No Safe Harbor

Counterfeit goods. Guns. Humans. If you're trying to slip any of those through local ports, officers have you in their well-trained sights.

Nice cheerleading piece, Josh Grossberg. I like the way it squares with reality:

More than 6 million shipping containers arrive here at...U.S. ports annually. Only 2% are inspected. The rest remain sealed as they are shipped throughout the country. It would be easy, some fear, to take a container, stuff it with explosives, a chemical weapon or a nuclear device and inject it into the nation's economic bloodstream.

Hey, if we can't go back to sleep, can we at least have some more Kool-Aid?

Permitting the Right: D-Day

Sailorcurt likens incrementalism to Allied opposition of Hitler, pointing out that D-Day did not cause the immediate surrender of Nazi Germany. As much as I enjoy reading his opinions, I don't believe this analogy works, and here's why.

The tactics used to achieve the strategy of defeating Germany involved making concessions and decisions due to logistics, resources, manpower, terrain, the weather, battlefield conditions, etc. They did not involve making concessions to Hitler.

And as D-Day was used as an example, we saw there some troop transports going off course and landing on the wrong beachhead.

I'll accept this analogy if someone can show me where Eisenhower sought Nazi permission. Otherwise, it seems the Allied strategy--the unconditional surrender of Axis powers--was pretty much an example of "absolutism."

Concealed Gun Law a Violation of Church/State?

History shows us that when shootings take place in a church, it is by people that come off the street and start shooting. If this law stands, then it will make it illegal for "religious" people to defend themselves.

The state has no right to determine what and who can go into a church; this is a decision of the church. If this law stands, then it will give the government a crack in which they can invade the church.”

So naturally, the Wichita Eagle editor who posted this takes a swipe at both Christians and guns with the Landover Baptist Church graphic.

I guess they realize they can heap all the ridicule they want on Christians with guns and remain safe. I do note the Landover crowd does nothing to offend the Fatwah crowd...

We're the Only Ones Corrupt Enough

Relying on hours of secretly recorded conversations of the officers, federal prosecutors spent almost three weeks presenting evidence that the officers robbed drug addicts in West Baltimore to reward their sources on the street and line their own pockets.

Prosecutors sought to show that King and Murray abused the tools of their trade - department badges, unmarked cars and department-issue guns - by stealing drugs and money, distributing heroin, cocaine and marijuana to their informants and sharing in the proceeds when the drugs were sold.

Hey, you can't make an omelette without breaking some heads...I mean, eggs.

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We're the Only Ones Drunk and Mean Enough

Reports say the sergeant who lives with his family at his mother-in-law's house came home drunk and beat up his wife and daughter.

After police seized the gun, the sergeant, still drunk went to the Arima police station where he threatened the investigators.

What the hell YOU lookin' at?

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