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Legal Thursday
Seems a teacher in Nebraska is in hot water for student canoodling – with a girl who had already graduated. Nebraska schoolteacher Cody Pester, 26, and an 18-year-old female allegedly entered an intimate relationship two months after she graduated from high school. The met while she was in school, but didn’t start communicating/texting until she […]
Thursday thrills
Thrills, meaning some little bits and updates. Looks like the investigation into the Alex Pretti shooting is starting. Two Border Patrol agents who opened fire following the altercation with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave, according to reports. Placing the agents on leave is part of standard procedure as investigations into […]
More on Pretti
A lot of info and opinion – mostly the latter going around about the shooting VA ICU nurse, Alex Pretti. Multiple videos exist of the event, and it seems the critical minute or so was covered from a couple of angles. One such second-to-second description is at ABC News. Seems incontrovertible that up until Pretti […]
Miniguns
Back around the Civil War, a dentist name of Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling developed an idea for a weapon so terrible that it would end war. Cartridge-loading repeaters were in their infancy, but Dr. Gatling ran with the idea and came up with a gun using multiple barrels turning around a central shaft. As a […]
DOJ Red Letter Decision
Don’t know if anyone has tried to ship a gun anywhere before – like flying with a gun, it has turned into a Byzantine process of selecting the correct shipper, how fast to ship, and trying not to get sideways with Federal and state laws. Sometimes you pay more for the shipping company’s failures. If […]
How’s the debt?
Well, Mr. Trump certainly roiled the waters when he brought in the Department of Government Efficiency, which began ruthlessly letting government employees go, and closing off funding for programs accused of being too woke. Thankfully, they ushered in an era of restraint in government spending and fiscal sobriety, right? Eh, no. Trump’s first year back […]
A Tale of Two…
It was the best of time, it was the worst of times. That’s the opener to “A Tale of Two Cities”, widely cited as one of the greatest opening lines in history, along with “Call me Ishmael!” and a few others.* We’re gonna tell a tale of two programs. Too short a column for […]
Circle the date – Wednesday 1/21
Ought to be an interesting day in Congress next Wednesday. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said on Wednesday the panel plans to move forward with contempt of Congress proceedings against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she defied a subpoena for a deposition as part of the panel’s probe into convicted sex offender […]
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