Archive for July, 2010
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Today was a Tea Party convention of sorts at the Eaton County Fairgrounds. (Eaton County is adjacent to the Lansing metro area, and is just north of Battle Creek.) The weather was dog-day hot and sticky, but the Tea Party faithhful were undeterred. In addition to most of the state's ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
This headline,"Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police", should concern liberty loving Americans. Executed most frequently as "wiretapping" crimes it is abused by police and state attorneys to prevent free citizens from being able to watch and report on those vested with enormous authority. Protecting individual citizens' privacy I'm ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
The Sheriff of Nottingham would appear to have nothing on the municipal government of Dearborn Heights, Michigan. There, the police have doubled the number of tickers written over the previous year's total. Unless one assumes that asphalt lawlessness is on the rise, or that traffic flow doubled in an area ...
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
.....As Shakespeare asked his viewers to transport themselves back, with him and his fellow actors, to the heroic days of Henry V, so now I ask you to remember July 4, 1776 and to consider how much the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence changed our world. (Ponder, too, ...
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