Active Shooters, Home Invasions and “Protecting Our Children”
Active Shooters, Home Invasions and “Protecting Our Children”
What a sad, horrifying and bizarre way to begin 2012. From a media standpoint, there has been a lot of news to cover. A young mother shot and killed an intruder in Oklahoma, LEOs in Brownsville, Texas responded to a report of an armed suspect in a school on lockdown and shot the suspect, and three LEOs were murdered. Through all the commentary, there is a theme: Protecting our children.
The teen mom is being praised for being brave...
Posted by admin in Articles on 01 22nd, 2012 | No Comments
Prescription drug abuse is epidemic
Prescription drug abuse is epidemic
Written by Mark Nichols
One of the main flaws with the drug war is its singular focus on supply rather than demand. As long as there is a demand for illicit drugs, suppliers will find a way to satisfy it. And the demand is overwhelming. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times by Lisa Girion and Doug Smith, prescription drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States.
While the idea that prescription drug overdoses and other...
Posted by admin in Articles on 01 20th, 2012 | No Comments
Lawyer spits on cop
Lawyer spits on cop
Written by Mark Nichols
What do you call 1,000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. And it’s not hard to see why that old joke is still funny when you consider the case of one Lewis B. Moon. Moon, an attorney, stands accused of being drunk, driving the wrong way in a fast-food drive-thru lane, impersonating law enforcement and then spitting on a police officer.
Unbelievably, the man got off with probation.
According to a recent...
Posted by admin in Articles on 12 5th, 2011 | No Comments
Taxing hookers and hookas
Written by Mark Nichols
In Phoenix, Arizona, city officials have decided that as the result of budget deficits and the looming repeal of that city’s controversial “food tax,” they have to find new sources of tax revenue. That’s bad news if you own or operate an escort service, strip club, tattoo parlor or a “head shop,” the slang term for retail locations that sell items used to smoke marijuana as these organizations could be the next places Phoenix turns...
Posted by admin in Articles on 11 25th, 2011 | No Comments
SMACKDOWN! SB 5 goes down in flames
Written by Cynthia Brown
If you work for Koch Industries or any of their tentacle organizations like Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute or the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), yesterday was as big a defeat as the 2010 Congressional elections were a victory. The good people of the Great State of Ohio, in a stunning rebuke to the anti-middle class agenda of Governor John Kasich, overwhelmingly repealed legislation designed to kill public sector unions by...
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