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Counterpoint to Baltimore FGS

| March 29, 2023 | 8 Comments
Counterpoint to Baltimore FGS

Yesterday Ed did a post about a young man  who defended himself and was not charged. Here’s another case, also in Baltimore, which doesn’t yet have a happy ending of any type: Medically retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Alejandro Gonzalez has spent more than 16 months behind bars, accused of first-degree murder. He and his […]

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Units to lose Confederate battle streamers

| August 11, 2022 | 81 Comments
Units to lose Confederate battle streamers

Another recommendation from the Naming Commission to warm the cockles of your heart: battle streamers for units who fought on the Confederate side of the War Between the States should be removed. A battle streamer is a ribbon attached to the units flag commemorating  battle in which it took part. Civil War streamers are blue […]

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Guardsman, accused of stealing WWII Airmen’s dog tags from National Archives…

| August 15, 2019 | 18 Comments
Guardsman, accused of stealing WWII Airmen’s dog tags from National Archives…

A Virginia National Guard sergeant is accused of stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administration in Bethesda, Maryland. The dog tags belonged to four Army Air Forces airmen killed in plane crashes in 1944. (Michael Kunzelman/AP) …says he was returning them to families One of our ninjas found this […]

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Maryland Democratic leader calls for doxxing of gun rights activist “terrorists”

| March 12, 2019 | 33 Comments
Maryland Democratic leader calls for doxxing of gun rights activist “terrorists”

A nice segue from Dave’s Post- in late February, the Maryland House Judiciary Committee was about to debate some additional onerous gun control legislation, when several citizens of The Free State (no- really. PDRofMD’s State Motto) exercised their First Amendment Rights to protect their Second Amendment Rights. Such an act of protected speech was immediately […]

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Great Mills High School Heartbreak

| March 23, 2018 | 18 Comments
Great Mills High School Heartbreak

The 16-year-old girl who was critically wounded this week when she was shot by a fellow student at her high school in Maryland has been taken off life support on Thursday evening, her mother said. Melissa Willey told a news briefing at Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly, Maryland, that her daughter, Jaelynn Willey, was […]

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