I seriously doubt that the friends and families of those killed in violent attacks would believe that any of the following objections would hold water in light of their losses. Only those with no personal experience in a similar situation would genuinely believe such “Pollyanish” ideals could be real solutions in saving lives.
10. We […]

Rather than waiting for SWAT and the other paramilitary representatives to show up after the carnage is over, Americans need to re-learn and practice the self-reliance that made this nation great.
It looks like your buddy, Jim Schutz, already took his first shot.

—————————– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ————————–
From: Friends and Alumni of Virginia Tech
Release Date: April 26, 2007
Event Date: 10:00 AM, Saturday, May 5
Where: Blacksburg Recreation Center, 725 Patrick Henry Dr., Blacksburg, VA.
Subject: Safety Options for Education
“Duck […]

If you have a nose for criminal statistics, the Bureau of Justice Statistics can give you a snoot full in both PDF and spreadsheet form.
Topics covered include –
* crimes of violence (rape, gender sexual assault, robbery, assault) and theft (pocket picking, purse snatching, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft), with […]

The head of the Democratic Party said Wednesday that the best way to get presidential candidates to talk frankly about issues is to lock out the media. Dean said. “If you want to hear the truth from them, you have to exclude the press.”
This is an existential statement. Does it matter if a […]

Venezuelan strongman, Hugo Chavez, has taken over the the nation’s oldest private television network, Radio Caracas Television.
A state run television station will replace RCT.
Government control of the organs of information distribution is a symptom of the command and control society that Venezuela appears to approach. A government that cannot tolerate criticism is a government […]

Virginia Tech college student, Cho Seung-Hui had been judged mentally ill and a danger to himself and others yet his parents didn’t know. Virginia Tech was prevented from telling them by FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
FERPA was one of a series of “privacy” laws passed following Supreme Court Justice William […]

Virginia Tech shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, had an apparently troubled past that was kept secret in the interest of his privacy. Whether or not disclosure of his troubled past might have prevented some or all of the 32 deaths is an unknowable question. The answer would seem to be that it might have. […]

News organizations filed documents in federal court Monday opposing a government request to close portions of an upcoming trial of two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act.
Media organizations, including The Associated Press, are concerned the government wants to keep large portions of evidence in the case out of public view when former […]

The oldest reported Freedom of Information Act request in the federal government resides at the Justice Department and is 18 years old — or, as the National Security Archive, a research group that tracks these things, likes to say, “old enough to enlist in the Army and go to Iraq.” So perhaps it should be […]