I’m as guilty of this as anyone, but I think we should stop calling non-cops “civilians.” It implies that law enforcement personnel are military; they are not. They are civilians just like those they’re supposed to protect. I propose that when we discuss uniformed law enforcement personnel we call them “police” and we call everyone …
I don’t have a large DVD collection, but somehow I managed to buy, at separate times, two used copies of Serenity. I have only one copy of Firefly, fortunately. Got all the Star Wars movies including the newest one, all the LOTR ones including The Hobbit trilogy and all the Harry Potter films. Got a …
This will be a great help in reconciling the cops and the civilians throughout the country. Three Dallas police officers and one DART officer have been killed and several others were injured after shots were fired in downtown Dallas during a rally and march Thursday night. Dallas police Chief David Brown said about 8:58 p.m., …
The State of Texas lost its Supreme Court case two weeks ago when the Court ruled 5-3 that the state’s rules requiring clinics’ doctors have admitting privileges at a hospital in the same area as the clinic was an undue burden on women, and requiring the clinics be outfitted as though they were “ambulatory surgical …
3,2,1…“We must restore Americans’ faith in government and that starts with reauthorizing the independent counsel statute.” Uh-huh. Somehow this seven-term Republican Congressman (Mike Turner of Ohio’s 10th District between Columbus and Cincinnati, including Dayton) has gotten it in his head that Hillary needs to be investigated yet again, this time by an independent counsel. “The …
it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should …
Some very good singers have had things to say about Saturdays. Starting the day off as The Sandpipers do would be pleasant: And then you could go to the park, as Robert Lamm and Chicago do: But then melancholy can creep in by nightfall, as The Chairman of the Board suggests: And then you may …
50+ years ago this summer, Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game. Here’s the ninth inning of that game as called by Vin Scully.