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When Pizza is outlawed, only outlaws will have pizza

Sunday, 31 May 2009 10:41 P GMT-04
Baltimore has some stupid city council members, but they can't hold a candle to the ones in D.C.

Negotiate THIS, Mr. President

Sunday, 22 March 2009 8:26 P GMT-04
Saudis sentence 75-year-old woman to beating, deportation. Will Obama speak in her defense?

Handling it right

Sunday, 15 February 2009 12:56 P GMT-04
Lessons learned from the Hong Kong airport tantrum.

Where the USA is headed

Monday, 19 January 2009 7:00 P GMT-04
Ginny Simone reports on the aftermath of British gun control laws.

Who's watching the Watchers?

Friday, 5 December 2008 10:42 P GMT-04
Mass. director of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border Protection charged with repeatedly hiring illegal immigrants to clean her home. Gets kid-glove treatment from court.

No irony here whatsoever

Tuesday, 11 November 2008 6:20 P GMT-04
Only an editor with an iron will and no sense of humor could have insisted on running this story in such a deadpan fashion.

Self-Defense equals Self-help

Tuesday, 11 November 2008 2:50 P GMT-04
A citizen asks--and rightly so--why he is not allowed to possess the means of defending himself when the police freely admit they can't do the job?

That'll teach them

Friday, 12 September 2008 11:25 P GMT-04
Tennessee woman uses a musical instrument to scare away burglars.

Will this be the tipping point in Baltimore?

Saturday, 12 April 2008 9:36 P GMT-04
If we are lucky, the beat-down of art teacher Jolita Berry will bring people to their senses, and spur a demand that politicians do something other than frown meaningfully when someone is hurt.

Does Democracy Exist in Maryland?

Friday, 11 April 2008 2:24 P GMT-04
For the third year running, MD Senator Frosh exercises a "desk drawer veto" on a bill that came to his committee after passing by unanimous vote in the other chamber of the legislature.

Double standards still prevail

Thursday, 20 March 2008 1:34 P GMT-04
Kojo Snowden "gets out of jail free" on gun possession charges.

Fenty and Company Escalate the Game in DC

Saturday, 15 March 2008 7:22 P GMT-04
Afraid of losing their Second Amendment case, DC officials launch an assault on the Fourth Amendment.

A Celebration of the Second Amendment

Monday, 18 February 2008 8:23 P GMT-04
Alan Korwin, who sometimes writes as "The Uninvited Ombudsman," files an upbeat dispatch about this year's SHOT (Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trades) show.

Where do they get cops like this jerk?

Thursday, 14 February 2008 11:19 P GMT-04
Or perhaps the more appropriate question is why do people who become cops end up morphing into belligerents?

Another Carl Drega?

Saturday, 9 February 2008 9:56 P GMT-04
Nobody likes being treated like a crackpot, and now and then someone is reduced to emphasizing this point by violence.

Crushed like a bug

Saturday, 9 February 2008 9:34 P GMT-04
Rent-seeking politics destroy another "little person" just trying to get along in the world.

Why the Law Don't Get No Respect

Wednesday, 6 February 2008 2:22 P GMT-04
The law is a ass.

Les Miserables in California

Saturday, 2 February 2008 11:11 P GMT-04
Quoting from this site: He was busted for not paying for a small package of donuts, and now he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Friday in court, Robert Fassbender’s attorney, Michael Webb, tried to get the charges dropped before

MTA violence: why is anyone surprised?

Saturday, 29 December 2007 8:01 P GMT-04
Attacks on MTA buses are nothing new, and symptomatic of a larger problem.

Where are Sharpton and Jesse?

Monday, 17 December 2007 1:25 P GMT-04
Quoting from this site: CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A jury on Monday convicted a millionaire couple of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers. Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, and his wife, Varsha Mahen

Arthur Bremer released

Sunday, 11 November 2007 6:48 P GMT-04
Bremer, unsuccessful assassin of George Wallace, has been freed from prison.

The things teachers must do to cope

Monday, 5 November 2007 10:33 P GMT-04
I know it's tough being a teacher, but...

Suicide provokes dismissal of criminal case

Saturday, 3 November 2007 8:22 P GMT-04
The wealthy live by different rules than the rest of us.

The Pride of the Neighborhood

Monday, 29 October 2007 8:40 P GMT-04
The latest excitement from Baltimore County's Worst High School.

Another American Jean Valjean

Saturday, 27 October 2007 11:04 P GMT-04
Where "zero tolerance" prevails, common sense goes out the window.