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A Pennsylvania state senator has stepped down following his arrest on charges of possession of child pornography.
Sen. Mike Folmer submitted his letter of resignation on Wednesday to Republican colleagues in Harrisburg, according to leadership in the state chamber. Continue reading “Pennsylvania State Senator Resigns After Arrest On Child Porn Charges”
Time to tell a story…a true story. I’m going to leave out specifics regarding locations and names, but this really happened, and I was there.
I was a cop, and I participated in a gun confiscation.
About 20 years ago, I was on a municipal police department SWAT team serving a small city near Cincinnati. One afternoon the pager (yes, pager) went off, and we all reported to the city building to gear up and be briefed on the situation.
Eddie Money, the prolific singer and songwriter whose songs “Baby Hold On,” “Two Tickets to Paradise,” “Shakin’” and “Take Me Home Tonight” soundtracked popular music in the 1980s, died Friday (Sept. 13). He was 70.
A statement provided by his family reads: “The Money Family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this morning. It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our loving husband and father. We cannot imagine our world without him. We are grateful that he will live on forever through his music.” Continue reading “Eddie Money, ‘Two Tickets to Paradise’ Singer, Dies at 70”
In recent years, Alabama head coach Nick Saban has complained about student attendance at football games. Notably, he hasn’t particularly liked that students either leave early or don’t show up for non-conference cupcake games against teams like The Citadel and New Mexico State.
Well, Alabama now has a plan to keep students inside Bryant-Denny Stadium for all four quarters, and … it’s just a bit creepy. Continue reading “Alabama is tracking students’ locations to penalize them for leaving football games early”
ArsTechnica – by Timothy B Lee
Mark Zuckerberg has “repeatedly lied to the American people about privacy,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said in a recent interview with the Willamette Week, a Portland alternative weekly newspaper. “I think he ought to be held personally accountable, which is everything from financial fines to—and let me underline this—the possibility of a prison term.”
Zuckerberg, Wyden said, has “hurt a lot of people.” Continue reading “Senator: Mark Zuckerberg should face “the possibility of a prison term””
LANCASTER, Calif. (KABC) — A Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputy who was reported shot in Lancaster this week made up the incident, authorities announced during a rare Saturday night news conference.
The deputy claimed that he was shot in the shoulder Wednesday, which triggered a massive manhunt and evacuations of an apartment complex next to the agency’s Lancaster station, authorities said. Continue reading “Lancaster deputy confesses to fabricating sniper shooting, authorities say”
Yesterday the Michigan Court of Appeals handed down a decision in a highly public and very controversial case that gun owners across the United States should applaud. In short, it demonstrates and validates the value of armed self-defense even when you do not pull the trigger and — crucially — have no cause to pull the trigger. It justifies the brandishing of a gun as pre-emptive measure to block the use of unlawful force. Continue reading “A Michigan Court Case Shows the Right of Armed Self-Defense Is Broader Than You Might Think”
A defendant standing trial for attacking a corrections officer punched his own lawyer during a hearing in an Arizona courtroom.
Footage of Lamont Payne’s violent assault in Maricopa County was caught on court camera and released by officials. Continue reading “Man punches his own lawyer in court”