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Do it yourself, PLEASE!

Tuesday, 1 September 2009 5:39 P GMT-04
Be careful what you wish for your government to do for you.

Handling it right

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

Is the NRA really the gun owner's best friend?

Monday, 19 January 2009 9:45 P GMT-04
Does NRA engage in too much compromise, despite the popular perception that it is a "radical" organization?

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.

A final thought before the 2008 election

Monday, 3 November 2008 12:05 P GMT-04
Optimism eludes me.

BATFE house-cleaning needed

Thursday, 18 September 2008 12:49 A GMT-04
BATFE agents cannot keep track of their own issued weapons. Situation worse than six years ago.

While the Bloomberg Center is mucking about in gun control...

Monday, 15 September 2008 12:36 A GMT-04
Public health weenies can't keep bedbugs and lice from infesting people, but think they can issue edicts about firearms.

That sucking sound you've been hearing all week

Saturday, 28 June 2008 6:41 P GMT-04
Privacy? We don't need no stinkin' privacy!

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.

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?

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

Nine most dangerous words in the language

Wednesday, 2 January 2008 10:47 P GMT-04
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help..."

Happy Flippin' New Year, America

Tuesday, 1 January 2008 2:24 P GMT-04
Cindy Sheehan's in the Rose Bowl Parade. Whoopee.

Another step towards tyranny

Monday, 12 November 2007 11:29 A GMT-04
Almost nine years have elapsed since Scott McNealy said, "You have zero privacy...get over it." Yet there is still something chilling about this bit of newspeak from the federal government.

Chicago cops taser 82 year old woman

Thursday, 8 November 2007 10:27 P GMT-04
Government "welfare check" on an elderly woman results in the cops being called when department-of-aging people fail to handle their own responsibilities

Foreclosure provokes suicide

Saturday, 3 November 2007 7:46 P GMT-04
Those of us old enough to have grown up talking with our parents about the recent past will remember having heard stories of ruined businessmen jumping out of windows on "Black Tuesday," October 29, 1929. The circumstances differ slightly, but histo

Another American Jean Valjean

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

Surveillance Nation: Chicago

Saturday, 20 October 2007 8:17 P GMT-04
Dick Daley wants spy cameras on street sweeping machines.

criminal bathroom conduct

Saturday, 20 October 2007 8:06 P GMT-04
...and this instance does not involve Larry Craig.

No Candy from Sex Perverts

Thursday, 11 October 2007 9:51 P GMT-04
If I put a "no candy here" sign on my house, will everyone think I'm a sex pervert?

Big Brother about to get another tool

Sunday, 7 October 2007 5:02 P GMT-04
Methamphetamine scanners to be added to police detection arsenal.

Jean Valjean reincarnated in Missouri

Sunday, 7 October 2007 3:56 P GMT-04
The "show me" state is poised to show a shoplifter that they take crime seriously.

The "Nation of Shopkeepers" reacts to a threat

Wednesday, 3 October 2007 12:38 P GMT-04
Aroma of hot Thai chili sauce results in chemical-warfare alert, and police shutdown of a section of London

Government does not "protect" you

Wednesday, 3 October 2007 12:32 P GMT-04
Developer builds 5 story building around the home of an elderly owner who refused to sell. Government fails to protect her.