'm pretty accepting about kinks - among adults, and possibly even among younger people, but not between adults and children.
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In lpetrazickis's journal: 7/11/2005 - Feature - Libertyville Abortion Demonstration [RealPlayer video]
Anti-abortion protesters are asked "What should the punishment be for a woman who has an illegal abortion?" These protesters have never even thought about the woman. Yeah folks, take a stand on an issue - maybe even kill for your cause - but don't give any ( Read more... )

aliza250 shared this link about women who are opposed to abortion but who have abortions. Some are very active in anti-abortion organizations. And some continue to actively oppose abortion rights even after their procedures, some even after multiple procedures. A couple of bits provoke me to comment.The medical director at a Dallas abortion clinic told ( Read more... )

I was making a belated follow-up to escapade52'scomment to vvalkyri, and I decided it should be a new entry.

... refer to "pro-life" people as "anti-choice".The thing is, many of the people who call themselves "pro-life" generally tend to support social policies that are not helpful to the living. To deal in stereotypes, these are the people who don't want the ( Read more... )